Chucktshoes

HPD Chief Acevedo has said that HPD will be ending its use of no knock warrants. This is a big deal and a direction that I fervently hope will be adopted by departments nationwide. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-police-to-end-use-of-no-knock-warrants-13626158.php

Well, the class itself is rather simple.

The lead officer from this raid is likely to face criminal charges for lying is the warrant affidavits essentially making up a CI. The victims here had less than a quarter ounce of weed and a few grams of an unidentified white powder (but not the heroin that was the reason for the warrant). They weren’t drug kingpins armed to the teeth, but they did end up dying in this drug war for what amounts to nothing more than a personal use quantity of weed and a 9mm handgun. All because an officer thought lying was more efficient than doing some actual investigation work. The war on drugs as national policy and the warrior culture built up around it in modern policing incentivizes this sort of behavior. It has to end. As far as I am concerned the deceased were simply protecting their home from actual criminals and justified in that defense. The officers involved should be charged with murder in addition to the charges related to malfeasance in their duties. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Houston-police-shooting-affidavit-confidential-13620120.php

That’s like saying one should buy a Colt if they want a 1911. The HiPower is still a useful and viable gun. While I understand the economics behind Browning ceasing production, I’m happy somebody is still keeping the design in production.

Yep. It’s available in both a black and a stainless version.

Here’s where the HP discussion starts as a member bought one of these.

The BR9 got discussed in the Tisas 1911 thread. Why? Because it’s where we discuss anything Tisas. Don’t ask me why that is, I don’t know. I just know that it is. I’m just happy to have Hi Power anything discussed.

Records. Lots and lots of records.

My take on is that it is drilled into folks head that you don’t pull the trigger until you are ready to shoot as one of the 4 primary safety rules. Then Glock turns around and says “forget all that if you wanna clean our gun” and it just sticks in the craw for some folks. My dislike of Glock has nothing to do with disassembly procedures, but that’s my take anyways.

I’m no gunsmith, but you might be right about that.

I’m not watching the game because I’m working tonight. I did get to see the entirely insane bud light/Game of Thrones commercial. That went sideways with the quickness.

That ship sailed when the Republicans failed to put in any effort to get it done before they lost control of the house.

I keep meaning to see how they feel about semis in the parking lot when I pass through there.

I too am a fan of the KAG and hand stops in general.

These truly are “the good ol’ days” with regards to firearms. I hope all of y’all are taking advantage of them.

Damn it. I’ve got some other irons in the fire at the moment, but I’m gonna end up with one with a sheath by the usual party.

It’s a pleasant 41* here in eastern Oregon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It’s such a cool design, hopefully a larger company will buy their IP and start producing them.

I actually think this is pretty cool as a long term storage idea.

I didn’t say they were cheap. Of course I’ve got over $3500 in my FAL. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The only reason FALs were so cheap for so long was the plethora of surplus parts kits that were floating around after such wide adoption around the world.

It exists. It’s called the SCAR 17.

The FAL was always the superior design. We never should have fielded the M-14.

The more I read about this, the more I want to try it. If it delivers as advertised, it seems like it would be the perfect subgun ammo. Might even get me off the fence for an Evo.