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Benchmade's massive booth at NRAAM 2019 was never empty of attendees ogling their knives. I wanted to ask if anyone had been making dickish comments to them, but figured I also didn't want them to tell me I was the first to bring it up. While neither the NRA nor the average member are necessarily paragons of unwavering, uncompromising, support of the Second Amendment, the crowd seemed to have move on past the "cutting up of guns" unlike most of the Internet.

My buddy and podcast co-host, Mark, got his TX22 this week and loves it. He's not quick to heap undeserved praise on a gun, so this is a very strong endorsement from a guy who works in the industry and handles more different guns in a week than a lot of folks will see in several months.

That nitrided 416-R stainless steel is going to be fun to dimple. If you have access to a drill press, chock an end mill cutter of the appropriate size into it and use that to spot-face the dimples to get through the hardened layer. You'll eat up a bunch of regular drill bits otherwise.

I bought the SLR Rifleworks jig and used it to dimple the Ballistics Advantage barrel on my recent .300BLK build. I wouldn't trust using set screws without the barrel being dimpled. What's the brand and model of the barrel you are using?

It's really a favorite of mine now. I'd be interested in hearing what you think about it when you get your hands on one.

This gun is quickly becoming a favorite of mine for concealed carry... The factory trigger is NOT bad, but when I saw Scott Faulk @ Apex Tactical start talking about the shorter travel and reset with 5.5lb trigger weight of their flat-faced trigger, trigger bar, and sear kit... I knew I wanted to get my hands on one to sample for myself. I got the chance last week at the NRA Annual Meeting in Indy. Obviously, I was a fan. You definitely want to buy or borrow the Apex FN 509 trigger-pin jig if you are going to do this swap. It makes removing the trigger pin a piece of cake. The 509's sear design is fairly ingenious but has quite a few small parts. Apex thankfully has a few really good videos on disassembly and reassembly of the 509, so the job wasn't difficult at all. Just after I took this photo, I swapped the backstrap shown for the flat backstrap that comes with the 509 Midsize. Even better!

Current configuration... NEW: Arc Division SPARC-M mini comp. Prior to NRAAM, I stripped off the Primary Machine comp, replaced the Silencerco barrel with an Agency Arms barrel, and swapped the Surefire X300UA light for a smaller Streamlight TLR7 light. That was my carry gun for the entire week of NRAAM travels and 12+ hours of walking on the exhibit hall each day. I have a new slide coming for one of my other Glock 19's to spruce it up a little and make it ready for an RMR, so I decided to go ahead and trick this Gen 4 back out to full kit. The SPARC-M compensator is short enough that I can toss the TLR7 back on this gun and carry it in a much smaller holster, should I want to. I figure it'll stay like it is for home defense and maybe occasional carry when I know that I can get away with something a little bulkier.

This is a very true statement. I've said before that I believe that we, as gun owners, are absolutely our own worst enemies. The other side is united under the banner of their hatred of guns and desire to see us disarmed. Everything else to them is academic. They don't care how it happens or what it looks like, and are usually satisfied with incremental wins. We, on the other hand, tend to be so anti-authoritarian that nothing but a perfect decision is palatable and none of us agree on the mechanics of any victory no matter how small. I think the biggest difference between the current generation of Constitutionalists and our Founding Fathers is that they tried hard to put the greater good before self. That's a shameful indictment of our modern mindset.

Food for thought: Most anyone on TGO who feels that mandated proficiency is a violation of the Second Amendment is most likely already operating at a higher level of proficiency than the State's minimum requirement. Meaning, you might be viewing the requirement through the lens of being someone who feels that they are being condescended to by the government.

Awesome!

I had a chance to hold the APX Comapct and the APX Carry at NRAAM. The smaller of the two (the Carry) had a terrible trigger on it. The larger Compact model wasn't as bad but still nowhere near as good as it should be. Pics and comments here on the Shooters Nation IG feed...

He's really not allowed to answer that question since he's not currently a vendor. We'd love to renew that relationship, though. In the meantime I'd hit up Royal Range or King's Firearms as they are both Vendors on TGO and might be able to help you. @Royal Range USA @kingsfirearmsandmore

You're the first person I've heard of having one in the wild. I meant to get by their booth at NRAAM but didn't make it over there for some reason. This and the Rex Delta seem kind of like similar takes on the Glock 19, coming at it from different angles.

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I found the problem. We had a bad banner ad file get uploaded at about the same time the forum software version was incremented. The fact that you guys said it started at a very specific time today helped me narrow it down. Thank you!

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Invision Power released a new version of the software and then quickly deprecated one of the components that every IPBoard forum running the previous version used to "call home". When they did this, it started throwing that template error. I've upgraded us to the latest version of the software to fix that and take advantage of a myriad of other fixes and tweaks.

Really one of the sillier laws, but I suspect the intended application of the law was to keep kids from bringing knives to school for nefarious purposes. As we know, Lady Justice is supposed to be blind and apply the law equally to all, so you got the brunt end of it even as a responsible adult. Of course... none of this stops kids from bringing knives, guns, or any other contraband to schools as we've all well seen.

This year's conference has been... interesting. I will post more of my thoughts about the organizational developments tonight or tomorrow after we return home. Any opinion pieces that you read right now, including my own, are subject to information on-hand at the instant they are written. The NRA's organizational environment has been tremendously dynamic since Wednesday and watching it transpire has been like watching a very sordid tennis match. Lots of looking to the left, looking to the right, looking back to the left, etc. The exhibit floor has been a ton of fun, though. Hosting the Shooters Nation Podcast (link) for the past year has given me the good fortune to get to know quite a few people inside of the industry and opened the door to get to know many more at NRAAM this week. I'm really looking forward to sitting down with numerous movers and shakers in the firearms world in the weeks ahead and sharing those conversations with you all. Much fun! Also, I've blown up Shooters Nation's Instagram feed with photos of new and cool stuff from the show. Check it out here: https://instagram.com/shootersnationradio I'm going over to the show one last time this morning to see anything that I missed, then heading home.

Also to add, I posted quite a bit on the TGO Facebook page yesterday.

You guys are only seeing the pieces of it making it out to the media this weekend. I think almost all of it will eventually see the light of day, but what's happening in the meetings and hallways here at the NRA Annual Meeting is exponentially more electric than what you're seeing on the news outlets. Follow Rob Pincus on social media. He's doing a really good job of keeping the folks not in Indianapolis informed. I'll post my own thoughts later tonight or tomorrow. We're prepping for a few final hours at NRAAM before packing the family back up in the truck and heading home for Tennessee this afternoon.

I will be but I doubt they’re going to talk any about it. I’d like to get in touch with Jeff Knox and have him on the podcast soon.

Just FYI... NRAAM 2020 is back in Nashville!

It's been a minute since I've seen you. I'm not sure I'd recognize you!

Yeah that's a no-win situation!