Want to see compact elegance? Want to see flawless function captured in as few moving parts as possible? Here you go:
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
I don’t range with the geniuses, but I have been a student of elegance and design for several decades, I have read the masters and the classics, and I know good thinking when I see it….when I hold it. You walk this earth and see some things and hear some things and, well, some ideas are just better than others, and sometimes the power of simplicity driving through to clean function is so evident that it is startling, even to an old, crusty engineer.
I’ve written this before, but I’m a mechanical beast: my favorite uncle was a farrier; my infant fist turned its first wrench on a car in the 1960s. I tip my hat to the kilowatt, the megaton, and the integrated circuit, but I love the heft of a sweet pen or razor in my hand: I am a monkey poking in a hole for sweet sweet ants. I respect the volt and the byte, but I cannot feel them (narrator interrupts: he has felt a volt or two); manipulation starts in the mind but comes alive, literally, with the hand: manus.
Guys like me are old hat. My preferred century is over, ending around 2000, and, Gaston Glock’s recent passing is something of a punctuation at the end of that paragraph. I never heard of the guy; he was outside my orbit; and then he was suddenly there. I had carried a huge, reliable revolver for a decade and then moved to a place where I didn’t; quieter decades followed. When I moved back to a place where I carried again, I was outgunned, and the techniques had passed me by.
I’m an industrialist. I’ve been a rifleman for over half a century. I learned to take my time with a bullet and never waste one, but my quarry never shot back; I had the naive tactics and tools of a gentle woodsman. Needing an everyday carry in a zone where the hoard could magdump dozens of rounds in seconds, six was no longer the answer; hell, it wasn’t even a good decoy in the multiple choice answer list anymore. Chuck Connors was walking the streets of Fast and Furious, and it was time for him to evolve.
Based on familiarity, comfort, accuracy, and popular support in customization and service, I started my search with a bias for an ancient design, the Automatic Colt Pistol. Who had the answer for the new me? I saw through a glass, dimly; the masters of cordite and lead spoke to me from my closing age: Browning, Garand, Kalashnikov….hell, even Stoner. I needed reliability, speed, simplicity, and safety. I went to the range and tried a few things, mostly HK, ACP, Sig, Ruger, and the automatic offerings of S&W….all honorable and workable choices. Tomato/tomato, pick your poison.
I found the range of options bewildering and overwhelming, the claims too many to read much lest test. I ended up deciding it would be Colt or Glock; I would either remain a dinosaur or evolve into maybe an eagle, but I would not make it to mammal: I didn’t trust the tits on anything less than twenty years old. In the end, my answer simply came down to capacity and safety. I completely respect 9mm for compactness, but I went with 45ACP for old school knockdown and charming controlability; I only have 10+1, but I think my first hit will matter more (I know, all this research and upset to only go from six to eleven in a world of 20). Why not 1911: I just couldn’t bring myself to carrying cocked and locked.
Everything else had at least one C on its report card. The Sig trigger is too light; I don’t like the mechanism on it or the HK. I’m 6-2 and don’t have small hands, so the M&P was too small for a comfy length of pull. Ruger was pointlessly cheap and brought nothing new to the table; if I prioritized tiny, I’d go P365 instead of LC.
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. When you sit at the head of the table surrounded by experts and you can truly get them to work together, you can put something together that works well, is easy to tool up, is hard to assemble incorrectly, minimizes chances for misuse and malfunction, and lasts forever, but you won’t score A+ on every point. Gaston Glock might have sat at the head of that same table; maybe he made some of the design decisions….maybe his hand drew every detail; maybe he just put a good team in motion; I leave it to others to retell a story I don’t know; I don’t know anything about the man because Elmer Keith didn’t write forty articles a week about him in 1975. But I know the process, and I know when someone has delivered a solid answer. When I handled the Glock, I recognized that process from the product.
Turns out there are probably better answers now; a legion of me-too typing in the basement did churn out better Shakespeare…take nothing away from them…but I wanted decades of proof and experience and writeups and customizations, and others came too late to have as much of that. I grew up shooting designs that were never less than seventy years old; my rifle’s design was eighty on the day I found it under the tree. I had loved and learned using ideas the predated not only The War, but predated the Great War.
