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I spoke with a Taurus rep while examining the new .380 and he mentioned that it is a USA-built gun. Taurus is more than doubling their Miami-based workforce and have a new, larger facility down there, primarily devoted to the production of this gun. DanO

No way, Joe spent so much time deployed he pees com-bloc tracer now... green, not red. DanO

Wow... I don't think I've ever read an article so correct in its conclusions, yet so incredibly flawed in its logic... And, BTW, have you ever met some the "experts" that write for gun magazines? Sure, some of them are BTDT guys, but some of them, to be polite... aren't. DanO .... who BTW, has only been genuinely in fear for his life on a firing range one time... when I was present during a qualification shoot for corrections officers... I actually considered wrapping myself in B27 targets... they seemed to be the only thing safe on the range.

The EMP would be my choice of the two... however, I think the Kimber Aegis is nicer than both of them.... might want to check it out. DanO

We are dangerous... very dangerous to criminals, foreign invaders, and oppressive governments. That is exactly the problem the gun-grabbers have with us, and they are well served to remember it. DanO

Watauga, that's not too terribly far removed from the system we have in place now. The smartest thing the Socialists ever did was payroll witholding. If all taxpayers had to write a check every month, or every quarter, or at the end of every year, the revolution would have happened decades ago. As it is, they take your money before you even see it, hold it interest-free for a year, and then "do you a favor" be giving you back a "refund" at the beginning of next year. As for Social Security, it's a textbook example of a "pyramid" or "Ponzi" scheme. It relies solely on current contributions to repay past contributors. If I offered the same kind of deal to willing investors, I'd be charged with multiple felonies and locked up. The feds not only are allowed to perpetuate such a progam, but participation is mandatory under penalty of law. I suppose in the most literal sense of the word I "tolerate" this going on, but only because it's not worth the consequences of moving, or "living off the grid". Well, not worth it yet anyway... DanO

Looks cool... but way, way too much money. You can get an Armalite AR30, put a very nice scope and a Jewell trigger on it, and still come out a grand behind the Barrett. I mean, how "revolutionary" can a turnbolt repeating rifle be? $4.5K of my money into a non-scoped rifle and it's gonna be custom built by Surgeon, Ed Brown, Montana rifleman, or the like. DanO

Very nice gun. By the 3rd generation, S&W had the autopistol thing figured out. All steel, very solidly built and extremely light recoil. Small enough to conceal if needed, but still handles like a full-sized service gun. Plenty accurate and the ones I've shot were very reliable. The safety is bass-ackwards, so it's best used as purely a decocker gun and carried off safe. DanO

Great pics... glad someone got one of Tungsten with the Krink before it got all uncontrollable and attacked that busload of nuns... DanO

Okay, it's put up or shut up time. Early voting opened this morning, and I just got back from doing my bit. Who else has voted? DanO

Here's Maggie (named after Thatcher)... 27 pounds of muscle, teeth and fury. (And kisses ). She jumps about 3 times her height, likes to kill snakes, and literally pulls me (6'3" 265 pounds) around on a leash. She's definitely the .357Mag J-frame of the dog world. DanO

I figure I could finally get a picture up of my new AK... DanO

Nice gun... you need to give these guys a shout and SBR that thang. http://www.sturmgewehr.com/webBBS/nfa4sale.cgi?read=111613 DanO

Reliance on re-strike capability and training to use it is not so hot of an idea, but the capabilty itself has some advantages. This is because is a stresses situation, you are more than likely going to pull the trigger again anyway. I've seen this happen to very very good shooters, and done it myself (who isn't all that great at all). I've trained the tap-rack drill incessantly, and I can get it done pretty dern quick, but on the clock, I still can't "transition" mentally from trigger-pulling to malfunction-clearing fast enough to avoid an extra pull. Try it yourself: combine a "Bill Drill" with some ball-and-dummy. It usually goes more like: BANGBANGBANGBANGclick-click-tap-rackBANGBANG or: BANGBANGclickclickclickclick-tap-rack-BANGBANGBANGBANG If the malfunction is a bad round (unlikely but possible), the restrike capability affords the fastest way to get the gun running again. I really wouldn't let it factor much either way into a defensive gun choice... I certainly wouldn't see it as a liabilty. BTW, the FTF drill with a wheelgun always starts with a second trigger pull. DanO

