M&P Pro at Media Day

Smith & Wesson had an interesting new M&P Pro. The pistol has a removable plate infront of the rear sight. It is supplied with 5 mounting brackets for the most popular red dots.

M&P autoloader

M&P autoloader

M&P autoloader

The texture of the grips has been modified. They worked great wearing gloves.

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New USMC 1911

Colt will be offering the pistol that the USMC ordered as a cataloged item. It has a great trigger right out of the box and shoots fantastic. Bieng a 1911 lover I might be a bit biased

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Repost of my Shot Show comments

Day one is over

The new Golck 30s handled well. It will be popular for concealed carry. I also shot the new 10MM, I love 10MM, very accurate little pistol though it wil not be for every body.


Crimson Trace had two new lines. There is now an economy line of laser grips. Hard polymer and a manual on off switch, but the MSRP is about half the price of the standard grips.

Also many old favorites are now being offered in GREEN. I handled the new GREEN model 305 for the S&W J-frames.

There will be more after I get a bite of dinner.

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For the cost of a Magazine

Join the NRA.

It does not matter if you like them or hate them. They have visibility in the main stream media.

I have seen hundreds of threads on dozens of forums all with the posters already giving up the fight. Posters asking what they should stock up on. Do you think this or that will be banned? Where can I find magazines?

DO NOT GIVE UP THE FIGHT. Heck, legislation has only just been proposed. Nothing has even been voted on yet.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of EVIL is for Good Men to do nothing.” 

For roughly the cost of a magazine, you can be an NRA member.

What kind of message will it send to our Legislators if the threat of a new Ban causes the ranks of the NRA to double, triple or more.

If EVERY poster on every forum that is talking about stockpiling for the Ban joined the NRA, they would have millions of new members in the blink of an eye.

Remember, even if a Congressperson or Senator believes in and wants to eliminate the private ownership of firearms, they want to keep their job even more. A Congressperson or Senator will NEVER willingly trade their position in the Government to give the President a Ban on Firearms

So send a HUGE message and join the NRA. Get your shooting buddies to join the NRA. Give memberships to friends as gifts.

Want to really have fun, buy your Senator or Congressperson an NRA membership as a present.

Also do not forget to send E-mails and call your Congressperson and Senator. You will not change their personal beliefs, but you may change how they vote.

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As Rahm Emanuel Says “Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste”

While the premature death of ANY Citizen is a tragedy, it is a disgrace that Liberal Politicians choose to sensationalize recent events to advance their agenda. Instead of villainizing an inanimate object we need to focus on the people that commit these unthinkable atrocities.

If I slap you in the face, are you mad at my hand? Or are you mad at the person that commanded the hand to slap you?

We also need to have a means of rapidly neutralizing these sick twisted individuals should this type of event occur again.

Morality can not be legislated. If it could, this tragedy would not have occurred. After all committing murder is already a crime. There is no firearm law that could have prevented this calamity. A sick, twisted individual that is planning to commit multiple murders is not going to suddenly stop and say to him/herself “Gee, I can’t go kill those 20+ people because it would be a crime for me to go steal a gun.”

Mr. President, Senators and Congressmen if you want to get my attention and get the support of the shooting public, show the American People a law (that does not violate the Constitution) that if it had been enacted 5 or 10 years ago would have prevented this from happening. Then we will have something to talk about. Otherwise please stop trying to make people believe that your goal is to solve the problem and admit your goal is to disarm law abiding Citizens and that you intend to use the emotions of a grieving Nation to achieve it.

Everything that I have heard proposed by our Legislators on the various weekend talk shows would not have made one single difference in the outcome of the events of last week.

It is said that those who do not learn from History are Doomed to Repeat it.

Most all of the mass murders over the last 20 some years have occurred in GUN FREE ZONES. Wait . . . . . How can that be possible? Murderers can not bring guns into GUN FREE ZONES. OH, they can, it is just breaking one more law. Why should they care?

How would the outcome of some of those mass murders of recent years have changed if the law abiding Citizens that chose to, had their firearms with them?

If Suzanna Hupp had not been obeying the law, she would have had her personal defense firearm in her purse when she and her parents had dinner at Lubys Cafateria. Quite probably some of the 24 people (including Suzanna’s parents) that George Hennard killed that day would still be alive.

What would have happened at Virginia Tech during the almost 3 hours that Seung-Hui Cho shot 53 people, killing 30 of them. He did this in two incidents in two different buildings. A single armed Citizen, Teacher or Guard could have drastically turned the tide of that day. Unfortunately Virginia Tech is a GUN FREE ZONE and all the law abiding Citizens were unarmed.

While we are on the subject of school shootings, what is this LOCK-DOWN nonsense? At Virginia Tech, where was the football team or the wrestling team, how about the ROTC members? Was there no student willing to challenge this sick individual? Of course not, had one even wanted to intervene and help their fellow students they were LOCKED-DOWN.

Today we teach our children to hide in their classrooms and wait to be killed. Where did this stupid idea come from?

Common Sense tells us that GUN FREE ZONE laws will only be obeyed by the Law Abiding. Criminals intent on MURDER will ignore such laws. Why can’t Congress grasp that concept?

Common Sense tells us that Criminals are afraid of victims that can fight back and possibly hurt them.

Common Sense tells us that a Civic Minded individual with a firearm can end a Mass Murder Spree.

All of this can easily be illustrated by the events of last Sunday night at the movie theater in San Antonio when the sick individual that went there to commit mass murder was rapidly neutralized by a Deputy that was working off duty and happened to have a firearm with her. How many lives were saved that day? We will never know the answer, but it was several at least.

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