Enter Glock: it doesn’t have my favorite grip angle, but it is very much in the range. The barrel is not the lowest, but it is reasonably low. It certainly isn’t the smallest, most concealable frame; I dare say the slide tends to be the widest and heaviest in class. It does not have the best trigger, but it is the correct pull weight for combat and amongst the most consistent. It doesn’t have an active, selectable safety, but it is plenty safe. The finish is not beautiful, but it is durable and reliable. The Glock is uglier than a sack of assholes: no lovely knurling of walnut; no bottomless bluing. The mag release is marginal: I should probably consider upgrading. It might be heaviest in class, but I find light pistols too neutral and twitchy (I positively hate a Luger); I prefer the weight to hold me on target, so it’s not a demerit; I’m not some dainty damsel who can’t easily rotate a three pound pistol to acquire a target. Tear-down and maintenance are epically easy; frankly, I suspect that cleaning is entirely optional. The report card is a string of solid B: nothing perfect, but nothing wrong.
And this bitch runs. It has never misfired or jammed or malfunctioned in any way, no matter how dirty it got or how crappy the ammo I fed it got. This is probably the most important thing to me, so I would probably never change to anything that wasn’t also perfectly reliable with decades of proven performance.
I am not a Glockboi, but Glock is my EDC.
My son’s EDC is Glock.
I trust it with my life.
Gaston Glock was 94.
I carried a G30 for a bit. It was just ok. Chunky AF.
You’re right. That gun is ugly.
My dad has a Glock. I don’t care for it.
My wife and I rented pretty much every 9mm pistol that the range had as we were trying to find what worked for us (but, we did not rent any of the cheap, crap micros that were in the cabinet).
I truly hate the Glock. I can’t stand the trigger, and most other things about the pistol annoyed me considerably.
As far as striker-fired as concerned, we were leaning heavily towards S&W M&P or Springfield XD.
We went with 1911s instead.
My 1911 is chambered in 9mm. I am a blasphemer.
Do you carry it in your purse?
It came with a free tampon.
Springfield 1911 EMP 4 (9mm)
Springfield 1911 EMP (9mm)
Springfield 911 (9mm)
Sig Sauer p938 (9mm)
p938 is pocket carry
1911 EMP is shoulder harness
When I carried, It was the Sig P239 (9 mm). Its a bit big for a carry gun, but I carried in my laptop bag, so wasn’t a big deal. I had some clients whose neighborhood was sketchy after dark, and I tended to work later hours.
Still an excellent choice.
Another beer post next Tuesday. Just a short follow on to the ordinary beer post.
It isn’t like Browning didn’t design a 9mm you know.
You mean the one designed by Dieudonné Saive? It’s kind of crap.
You know you could’ve made a better joke about it being the gun design that killed him.
I don’t get the love for it, other than I guess it’s a very pretty gun. Shooting it no es bueno. There’s a reason it went out of production.
Pretty much hit it on the head for Glocks. They just work.
I don’t own one because every one of them I’ve tried (17, 19, and 43), I’ve shot horrendously. I’m not pistolero to begin with, and that grip angle and trigger just made it worse. So I admire them without owning any.
Funny – that is me with a Beretta 92. Can’t hit a thing with it.
Sig, Glock, Ruger, S&W much easier for me to shoot.
Exact opposite, but I have huge hands.
I also love the DA/SA action of the 92. Feel safer with that than anything else.
I have a discomfort with striker fired weapons that I know I shouldn’t, but I am getting used to them.
Everything just works. We are in a golden age of firearms.
https://cmctriggers.com/product-category/glock/
A new drop in trigger does wonders.
Too late for me. I am already deeply invested in 1911s.
The only time I had an issue with one of my Glocks was when I misadjusted my adjustable aftermarket trigger.
