Just for conversation I went and located the Ruger LC9 on GunBuyer.com: $330, free 2-day shipping. FFL transfer fees in my area run $25-$35.I thought about that but just never looked into it because of the whole ordering, shipping and transferring thing. Figgered I'd have to get a pretty sweet deal to offset the shipping charge and transfer fees.
Just for conversation I went and located the Ruger LC9 on GunBuyer.com: $330, free 2-day shipping. FFL transfer fees in my area run $25-$35.
Link Removed
Anyway, practice often, carry alwaysI look forward to your range report.
That's a pretty good deal even considering I bought mine yesterday on sale. I wonder if that site charges tax. If they didn't, I probably coulda saved about 45 bucks if I wanted to wait until next weekend to try it out. Not knocking buying online, just saying that you pay a little extra for convenience....lol.
Carried it in Applebee's last night and even in Walmart...lol.
Well, as I said, I only put about 65 rounds or so through it, but it was nice. Did a couple rapid, full mag group shots at my targets from about 10, 12 feet and the grouping was good. I figured if that was a bad guy I don't think he woulda been too happy...lol. I woulda snapped a pic of the targets but my two cousins decided to pop a few rounds at it and messed it up...lol.
All in all in real happy with it. Love that trigger. Didn't have a single jam in the ammo I bought. Couldn't really tell the difference in grain weights. The 150 grain federal HST's felt the same as the 115 grain Winchester range ammo.
I just have to get used to the differences between it and my beretta, one major difference is the slide saftey. The beretta, up is fire and down is safe. The Ruger, just the opposite.
Not sure I understand the meaning of this question but I've ordered tons of stuff online. That's where the majority of the crap I have came from was online.As for taxes, have you ever bought anything online? Then you already know the answer to your question.
Yeppers.Just make sure you train how to safely draw and fire it without hitting yourself or innocent people.
No jams! That's the important part. I usually fire several hundred target rounds and about 100 self defense rounds through a gun without cleaning in-between to make sure that it functions reliably. Always clean your gun after target practice.
That's the problem with inconsistencies in the manual of arms. It can cost you your life. Train with one firearm and sell the other.
Not sure I understand the meaning of this question but I've ordered tons of stuff online. That's where the majority of the crap I have came from was online.
That being said, sometimes tax is charged and sometimes it ain't.
Maybe so but I'm not selling either of my guns. Both serve a purpose. Plus, I love my Beretta and I ain't gettin' rid of it. That's all part of that training and familiarizing you speak of.
Never said anything about not knowing why some online retailers charge tax and why some don't. Don't really care. I was just simply trying to answer your reply the best I could since you made your reply out to sound like I was clueless and that I've never ordered a single thing online.The same tax laws apply when buying firearms online. If you don't know why you are getting charged a sales tax sometimes, then you should try to educate yourself. Most of the few Web sites that charge sales tax even explain why.
Do You Have to Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases?
Internet Sales Tax: A 50-State Guide to State Laws
No problem with any of that. There's probably people out there that own 20 handguns and in any given situation could fire each one of them as good or better that someone who owns and carries just one gun. It's all about training, responsibility and dedication to take carrying a gun on you as serious as you can.Your choice. I am just telling you what I have learned in training with professional firearm instructors.
I apologize for not saying this before but when I said I wasn't going to sell anything and that each pistol serves its own purpose, I didn't mean that I was going to carry one or the other or even both. Now that I have the Ruger, the beretta can probly stay home most of the time when I leave the house except for when I leave for work on the truck. It can ride on my glove box while the Ruger is on me no problem.I don't use manual safeties on handguns and I am staying consistent with manual safeties on rifles. Why? Because when you draw your weapon in a self defense scenario you don't think: Do I carry the Beretta today or the Ruger? You draw, point, disengage the safety and fire (if needed). Disengaging the safety should come as natural to you as drawing and pointing the firearm. It isn't if you carry different firearms that require an opposite motion to do it.
Once you train hard enough you will realize what I am talking about when you draw your firearm, have not disengaged the safety and try to fire.
Never said anything about not knowing why some online retailers charge tax and why some don't. Don't really care. I was just simply trying to answer your reply the best I could since you made your reply out to sound like I was clueless and that I've never ordered a single thing online.
No problem with any of that. There's probably people out there that own 20 handguns and in any given situation could fire each one of them as good or better that someone who owns and carries just one gun. It's all about training, responsibility and dedication to take carrying a gun on you as serious as you can.
I don't doubt what you say at all and I fully realize the danger of remembering to take a saftey off but as I've mentioned, having a gun without a saftey is not something I want. Protecting myself from a negligent discharge with a hard trigger to pull is also not what I want to have to deal with to shoot accurately and have good shot placement.
