monkeylizard

Once I switched to a sash, I've never looked back. Higher visibility and none of the drawbacks of the standard badge. I can't prove it, but I swear it improves my time in my training room.

Only crazy people have thousands of rounds of ammo.             But buying a 5 gallon bucket of pretzels at Costco makes perfect sense.

  Comcast likes to think so.

It works for Delta force.

He is the very definition of 'Impeachment Insurance'

I liked not liking that when I liked it.

+1 to the Maricopa Co. SO for extending the invitation and +1,000 to the Rev. for accepting the invitation and changing his position after learning the facts.

  Just Google him. My favorite nugget is from a Chattanooga Times Free Press article back in 2011 from when a Georgia PD trainee shot himself in the leg at an unrelated range. They had contacted Mr. Tune for some additional info on range safety. Don't know why they'd call someone in Nashville, but here it is: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2011/oct/01/police-trainee-shoots-self-in-leg/60412/       He conveniently left out that he was the one who put that bullet through his hand and (IIRC) it happened just a couple of weeks before this article....Doh!

  FIFY!

  But the OP's question is how far off the mark you are for a 2nd shot. I honestly don't think it's much different with my PM9 than it is with a G26, but it's noticeably more than with the brick that is the Beretta M9. I think it's manageable with some practice. I need to do more off-handed shooting with it. I'm just so uncoordinated with my off hand that it's not much fun to do it, so I don't. I know that's a bad reason, but it is what it is.

The one and only.

  Well than that's just all kinds of stupid, isn't it?  :surrender:

  The coyote speaks the thruth.

I'll just leave this here:

I can say my Ruger LCP in .380 was much harder to get back on target than the PM9.

  I can appreciate this a bit more with having some time to sleep on it. I should preface my earlier stance of never submitting to a voluntary search by saying that I never knowingly have anything illegal in my vehicle, therefore I see no benefit to consenting to a search. My comments were for people who are trying to be law abiding citizens. If you have something illegal, then yeah, I can understand DaveTN's point. You're more likely to get some concession from the officer if you consent even if he doesn't need it.   If you got stopped for what you think is a minor traffic violation, that's not going to give them PC to search your car and find the bag of weed you have in the trunk. Maybe what you don't know is that there's also a BOLO on you and your vehicle from an eye witness that saw you put the bag of weed in your trunk. If you consent, you're banking on the officer being on your side and letting you go, or charging you with a lesser offense. However, even if you think he has PC and you know you have something illegal in the car, by not consenting it will leave the avenue open for an attorney to challenge the search when the officer finds whatever it is he finds. That may or may not happen just as getting a pass from the officer may or may not happen. It's a bit of a crap shoot when trying to determine if there's PC or not and if you should consent or not if you knowingly have something illegal in your car.   I still think nothing good can come of consenting if you have nothing to hide, but I can't say that my mind is completely closed to an argument the other way.

  I wonder if the instructor was maybe having a bit of fun with the new guys. I sure hope that a couple of other instructors were standing over to the side watching and laughing when the trainees shot with their mouths open.

I haven't done much off-hand with the PM9. What little I have done is...um....challenging.

As KahrMan said, 2-handed is no problem, but I'm not as fast with accurate follow-up shots one-handed with my PM9 as I am with a larger gun like a G19, which itself is a little slower for me than the heavier Beretta M9. The muzzle climb does come in to play a little more with these smaller guns, but it's managebale with practice.

  I think he saw "Reefer Madness" once, the colorized version with the purple and green smoke.

Used to hear the baby fox cries a lot in the evenings on the far edge of Bellevue. Now I just hear coyote yips.

  In that case, you're asking out of courtesy. I can appreciate that. If an officer is asking to search and doesn't have PC already, then I still say nothing good can come of it.

  This. Absolutley nothing good can happen to you by consenting to a search that wouldn't also happen by declining the search. At best you break even by consenting and at worst you're getting a car ride. I don't like those odds.

    You need to make up your mind.

  That was a different era. When Sam was running the show, he got the lower prices by buying in huge volumes and running on very slim margins. Nobody was doing any real offshore across the spectrum of products. He didn't have to compete against retailers offshoring 95% of their merchandise. Sure, most electronics were from Japan or Taiwan, and you had a lot of clothing done south of the border, but there was plenty of USA Made product to choose from even in those categories. There's no way to go back now. If Wal-Mart moved back to 95% USA made products (which they can't do today because almost nothing's made here any more), their prices would be too high and their customers would shop at Dollar General, Fred's, and Target who would still be ordering products from China. When a burger flipper wants $10/hr in the US while a guy in China builds flat screen TVs for $0.75/hr at a factory with no OSHA or EPA regulations, how can we ever economically make the flat screen TVs over here? Wal-Mart would be selling a flat screen made in Toshiba's Lebanon plant for 4 times the price of one from Sony made in China on sale at Best Buy. Oh wait....they can't because Toshiba had to close that plant.