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Me neither, what's the skinny?

Seems like OWB would be perfect if you're wearing a coat all the time. A nice looking, dark colored leather holster would blend in with a similar color belt pretty seamlessly.

Can you imagine the sound that thing made? Wow.

Yep. But "reasonable" will involve compromise from both sides. Neither seems terribly interested in that at the moment. Bitching and whining is so much easier.

Rule #1: treat every gun as if it was loaded. Sad for the family.

The 2nd Amendment, protecting the 1st since 1791. If you'd offered any of those kids a gun while the shooting was going on, I guarantee they'd have taken it.

That's just the thing... they want due process tossed out too. Mostly because they've never had something valuable to them taken without due process, and spent years and $$$ fighting to get it back.

I'm glad the schools here are on spring break this week. Of course they just wanted out of class for a while. Assuming there weren't any repercussions, I would have too.

What I find amusing is that many of the kids were shocked to hear that there might be repercussions (suspension, etc.) for walking out of class. Sounds like a good opportunity for them to learn decisions have consequences, regardless of whether or not they think they're supporting a good cause. Though it does appear that a lot of schools are allowing a fairly brief demonstration.

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They exist in standard pressure as well, that's what's in my .45.

More or less what @Omega said. I don't think a suit would ever get to a judge because the law is clear (for now) that bump stocks are legal. I'd guess the only entity that could be sued is the ATF itself, and I'm surprised no one has yet. I'm sure the ruling on bump stocks wasn't handled by a single person. There's likely several layers of internal review prior to publishing a rule. My guess is the ATF couldn't find a way to disallow them within the letter of the existing law. Disallowing them would certainly have resulted in a law suit, and at that time, I presume they concluded it wasn't worth the aggravation. After all, killing people is already illegal.

Interesting. I thought the weight limit only applied to modified guns. IPDA has way too many rules.

All that's necessary to ban bump stocks is for the ATF to change the rules. There is no legislation or voting inherent in that process. The ATF publishes proposed rule change for public comment. Then they publish a final rule. "Public comment" doesn't mean anything anyone says will cause them to modify the proposed rule, its merely the time period in which they're obligated to accept comments. They are in no way obligated to act on those comments. https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations

How is it not legal for IDPA?

Stick with it. It's unpleasant, bit worth it.

Same as the "when children are present" school zone speed limit signs. How am I supposed to know "when children are present" when my kids don't go to that school? And what exactly does "present" mean? When they're outside, in the building, or what? I think the laws are intentionally vague to permit selective enforcement.

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https://www.atf.gov/questions-and-answers/qa/how-may-unlicensed-person-receive-firearm-his-or-her-state-he-or-she

A classic.

You have to take/send the gun to an FFL in their state to accomplish the transfer, or have an FFL here send it to an FFL there.

He and Kane would make a fun pair.

Cashe of seized weapons is my guess. Looks like a grenade launcher in the box.

Yes, very reasonably priced and 20 mins from the house. That's hard to beat. One of the instructors is a coworker and I attended with another coworker. We tried to talk a 3rd into coming, but he had family stuff to attend to.

I attended a training class held by T3 Concepts here locally. http://www.t3concepts1776.com/ I really enjoyed it. Sad as it may be to admit, I haven’t had any formal training in years. My primary take-away is that I’ve gotta practice more. Even 5-10 minutes at the house drawing, gripping, reloading, and failure drills a couple times/week would help. I’ve read several books and practice stuff on my own occasionally, but for me, there’s no comparison to having an instructor hovering over your shoulder with a shot timer in his hand. Which isn’t to imply the instructor (James) put a lot of pressure on the students, quite the opposite. The instruction was clear, friendly, encouraging, and generally pretty laid back. Options were presented for several techniques and the students could to pick what they liked best. It was definitely not a “my way or the highway” sort of environment (unless it was safety related…). The class was called “fundamental handgun” and that’s exactly what it was, solid fundamental instruction with simple drills to reinforce good habits. We started with basic draw stroke and grip, then moved to maximum accuracy. I learned that when the instructor says “take all the time you need to be as accurate as possible”, that’s exactly what he means. Three shots in 6 seconds isn’t slow. Three shots in 30 seconds is slow. Focus on the front sight during recoil and adjust your grip pressure until it tracks straight up/down. Don’t break the trigger until the sights areexactly where you want them. That’s harder than it sounds. From there we worked to build speed. Watching how group sizes open up and fundamentals break down as you increase speed from slow, to fast, to too fast, was clearly demonstrated. If you don’t push yourself into the “too fast” realm, you’ll never get faster. We also covered reloading techniques, which convinced me to change how I carry spare mags and that I should carry one more often. We also did some failure drills with simulated FTE and double feeds. Stripping a flush fit mag that’s jammed with a double feed is a pain. Having to do that while someone was shooting back would really suck. Virtually all my misses were low-left. I now know why it happens and how to fix it (grip pressure), but actually fixing it will take time and practice. At the beginning of class they were 6” low-left, at the end of class they were 3” low-left. That was encouraging. I’d really like to take this class again, maybe 2 more times before moving up to the next level. T3 also offers an intermediate level class that is going to be changed slightly and called “everyday carry”. I’d like to take that, their medical class, and send my wife to their women’s class.