Recent content by Dmath

Two guiding principles: -- A thief won't try to steal what he does not know is there, so consider making it look unimportant, like a shoe rack. This would not fool an FBI search, but thieves are generally fairly stupid. --Do not tell anybody about it. There is an old Russian proverb to...

I thank all of you for the replies -- very helpful they are in giving me an overall feel for the state of things in your state. In fact, I'll have a revolver, a .357 Magnum, in the middle compartment between the seats, not visible even if the lid is open. So of course the magazine question...

She may even have realized that her life's work had not resulted in preventing one single evil person from obtaining a gun and harming someone with it.

It's possible that on her deathbed she had a moment of illumination, and realized that her life's work had only succeeded in interfering with the ability of ordinary people to defend themselves against lethal threats, and may in fact have caused needless deaths and injuries.

Thanks. It will be in the center console, which has a lid that snaps in place. Is that enough? . I would never disagree with the reasoning behind the law, or what I assume is the reasoning -- allowing people reasonable self-defense -- I'm just amazed that the government seems so sensible on...

I live in Minnesota, which has fairly intelligent gun laws (relative to, say, New Jersey) and I'm headed to Colorado in a couple of days, and am trying to make sense of their gun laws. I've been looking online, and it appears that my carry permit is not good there. Okay, got that. But having a...

I have never owned a business, or even worked for anything but a large company, so my opinions on this are not personal. But common sense strongly suggests that any business has to charge more for a thing than they paid for it, or they will soon have to close down the shop. I think it's stupid...

I would see it as wrong for me to go to somebody's house (however foolish his opinions) while doing something he has specifically asked me not to do -- in this case carrying a gun. I agree wholeheartedly that his views on the matter are stupid, but what's at issue here is simple respect for a...

But the question remains: Can I safely shoot the wrinkled cases? And, for that matter, the other cases that didn't wrinkle but that required an unusual amount of force to seat/crimp?

Thanks and thanks again! Crimping was the problem. I went back and started all over and now the bullets seat just the way they used to. The origin of the problem was that I moved into this house three years ago, and I have loaded mostly other calibers since then. The 9 mm dies had lost...

Okay, thanks. I will go back off both the expander and crimper-seater dies and start all over. Excessive crimp had not occurred to me. . . . which shows the value of posting on here.

This has just recently started to happen. I'm loading 9mm on my RCBS press, using a variety of brass (range pickup, but mostly my own) and standard RN FMJ 115-grain bullets. Even though I have the expander plug most of the way down inside the case, and the case mouth is clearly belled, it seems...

Conceivably the Luger is a fake, but considering where you found it, and guessing that it was stashed in there (by some misguided soul) many decades ago, you'd have to believe that no fakery was ever intended. I love Lugers, but I am no expert. That's almost certainly a DWM (Deutsche Waffen...

I am guessing that the poster who said that (and I agreed with him) was making a joking-but-still-largely-true reference to the concept that there is a lot of overlap between people who carry and people who have knives with pocket clips. It's not a lock, but it's still pretty durn likely.

I might be hijacking my own thread here, but -- Knife clip on pants pocket is definitely an identifier. But it's much less noticeable if it isn't a bright steel clip. To that end, a couple of days ago, I removed the clip from my Spyderco and dunked it in Plastidip, that liquid-rubber stuff...