TGO David

Why... I have an Electrical Engineering degree. But the time away from home wouldn't go over well with my wife at all.

You know... I didn't even think about that. Huh. Our doctor was a moron!

It has a shorter barrel, which should make it easier for the tyke to tote around with her.

Big as a brick and suitable for use as a framing hammer if you run out of ammo. Built like tanks. I love them.

She might want to ask her own OB/GYN about this. The analogy our doctor used was that he has had expectant mothers who worked around heavy machinery in factories and around jet airliners on the flight line at Nashville BNA airport... and those all are extremely noisy environments. The babies were no worse for the wear. Again, just let her do what she feels safest doing. You're outnumbered at least 2:1 anytime you argue with a pregnant woman.

I think a nominal charge per shooter should be expected by those who participate. Your range is top notch and it certainly isn't free for you to keep up. Guests are charged $5 to shoot at Owl Hollow and it's expected of them to pay it if they aren't already members.

FYI -- You and your wife might want to check more on this whole idea that the shooting range causes deafness for infants in utero. My wife is an RN and checked into it pretty heavily when we were expecting last year and the research she did, and the doctor that we both spoke with, bore out that there was actually very little risk to the unborn child so long as the mother doesn't handle lead. Even then the risk can be mitigated by the mother washing her hands thoroughly. Water is a horrible conductor for sound, and the baby is actually inside a very muffled environment in the womb. If there was really any truth to this, there would be a lot of deaf kids coming from the ghetto from baby's mommas riding around in cars with thundering stereos that routinely hit decibel levels rivaling those of gunfire. Just something to think about. Your wife/girlfriend/baby-momma needs to do what SHE feels comfortable with, but I suspect some research other than the ridiculously fallible Internet might yield a better answer than "Oh noes don't do it!!!1" or whatever else she may have read.

That was going to be my suggestion. Have one on a Sunday, then another on a Wednesday sometime. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

I've got a clear plastic tote box full of holsters that I still use occasionally. My good leather stays in the safe along with my firearms, though. I'd be almost as sad if something happened to any of my Milt Sparks VM2's as I would be if something happened to a gun.

Smyrna's range is too small for us to bring the Magpul Dynamics guys into and so far I've been unable to find any other property that would work for a MD class. So sign me up as another person looking for property to host a class on.

But to be honest, I know exactly what you mean about the never-ending and evolving quest for what seems perfect. I do waffle back and forth between the Glock 19 (for some things) and one of the two M&Ps and the 1911. Realizing that this flies in the face of the sound logic that states you should fear the man who owns one gun because he probably knows how to use it, I love me some versatility. The downside to this is, I can no longer make fun of my wife for owning a lot of shoes.

I used to play the heck out of UT. I think I gave my boxed set away, though.

My wife and I would love to attend this. Wednesdays would be fine, but Sundays would be even easier to accomplish. Let me know what we can do to help.

Welcome to TN Gun Owners, Pete. I've often found myself marveling at some of the gun laws in Canada. Many of us south of the border often assume that it's so draconian that you can't own anything cool up there, but that's the one aspect that we often get wrong. The laws are indeed tight but you guys clear the initial hurdles for ownership, you don't have to jump through any of the regulatory hoops that we do down here to own short barrel rifles and such. I've got a friend (and TGO member) up in Canada right now on business. He didn't put you onto us did he?

Hey... I still own 'em all.

Does this mean... Single Barrel Silver Select?!?

Sorry... this thread was a test to see who here is tacky and I have bad news for you.

It can be parkerized or it can be shot with any number of spray-on finishes. I'd recommend a thermally cured finish like Moly Resin or Cerakote as they tend to hold up better. I've been using Moly Resin to refinish firearms lately and have had really good luck with it. Whomever refinishes your gun needs to make sure that they use a low air pressure when they media blast the frame, to avoid scarring the aluminum.

It's a work in progress, unfortunately. I'm still waiting on a proper fix from the author of the server software.

Read the last post above yours.

I submit that perhaps you should consider it "a perfect carry gun" instead of THE perfect carry gun, given that all of us have evolving criteria for what we consider to be perfect. Not too long ago, you were hot and heavy for the Walther P99A (or whatever it was) and that was going to be the ultimate carry piece also. Not busting your balls, just pointing out that "perfect" changes.

1. Carry what works for you best and won't be so uncomfortable that you end up leaving it at home. A big gun left at home isn't as effective as a small gun carried with you. 2. Glocks don't go off by themselves, no matter what you have heard or read. 3. If you like a firearm with a thumb safety but want something smaller and lighter, there are plenty of options. Smith & Wesson makes several of the M&P automatics with thumb safeties, as does Springfield in the XD family, HK with the USP Compact models, etc. You do have options. 4. I don't see any point in having a thumb safety on a striker fired handgun so long as the trigger pull is not ridiculously light. But that's just my opinion and plenty of people disagree. It boils down to preference. I started out with a Ruger P89 years ago and ditched it as soon as I realized there were more ergonomic handguns of equal or better quality out there for roughly the same amount of money. If trading or selling it allows you some extra cash to put toward a firearm that you will carry more often due to size and weight, then by all means do it.

Looking into it...

From what the original poster wrote, it appears as though he may have thought that this was an unintentional flaw in the design of the Tech-9 that allowed full auto firing under the right circumstances. As Daniel pointed out, this is nothing more than "bump firing" and can be done with a lot of different firearms. I've seen it done with handguns, even. As responsible gun owners, we should be quick to point out that while bump firing is not illegal under current BATFE guidelines, any firearm that is designed to shoot semi-auto and then begins firing full-auto due to a true malfunction must be taken out of service immediately and either repaired or destroyed, again per the BATFE. Knowingly possessing a weapon that has either been illegally modified to shoot full auto or has become capable of full auto fire through wear or damage to internal parts, is a felony offense. The original poster seemed to be somewhat coyly suggesting this was a way to cheaply obtain a fully automatic firearm "under the table" ... which it isn't. But the implied intent of skirting the system is not something that we want on TGO as it appears to the casual reading as advocating an illegal activity. I'm closing this thread.

Extremely illegal.