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I recently moved someone from the "friend" to the "non-friend, not welcome in my home, don't let the door hit you on the way out, please don't come back" category. This person is...unstable, and that's some of the reason I chose to part ways with her. I've no reason to believe that she'd try...

My lady-wife BrokenMa and I have become pretty close friends with a couple of young ladies who run a small shop near our home. They were having a few issues with the way some of their friends were treating their shop, and wanted to know if we had any ideas or advice for how to resolve the issue...

My (12-year-old) daughter was given an assignment last week in her Social Studies class: "Pretend you are a candidate for state or national office. Pick an issue to base your platform on, and create a campaign pamphlet for your campaign." The kids were required to pick various forms of...

I just took advantage of the AWB sunset and bought all of the parts to build out a nice little carbine (A4 upper, collapsible stock, and lower parts kit from RRA, and bare DPMS lower receiver, because RRA wanted to be a pain about the FFL transfer). I have an EOTech 512 holosight on my Bushie...

I didn't see this posted anywhere else. My apologies if it's a duplicate. Mods, I hope this is gun-related enough. Feel free to delete it if it's not. Link to article A US Army soldier is facing charges for giving information to Al Qaida via the internet. Read the article if you're...

I've been trying to find an outdoor rifle range that's a convenient distance from my house. I've got two kids, and one of them is just about ready to begin shooting with real firearms (as opposed to Airsoft and BB guns[0]). I find that outdoor ranges feel less cramped, especially when teaching...

So I had to go to the Social Security office today, to get a letter proving that my SSN is my SSN, and I only have one SSN[0]. :rolleyes: So as I'm walking into the SS office, I see the big signs they have posted on the wall, with black silhouettes of guns and big red circles and slashes...

...because there were rifles and pistols there, too. When I got married, one thing I didn't want was just a bunch of the normal boring american-gothic style wedding photos. You know, "bride and groom standing with bride's parents", "bride and groom standing with groom's parents and sibs"...

I took my wife to go shooting about a week ago, taking my Savage .22WMR and a friend with a Walther P22 and G22. She had fun, and shot very well. So just yesterday I received a gas-powered airsoft Beretta 92, and I needed to buy gas for it. The nice folks at Virginia Arms in Manassas told...

I've seen a lot of negative posts about gun shop customer service recently, so I figured I'd post a positive experience. Tuesday night I went with my wife and a couple of friends to Shooter's Paradise in Woodbridge, Virginia. My wife is just getting into shooting, so I brought my Savage...

A friend of mine has a Smith & Wesson Sigma in .40, with a broken extractor (not under warranty). He wants to get it fixed, but apparently S&W won't sell the extractor to any third-party gunsmiths; they've told him that to get it fixed he'd have to send the whole gun back to them. He's...

I have a Beretta 96 Brigadier. It's my carry piece. Unfortunately, .40 is more expensive than 9mm to shoot. For plinking purposes, it'd be nice to be able to use the 96 with 9mm ammo. I have a spare 9mm Beretta barrel and a few 9mm full-capacity mags. Would it be possible (and safe) to...

I was listening to the station-break news blurbs on WTNT here in the Washington DC area just a few minutes ago, and I heard something that completely and utterly baffles me. The news report said that Fairfax County Police are concerned because there have been three (!) incidents recently where...

I've been so busy the past several months that I haven't been able to get out to the range at all. It's been terrible. I've had the Bushy for about 7 months, and it's been a safe queen that whole time. Although, technically, all of my guns except my carry piece have been. I digress...

So I was sitting on my deck on Wednesday afternoon, winding down from a long day at the office, when I heard a noise from through the woods: BapBapBapBapBap. "Huh," thinks me, "that sounded an awful lot like somebody shooting full-auto."[0] My wife heard it, too, and asked if it was what she...

Wow, my first foray into the Revolvers forum. I'm a rifle-and-semiauto-pistol type of guy, so be gentle... :) What is the largest-capacity revolver available in .38 or larger caliber? I've seen 10-round .22 revos, but I'm specifically talking about standard centerfire pistol calibers. No...

(Mods, bear with me; this is actually gun-related. Eventually. :uhoh: ) Something that happened yesterday made me think about the assumptions that people make about other people, based upon (potentially) uncorrelated criteria. Prejudices, if you will. My next door neighbor (his is the...

...don't drop the fricking gun, BP! So last night, I was on my way out the door to pick my wife up. I had my Beretta 96 on at 4 o'clock (BladeTech kydex IWB), chambered, hammer down, safety off. It didn't feel like it was sitting quite right on my hip; like it was not canting forward...

I imagine Oleg could do a better job with this, especially because I had trouble finding good high-res images for it, and I imagine he has better resources in that department. I was thinking about the fact that many of us get frustrated about how there are gun owners out there (especially...

I have a Winchester Model 70 chambered in 7mm Rem. Mag. I love the gun, except for one thing: unloading it is a pain. There are two basic options for unloading it, AFAICT: cycle the bolt and extract each round individually (which is non-optimal), or open the hinged floorplate, whereupon the...