Recent content by legumeofterror

looks like grease to me...

I have carried mine for five years, have nearly 10,000 rounds through it, and have had no malfunctions or parts break in that time. It has been an excellent pistol.

There are .22 mags with both orange and black baseplates. From what I have seen the police issue sets always have orange baseplates, but I am not certain of this. This set came as shown.

I the later evolution of that design, the HK4. This particular handgun is one of roughly 500 marked as made in France by MAS to circumvent import restriction in place in Berlin at the time. They could not arm Berlin police with German made weapons, so these were marked as French made and...

I have a S&W Model 28-2 and Colt Python that were purchased from a former Florida Highway Patrol trooper. According to him he carried them as his service pistol at one time or another. They both have 6" barrels.

Dieudonné Saive, who worked on the pistol for 8 years after Browning's death and designed the magazine, would beg to differ.

This guy uses 10 round mags.

Mine managed to run splendedly. http://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?9-2-000-Round-Challenge&p=66461&viewfull=1#post66461

It's a rifle. Call it one. Giving them a cute name makes a distinction that there is something different about them and does everyone a disservice. Same with the term "standard capacity magazine" people throw around. The capacity shouldn't enter into it. It's a magazine.

Colt Officer's ACP. Never functioned properly.

I use and much prefer 20" AR-15s.

My Beretta Model 70 As well as a FN1910/22 I am working on for my cousin.

The XD is a $300 Croatian pistol with another $300 of Springfield marketing on top.

The AR15 is the better rifle. Superior ergonomics and control layouts, faster magazine changes, greater inherent mechanical accuracy, and much easier to adapt. There is really nothing the AK will provide you that the AR15 won't do better.

Or perhaps some people have trouble concealing a larger pistol because they are overweight... I carry a CZ75B both IWB and OWB the vast majority of the time. It is really not hard to conceal under a shirt if your shoulders are wider than your midsection and you have a decent belt/holster. It...