One pull sent two bullets, so I dropped the mag, cleared the chamber, and put it away. However, once I got the trigger adjusted (I hadn’t taken frame flex into account), it has shot like a beauty.
That said, and though I’m out of the habit of carrying, my EDC is an M&P 9 Shield. It’s by far my most comfortable carry. The grip is small for me, but it’s shootable.
I need to find a place to shoot here. Unfortunately the configuration of our property isn’t conducive.
Added bonus, you can blow the target’s lungs clear out of their back with one. And it’s semifrickenautomatic, which has the word automatic in it.
It works for you; that is all that matters.
My EDC is a Glock 43X. I’ve run probably 2,000 rounds of the cheapest ammo I can find through it at the range and never had a single problem.
I’ve had one failure to feed on my (long lost) Model 21.
I limp wristed it on purpose to see what would happen.
Still view it as an appliance, but appreciate it for what it is. From kinnath above, I also dislike the trigger, but got used to it.
Yeah, I like the trigger on my Sig P226 better, but I shoot well with the Glock and it’s not so clunky to carry.
I could not shoot the Glock accurately, at least when compared to the M&P or XD.
I literally buy the cheapest bulk ammo on targetsportsusa.com.
My last case came from North Macedonia.
Curious me had to google it. Then randomly drop a street view guy on a map.
Check out this sweet mural.
Looks like the cover to a pulp magazine.
I’d buy it.
I don’t get the comparison, but JD is aight.
While trashing Trump during an appearance on The View, Chris Christie says “Jefferson Davis…the President of the Confederacy had some class”
Chris Christie thinks he has class?
For some value of class, sure.
Low class is a kind of class.
Appropriate for this thread.
https://www.everytown.org/press/victory-for-gun-sense-new-jersey-moms-demand-action-everytown-applaud-governor-chris-christie-for-signing-legislation-prohibiting-bump-stocks-into-law/
It’s not like Murphy wouldn’t have signed the same bill from the next session. That’s when we got the magazine limits. This was just him posturing and thinking this was a way to pick up moderates.
He’ll never get my vote for this and many other reasons.
Apparently Maine is a more interesting state than I thought:
They just opened a Dunkin Donuts next town over. I’ll have to go in and ask to see their gun selection.
It’s pretty sweet.
My 1911 is chambered in 9mm. I am a blasphemer.
I have a Llama 1911 in .38 super. I like it.
I haven’t shot any of my guns in far too long. I should find a suitable piece of BLM land and rectify that.
I initially read that as “Black Lives Matter” land.
I don’t think any of the fancy homes they bought has that kind of property (or indoor range).
Glad its not only me.
I do now, but when the riots started I kept thinking what’s bureau of land management doing in City X?
I was taking a fairly green engineer out to one of our sites that we have on BLM land. Its a terrible part of Vegas where we get to wade through druggies and prostitutes and people out shooting (cause they think its the BLM land that they can…Vegas has two areas where its ‘allowed’).
The whole time he looked uncomfortable and finally, rather meekly, asked “Are you sure its okay to go on Black Lives Matter turf?”
The best part about 1911s chambered in .38 Super is the grips available:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1911+grips+38+super&crid=Y1LQJZ6WG69Z&sprefix=1911+grips+38+super%2Caps%2C125&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
Unless you are an illegal alien crossing the southern border.
Your journey of a thousand miles begins with a valid passport. Don’t be THAT traveler—check the expiration date before you book travel.
Videos of migrants taking commercial flights and being ushered through special TSA screening areas have surfaced in the last few weeks.
2024 Baby Names of the Year will be “name”
The ones without families will no be named Solo and given a pair of dice to hang in the cockpit.
Oh yeah, how many people on the terrorist watch list have been caught at the border? No knowing how many have gotten away of course.
But American citizens need to be groped before getting on a plane.
I saw a few groups at my airport back in October/November. They’re not hard to spot if you look: Carrying quart-size plastic bags with certain documents, staring at cell phones, being ushered by…. NGO-types I guess?
David French I see is hoping for a party purge and he will be the new party press secretary.
