TGO David

It's legal for collection purposes.

Welcome to the family.

No offense meant, but after interviewing about 12 job candidates, most of whom were college graduates, that's really not saying a whole lot. Real world, functional experience speaking.

I will check into this.

Agreed. To elaborate on my last comment, I suspect that if more people were as aware of what really goes on in those circles as some of us here are, these things wouldn't concern them as much. The media doesn't really do much to keep the populace informed... just entertained and inflamed.

I don't think concern really qualifies as tin foil hattery.

Nervous. I was young, though, and this was back in the mid 1990's when Kentucky first started issuing their CWP so the whole permit thing really wasn't as common as it is now. We could always carry open back then without a permit; the permit just allowed you to conceal it. Presently I think the notion of carry is "mainstream" enough (thanks largely to the Internet bringing like-minded people together) that it really shouldn't make a person feel as though they were doing something out of the ordinary. Sadly, it's the granola eaters out there who still control the media and continue to put forth the idea that you're doing something wrong if you are actively exercising your Second Amendment rights.

The permit will transfer with only fingerprinting and application fee being required. Your Kentucky permit remains valid until your Tennessee permit arrives.

I won't own a 1911 without installing a mag-well. People who think they aren't useful additions have never used one.

I made that move myself back in 1997. Haven't looked back since. Welcome!

I pretty much asked for that didn't I?

Pics?

Nice. Enjoy it!

The M&P sear is strange in that I really don't understand why there is so much variation in the feel from the factory between different batches. My M&P 40 has had, hands down, one of the best feeling triggers right out of the box. Crisp tactile reset with just the perfect amount of travel. My wife's M&P 9 breaks like a wet Popsicle stick and needs the DCAEK / RAM combination badly. My 45 had a good enough reset from the factory but was my guinea pig for the DCAEK and the resulting feel is superb. I've had several of the M&P compacts and both had good sear reset / trigger feel. One of them dropped mags like crazy but it was a 1st generation and they hadn't figured out yet that there were problems with some of the mag releases. S&W fixed that promptly and it was a great gun ever thereafter. I've not really handled too many post-2011 models of the M&P but I hear that those are by and large pretty darn good. I guess it took S&W a while to iron out the bugs.

Amazon.com Prime. Ordered it yesterday and it arrived today. Approximately $42 shipped.

The trigger reset does not suck on the M&P, it is just different from what you are used to. The Apex DCAEK trigger kit fixes that for most folks who are coming over from the Glock world. My M&P 45 mid-size is probably my favorite plastic handgun right now, and definitely my favorite of the slew of M&Ps that I own. It has the DCAEK and is a joy to shoot and carry.

After seeing one owned by a fellow TGO member, I picked up a Streamlight Protac 2L light to use as my EDC light. The strobe feature sold itself the first time he blinded me with it.

Mmmm... steak.

The hell you say!

This has run it's course. No further changes to the reputation system for a while. It may stay, it may go entirely. Time will determine that.

M&P 9mm. Service size. It's almost identical in dimension to the Glock 19.

No. Sometimes everyone at large needs a reminder that (a.) this place isn't run by popular vote and general ass-clownery will not be tolderated, and (b.) that ass-clownery will be dealt with even if the wheels turn a bit slowly for some folks preference. What you see as being a blanket generic chastisement I see as being the public reminder that some folks need and other folks want to see.

Welcome back.

We've been doing that around here for years. If you have to ask yourself if my comments about the system being abused pertained to how you used it... chances are they don't.

Baby steps!