Recent content by JT1JT1

Thanks for all the replies. I posted because I'm wondering about whether my current thinking makes sense. It's by default, not intent, that our house currently has no toy guns. The issue just came up when the kid was mulling his Halloween costume options. He proposed a Star Wars character with a...

Do you let your kids play with toy guns? I currently do not and only intend to allow them to do so after they learn and demonstrate safe gun-handling skills with either a .22, or possibly, air soft/bb/pellet thing. My thinking is I want them to first learn that guns are tools that must be...

If you're looking to buy (sell) a used gun, and ammo and accessories could be in be part of the deal, how do you normally value and factor in the latter? I'm curious because it's relatively easy to get a range of values for a used gun alone, via the internet or whatever. But what about the...

First, thanks for all the replies. Second, I mean for this post to be gender neutral; I concur with the mods that we don't want the thread to veer into gender-war territory. Third, I took my wife to the range a couple of times to shoot borrowed .22's. She enjoyed it. We were just about to...

I really need advice! The issue never came up in the early years, because work took us to countries where firearm ownership was impractical at best or illegal at worst. Well, we've recently returned home to a firearm-friendly state where CCWs are shall issue, hunting is a popular past time...

Thanks for the replies and the comparison pics in particular. They give me a good idea of the benefits of the short trigger...should work. Is the swap out very invovled? Cheers, JT1

Folks, I'm a few weeks and a few hundred rounds into ownership of my Sig 229 and I'm thinking I might be better off with a slightly easier reach to the trigger for those DA shots. I've heard that Hogue makes grips (e.g., G10 ones) that are a bit thinner than the stock Sig polymer ones and...

Friends, the height of this unit is listed as 4.9 inches. Does this measurement include the ridged finger wells as well as the lock area? Is there any additional height added from anything like rubber feet or anything else on the base of the unit? I have a utility compartment in my SUV that...

I dunno, if I were a bad guy in Edmond, I'd consider painting the tip of my real gun orange so the police and politicians would leave me alone while OCing and going about my business... ;)

I don't think there was any "overreaction" per se. Especially if you would have stood up and confronted the guy whether you were carrying or not. That said, I think it's useful to consider whether your willingness to confront the guy stemmed from your being armed. If backing away inside was...

What would be of interest to me, as well as possibly educational, is for the OP to answer how he would have handled this same situation in the days before he CCW'd.

The OP's scenario is interesting. Some questions: 1) If you assume away the openly carried stick, but the remainder of the scenario is the same, would you still be uneasy? Or is it the presence of a potential weapon that tilts this scene into something to worry about? 2) Where I live, carry...

And if it was a young man who came running to your vehicle? For those of you who would automatically let a young woman into your car, would you do the same for a young man? Whatever scenario you can envision for a potential female victim, could also apply to a male victim I reckon. But I'm...

When I first read about the P250, the modular design hit a receptive note with me. But then I thought about another modular system that I have: My SLR camera system. Now, I have several boxes of lenses and bodies, which can shoot either film and digital. Before leaving the house for a shoot...

RainbowBob, Don't get me wrong. I think you've shown admirable introspection from the original incident. Your subsequent resolution to avoid getting involved in the likely futile effort of correcting the bad public behavior of strangers seems a wise decision. As you described the original...