Recent content by davepl

I purchased a Gerber Mark II (black) from Amazon and it arrived today, but its completely dull, as in you can't even cut your finger with it. The edge has been machined, to the extent it -looks- sharp, but it has no edge. Anyone know if this is normal? Maybe there's some rationale for...

Last year I completely took apart each of my guns, down to every little roll pin and spring and so on. There's no good reason, but there's no good reason to know how to replace a rod bearing in a 427, but I consider that fun too :-) In so doing I really wished I'd had a good book or manual...

I know this sounds brutally naive, and I searched for a bit (perhaps wth the wrong keywords) for an obvious answer, but still don't know: Legally, why isn't a semi-automatic pistol (let's say M9) considered a short barelled rifle? Well, because its not a rifle. But what makes a rifle a...

Every so often I see (probably the same one) an XM110 for sale on GB, offered at $25,000. If you remove the "systems" portion such as optics and night vision and so on, what's a comparable rifle? For example, what's the difference between an M110 and an LMT308 with a long barrel? They look...

I was looking at an LMT308, which was beautiful, and then asked myself "What's the difference between an AR-10 and an AR-15 that's chambered in .308?" I guess that's another way of asking other than caliber what's the difference, but to the uninitiated they look very similar. What are the...

Talking it over with a friend today and he told me that he doesn't -like- shooting his bolt-action rifles in larger calibres because the recoil gets annoying after 20 or so shots. I hadn't thought of that... my only rifle today is the AR. Is there a big difference in recoil between a...

So you're prinicpled, but with a price? :-) Reminds me of the ancient joke: Man: Would you sleep with me for a billion dollars? Lady: Yes, I suppose so. Man: Would you sleep with me for ten dollars? Lady: Of course not! What kind of woman do you think I am? Man: We've already...

While I'm at it, one interesting moment. My ten year old was asking me about something related to guns, so I showed him my Beretta 92FS which, at that moment, was loaded with the safety on. Anyway, I dropped the magazine out and said "See, it's unloaded now, right?". He agreed. I then said...

There is no such thing as a hidden gun your child will not find. And there is no mentally-normal child that will 100% of the time heed your warnings not to touch/play with them. I have four kids and four handguns, each in its own electronic gunvault (big multilevel house). I do not leave a...

I'm no judge, but I'd bet the specific sentence length may have an affect on where he can serve it. For example where I grew up if it was two years or more you had to go to the big prison, so a lot of sentences were "two years less a day". Perhaps you if its "ten years or less" there's a...

So far as I can tell, in WA State RCW 9.41.190 makes it illegal to "own, buy, sell, load, furnish, ..." machine guns. And yet at least one local range (and I assume others) will let you rent a select-fire AR for use on their range. Of the excemptions to the law about the only one I can see...

I saw an LMT LM308 last night, it was beautiful. Not cheap, though. The shop I saw it at also had a sub-MOA 'guaranteed' M1A (might have been the Match model you refer to above), it was also nice!

Muzzle. If that's the case, I guess it answers my question! Thanks!

I was watching the latest episode of that demi-reality show AG, wherein they built a crude 10-barrel volley gun. I'm wondering why its legal to do so, since I thought the NFA machine gun laws prohibited anything that dicharged more than one cartridge or barrel with a single trigger pull...

There's another thread on -protecting- the right to open carry in WA, so rather than hijack it with my naive question, I'll start another thread: The law here requires that you have a CPL if you carry a concealed pistol, and I've had a CPL for almost the entire time I've lived in WA (about 15...