All the Confederate Army had to do was leave all their weapons at home and they could have just marched into the Capitol inside the velvet ropes and taken over. Thankfully they didn’t figure that out.
It’s just one big game of King of the Hill.
“Pocket sand!”
https://imgur.com/G4b2yik
See also with CC reference to Jefferson Davis..nah couldn’t be a coordinated attack at all!
So they’re still pretending David French is a conservative?
That’s hilarious.
He’s a domestic[ated] conservative, and Christian.
They were not exactly trying to conquer the Union States. Likewise, J6ers were not trying to overthrow the government.
And how dare Trump think being President means he is in charge of the Executive branch.
Seems like a Glock is the AK-47 of the pistol world – an ugly weapon, with its strongest selling point being that it is utterly reliable no matter how raw of a rookie is using it. If you remembered to put ammo in it, and have a round in the chamber, when you pull the trigger it fires every time.
Dirty ammo, negligent cleaning and maintenance – still fires. And it’s impossible to forget to take the safety off, cause there ain’t one.
Yup, that’s why I like it for EDC. It’s guaranteed to go “BANG” when I need it to. Just draw and pull the trigger.
As long as you are using cast lead bullets. Glock barrels do not like that stuff at all.
Gen 5s have conventional rifling. They should be gtg, right?
Seems like a Glock is the AK-47 of the pistol world – an ugly weapon, with its strongest selling point being that it is utterly reliable no matter how raw of a rookie is using it.
I’d say Hi-Point wins that distinction. Checks off the cheap and ugly boxes. I’ve heard they’re just as reliable as Glocks, but don’t know. Never had an issue with mine, although I rarely shoot it.
I know enough about firearms on how to handle one properly but not the depth of knowledge you all have. Interesting article and thanks for the write up.
Oh, you said pen.
The penis mightier than the sword.
Semi-obligatory.
Fully Obligatory!
Your charcuterie is trying to kill you.
Microsoft Office is trying to troll me with its grammar hints. Today, in two separate e-mails it’s offered glaringly wrong and incorrect “corrections”:
First one: In regards to an issue, I asked if was happening all the time “or is it an intermittent issue”. Microsoft Office helpfully suggested getting rid of the word “intermittent” for clarity’s sake.
Second one: I was letting them know I had uploaded an attachment “to the ticket”. Microsoft Office told me to make sure I was using the correct version of “to”, and helpfully suggested that I correct it to “too”.
AI-enhanced Features.
“I MEANT TO TYPE ‘PEN IS.’ STOP AUTO-CORRECTING!”
So very helpful.
I have no problems with Glocks. I can hit everything I aim at with them.
However, their reliability is overblown. Maybe they were exceptional once, but no longer. I have three (3) stoppages in over 20k rounds with my CZ. My P365 has far fewer rounds through it, but it has only one (1) stoppage (a failure to extract which may be from the remanufactured ammo I was shooting through it, since the extractor tore the rim off the cartridge.) And that micro-sig rides around in my pocket gathering lint. I’ve been shooting it at the Winter Steel matches and it didn’t take many sessions before I was as fast with it as I am with my full-sized.
I can’t shoot my Shield worth a damn though. And I want a PCR still.
Trigger safeties make me push Left if I don’t actively change my grip and finger position.
I have the same affinities at NA for CZ75 and the P365 pocket 9mm. These two triggers just work well with my hand and fingers, I naturally shoot them well without having to adjust. My SIG226 has similar issues to the Glock trigger and grip, but It is easier for me to quickly adjust to.
I am seeing signs that the term “dingus-style trigger” might be coming into common use.
(The most recent sighting was in a review of the new S&W about how the dingus-style was much better than the hinged trigger)
The Vanishing of S.S. Willie
It starts.
Not great, but interesting.
I’m waiting for a Death Satan fanboi to make Steam Boat Willie talk about grooming.
Cool. I added it to the short film collection for Thursday post nights “emergencies.”
civilians should only have single shot guns.
Fun Fact, every US adult Citizen is a member of the Militia.
We should have any weapon we can afford.
I’m not.
