TGO David

My M3X light stays at home, in the night stand. When my XD45 goes into the nightstand at bed time, the light goes onto it. When it comes out in the morning to go with me, the light comes off. I don't and wouldn't imagine I'd want to carry the gun with the light on it all the time. We all already try to find the most ergonomic means of carrying our sidearms concealed. Adding a light to the mix just reduces your options of comfortable carry even more, unless you're carrying openly. I have a Surefire G2 that I drop into a coat pocket if I'm going to be out and about at night.

It took a while for it to happen (sorry!) but I just added the Events and Gatherings forum.

Man, sorry to hear about that Reef.

Um... Bronze is an alloy with copper in it. It's no wonder your patches keep coming out blue, the solvent is reacting to the brush itself. Several companies make stiff bristle nylon bore brushes. I'd use that with my copper solvent to scrub the bore.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3399997447270912268&q=burt+brady&hl=en Get out your tissues, folks. This is the way it ought to be!

What are you guys using? Airsoft? Paintball? Some other form of simmunitions?

You can rest assured that the anti-gun crowd will tout this as yet more "evidence" that guns need to be banned from society and the 2nd amendment struck from the books. I'm eagerly awaiting that speech from one of the resident flower children here at my office. She knows that I'm pro-gun and generally likes to use incidents like this to come joust with the windmill.

I noticed that Matt Lauer pointedly referred to this as "gun violence" several times during this morning's episode of the Today show, and then lead into a report of another incident in Pennsylvania as "yet more gun violence". Agenda, much? PS: Stuff like this one more reason why I carry. I don't want my survival depending on the ability to hide in a closet, praying that the bad guy doesn't find me.

If he has a Glock, he can fire underwater!

Wow... I don't think that the author of that particular article could be any more anti-gun if he tried.

I really wish Springfield would release an XD40 Compact similar to what they did with the XD45. It should have a standard 4" slide but have the shorter grip of the XD45 Compact. I think that would be a winner and I'd be all over it like white on rice. Glock's new 21SF really intrigues me too but I guess it doesn't count in this instance since they are reportedly going to production with it. What other guns do you wish the various manufacturers would make?

Welcome!

Those are the good ones!

I just take my lumps and pay the 3% fee to use a credit card with those who allow it. Otherwise, money order.

Who me? It was actually a problem with the forum "style" layout. I didn't notice it until you mentioned that.

Hornet Handler told me that Bill Goodman's show was here in Nashville this weekend. I'd have liked to have gone, but it would have lead to me spending money.

Yes, I used them to buy a SIG P226R a few years back and had great luck with them. I tend to browse them every other day or two, just looking to see what's out there.

Yeah, that is normally a cookie issue. Do you have any antivirus or antispyware software running that might be deleting your cookies periodically?

Sure haven't. I'm not sure that I really want to deviate much from stock on my carry gun, but if you do swap out to a DGR I'll eagerly await the range report.

Yep. We had to visit an outpatient surgery center in a particularly shady part of town last week. They had a decal on the window that said "NO WEAPONS ALLOWED". That's all. Nothing else. I sat beneath that sign for over two hours with the XD nestled snugly up to my ribs, beneath my sweat shirt. Not only was their sign not in accordance to the law, but I didn't notice any metal detectors as I came into or exited the building. The other thing is, I don't know too many criminal thugs who will let a little technicality like a sticker or a sign stop them from coming into a building either. Those signs just tell them that they have a moderately good chance that no one inside is going to be armed. Well, almost no one. PS: I realize that a lot of gun owners are also fans of property rights. My only response there is that your rights end where mine begin, and I have the right to stay alive.

And I wanna hear em! There's actually a fairly big "behind the scenes" project about to happen here that has got me tied up at the moment, but once that's past us, I'll start working on some of these other features again.

The range I go to doesn't have any such rules posted at least. I've seen plenty of police officers in there practicing drawing and shooting, some of whom really needed to practice more on their aiming as evidenced by the number of shots put into the ceiling (downrange) or the target trolleys.

Keep 'em coming folks. Just because an idea doesn't get implemented right now, it doesn't mean that we won't.

I wear my carry gun everywhere, even to gun shows. The last Bob Pope show I went to, I unloaded the weapon prior to exiting my car and stuck the full mag into my off-hand mag holder. They put an orange zip-tie on the trigger guard to show that it had been checked. The loaded mag stayed with me the entire time. I figure bad guys know that good guys are going to be carrying weapons and cash into and out of these shows, so going unarmed was out of the question for me. As soon as I left the show, the mag went back in and I racked the slide.

I don't think you're wrong, Marswolf. I think there are quite a few instances of Tennessee laws that conflict or overlap to the degree that the prosecution would very likely go for the most strict interpretation possible to hang a gun owner out to dry. No one needs to be under the impression that just because Tennessee is now a Shall Issue state, that it is a gun friendly state. As John Harris of the TFA is often prone to point out, practically the only place that you are not at risk of breaking the law when you carry is on your own private property, permit be damned. We have a long way to go to make Tennessee's firearms statutes what they ought to be. What our Forefathers intended them to be.