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GAMER!!! Just kidding... I use 9mm for the gun games too, its just cheaper. DanO

It appears to me that the oncoming cop stood on his brakes, and the front end of his car skided a little to his left as he slowed. Just bad luck, and stupidity on the part of the scumbag for running in the first place. DanO

Yeah, that is a good thing... two guns blowing up at once could really do some damage... DanO

An absolute top-notch company. Great people to do business with, and very, very good products. These guys know short-barrel ARs as well as anyone. I have CMMG barrels in both of my AR pattern guns. DanO

Yep... Glock raised the distributor prices on all of the magazines this week. They gave about 12 hours notice too... real classy. But to be fair, they had been selling them at the same price for quite some time, and were due for an increase. But I mean, really, do you even need a magazine for a Glock? Aren't they so reliable you can just fill the grip with ammo and put a piece of duct tape over it or something? That's what I heard... DanO

Absolutely. An SBS has no barrel or overall length restrictions. I'd just list the shortest configuration you have planned as the overall length on your form. DanO

Unfortunately, at this time the SXS AOW is a no-go. The pump-gun AOWs are built as smoothbore handguns on "virgin" receivers. Nobody currently offers a SXS (or over/under for that matter) receiver on which to build... I wish they did. The only option is to go the $200 stamp SBS route, then you can have the gun of your choice cut to length. Also FYI, if you build an AOW on a form 1, the stamp is still $200 (don't ask me why). That's why the "home-builders" just build an SBS... you might as well have the option of putting a stock on it, since the money is the same. DanO

The NFA paperwork is really no big deal... you can go to www.titleii.com of have a form 1 or form 4 filled out in about the same time it takes to register for this forum. Now as for why someone would want an SBR? It's not really important for anyone to know the reason for that other than the buyer, and even he/she doesn't really need to know either. Kinda like revolvers... the technology has been obsolete for 100 years, but yet they sure seem to have a following. DanO (who is an unrepentant wheelgun lover, who looks forward every week to Wheelgun Wednesday to wear his S&W 29)

You can sell the gun to an in-state individual or any SOT dealer with one tax stamp, on a form 4. You don't have to go "through" an SOT dealer (to transfer the gun to the dealer would require a tax stamp, plus then an additional tax stamp to transfer to the new buyer, 400 bucks total ), but I would recommend consulting with a "pro" to help you with the paperwork. An out-of-state sale to an individual will require 3 transfers: One tax-stamp form 4 to an in-state dealer, one tax-free form 3 from your dealer to the buyer's dealer, and then one more tax-stamp form 4 to the buyer. Your best course of action (other than just keeping it and enjoying it ), would probably be a local form 4 sale, or if you can't find a buyer on your own, finding an SOT to consign it for you (an SOT can keep the gun in the store tax-free, as long as ownership isn't transferred). I'd be happy to help you with this, if you have any other questions just let me know. DanO

With the state of expanding bullet technology becoming so advanced, the difference in effectiveness among all of the popular defense chamberings has almost become statistically insignificant. Shot placement is still way more important. I carry a 9mm during the summer months, and don't feel the slightest bit undergunned. Of course, the 10mm I carry the other 8 or 9 months of the year smokes the 9mil or the .45 anyway. DanO

Well, at least they had the guts to call it a recall, not some sort of "Free post-delivery trigger group modification" like a certain other popular pistol maker did. DanO

I just put a drop-in auto sear in a ratty old 19... finally got a Glock worth shooting... DanO

I carry a Colt Delta Elite that's been rebuilt by Yost-Bonitz, except for the summertime, when I switch to my HK P7M8. Why? Because my M-4 kept banging against the display cases... DanO

You might want to take a look at the new Walther PPS as well. We just got one in the shop, and I'm pretty impressed. Very, very thin, with some pretty nice features. DanO

That may have been limp-wristing... DanO

You just need to invest in a genuine AK armorers' tool kit... I'm sure Urse can tell you where to get one...

