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Someone here mentioned the Ruger 10/22. When I was active duty Army, many years ago, my platoon sergeant kept a Ruger 10/22 for home defense for it's reliability, ease of use (everyone in the family could use it, even his Haitian wife who had not grown up around guns at all), overrall...

Thank you all for your consideration. The young manager displayed a document that stated Staples shipping desk, due to Staples policy, would not ship firearms parts or accessories. I was attempting to ship a defective upper receiver to CMMG with a preprinted label when the young girl ("drone"...

Ladies and gentlemen, I have just learned from a Staples manager that it is their corporate policy to disallow shipping firearm parts from their UPS counters, nor are weapons or weapon parts allowed . This leaves another store that will no longer have my (not inconsiderable) business. Thank...

Gentlemen, It is nice to see that barnbwt is reiterating what I posted earlier, hopefully guiding the discussion to a timeline issue that is highly relevant. As he and I noted, if you posit attackers that are merely going to stand still like paper plates on boards, rather than move laterally...

91/30 As a stopgap, certainly.. even if that would be "it", do it, as, after all, it's a gun, so it means the basic criteria of 'having a gun'. I treat mine as a 'single action', so the trigger is more manageable, and they are inexpensive alternatives to things (such as a hi point) that, as you...

I agree with the advantage that "Ehtereon 11B" mentioned. Also, I have not found it difficult at all to find 327 ammo or the 32 H&R, but I do live only 20 minutes from a larger city.. Actually, I have seen quantities of 327 in Moscow and Lewiston, even when one could not find 22. Nor did I find...

Full Disclosure :) In the interest of full disclosure, I admit to being a former 'tacticool' goober, and, when I was young, would not have thought a revolver, let alone a single action revolver was in any way suitable for protection in the era of dozens of AK-47 wielding assassins out to...

"Like does matter", and other notes I must ask some persons as to why they think like does not matter.. if a person likes something, they are likely to spend more time with it, to enjoy it, to get better at it. I can't help but think that one consideration for public employees miserable...

Mindset, skillset, toolset I know it seems that all I am doing is presenting stories in lieu of data, but I do think it is valid to draw from real life stories and try to learn any applicability to the present or future. So, if you will indulge me, I would like to share one example, as I think...

HR.W.Dale, thank you... :) First, I do think that there is a grain of truth in your reference to classes and instructors being at least generally tilted towards a "SWAT Tactical Officer" sort of thing; My experiences in or with them lack the breadth to categorically state "all", but the ones I...

Also, I ought to clarify regarding the incident I mentioned where 8 rounds were used; the primary attacker was likely neutralized in the first one or three, but, in the defender's excitement, and by his own admission, fired till the slide locked back on the emptied magazine. In terms of...

While I believe that Golden has good points (such as, a good light is a good thing), I think he brings up one on the reasons I am more comfortable with a revolver than I was when I used autoloaders more: I have undergone more malfunction drills than I can shake a stick at, and most forms of...

For Texan, the Galco vertical holster that I was issued, and then bought, has a "thumbreak" much like many retention holsters, and is reversible. On mine, the "botton" or "snap" is in a protrusion which is pushed open by the thumb, the thumb next to and turned toward the torso, the gun coming...

Oh, yes, and concur with AFDavis above, as well... One ought not to assume that all the rodent(s) want is the TV, and I did not mean to imply that one ought to assume such, I apologize for any mis-expression . What I mean to express is that those who are willing to die are outnumbered by those...

On the subject that Tex and Warp mention, I have to confirm from my personal experience and observations that revolver shooters do often seem to exhibit more care. And I am firmly convinced that BDD apprehends the most likely scenario that we might face. I cannot recall all the details, I...

What Asia331 said has much truth in it.. individuals are much more easily picked off than pairs or groups. :)

On Multiple Assailants, and the controllability of a revolver This note is in two parts, and both to affirm my thought that 6 rounds is enough. First, while noting the likelihood of facing several attackers, we must let, at least, these two considerations enter our calculations. "A" is that if...

Unfortunately... My experiences with S&W have been mixed. One of my favorites was speaking with a very young rep over the phone when trying to find grips for an N frame revolver. The poor young fellow kept asing what "9mm" M&P I was tring to find grips for; this went in circles for some...

I am not so sure the crossdraw is that hard to cover up.. especially if one uses a "decoy" near it, such as a now-ubiquitous cell phone. Also, of course, the smaller the weapon, the "better" the holster, are factors...

I am thinking that between zxcvbob and 4seasons, we may have come the closest to a safe and legal way of "informing" the potential aggressor that we are armed. In one instance, putting my hand on the gun while in it's pocket holster was enough to make two adversaries think about their victim...