dcloudy777

I used a vise block and a 1996 Ford Thunderbird late one night before a range session I really needed that rifle for.  Worked like a charm.   :rock:

  Why would you eliminate the best feature of the gun?   All revolvers intended for defensive use should use moonclips.  It's just a much, much better idea.  All revolvers intended for defensive use shouldn't have exposed hammers either, but that's another subject.

With the USPSA Revolver rule change allowing 8-shot guns, Ruger could claw a bit of a foothold into that market (small as it is) with an 8-shot Redhawk in 9mm.  The Smith 929 is still super hard to find and crazy expensive.   In regards to the 9mm LCR... kinda cool.  It would have been way cooler if they would have chopped the frame and cylinder to the shorter dimensions allowed by the 9mm. 

Illegalities of his actions aside, this guy has very obviously displayed a tendency toward terrible decision making and lousy impulse control. No way in hell he should have a commercial pilot's license.

Way too much mention of shotguns in this thread.   I'm not too worried about civil unrest perpetrated by small birds or locked doors.   :rofl:

Combat : CZ SP01.   Carry: HK P7M8.  It sucks that you can't make the system work because of  your injury... nothing else is ever going to have the same level of safety with as good of a trigger.   As for "quantum leaps"... there hasn't been one in firearms design period in several decades.  :down:   IMHO, we've pretty much gone as far as we're going to go with metallic-cased cartridges and nitrocellulose propellant.

Of those two, I'd pick the S&W.   But before I bought I'd take at least look around the internet a bit for a police trade in Beretta or Glock or 3rd Gen S&W.

How the heck is carrying an empty shotgun around the courthouse protesting against a pleaded-down DUI arrest?

I'd stick with known, reputable maker mags, and just grab some of whichever you prefer.  It's salad days for AR mags right now... I looked at a few places online and literally can't find a 5.56mm AR15 magazine  for more than 20 bucks.  :up:

  This latest suit could have easily led to a valid NFA registration copy being held is inadequate to prove proper registration, and thus legality of NFA possession in TN.  IOW, we could have all been subject to arrest and prosecution  pending confirmation of valid registration with BATFE.   That's the big problem with state level NFA laws.... they accomplish nothing, and could potentially be used to harass the heck out of NFA owners.  They need to go.

He doesn't care a whit about getting any sort of law changed, he's stated that on a few different occasions.

Not a chance. The case is clearly designed to precisely mimic the appearance of an AR-15 type rifle with a magazine inserted. One look at the evidence pictures (or the "case" itself) is all it will take. And in today's USA, a person walking around in what appears to be body armor with what appears to be a loaded semiautomatic rifle in an urban area is all the exigency circumstances you need to search.

OS, how solid is the info on the arraignment judge not accepting Lenny's NFA documentation is evidence of affirmative defense? Is the hearing transcript available? That's really Kwik's only shot at a case. The search was good (one look at the "rifle case" is all it will take for a judge or jury to find PC/RS... the damn thing was designed to look exactly like a loaded rifle), the arrest was good, and the charge was dismissed properly. But if the arraignment judge really did just ignore obviously exculpatory evidence, that's not cool at all.

Exactly. And the nice officer only has to have probable cause of you committing a crime to arrest you. See where this is going?

By the time the judge was ruling, the proper registration paperwork had been seen (presumably by the judge and others), and the proper registration of the suppressor had likely been confirmed with BATFE, therefor no state law had been violated. At the time of the arrest, however, Lenny declined to show any sort of evidence of his affirmative defense (proper registration). With a clear law violation, and no evidence of any sort of an affirmative defense, of course a police officer has cause for arrest. Note the conspicuous lack of any sort of admonishment of the arresting officers in the judge's ruling. The arrest was perfectly legitimate.

Yep, I read it. The charges were dismissed because the weapon was properly registered. Sure, you don't have to show investigating officers your NFA paperwork. It just means that they have every legal right to take you to jail for a clear violation of state law. Or are the cops supposed to just take your word for it?

Lenny's possession of the suppressor was against TN state law. His proper registration under NFA would have been a defense against prosecution (and likely against arrest) but he declined to show any evidence that he had it.

And you, being a TGO member so presumably a "gun person" are probably 10 times more sympathetic to Lenny's cause than the average jury member.

Lenny ain't gonna get a dime. All he had to do was pop the "case" open, show the cops his NFA paperwork and that the rifle was unloaded, and go home, and he would have been fine.

  A gun-owning white guy complaining about cops taking his scary black rifle away?   I wish a case like that had a chance, but it doesn't. 

It will be interesting to see what Lenny's next move is going to be.  I'm sure he'll file a civil suit that will go nowhere.    Will he keep his up his antics?  Ratchet up the fear?  Learn his lesson and get on with his life?  Move to the much safer slip-and-fall in the grocery store scam?   Tune in next week, Kwik fans.... same Kwik time, same Kwik channel!!

Great gun and a killer deal.   I'd recommend a heavy Magnum load for "social purposes"... something like a 158gr Speer Gold Dot would be excellent.  Shoot just enough to verify POI and stay in practice.  You should be able to find or make a .38SPL load that shoots the the same POI with a cheaper bullet... shoot as many of those as you can afford.  :up:

Hunkering down in my store with a bunch of rifles and ammo, armor, and night vision.   They may get the booze, but by God they're gonna earn it.  :devil:

  I went to practice with some folks that shoot "sniper matches" a few years ago... these guys were scary... shooter/spotter teams hitting man-sized targets at 1000-1200 yards with shocking speed and regularity.   I saw quite a few $1500 scopes mounted on $500 rifles.... it was pretty eye-opening. 

From reviewing your desired capabilities, I think you'd be best served by just keeping the .30-06 you already have... maybe use the "new rifle" money to put a really good scope on it?  (That being said, I have no idea what you are using now....)   I never realized how much "good" optics helped until I used a few.