Hello, and welcome to TGO. What are you looking to trade for? We're about an hour up I-24, love to make trades, and have a few guns for you to look at... Dan Overcast

All the advice given so far is accurate and good stuff. That being said, I think you might be best served with sticking with .223. If you pick a good barrel with a fast twist rate (1:8, 1:7, etc.), the heavier weight .223 rounds are capable of phenomenal accuracy out to 600m. .223 from the AR platform pretty much dominates NRA High-Power, which shoots out to 600. And you have the advantages of being able to use much cheaper plinking fodder for practice, and not having to worry about bolt or magazine interchangability. Of course, you may just want to change calibers just to have something different, which is always encouraged. DanO

It is pefectly legal in TN to hunt with a supressed weapon, provided it is legally owned and the weapon/hunter otherwise conform to the applicable hunting laws. (Duck season, wabbit season, that kinda thing). It is illegal to hunt with a firearm capable of automatic fire, which is a real bummer... severely limits my hunting gun choices. DanO And as to the OP... you would probably be best served by asking the manufacturer of a particular can whether or not they rate their product for WMR or not. Any .223 suppressor would be fine, but they are quite a bit heavier and pricier than rimfire units (of course, you can also shoot .223 out of them.) I do know that Gemtech makes a .17HMR suppressor. And as stated, 22mag being supersonic, it's still going to be pretty loud. To get "Stupid Quiet" (industry term), you really need subsonic projectiles.

Back during the bad ole' days, BATF required that the new "nuetered" magazine produced for US sales could not be readily converted to accept more than 10 rounds. Usually this involved different mag body designs, or different methods of attaching the floorplate. (I.E. ban-era Para-Ord or H&K 10 rounders lack the bottom ridge to attach the floorplate from a standard-cap mag, they only worked with the capacity-limiting floorplates.) If the mags could be easily made to accept more than 10 rounds, the BATF would not have allowed them to be sold. DanO

Drop the light, get the gun loaded and back in the fight. After 6-15 rounds from a handgun in low light, your vision is toast anyway, and its a little late for positive ID on the target. If the threat is gone, you have plenty of time to pick the light back up. I feel the same way about the "Tactical Reload" (a misnomer if there ever was one). DanO

This application is absurd, but the technology driving it could be the cat's butt. Imagine a 125gr high BC 6.5mm projectile that you could throw at around 2,300 FPS with practically no recoil for fast CQB, but then turning a dial and moving the same bullet at 3,300 fps to engage targets out to 1000m and beyond? Count me in. DanO

Tony Rumore, the mad scientist-Saiga guy behind Tromix,http://www.tromix.com, built up a nice one. Check out his "Projects" page. Of course, Tony also builds things like.32ACP ARs and T/C Encores in .458 SOCOM... Actually I've been toying with the concept of integrally suppressing a muzzleloader.... it's not a firearm, thus shouldn't legally be a "silencer", and therefore shouldn't be subject to NFA controls. Needless to say, the engineering problems would be challenging, and the utility somewhat questionable, but that's never stopped us before. DanO

Anytime, man... no problem at all. Actually Rightwinger, that's not my picture, just some stock photo I found somewhere on the internet. So for all I know, the snake may have finished up the meal and be crawling around with a 1911-shaped lump in the middle. DanO

Sounds like you haven't got the left-most "leg" of the sear spring (the leg that's actually the sear spring) positioned correctly. It's a very common mistake. The leg should rest on the back of the sear, like so. The left leg is on the bottom in this picture... hope that helps. DanO

Use the slide release, that's what it's there for. If you can't reach it, get rid of that silly Glock and carry a gun with usable controls. DanO ....who can't figure out how an action that requires both arms moving, both wrists pivoting, and one hand grasping and releasing, all in a specified order, is a "Gross Motor Function", while moving one thumb about a half an inch is a "Fine Motor Function"...

Yep, you are wrong. This receiver is an SBR, whether you put a 24" barrel on it, a 4" barrel on it, or just leave it as a paperweight. It's an NFA item that requires ATF approval from the minute it gets manufactured. CMMG files a Form 2 the day they build it, then a Form 3 to transfer it to me, and then we file a Form 4 to transfer it to you. Now, as for the uppers, the LMT is super-cool, if you want to drop the coin. I've had great luck with CMMG's stuff. I run a CMMG 10.3" 1-in-7" twist barrel on my M4, and it's one of the most accurate AR's I've ever put together. DanO