Recent content by DCR

Good Retort to Low-Ballers A family member has been an FFL & 'smith for 40+ years & has a foolproof way to shut up the low-ballers. Lowballer at a gun show tried to tell him his $500-600 price on a nice S&W revolver (I forget the model & cal, but it was from the late 60's-early 70's) The gun...

Reasonable, Articulable...[OMISSION] Suspicion The missing word here is "PARTICULARIZED" - just a pet peeve of mine. The LE apologists who even hint at the "How do we know the individual is/isn't [insert phrase here - e.g., a prohibited person, a danger to self or others, committing some other...

Thought Ronald Reagan when proposing, promoting and signing into law CA's open carry prohibitions as Governor and the "machine gun ban" as POTUS....

Pricing works both ways - Some vendors (not me; I'm not a dealer, I just know what I have and what the local market will bear because that's where I buy my guns) are likely getting tired of ridiculously low-ball offers from folks and, expecting some bargaining, price higher in hopes of ending...

Correlation does not equal causation The maxim serves man well. In my book, all the examples cited, including the practices of champion shooters, are anecdotal unless and until a scientific explanation has been established, replicated in a laboratory, and peer-reviewed. Hasn't happened yet...

Good on you for consulting your attorney on the issue! One other consideration you might ask your attorney about is how to deal with the situation in case the specific bequest of guns to your son fails for any reason. It's something that can be added to the will later - a codicil - if it...

I must take issue with this, because to my view it relies on a false premise, at least in my state and those surrounding it. Unless and until there is an affirmative duty under the law to positively identify a buyer and for the seller to be completely satisfied that the buyer is not a...

More details about the incident - particularly the "how it started," "where it happened" and "what was his dog treated for and how much was it" - are needed to understand and advise based on our personal experiences. Check into your homeowners/renters insurance policy to see if it may be...

On the range: interesting idea. Anywhere else: bad idea. Two words: booby trap. There's long-standing negative case law on them.

I'd always call it in, and take photo or video. It can turn out to be really funny in some cases. Years ago, our mayor was found lurking in a car in a residential neighborhood at 3-4 a.m....his wife thought he was helping their kid on his paper route (which he also told the cop who stopped to...

I'm glad for you that you won your appeal, but am infuriated that they made you jump through hoops and do any legwork whatsoever. The presumption of innocence dictates that the .gov must prove ineligibility, not that you prove eligibility. I know, I know, the presumption of innocence is in the...

+1 Micro! Self defense, by any means, is an intentional act. Unless the shooter is extremely wealthy, plaintiffs' attorneys know there's no money in bringing a lawsuit for an intentional tort. That's why they always allege negligence as well in a lawsuit - it invokes insurance coverage, and...

That smile says it all - you did GREAT!! Warms the cockles of this curmudgeon's cold heart!

Not neccessarily too high there... The devil's in the details, which were lacking in the post. Obviously the OP's familiar with the Colt revolvers, but we'd need to know more about the specifics of the other guns to decide whether they went for at or near market. The 10-22 - was it an earlier...

Good on ya for manning up. I have a mental picture of how my wife would have handled it - the report would have had her levitating 3 feet off the bed while flapping her arms! Her hollering would have had my ears ringing louder and for longer than the pistol's....