Recent content by FourNineFoxtrot

Ragnar- I don't believe that there are truly two kinds of "antis", nor that they can be broadly labeled as either "ignorant" or "malevolent". Most people who favor gun-control, in my experience, are just people with their own opinions. They hold those opinions for what seem to them to be...

I think this is almost more a personality issue than anything else. Some people are very outgoing and gregarious and talk about their hobbies with people all the time, often to people they don't know very well. That's fine. I'm not an outgoing person at all. I keep to myself mostly, and...

I'll play. First, I want them to remake the Walch Navy .36 as a modern weapon: A twelve-shot (in one cylinder) double-action revolver chambered in .357 and available in varied barrel lengths. Frankly, I don't think it can be done since I'm pretty sure the pressure of a .357 is a lot higher...

I marked that I train "Dominant Side, Two-handed grip only". Sometimes I do shoot one-handed or weak hand, although I've never used both hands to support a weak-hand grip (not sure what the point is; if both hands work I'd use the dominant hand, and if one hand is injured I'd use the other hand...

I voted Sig Sauer. Really, for a "Just One Gun" scenario, there's a lot of guns that would work just as well, but if I can only have one, I want my old friend Mr. P226. We understand each other. I might have wanted something smaller and lighter to carry, but if I have to choose between a gun...

I'm not at all sure that energy weapons will replace projectile weapons, soon or ever. Frankly, there's more of an impetus toward developing non-chemical propelled projectile weapons (i.e, rail-guns, gauss guns, etc.) than toward actual energy weapons like lasers and whatnot. I could certainly...

"The two loudest sounds in the world are the BANG that shoulda went *click*, and the *click* that shoulda went BANG." "You can't enslave an armed man. You can only kill him." Don't recall where I heard these two. Probably here. Couple more of my favorites have already been...

Self-defense where your defense options are limited is always tricky. Lots of good suggestions in the thread so far, I'd advise picking from among them for what seems most useful and comfortable for you to use. When considering the possibility of self-defense on a train, it also pays to...

leadcounsel gave some good advice. I've bought and sold some stuff on craigslist, never had any problems, although that certainly doesn't mean it can't or won't happen. About a year ago, I sold an upright, wheeled A/C unit via craigslist. The other party's actions are a near-textbook...

I'm another one of those who doesn't really have a purpose for a bug-out bag. I have nowhere to go, all around me is hundreds of miles of desert, and outside of town I don't know a soul within a thousand miles. I'm not bugging-out anywhere, certainly not on foot. Now, a get-home bag I could...

I do trust my gut. I can't really point out any specific times when it's saved me, helped me out, or even been demonstrably correct. A long time ago, I was reading W.E.B. Griffin's "The Corps" series. And there's a part in the first book where a character just "has a feeling" that something...

I've thought a lot about a situation like that myself. Especially something like a bank, or a restaurant. Someplace with lots of people, indifferent concealment, and very little I'd trust as cover. In the nightmare scenario, the robber shoots a bank teller or cashier or just somebody in their...

I've slept with a gun under my pillow, in motel rooms mainly. I stopped doing it when I realized that it isn't actually very accessible to get to something you're laying on. And when I did do this, my Sig Sauer was in Condition 3 (loaded mag in, empty chamber, hammer down). Mostly I keep it...

Urban. Of course, there's Urban, and then there's Urban. I call what I live in "Urban Lite", same great taste, fewer people. I got neighbors above, left and right. But there's open ground behind and in front. Even a few trees and some grass. I like that. They cut down the trees at my...

I'm 24, a caucasian male, pretty big guy with a goatee and usually wear a t-shirt and cargo shorts. I don't look like anything, really. In fact, I try to be about as nondescript as a guy my size can be. Most places I've been were pretty good, had some people try to sell me a story because...