I've found something that works so that is what's important. If saftey-less guns work for you then great.
I hear ya. I'm well aware of that and think about it a lot.Not really, unless those 20 handguns have similar manual of arms or those people are highly trained, such as special forces. It is easier to train for one type of manual safety and then just ignore it on handguns that do not have a manual safety. It is very difficult to train for complete opposite safety lever operation. Again, it is not about shooting at the range, but handing the firearm under stress when defending your life.
First, which Beretta we talkin' about, the Storm or the 92? Second, I don't see myself in the near future getting a 1911. My cousin has an old Remington 1911 and although it's a great shooting gun for a 45, it's a bear to tear down the slide from the frame...lol.FYI: The Beretta is considered toxic for training and carry in part because of its reverse safety operation to the 1911.
Oh, I'm sure. If I have in the past, I apologize but, I try not to make claims about how I feel now won't change in the future as this goes on and learn more.Progress is made step by step. Train, shoot and carry. Your views will develop over time.
First, which Beretta we talkin' about, the Storm or the 92? Second, I don't see myself in the near future getting a 1911. My cousin has an old Remington 1911 and although it's a great shooting gun for a 45, it's a bear to tear down the slide from the frame...lol.
I take it the 1911 you're talking about in your reply is the more used service pistol that the Beretta? I'm assuming so since the Beretta is considered the "toxic" one and not the 1911.
I didn't know the 92 or the Storm had a no saftey option. The Nano is the only one I know of that doesn't, atleast in the ones I was interested in for my carry gun.The Beretta 92 is considered toxic, but the Storm has the same slide-mounted safety (when it has one) so it has the same problem.
Well, that seems to be true now that you mention it. I haven't handled a lot of guns in my quest to find a carry gun but all the ones I've looked at and held, my Ruger, the SC40 and SC9 I checked out, the Smith and Wessons, and even that Taurus Slim 709 and Millennium all had a slide saftey setup that down was fire and up was safe.Many handguns with an external safety mimic the safety lever operation of the 1911, i.e., frame-mounted (and not slide-mounted) and down is hot.
How does that work? The saftey lever just gets converted to deccock the hammer but can still be fired whether it's down or up? What would be the point for doing that? And no, I'm not saying as far as disabling the saftey, I'm just talkin about making it a decocker only.There is a way to convert Berettas to decocker only, which many that carry them do. I know that you want an external safety, so that would't be something for you.
I didn't know the 92 or the Storm had a no saftey option. The Nano is the only one I know of that doesn't, atleast in the ones I was interested in for my carry gun.
How does that work? The saftey lever just gets converted to deccock the hammer but can still be fired whether it's down or up? What would be the point for doing that? And no, I'm not saying as far as disabling the saftey, I'm just talkin about making it a decocker only.
Do you plan to try a laser?
Do you plan to try a laser?
Also, is the barrel +p rated and would you be open to trying +p ammo in a small gun?
Well, do NOT fire +p ammo unles the barrel itself is stamped "+p". You can always buy one.Oh yeah, I plan to get a laser. My alien gear holster I ordered had the form fitted kydex for several different brands. The one I got was for the crimson trace laser guard. Wasn't crazy about spending what I did for a laser sight but atleast this one has the push button momentary switch that activates by squeezing the grip and turns off when you let go. The other models that AG covered for attachments didn't. Well, except for I believe it was the laser max, that you had to reach up with your index finger to turn it off but it had a built in timer that turned it off after a certain amount of time of you forgot to turn it off manually.
As far as plus p ammo, the owners manual kinda contradicts yes or no to the use of it. First it says that it would be fine as long as you don't do it all the time, then it said feeding the gun a healthy diet of plus p ammunition would greatly shorten the life of the gun. Then it went on to say that plus p ammo wasn't recommended. Lol.
I dunno, whether whatever the gun was in question was made to handle plus p ammo or not, is it really something to consider using it?
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
See I put a green laser on my snub because it's for the bedroom. If I'm woken up in the middle of the night I know I can't rely on a textbook stance etc; not while half asleep and suprised. Put the dot on the threat and pull the trigger, that's it.I wasn't really considering a laser sight but since this is probably going to be my primary carry pistol and the one I'll have on me, I figured why not since this isn't going to be a plinking or range gun. That, and if it helps to give me an edge, that's great too.
I might also add that it's primarily Alien Gears fault, too since they already have a shell mold for my pistol with a laser on it....[emoji5][emoji5][emoji5]
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Well, do NOT fire +p ammo unles the barrel itself is stamped "+p". You can always buy one.
See I put a green laser on my snub becauseit's for the bedroom. If I'm woken up in the middle of the night I know I can't rely on a textbook stance etc; not while half asleep and suprised. Put the dot on the threat and pull the trigger, that's it.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?