I thought it was men within a certain age range.
This, we are, most of us, probably too old for the original definition. 17 to 44, I believe.
Well, I could carry ten single-shot guns to get enough capacity, and come up with a better trigger mechanism…
Well, there I go again. Invented semi-automatics.
Gatling.
It’s just one big game of King of the Hill.
Capture the
flagpodium.My druthers would be a P99c in 45GAP.
I like glocks to shot but carry sucks. Controls on the 365 and BG380 are too stiff.
I will never be Jerry and that’s ok.
To build my pimp gun, start with a RI GI Bright Nickel, then go hit up amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Colt-Kimber-Island-Super/dp/B0C6FJ8CXC
Blingier!
https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Kimber-Island-Full-Size-Accent/dp/B0CPKC39H6/
https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Colt-1911-ACP-Enhancement/dp/B0BPDZLCSD/
I thought you’d already have a pimp gun and matching shoe spats by now.
A pimp gun is very different than that of a square.
Mechanical is appropriate today. It’s blend day at the Kentucky Truck Plant. Cab is being mated to the chassis for GL’s truck.
Nice pic of the Rifleman. You know who else kept a cartridge in his shirt pocket?
In a shocking revelation…
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a 156-page report Thursday morning accusing Trump of exploiting the presidency to financially benefit himself and members of his family. Trump’s businesses, according to the report, received at least $7.8 million from corrupt and authoritarian governments including China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The report is the culmination of a nearly seven-year investigation. It says records and documents obtained by House Oversight Democrats reveal “a stunning web of millions of dollars in payments made by foreign governments and their agents directly to Trump-owned businesses, while President Trump was in the White House.”
…it appears that Trump’s businesses – what for it – stayed in business while he was president.
And here I swear I thought he divested at least some of his businesses when he took office. Were these really “Trump-owned” businesses at the time?
Our current President was broke when entered politics and is now worth many millions.
Nice write up Don.
Related: thanks to those who gave advice on my question on this matter a few months back. Ended up going with the CZ.
Welcome to the club. You won’t be disappointed. The only feeding issues I had were due to reloads that were slightly longer than specs (done on purpose for another pistol). Occasionally they failed to go into battery. Never had any issues with standard reloads or any factory ammo.
Anybody miss their blackberry?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/04/clicky-please-no/
Never had a crackberry.
They were so fucking disruptive when they came out. It was impossible to get through a meeting without multiple interruptions as key players had to check their fucking phones.
Yeah, glad that went away when smartphones took over.
I had one for awhile. I hated it, because it was constantly going off every time I got a fucking email. The device itself was fine, I guess. It was the “as applied” part of it I didn’t like.
Yes.
I do miss that if you didn’t use them non-stop you could get close to a week out of a charge.
What are the odds that persxn ever had a Blackberry?
20 Acre Juniper Creek Estate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHiouz9YcU
Juniper Creek Estate is comprised of 20 pristine acres nestled in a forested bowl beneath Martis Peak in lower Juniper Creek Ranch, just 20 minutes from downtown Truckee, and 30 minutes to the Reno Airport. Secluded from the hustle of resort crowds, the estate is its own private and peaceful mountain playground with unobstructed forest and mountain views. The high quality craftsmanship and timeless natural finishes are constructed to stand the test of time
5,208 Sq.Ft. Living
2021 Year Built
Total Bedrooms7
Laundry room
Room, Garage
Flooring
Carpet, Wood, Stone, Tile
Fireplace
Living Room, Master Bedroom, 2 or, Gas Fireplace, Stone
$4,495,000
Sub $5M? Something wrong with your stock portfolio today?
20 Acre Juniper Creek Estate
California. Hard no.
Agree. Hard pass.
Mrs. Dean seriously likes her HK VP9 (and so do I). She got it because she dislikes Glocks and needs ambidextrous controls, being a lefty and all. She was a little unhappy with the trigger, so I poked around and found a replacement that got good reviews. That, in turn, led to the gunsmith who developed the trigger, and that led inevitably to a full semi-custom work up of her VP9 (“well, as long as he has it, why don’t we . . . “). At least we’re not doing any cosmetics or competition stuff to it. Should get it back at the end of the month?