Definitely limp-wristing... no doubt about it. DanO

Okay first off, that pictures is priceless... But... I don't think that's a Skorpion. The stock is all wrong, and the barrel as too long. I'm pretty stumped... looks a little like a Chinese Type 79, but the rod underneath the barrel, almost like a recoil spring guide rod, really throws me off. It might be something home-made... insurgents have been able to cobble together some pretty ingenious stuff at times from battlefield pickups. DanO

Yeah... sorry about that... but at least I do have the excuse of needing to know this kinda stuff for a living... DanO

I'll give it a shot. "Locked-breech" and "Blow-back" refer to the two main operating systems of autoloading firearms. Think for a minute about the way autoloaders work. The energy of the burning powder increases pressure in the barrel and pushes the bullet forward and the slide to the rear. This pressure is contained within the barrel until the barrel is vented to the outside by either the bullet leaving the barrel or the breech opens. The pressure being released from the muzzle end of the barrel results in the sound of a gunshot. If the breech opens (by pulling the spent case free from the chamber thus unsealing the breech), before the pressure in the barrel has subsided (i.e. before the bullet has left the muzzle), the high pressure gasses will travel back into the shooter, which is bad. Now, herein lies a bit of a problem. The pressure exerted by the powder burning is the same in both direction, and except in the case of an extremely short barrel, the distance required to open the breech is quite a bit shorter than the distance the bullet must travel to release pressure the safer way. The practical autoloading firearm is derived from finding ways to slow the opening of the breech so that pressure is relieved safely through the muzzle. It's actually easier to start with the opposite of locked-breech systems, known as blow-back operated guns. Gun that operate on the straight blow-back principal rely on weighting the reciprocating mass of the gun (slide or bolt) so that it's travel is slowed enough to delay opening of the breech until pressure has subsided. The biggest problem with blow-back guns is that they must be either relatively low-powered (nearly all rimfires use blow-back, as do most .25s, .32s, and .380s), or have really heavy bolts or slides (ever hefted a hi-point 45 or an Uzi?). This shortcoming quickly led to the invention of locked-breech systems. Volumes have been written on various locked-breech operating systems, but basically they all operate by the breech being physically locked during the moment of ignition, where the energy engages some mechanism of mechanical advantage to unlock the breech before the reciprocating mass begins to open the breech. The most popular locked-breech system for handguns is the Browning-inspired tilting-barrel system. In said system, the barrel is physically locked into the slide by a lug or lugs when the gun is in battery. During recoil, the barrel moves back with the slide(still locked) until it is cammed upward, thus freeing the lugs and allowing the slide to continue back. The delay imparted by the moving and tilting barrel is sufficient to allow the bullet to leave the muzzle and reduce pressure inside the barrel to a safe level before the breech is open. Most autoloading rifles are gas operated, wherein the breech is locked until part of the gases from the burning powder are redirected to operate a mechanism that frees the bolt to travel rearward. This gas is drawn from a "down-barrel" point, and thus the distance the gas must travel before engaging the breech unlocking mechanism allows the pressure to reach safe levels before unlocking and opening the breech. Beleive it or not, that's pretty over-simplified . Tons more locked-breech systems exsist, as well as hybrid delayed-blowback sytems, and a bunch more ways to skin a cat. Basically, a locked-breech gun is one in which the breech is physically locked at the moment of ignition, and must be unlocked by either manual force or the force generated by ignition before it can be opened. DanO

I can actually see how this could happen. Violent encounters are dynamic encounters, particularly when they involve highly mobile critters like dogs. Imagine trying to hit a relatively small, fast moving target with a handgun. Now imagine trying to do it when said target is in very close proximity to your lower body. Now imagine trying to perform this task while scared out of your ever-loving mind by an absolutely fearless hyper-aggressive carnivore which would like nothing more than to eat you. Not to hard to see even an accomplished pistolero doing the same thing. The biggest problem I have with this is the tactics employed by the police unit. Where was the long gun? If the activity was dangerous enough to need 5 officers, it certainly warrants at least 2 of them armed with a shotgun or rifle. A shotgun carried chambered in low-ready would have been much faster into action than a holstered pistol, and probably would have been able to engage the charging dog at a great distance, with a much higher hit potential and terminal effectiveness than any handgun. Handguns have a pretty lousy track record against aggressive dogs... the suckers are hard to hit and even harder to stop. There's also the issue of the jackass that tried to hide behind his dog in the first place... 00 buck works real well on jackasses too... Just my $1/50 DanO

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The slide corrosion problem was very real, but Springfield took care of it very well. Local PD adopted XD40s a couple years back, and after just a few months most were showing signs of rust, and a few were absolutely trashed. Springfield took the guns back a few at a time, put the new finish on the slides, and the problem hasn't resurfaced. I think the new surface treatment is very similar to S&Ws Melonite, which has proven to be superb. DanO

That may be my quote of the year... DanO

It does seem to me that one could become proficient with the safety devices on any sort of pistol WAY faster than one could learn to be anywhere near fast with this method. You never need a pistol "in a minute"... long guns maybe, but in my experience, you need a handgun a few seconds ago.... DanO