Recent content by gonepostal42

this is something i'm doing for a friend who has a welathy relative--the real threat is minimal, and please forgive my dry sense of humor (the quip about child support). I don't mean to imply that i wouldn't be taking this seriously. She would almost certainly be ok without me, but her...

thanks again, everyone...i guess it all depends on practical application...and my employer is independently wealthy, so i probably have the luxury of renting and trying out as many as i need to...i just wanted to narrow it down to the few most likely contenders first. I think the idea of...

when you say "flinch factor" do you mean hesitation? and becaused i'm usually the type to err on the side of caution--better have it and not need it--what are your thoughts on the good old Ditry Harry .44 magnum? sidebar--to a novice like me, it would seem there isn't much difference between a...

thanks again...the advice from everyone here has been very insightful and appreciated. from the resesarch i've done and the ones i've held, i'll probably end up with a Glock, a Colt, or a Sig...and by all reckoning, i should never have to use it...and i'll certainly carry pepper spray, tazer...

i think it was a desert eagle .410...although that was in the days before i quit drinking, so i can't be positive. after reading all the replies, i realize just how uninformed i am...so i know i've got some work to do. Although, for maximum intimidation factor, i was at a pawn shop the other...

thanks again, everyone, for your advice and concern...sounds like a lot of you are or have been in law enforcement, so i'll certainly take all of your opinions into consideration. I agree that no gun will do anything more than trip metal detectors if you aren't trained on it...so that's...

thank you all for your suggestions...I have worked in security in every capacity but the firearms part--i highly agree that if you even have to draw the weapon, things have likely gotten out of hand, and that's a worst case scenario that i doubt realistically will ever happen...BUT...in the...

this brings up the old argument--"when guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." Police are human beings, and subject to the inherent fallibilities of being human. I have had cops pull me over and harass the hell out of me for being out and about in the suburbs late at night, and I have...

hello all...i have read with amusement the 45 vs. 9mm debate...i lean toward the .45 because i'm 6'4", 250, and about to be a personal bodyguard for a living. A while back, i was a bouncer at a strip club, and the ex-marine armed security dude swore up and down that the .45 in any iteration was...