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This thread is a combination of a thread Kleanbore started called My Handgun History and a comment Old Dog made in the I'm Comfortable With My... thread. A list of random handguns I've carried is only part of the story. It's meaningless without the "why" of how I (we) got from point A to...

I have only ever fired one Kimber 1911 in my life. It was chambered in .38 Super. I didn't notice any particular difference between that gun in my Rock Island Armory 1911. I don't remember examining it closely either though. I seem to remember reading that Kimber handguns have some real quality...

I have seen this statistic posted on every single internet gun form I have ever read. "According to the FBI the average (civilian) gun fight is 3 rounds (sometimes they add "at 3 yards, in 3 seconds). " When you ask for a specific cite none seems to be available. I have looked all over. I...

I'm asking a question that is completely outside of my experience. So I might not ask it right. I don't have a large gun "collection" actually less than ten. Actually my guns it's five. The rest of them are my wife's and I don't shoot them. Even then I've caught myself opening the safe and...

I'm watching Silverado. There's a scene in which one of the characters cocks his rifle to make a point. I was watching it and it occurred to me that in the early 1880s carrying your rifle with an empty chamber might have been a very prudent thing to do. So my question is when was the firing...

This is a hypothetical based on something that actually happened to me at work. It was approximately 2 o'clock in the morning. I was doing a security check on an electrical substation that was on private property belonging to the local utility. I was a utilities contractor, I had every right...

Something I notice on almost every gun forum that I participate in is that people talk about how to resolve a conflict or how to react to conflict but I never seem to hear people talking about how to avoid a conflict in the first place. I have worked almost exclusively nights since 2003. First...

Galls isn't shooting gear or storage but they sell things that are. On July 24 I ordered two pairs of uniform pants from Galls. They were advertised as being in stock and Galls claimed they normally ship within 24 hours. It took ELEVEN DAYS for Galls to even ship them. I want to be absolutely...

There is a discussion going on at another forum that I'm a member of in which the poster who started the thread stopped at a rest area for lunch and decided to use the bathroom before he left. On his way to the bathroom he had a run-in with a Crackhead who he suspects was trying to rob him...

I was out running the street one night when I was 13 years old and one of the guys that I was with said something smart-ass to somebody who was driving by us in a car. They turned around and chased us down, they caught my friend. He told us when they caught up with him the driver got out of the...

I read this on another forum and it made me curious. According to the poster he was shopping in a store in Arizona (generally OC friendly state) and encountered a man open carrying. According to the poster he first questioned the guy as to whether or not he was a cop then went a found a...

I walked out my front door this morning and observed my idiot neighbor pointing a handgun at his own chest while attempting to show the RDS to another neighbor. Before thought to keep my big mouth shut I mentioned it was an unsafe act. He assured me that the gun wasn't loaded and I told him...

I'm trying to ask a pretty specific question but I'm not sure how to get it right. Given situation: you have two handguns that are identical in all respects except for caliber. As an example a Glock 19 and a Glock23 (for my example capacity is equal on both) Or a (brand of your choice) 1911...

This question came up yesterday on a different forum. I really feel like the person who asked at the other forum feels that carrying a gun every single day is a little bit ridiculous but it doesn't make the question any less valid. I've said this multiple times but it is an iron clad rule for...

Thank you to whoever changed my title I'm not sure exactly how to ask this question but let's assume you own no handguns at all and you want to buy one for self-defense. How do you decide which attribute is most important? As an example when I'm looking at a handgun these qualities (in no...

I was watching El Dorado last night. There's a scene in the movie where John Wayne and Robert Mitchum are doing a patrol of the town. Robert Mitchum walks past a guy sleeping on a bench with his hat down over his face and uses the muzzle of his rifle to lift the hat off the guy's face. I...

I bet the El Paso County Sheriff's Department is so proud of themselves over this. https://krdo.com/news/2020/02/27/fort-carson-family-outraged-after-10-year-old-arrested-for-pointing-toy-guns-at-vehicle/ From the article: "COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The parents of a 10-year-old boy are...

On Saturday morning (Feb 23) a guy who is on parole for a burglary committed in 2013 shot and killed somebody in the parking lot of an apartment complex in South Colorado Springs. About an hour later the same guy showed up walking down a street (South Wasatch if you happen to be familiar with...

This is a very simple question I just happen to be watching Beverly Hills Cop and I notice that aAxle is walking around with his HiPower in condition two. I'm just wondering is the BHP have a firing pin block? Is it safe to carry it that way? ETA this just a general information question. I'm...

I own less than 10 guns. I have the original boxes for all but three so I have the serial numbers on the boxes. It never occurred to me to write them down anywhere but I'm thinking I should. I don't want to put them on a device anywhere because devices fail I'm thinking about just writing...