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It is certainly his prerogative and one that I might enact myself were I teaching a firearms course to the general public.

I received my Apex Tactical extended mag release maybe two weeks ago. It's still sitting on my desk. I need to install it sometime this weekend and give it a whirl. Overall, I still really like the Echelon. The only way I can see it being any better is if they release a version sized comparably to the Glock 19.

This is news to you? I'm not saying it; Sig Sauer is saying it.

The post-recall P320s are fine. That video shown above is clearly the result of something that didn't belong in the holster with the gun. You can see the gun get fully pushed into the holster as the cop bent over, and then BOOM. Here's the deal: Anytime a cop has a negligent discharge, FOP protocol (whether formalized or not) is to blame the gun. That's just how it works. I've got several friends whom I trust who have been through the P320 armorer's course and they all say that there is no way that the P320, post-recall, can fire without the trigger being depressed. Period. My own P320 is carried often and I have close to 3,000 rounds through it at last count. It has never discharged out of battery or unintentionally.

It's hard to put a family of five in a Ferrari.

I think the most important thing that I can reiterate here is that I have no interest in selling TGO. I have been approached by other companies several times over the years. It's simply not something that I am interested in doing. TGO is a labor of love for me. It's not about money.

Whenever a community's ownership changes hands, it can be a tough transition to navigate. Most of the big web forums out there were originally founded by people who are insanely passionate about whatever the topic focus is. Those people, generally speaking, will have poured countless hours into building a thriving community that they themselves would have wanted to be a part of. If and when they sell, the sale usually goes to a holding company that is primarily in the business of monetization through advertising. If they are lucky, the original staff stay onboard and help keep the original spirit of things intact. This is actually the best of both worlds, because the community benefits from access to more resources and the owner benefits from the "magic" that caused the community to grow. I'm not foreshadowing anything here, but I do want to address several points: First, there are a lot of Canadian citizens who wish they had our Second Amendment freedoms. Just because a company is based in Canada, it doesn't mean that they are anti-2A. Second, it makes no sense for a company like Verticalscope to invest money into buying a community only to ruin it or shut it down. They bought those communities for a reason and that reason was to make money.

Absolutely not.

No, I generally don't want a lock on an automatic knife. But I also choose knives that are not easily opened, let alone accidentally, and I only carry automatics in certain situations for specific defensive purposes and they are not my only nor primary knife even then. I have several of them now. My favorite is probably my Microtech DIRAC Delta. It is a largish double-edged automatic and the activation switch is arranged such that it is ambidextrous. The switch also requires an intentional shove to activate and the blade will halt if it encounters resistance. That knife is carried on my weak side to be used as a "get the hell off me" tool if I am fighting someone over control of my handgun. It's not used for opening Amazon boxes, whittling sticks, or cleaning under my fingernails.

Thank you.

Yes - anything done after August 17th until yesterday would be gone. PMs included.

We were on dedicated hardware since around 2013 or 2014, but we are back to a virtualized solution now. MacGyver and I are starting to research just moving it all to Azure for better scalability, tough.

Honestly that's me these days. I read more than I post. With shorter days and longer nights around the corner, I'm sure that my activity will pick back up.

It really should be.

Had it taken another day to rebuild, I would have told you to just send your money to the local liquor store under my name.

We've used them for a few years. Last year they were purchased by another company. The prices went up but they [quietly] abandoned the Managed Service Provider model and went to pure bare-bones hosting. When I reached out to them for assistance yesterday, I was advised that they no longer did that sort of thing and that it was up to me to handle every aspect of the recovery. So, I hired a new company last night -- one that does do managed services -- and fired the old company today.

I love my MR920. The CR920 ought to be fantastic!

This is what real friends do!

The shameful part is that we had about 30-days worth of backups that would have prevented us from losing all but maybe 8-hours worth of activity, but they were destroyed when the hardware failure occurred. Normally those would have been replicated offsite and to the cloud, but part of the automation that I wrote wasn't running and I just didn't notice it.

It was not a fun period of time. I think you're the first person to post since, though.