I have a bad feeling this will end with me getting a VP9 worked up just like hers.
I’m a little crabby with my Sig trigger. I shoot OK with it, I mostly need a lot more practice on that first, heavy trigger pull, but hey, that’s DA/SA for you. Its the reset and the stop that are just bugging me. So I’ve been poking around for Sig specialist gunsmiths. The good news(?) is its such an old model nobody makes aftermarket parts for it.
https://grayguns.com/
https://www.thesigarmorer.com/
Danke. I’ve looked at the Sig Armorer; I’ll check out Gray Guns. Looks like they work on P228s, so I’ve got that going for me. I just need to figure out what I really want to do with it.
Get me to a long-gun is all I ask of a pistol.
At Gunsite, you carry a pistol at rifle and shotgun classes in case your long gun goes down.
With my DA CZ, if I really want the first shot to be precise, I just pull back the hammer. Otherwise, I’m just thing of the stiff trigger as my safety.
After being Cajun’d, my CZ DA pull is under 7 lbs.
I did that in a competition once. I got some shit for it but hey, I hit a 6″ wide target at 20 yards, so screw them.
The report is the culmination of a nearly seven-year investigation. It says records and documents obtained by House Oversight Democrats reveal “a stunning web of millions of dollars in payments made by foreign governments and their agents directly to Trump-owned businesses, while President Trump was in the White House.”
No self-respecting President would dirty his hands enriching himself with a for-profit business enterprise. That’s what foundations are for.
What a piece of shit. Epstein Island frequent flyer Dershowitz somehow conflates interest in the Epstein client list with condoning Hamas rapes. The difference, Alan, is that Hamas rapists don’t run this country.
https://www.newsweek.com/alan-dershowtiz-jeffrey-epstein-allegations-hamas-1857656
Literally the same exact reaction that the Harvard prez had, just converted from black to jew.
Bringing up something unrelated that happened on the other side of the planet to avoid answering a question.
With my DA CZ, if I really want the first shot to be precise, I just pull back the hammer. Otherwise, I’m just thing of the stiff trigger as my safety.
Me too, with my Sig P6. Every now and then, I’d do DA practice, decocking after every round, but that first shot, on the long pull, would more likely than not just be for effect.
Replace that god awful main spring! It’s too damn heavy.
I need to go and practice DA revolver. I have a new to me 6″ GP100 with a half under lug barrel waiting for some more love at the range. DA trigger shooting on a revolver or Auto definitely helps with trigger pull smoothness and accuracy when in SA.
Honestly, my first shots are almost always alphas. I’m staging the trigger during the sight picture acquisition.
Why Americans should read Australian news sites…you get a year or two’s notice on the next “crisis.” This time around extreme insurance stress.
My combined premiums on vehicles and home is up about 20% over the last couple years. It’s fucking terrible.
Oh don’t get me wrong: I’m not saying there isn’t a problem. But the Australian media approach is ALWAYS, (i) problem; (ii) problem becomes crisis; (iii) crisis requires government intervention.
Article explains nothing, however.
In the US it’s partly inflation for replacement materials and parts, new car construction and mandates and artificially low homeowners’ rates for a long time.
I’m enjoying watching CA finally get its comeuppance. Unlike most countries the US is 50 state regulated so it’s much harder to generalize. CA and NY have outsized influence. CA by its size and NY by its size and large insurers like AIG being based there.
“Article explains nothing, however.”
That’s because you don’t read Australian. It’s stress which will become a crisis. And a crisis is ALWAYS caused by insufficient government regulation.
I have an assortment of CommBloc pistols chambered in 9mm makarov and 7.62×25. Pa63s, CZ 52,s, TT-33s, etc. I have less money in a dozen of these than many people have in a nice 1911. They work fine, and if i ever shoot someone in questionable circumstances I will have no problem sinking one to the bottom of a river.
To each their own.
