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One of the times a dot failed on me was when I stepped out of an air conditioned vehicle into a muggy about-to-rain morning and the glass fogged up for a couple minutes. Co-witnessed irons would have been useless. If one managed to crack the glass, back up irons would still be useless.

...until the optic fails.

I disagree and I have quite a bit of trigger time with a dot gun. Outside of maybe trying to quickly ice an active shooter at 50 yards with a headshot, I can’t think of a self-defense scenario I am likely to encounter where I can do something with a dot that I can’t do with a good set of irons.

Forget all the BBQ war BS and stop by Memphis Mojo. It’s a hole-in-the-wall burger joint five minutes north of I-40 exit 15.

Right but it also includes requiring a psychological evaluation by who knows who to obtain an ownership license (with an expiration date) that must be carried whenever in possession of guns or ammo. There is also 24 hours of training required including live fire to obtain the license. The AG must be notified in writing when a gun or ammo is to be loaned to who, how long, etc. That person also has to have the psych eval and license. It requires a license holder to get a liability policy with an $800 fee (I assume annual cost). It also establishes a database of firearms and owners that is available to the public. Basically, any semi-auto handgun is banned. These are not the things normally specified when Democrats are talking about “common sense” measures.

I don't think HR 127 has a snowball's chance in hell of passing. What worries me about it is Democrats using it to pass other things. "We are not asking for something radical like HR 127, we are proposing modest changes like AWB, ammo taxes, universal registration, etc" and the public may bite, especially if this comes on the heels of a mass shooting. Ask for a mile, take 500 yards.

I sent them a 3" and later a 4" EMP, both for failure-to-feed issues. Both times they opened up the chamber and relieved the feed ramp. Both came back in a week or two and were good to go. I know of a few others that have had the same experience. Some people go overboard with the "full case support" stuff. I have no idea why Springfield makes the chambers so tight on their 9mm 1911s, but they are happy to fix them.

I must have heard it on the radio

Proprioception honing can benefit an irons shooter as well. Building a natural "index" through extensive dry practice will help a dot or irons shooter. Some of the better USPSA/IDPA shooters target focus with irons at most distances. This probably sounds sacrilegious to some and Col. Cooper might roll over in his grave, but they do and they win doing it. I am not talking about Bullseye shooting, but some upper crust action pistol-type iron sight shooters who need QUICK good-enough accuracy (two A-zone hits) can target focus and hold their own against dot shooters.

Biden ordered half staff to honor Rush Limbaugh.

I shot a dot-equipped Glock and a Walther extensively in USPSA for a year or so and found irons to be quicker inside 10 yards. Dots are the ticket for aging eyes, though.

It’s quite common with all generations as the gun breaks in. I have a 24 that started doing it after only 400 rounds or so.

Right, but we were talking about TN after OhShoot posted about TN trending downward. My point about beds was that Memphis crime of all sorts over the past few months has been completely off the charts. If ER and ICU beds are full of covid patients, where are all these daily gunshot victims going? ETA: Four people shot in Memphis in the last four hours.

I don’t buy the lack-of-ICU-beds-due-to-covid argument, at least around here. We a had a famous DJ recently suffer a heart attack and had to go to AR because the ER was full here. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it. I don’t doubt they are full of gunshot victims, but not covid patients. Not sure where you are, but it hasn’t been warming up around here until yesterday.

...if you believe the advertised death rate.

Beats power outages, ruptured pipes, and closed schools.

Strange numbers when folks would have us believe that vaccinations are not happening nearly quickly enough and the sky is falling. Wonder if the drop could be due to herd immunity beginning.

I don't recall anybody here telling them to "rest in piss" or that they were glad they lived long enough to get cancer. There's really no comparison between the two sides.

Oh I don’t doubt a competent rifleman could zero and practice with a good Carcano (if there is one) and make the shots. But could Oswald do so with his Carcano? I have doubts. Oswald was supposedly a qualified Expert in his time in the USMC, but some who served with him roll their eyes at this idea. Oswald missed a 30-odd yard shot during the assassination attempt of an Army general a few months before Kennedy. Also, Oswald’s Carcano raises a few questions. It was found to have a loose scope mount that was mysteriously repaired prior to testing. The rifle supposedly hit high at 15 or 20 yards, which makes no sense for a scoped rifle. If anything, it should hit low that close. After this shoddy testing process, the rifle was determined to be capable of making the shots in question. Then there’s the “magic bullet” question. Call me a conspiracy theorist or tinfoil hat model or whatever, but if you believe Oswald was the lone shooter, I’ll sell you a Carcano guaranteed to make you the 2021 NRA High Power champion. *You being anyone, not you, Chuck.

but are you healthy?

...and supposedly a really loose scope mount.

Damn, we need more AGs like that Paxton fellow. Although I believe gun control is currently number 6 or 7 on the Biden administration wish list, I have no doubt it will come up. Maybe with Biden in office, maybe not. He didn't even mention taxing ammunition or executive orders. However, the VP is a thorough bred gun grabber and I believe will be the president in the not-so-distant future. If Kamala is in the White House, I expect priorities to be adjusted. All this is out the window if there is a major mass shooting.

It would take a serious storm for Fedex or UPS to shut down, even for a day.

Right, I wonder what all the Covid-fear hobbyists will say when we are told to "trust the science" and the science says 2A needs to go...

I don't consider myself a TGO prognosticator, but I believed that a Biden administration would put other things first--their obsession with destroying America's chances at energy self-reliance, reparations, LGBTQ, punish the police, woke agenda disguised as covid relief, etc. UNLESS a mass shooting occurs. The statement above calls on Congress to enact the usual common sense drivel, so hopefully it's just lip service to the gun grabber crowd.