Oh Shoot

  Legality of shipping a firearm intrastate and whether the gunsmith has an FFL are separate issues.   - OS

Frigging awesome, really    But do you shoot them much? Are your hands insured by Lloyds of London? ;)   - OS

   Looks like standard 92FS grips will fit, but you'd have to neatly remove that corner from the left one some way or other. The slots on the oldie's screws are really narrow, different from my other ones, and can't find a wide flat screwdriver tip thin enough to fit, so can't positively confirm that they are interchangeable except for that, but sure looks like it.   - OS

If he is "in the business" of gunsmithing, he's supposed to have an FFL. But that's a separate issue.   As far as shipping, you can legally ship any firearm intrastate to whoever.   The prob is that FedEx and UPS won't do it between unlicensed individuals and you are supposed to inform by their TOS, and even by federal law, since the shipment is between unlicensed individuals and they are "common carriers".   That leaves USPS, which is supposed to simply ship whatever you give them as long as it is not hazardous or restricted (in ways that firearms are not). It has ever been a gray issue as to whether USPS is a "common carrier" and whether you must inform of the shipment. I never have, but that is not legal advice.   If you print your own paid label, you can just drop it off at counter, don't even have to stand in line, which is what I have done in the past.   USPS is supposed to ship between legal folks period, so even if you inform, they are supposed to do intrastate between unlicensed individuals. Note that YMMV depending on which idiot clerk (or even stationmaster) you may get.   - OS

  Mag release, no gripes, have to put left hand up there anyway with a new mag, can pop it with thumb while holding the new mag, drops free. I can't trigger mag release with my right thumb without changing grip anyway, so might even be "tactically" faster.   Mags: It came with one with the thin bottom plate, no probs. Used two of my current issue factory ones with the thick polymer base plate and they're fine too. Oddly, other folks report older USGI mags as having the bottom cutouts, but I have 7 or 8 old ones by CheckMate and AirTronics and none of them do.   Safety/decocker exactly same as 92FS, just differently cast looking lever, and only on left side, not ambi.   Weighs something over 4 oz more than FS, due to various parts being steel instead of polymer or alloy.   - OS

  We got a new one now, surely he can't be as bad as Cooper was on gun stuff?   Matter of fact, impetus from AG in these states might have been significant factor in whether they joined in, and Cooper nixed it?   http://www.tn.gov/attorneygeneral/agbio.html   - OS

Got in a little 100 round or so session with it today, ran like a fine Swiss Italian watch as expected. ;)   Even mixed in steel rounds with shorter OAL which I like to do to see how forgiving that sort of thing is, all fine. And I naturally shot it a  bit closer to vertical center than my FS models which I tend to shoot low -- I note that front sight is a bit lower on this heater, maybe that's a good thing and I ought to do it with the others!   Still tend to shade to the left though,  but that's me I'm sure. Main thing about 92 sights is that front center post doesn't completely fill the gap of the rear sight gap, so there's "room to be wrong", plus my errors are almost always to left with most handguns, some faulty trigger pull technique I've never been able to consistently overcome.   - OS

  One way or the other, the species definitely needs breeding stock or it's curtains in general.   - OS

IMNSHO, whatever else you do with a 10/22, the factory extractor should be changed out to a Volquartsen or similar, period. Almost all feeding probs/jams, "only liking certain ammo", etc.,  masquerade as this and that, but are actually simply due to the sub par design of the factory extractor not holding the round optimally all the way back to the ejector.   You can also file the factory one to the better angle, but it's still not as strong as the Volquartsen, MIM vs hardened A2 steel.   - OS

  Must be...I've got a 10.5" (pistol) and somehow that baby just looks much longer from front of receiver on, not counting the muzzle device even.   Again, though, it's really a boss build.   - OS

  Meh, will probably just leave it alone, a true service weapon. Without very much service from the poliziotto who carried it apparently. ;)   Already have a purdy one that will suffice for that. :)   - OS

Somehow it doesn't look any shorter than carbine! 14.5" barrel, just unpinned?   Nice rifle, whatever it is, that's for sure.   - OS

Got my mitts on it today. Much nicer than expected, looks much better in normal illumination than in photo under my bright unforgiving lights. Barrel looks like new on inside to me, serial match with frame, Was gonna run by and shoot a few quick mags, but TICS took frigging 45 min, ran out of daylight. Assuming no probs with shooting, certainly one of my best buck for bang scores ever. Now I just need to learn to shoot the dang 92s as well as I do my XDs. :) - OS

For fugly, I still don't believe anyone has definitively dethroned my Planet of Apes carbine: - OS

  ??? When's the last time you paid less than .02/round, even many years before Sandy Hook?   Hell, best I remember,  they were .75 to a buck for 50 even in the Sixties.   - OS

That's almost .35/round with tax. What are they?   - OS

  BHO nominated Loretta Lynch as new AG on Nov. 8.   - OS

  Er... what was it we were talking about? ;) :)

  Software does that. I couldn't concentrate that long. ;)   - OS

  Yeah, I've had two commonly called sebaceous cysts myself, removed one myself that I could reach, got some help with one right in middle of back I couldn't.   Like these:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-vRq1PLrtA   - OS

"Long Read" = a whopping 840 words?  ;)   - OS

  Compact model has always been relatively rare to find at local gun stores.   Ruger does sell fiber optic sets separately, might be cheaper from the actual manufacturers, dunno.   http://shopruger.com/Sights-Lights-Lasers/products/2323/   - OS

Maybe there's a recall out on it? ;)   - OS

  Knife manufacturers of course use them or paper wheels but of course they do know what they're doing.   - OS

  Of course it's infected, but whatever the cause it has just has so far remained localized and not gone systemic.   Various strains of Strep and Staph are examples of common infections that can remain local, either chronic or resolve without treatment -- but some can easily go systemic and kill you too.   - OS