I fully admit that my gunnery is vastly more about the joie de BLAM! than any sort of utility.
Having said that, I doubt I’ll ever get into high-end 1911s because I really enjoy having to do near-zero levels of maintenance.
Blunderbusses are fun.
So is a flintlock,
https://imgur.com/gallery/HBSyLO7
Jack White agrees.
Hey Glibs,
Gold right now. Buy or Sell?
trade lead for gold perhaps?
Buy, and continue to buy.
How about silver?
of course.
you need something to make change with for small transactions.
Yep. I prefer old silver dollars. They have silver value and scarcity in some cases. Plus they make that great clinky noise when you roll around in them.
Dime, Quarters, Half, and Dollars.
Plus I have about 3 gallons of pennies to sort through to separate the copper and zinc coins.
This is the reason I hang out here.
How much does a coin press cost?
Serious question?
I know people that mint coins. Mostly using hand tools.
At its simplest — two dies and a hammer.
Cool, just like in ancient times.
silver seems like the better deal right now. The gold/silver ratio is at an all time low and one would expect silver to eventually correct upwards. Don’t take investment advice from me though, i don’t have a license to do that kind of work.
Also, see here: https://survivedoomsday.com/best-silver-for-preppers-to-buy/
Junk silver. Standardized and recognizable.
TPTB: GlibFlick, “Espionage in Tangiers,” is pending. Just don’t want any last-minute panic. Or visits from Rapesquatches.
I have an Glock M21 .45. While I don’t think it’s beautiful, I don’t think it’s ugly. It’s a very functional, very dependable tool. I have also never experienced any problems with misfires or failure to fires. It just shoots when I need it to. It also has looked imposing the couple of times I’ve needed that as well.
And a crisis is ALWAYS caused by insufficient government regulation.
Tangentially related: I watch the Mighty Car Mods blokes irregularly, and every so often, they will mention some draconian Australian automobile regulation which will cause me to lean forward into “Are you fucking kidding me?” mode.
Two excellent and cheap guns:
CZ P10C – its price is dropping because CZ is making a Gen2
Beretta APX A1. <$300. Excellent gun. My favorite when I was Working the Beretta demo booth. I have no idea why it's so unpopular.
My Carry version was $200 after rebate.
The carry version they had at the booth was single-stack. Has that changed?
Nope.
Blah.
Also, while the carry was possible the most ergonomic pistil ever, the sights were misaligned on the sample we had. I was running a SCSA stage for them to demo on, and while I could burn it down with the full size and the 80X, that particular APX carry made me look incompetent.
My son just bought a Taurus G3c and seems to like it. Under $300 and a rebate.
I think they got in way too late for the combat tupperware game. I did like the ones I handled.
Bidenomics
White House spokesperson Michael Kikukawa said the debt increases were “trickle-down debt” driven by Republican-passed tax cuts in 2017 that benefited corporations and wealthy Americans.
“Congressional Republicans want to double down on MAGAnomics with more than $3 trillion in giveaways skewed to the wealthy while forcing hardworking Americans to pay the price by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid,” Kikukawa said in a statement.
He added that Biden plans to reduce U.S. deficits by $2.5 trillion over 10 years by increasing taxes on large corporations and wealthy Americans and cutting spending on pharmaceuticals and tax breaks for oil companies.
We’ll slash the debt with imaginary spending cuts. Sounds legit.
by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid,
Was the amount of spending less than the amount of spending before these “cuts”, even adjusting for inflation?
that benefited corporations and wealthy Americans.
It benefited me and I am neither.
“trickle-down debt” driven by Republican-passed tax cuts
No. Fuck you, cut spending.
forcing hardworking Americans to pay the price
We are certainly paying the price of inflation.
by increasing taxes on large corporations
No way this trickles down to the customer.
I made about $4K more in 2018 than 2017, and my absolute tax burden (not a percentage) was within a few dollars. And I’m not one of the “wealthy Americans” people like this bitch about.
My condolences. I too am no fan of Glocks but in the end reliability and simple design will win out over aesthetics for the reasonable man.