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The time has come, the Walrus said... To rice out my 10/22. I'm already looking at a Green Mountain barrel. This is a given. New fire control set, probably. Since I bought my Ruger for the express purpose of ricing it out I got the cheapest one available: The blued carbine model. So when I...

Funny thing happened to me at the range yesterday... I was up at French Creek yesterday, enjoying some Jesus-on-a-stick day celebratory shooting with my nephew. It was cold, not many people there, and soon enough it was just us and two guys who had some pistols. The one guy had a Kel Tec, and...

Do you feel lucky, punk? We all know Dirty Harry's .44 mag has been supplanted (repeatedly) as the "most powerful" handgun cartridge in the world. I've been thinking about it recently, though none too hard... What is the most powerful these days? I'm discounting specialty guns and weirdo...

I just thought I'd post this to gloat in general. I do intend to provide pictures but I only thought of it after the fact and I don't have internet access at home. So it'll take a weekend. I have, as some of you have probably heard me previously espouse, a Beretta CX4. In 9x19, if you care. I...

So, since someone pinched my Walther P22 that I got for a song some time ago ( :fire: ) I've been noodling about thinking about what I'm going to replace it with as a plinker. Truth be told, I liked my P22 but didn't have a heck of a lot of confidence in it what with the cast zinc slide and...

Ever since I sold my .22 I've been itching to buy a 10/22. The plan is to buy it and a pile of enormous aftermarket mags before everything gets banned again in '08 or what have you. I already have my "high-cap" pistol and an AR-15 with a pile of 30 rounders, so it's 10/22 time. My overall...

:mad: I've just finished inspecting my new PX4 (the second one, after I threw the first one off of a four story roof and finally had it stolen) and it has several prominent scratches in it. There's one big fat one in front of the rear sight that goes across the slide, not down it, and a couple...

I've been an avid reader of The Straight Dope for many years but noticed Cecil's (and the rest of the staff) affinity for oversimplifying subjects or skipping over points that would interfere with his making a wisecrack at the end of the article. Today's mailbag article has to do with...

The story: The end of the world loometh nigh! My nephew bought a gun (finally) at a show last weekend. (He's four months older than me, if you were wondering.) In his usual ponderous manner he sat on the Internet for about three months straight and read everything about everything that has...

So. Lost my primary pistol in a theft not long ago. Went up to the local gun shop that I prefer to frequent looking for some manner of 'real' gun (all I have at the moment is a .32 auto...) with the intent of looking for another PX4 to replace my stolen one (which would be nice, I have tons of...

Well, for the second time in my life I've unintentionally (and under great protest) found myself in contact with the criminal element, this time by proxy, and had firearms stolen from me. I figure three strikes and I'll be out. This time, my girlfriend let a particular slimeball (I vaguely...

Okay, Pennsylvania's general refusal to make important parts of its laws and procedures available to the public is really starting to tick me off. For instance, Title 18 of the Pennsylvania code isn't available to the public at all without buying a law book (not cheap). I found an out-of-date...

...On the legal front. I've been wondering. We all know what a class 1 firearm is (the kind you can walk into your local Gun Store and just buy) and what a class 3 firearm is (the kind that is expensive and requires a 200 dollar tax stamp) but what the spork is a class 2 firearm? Google fails me.

So, I was atop a four story building doing some work last night. The loudest sound in the world is your cheap nylon holster going "rip," followed by the thud of the pistol at your feet as it slides off the sloped roof, bashes into the (angled) concrete abutment below, skids under the fence, and...

Yeah, I have to start one of these "what am best gun for wife/girlfriend" sort of threads. My girlfriend is interested in learning to shoot, especially clays. The caveat is that she's tiny. I don't mean tiny like most posters probably say their women are tiny. She's 4'6", I don't know exactly...

Well, as above. I'm in the market for an EBR before all this stuff gets banned again. I can't settle between the Kel Tec SU-16 (probably the type C or CA) or an AR variant. No, I don't have enough money for both. Unfortunately. Pros of the Kel Tec: - Gas piston design, runs cleaner -...

Ding dang it. So I just sold a couple of M9 magazines in this very forum. Click "back" a couple times, scroll down to "Accessories," there you go. This just arrived in my inbox: Of course, back when I signed up to PayPal the only policy was "no firearms." Not "no firearm parts...

This has got me curious and I couldn't find where this has been done before recently. With all of this talk deriding mouseguns and this-caliber-over-that, what caliber is your carry piece? I'm not so much interested as to why (because that'll probably degenerate into a this-versus-that...

...For the sin I am about to commit. But verily, I'm starting to consider the Kel-Tec SU-16 for my next rifle purchase. Specifically, the "California" model (if I can find one...) because I like the improvements of the Type C except for the doofy stock. Any SU-16 owners here? Thoughts or...

Just a thought I had while I was at the gun store the other day and half-overheard a guy who was looking to trade in a Glock and another guy (customer) who was interested in buying it. Do private sales in PA require any paperwork? Do you have to go through an FFL? Just handguns, or what...