Random Thought Thread

Jabrni said:
I still have my center post box. Always wondered why it was designed that way and why the switch.
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I have one from my Gen 2 G19, from 1988. I think by the time I got the G26 in 1995 they had changed, but I'm not sure. I have them all downstairs tucked away. Can't remember the exact year of the "incident".

I do remember it was at the Medley range in NW Miami-Dade county.
 
Blues said:
Customs was a great job back when I started. The other agencies tried to get them to sign a memorandum of understanding that they wouldn't poach their people. (Which was how I got recruited from another outfit.)
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On a lighter note, in the latter decades of the last century I spent a few years at a Coast Guard station in the PNW. A lot of the reservists were LEO of some sort, local, state, fed, and came through for both their weekend and two week active duty stints. One of my favorite guys was a Customs Officer from a small town on the OR coast. Most days at quitting time it was considered polite to ask the out of town reserves if they had anything planned for the evening, and without fail, every time someone would ask Chuck if he wanted to grab a beer he’d just look up and say “nah, thanks but I’m just gonna go home and play with the box the kids came in.”

Winston
 
Drinking at "Tobacco Road" in Miami was where most of the agents and the Assistant U.S. Attorneys would meet up of a Friday night. Madness ensued.

Speaking of the old job and Tobacco Road...an old ATF drinking pal is prominently featured in this book about the infiltration of the Hell's Angels in AZ.

Pretty good read...and some clanging balls on the part of my old buddy Carlos who did a hell of a job on the UC assignment.

 
:poop: !!!!

The Yankees blew a 5 run lead & the Dodgers just beat them 6-7 in Game 5 of the World Series and took the series 4-1. 🤦

As a SF Giants fan, I've got all kinds of words to express how I feel about this but I'd get banned from BF if I spoke them out loud. 🤬

Suffice it to say, F the Dodgers!!!!! 😡
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
It's a functional grip.

If anybody would like to compete in a friendly bottle cap competition with me, I'll put down a hundred bucks that I can make the shot before they can, I'll use that grip.
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Muscle memory keeps me going to this grip if I don't think about it, because it works with pistols and revolvers (with a cylinder gap); but I've been spending some time practicing a "more acceptable" grip for my peers with slow fire practice.

Nathan the Machinist said:
We run out a line of caution tape and establish a shooting lane.

Michael was kind enough to stand guard on the other side of the cinder block to make double sure nobody ducked their head under the caution tape.

We shoot from within the shop to reduce the noise pollution to a local nearby neighborhood.
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I had bought some plastic 9mm bullets power by a primer a while back, for indoor shooting. I should look for more of those again. Lately I've been using a dry fire laser cap and electronic target, but I have to rack the slide for each shot.

Jabrni said:
I still have my center post box. Always wondered why it was designed that way and why the switch.
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I have been keeping my cleaning supplies in my old center post box for a Glock that I no longer have. I know that it was so that you could only put a glock in there after pulling the trigger on an empty chamber; but I know a few people would put the Glock in the box with a round in the chamber and then have an ND, so Glock changed it.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Lots of people do. A person has to know their limitations.

There have been plenty of studies that showed that carrying a handgun increases your chance of being shot or accidentally shooting someone. And unchambered gun can't go off. People can actually reduce their safety by having a gun on them.

Yes, there are situations where you will not have the opportunity to chamber your gun.

There are also situations where a chambered gun could go off and there was really no compelling reason for it to be chambered.


Jo got a Glock after reading an article about a man who came to a home, killed the man that opened the door, found the wife and daughter hiding in a bathroom, and I'll not describe this farther.

If that woman would have had a gun and been competent with it, there would have been a much different outcome. And that gun did not need to be chambered, it would have made no difference, she had plenty of time to chamber it. Hell, it didn't even need to be loaded. Just having a gun, she could have changed the outcome. And it was a bad outcome.


If a woman wants to carry a handgun in her purse. And that gun is loaded and unchambered. It's better than nothing, because there are a lot of situations where it could be deployed usefully. And an unchambered gun cannot go off by accident due to lack of experience and fumbling.

My mother is 81 years old and clumsy. If she lived in a dangerous place I would want her to have a loaded gun. But if it was chambered all the time she'd probably shoot somebody with it by accident.

At Blade Show this year I was packing heat in that little green bag and there wasn't room for my gun a holster that covers the trigger. I left it unchambered while I was in the show because I wanted to reduce the chances of a mishap to zero. That's responsible gun ownership. And I chambered it and had my hand in the bag on the gun walking to the hotel in Atlanta at night with tens of thousands of dollars of cash on me. It was unchambered in the show, and in "problem solver mode" while I was walking around Atlanta at night with my crew. Glocks don't really have a safety. It's not hard to pull the trigger on one by accident if it is not in a proper holster that covers the trigger.
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And in Australia you can not only NOT carry a gun for self defence, you also can't carry a knife or mace. But police do encourage you to carry a whistle.

I can only assume this is to alert other folks who can then run over and help with their whistles 🙃

How fast we've gone from Nazi commander Rommel saying "If I had to take hell I'd use Australians" to personal protection whistles.

I could give plenty of examples of how effing pathetic my country has become but I'll spare you.
 
Hatchet_Jack said:
And in Australia you can not only NOT carry a gun for self defence, you also can't carry a knife or mace. But police do encourage you to carry a whistle.

I can only assume this is to alert other folks who can then run over and help with their whistles 🙃

How fast we've gone from Nazi commander Rommel saying "If I had to take hell I'd use Australians" to personal protection whistles.

I could give plenty of examples of how effing pathetic my country has become but I'll spare you.
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You guys get some sweet land cruisers though.
 
Hatchet_Jack said:
And in Australia you can not only NOT carry a gun for self defence, you also can't carry a knife or mace. But police do encourage you to carry a whistle.

I can only assume this is to alert other folks who can then run over and help with their whistles 🙃

How fast we've gone from Nazi commander Rommel saying "If I had to take hell I'd use Australians" to personal protection whistles.

I could give plenty of examples of how effing pathetic my country has become but I'll spare you.
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I absolutely cannot understand why a free people allow their state to make these dictates. Make it make sense.

I view the right to self-defense as a God-given inalienable right.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I absolutely cannot understand why a free people allow their state to make these dictates. Make it make sense.

I view the right to self-defense as a God-given inalienable right.
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It's not usually done in one fell swoop. It's little by little.

It's crazy the mindset that some people have. They think there's no need to be able to defend themselves.

I work at a pretty woke company and have talked to some people like that. They've never been in a fist fight, no physical confrontation. They've never seen first hand or experienced physical violence so it's so distant from their mind that it doesn't seem like a possibility.

You should see the look on their face when I explain to these types that the only thing that stops me from smashing them in the face when they "upset" me, is manners. "That's illegal though. I'd just call the police.", they reply. I explain, "That's after the fact. All that means is that I'm punished after I'm done beating you for 5 to 10 minutes before the police arrive. That's only if I decide to let you call them while I'm kicking you in the face on the ground. That's why being able to defend yourself is important."

We've had it too good, for too long. The "it won't happen to me" mindset spreads. Naivety and gullibility is contagious; idiotic statements and notions spread like viruses.
 
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