Recent content by twency

I was shooting in a GSSF match a few years ago and kept getting splashed by lead or jacket fragments (I couldn't tell which) coming over the berm from the next stage. They were hitting my arm and shoulder pretty hard. Small, so no damage, but I was really glad I had eyes on.

Of course, the reasonable belief has to be based on something. There is no exception to the "reasonable articulable" suspicion requirement of Terry merely because the officer thinks a firearm might be present. See http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0529_0266_ZS.html

Actually, you were judging "most of the people I know that open carry" with your comments. You attributed an attitude to them that is less than positive. You might be right, but you were definitely being judgmental. (Being judgmental is not necessarily wrong - many situations in life require...

"I notice a sign that prohibited firearms and I went back to the truck and put my M&P in the center console" You should have carried the sign along for protection instead. (kidding, kidding!)

I responded "no" because the standard combat rifles they use are semi-auto when set as such. Which, as I understand it, is often the case. If there are occasions when the training/tactics/situations call for 3-round-burst or full-auto fire, they have to option of selecting and using it...

If I lived in that condo, I'd raise a ruckus too. "Stray" or otherwise, if rounds are leaving the range, the range needs to be modified, or the shooters need to be modified, or both. Growing up on a farm, I had little sympathy for people who moved in next to smelly agricultural areas and...

Just to throw in my two cents, I don't support DUI checkpoints. However even if I did, driving a car is not a right specifically protected by the US Constitution. Bearing arms is, along with freedom of speech, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, etc. As far as danger, a holstered...

Umm, wow. A pistol-whipping? Really? How very High Road of you. Perhaps you'd like to read about fuel price hedging by the airlines and reconsider your advocacy of battery.

There are various reasons (some better than others) that a weapon might be submitted for evidence processing. One good reason would be concern that you (the self-admitted shooter) might change your story later. Not all police departments and labs operate the same way or use the same...

If the weapon has been processed for latent prints you might not appreciate the condition it's in, even if it is returned. Cyanoacrylate (CA, aka Superglue) fuming leaves some unpleasant residue that can be very difficult to remove. Acetone removes CA, but it may also eat the plastic...

I'm fairly certain that the advice to "say x and shut up" was recommending that the stopped individual shut up, not to tell the police officer "shut up".

:rolleyes: Nice to see that this discussion is staying on the high road...

Please clarify. Register what how and when?

He was searched incident to arrest.

I can't speak for anyone else, but if the worst tortures inflicted on "us" (meaning U.S. and coalition military personnel, civilian contractors, and freedom-loving private citizens) were waterboarding and hair-shaving, I'd have a little more sympathy for your argument. Yes, worse things have...