Hey gang. Welcome back to TGO. There is a lot to cover in this post, so I am going to try to hit things in the order of most important or impacting, to least. Where is my TGO user account? If you created an account on TGO after August 17th you will most likely need to create your account again. We lost almost 30-days worth of data in this crash. What Happened To My Benefactor Account? A lot of my work today has been around connecting Benefactor memberships with those who purchased them. I was successful with most of them, but there are a few of you (less than 10) that I will be reaching out to in email so that we can work together to get you squared away. I am prioritizing this near the top of importance because you guys keep TGO afloat and I will take care of you. I posted something and now it's gone! Anything posted after August 17th is lost. I am very sorry. I suppose the good news is that if you posted something and regretted it, you now have a second chance. This part really sucks and I am absolutely not trying to down-play it. Trust me, however upset you are, I am infinitely more upset. I hope that you'll dive back in and recreate whatever we lost. What happened?!? This is the million dollar question. Our server suffered a catastrophic hardware failure that could not be recovered from. Thankfully we had backups, but I had to go back 30-days in time to find a backup that was viable. This problem had unfortunately been brewing for a while and I did not notice it in time. Prior to today (9/18/23) we were using a different web hosting company. We aren't using them now because I am greatly disappointed in their ability to assist and am livid over the outcome. The best and only way for me to respond was to move TGO to another hosting company who I believe will be much more responsive and responsible. That said, I cannot place full blame on them. Sadly, I missed some signs which were obvious in hindsight so some of this is absolutely my fault. Especially related to backups. I am now making backups of my backups and storing them in several places (online, offline, and in the cloud) so that we have more recovery options if something like this ever happens again. How can we help?? Post, post, post. Dive back in and start using TGO. This will be a scar for a while, but like all scars it will eventually fade. Other than that, there really isn't anything to do. I just noticed [insert problem here]. If you notice anything weird with your account, especially with payments for Benefactor memberships, let me know. I'll sort it out and get you taken care of. That's about it for now. Thanks for your patience while we were offline. I suppose if there is a silver lining to all of this, it has provided a chance to do some things different and better behind the scenes. Hopefully those differences and improvements will equate to odds heavily in our favor for the future. --David

Hey gang. Welcome back to TGO. There is a lot to cover in this post, so I am going to try to hit things in the order of most important or impacting, to least. Where is my TGO user account? If you created an account on TGO after August 17th you will most likely need to create your account again. We lost almost 30-days worth of data in this crash. What Happened To My Benefactor Account? A lot of my work today has been around connecting Benefactor memberships with those who purchased them. I was successful with most of them, but there are a few of you (less than 10) that I will be reaching out to in email so that we can work together to get you squared away. I am prioritizing this near the top of importance because you guys keep TGO afloat and I will take care of you. I posted something and now it's gone! Anything posted after August 17th is lost. I am very sorry. I suppose the good news is that if you posted something and regretted it, you now have a second chance. This part really sucks and I am absolutely not trying to down-play it. Trust me, however upset you are, I am infinitely more upset. I hope that you'll dive back in and recreate whatever we lost. What happened?!? This is the million dollar question. Our server suffered a catastrophic hardware failure that could not be recovered from. Thankfully we had backups, but I had to go back 30-days in time to find a backup that was viable. This problem had unfortunately been brewing for a while and I did not notice it in time. Prior to today (9/18/23) we were using a different web hosting company. We aren't using them now because I am greatly disappointed in their ability to assist and am livid over the outcome. The best and only way for me to respond was to move TGO to another hosting company who I believe will be much more responsive and responsible. That said, I cannot place full blame on them. Sadly, I missed some signs which were obvious in hindsight so some of this is absolutely my fault. Especially related to backups. I am now making backups of my backups and storing them in several places (online, offline, and in the cloud) so that we have more recovery options if something like this ever happens again. How can we help?? Post, post, post. Dive back in and start using TGO. This will be a scar for a while, but like all scars it will eventually fade. Other than that, there really isn't anything to do. I just noticed [insert problem here]. If you notice anything weird with your account, especially with payments for Benefactor memberships, let me know. I'll sort it out and get you taken care of. That's about it for now. Thanks for your patience while we were offline. I suppose if there is a silver lining to all of this, it has provided a chance to do some things different and better behind the scenes. Hopefully those differences and improvements will equate to odds heavily in our favor for the future. --David

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Benefactor Subscriptions have a new location in the TGO Store. You can find them under "Subscriptions" in the store, and by clicking this link to go there directly. Subscriptions - TNGunOwners.com The reason for this change is that Invision is phasing out the traditional e-commerce side of the forum software and moving things like this into a new purpose-built Subscriptions System. The sooner we adopt it, the less headaches there will be for our members in the long term. I did notice that if you have a PayPal subscription tied to your Benefactor account, when you go to the new system it prompts you to cancel the existing agreement with PayPal in order to make any changes to your Benefactor membership.

I just built a table frame out of 2x4 lumber, put a 3/4" thick plywood top on it, and then put a cheap countertop with backsplash from Lowes on top of that. I drilled through the countertop and plywood, ran my bolts for the press through it, and voila. Rock steady. You can tie that to the wall in the garage with some long decking screws or lag bolts and it absolutely won't rock or tilt while you're cranking away on the press. The backsplash on the countertop keeps primers and casings from rolling off the back of the table, too.