This is exactly what gun shows are like.

I was taking my wife to buy her first gun and she insisted she wanted a pink one. So I went to a local gun store that I knew had some. We asked to see it and my wife held it and asked the guy “would this intimidate you?”. I wasn’t crazy about the question that my wife just asked, but I was blown away by the answer…

From my (limited) experience, I have never seen any “no questions asked” sales. Sellers and buyers are generally very concerned with “doing the sale right”, so they have bills of sale, identification, etc. There may be no official background check, but private sales are otherwise typically very well documented.

.357, .44 mag, and the like are definitely more powerful and penetrate more. That isn’t nothing, but the trade-off is only getting five or six rounds of something much more difficult to shoot.

Oh I agree completely. The only non-9mm’s I own are a .357 wheel gun just because everyone should have a revolver and a H&K .45 that I got because I still had a ton of .45 reloading components from when I thought I was going to like having a 1911. Controversial opinion, 1911's are absurdly overrated and one of the few…

9mm is taking over the world mainly because you can jam a couple more in the magazine than you can with .40 or .45, and because it’s a little easier to shoot. More chances to hit and being able to put more rounds on the target faster trumps having a larger bullet when you do hit.

On the topic of “Stopping Power”, I once had a discussion about this with a buddy of mine who is in special forces when I noticed he carried a Glock 19. I asked him, “So what do you think about the whole 9mm vs 45 debate since you carry a 9mm?” His response was, “People who say a 9mm isn’t enough to get the job done…

One point of clarity in regards to private party transfer. You will likely find some private sellers at gun shows, but the majority of sellers are vendors that are federally licensed and thus required to still run background checks on anyone making a firearm purchase.

Variants of the AR-15 have been used in many high-profile mass shootings in the U.S., including Sandy Hook, Aurora, San Bernardino, Sutherland Springs Church, the Las Vegas srip, the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and most recently the Waffle House shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.

True story: I almost worked for this cult.

You sure she isn’t dead? May have starved to death under there trying to fix all those problems on a Jag.....

My father was slaughtered by a 15-fingered man.

*counts on fingers*

Big deal. I haven’t killed anyone in Britain in like 20 years.

Sooo.... a VW bus?

Around 1998 or 1999, Mark Polanski did a meet & greet at the Lockheed facility where I worked. This was a year or more before he made his first flight as a pilot on the flight that brought the Destiny module to the station. I got to do the audio setup, and being the life long space geek, I had a damned good reason to…

Is that Carrie Underboob?

Cute. I had a Shiba not too long ago (she died about 6 months ago) and this was definitely her move when she wanted to play; stomping with both front feet and ducking her head down, just like this dog is doing. Sometimes she’d get so excited about playing she’d follow that move by running around in circles and then…

But without a rigor mortise we can’t insert the rigor tenon and create a nice wooden rigor joint. How are we going to build this rigor frame without it?

I think that is how the trunk space of all 7-Series BMWs is measured.