WestonSmith
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- Mar 5, 2007
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Some of you sound surprised by this post. How this conversation with these people actually happened is I was talking with one of my roommates, I have 5 of them, about my new XD handgun I just bought and how I was wanting to get a concealed firearms permit. I also mentioned to the roommate that I called the local police department and they said it even would be legal to have a cocked and loaded firearm in your place of residence without a permit. One of my other roommates overheard our conversation. He acted startled and was like \"You are not going to walk around with a loaded and cocked gun! That is just plain stupid! Police do not even do that! It is not that hard to just pull the slide back to cock a gun when you need it! I will give you $50 if police walk around with guns cocked with a round in the chamber! If I ever find someone who has a loaded and cocked gun, I will call the police even if they have a permit for it!\" I then said that I did not see much point in having a magazine in a gun if you are not going to pull the slide back. Then the roommate that I was first talking with said that most people who carry concealed usually have it cocked and locked with a round in the chamber. Because of this conversation, I was a little worried. When I was looking at different handguns, I intentionally looked for one that requires racking the slide instead of a double action first trigger pull, because I figured that it would help the accuracy of the first shot if I ever ever had to use a handgun. Then when the second roommate said not to have it cocked, I was hoping that I did not make a bad decision by buying a handgun that is not a double action for the first shot.