Orlando Weekly on CCW

[Chrontius]

http://www.orlandoweekly.com/features/story.asp?id=10475

Interesting, so far.

Throughout most of my gun ordeal, I told myself that I would return the thing once the experiment was over. That notion has come and gone. Now I'm a good enough shot to hit Erwin on the chin from 50 yards. I visited the Cocoa Beach factory where my gun was made and took a tour while they repaired it. The company was founded by the same Swede who invented the infamous Tec-9. Everyone at Kel-Tec seemed like one big, happy family. The factory was pleasant; it was basically a room full of pretty local girls putting together sub-rifles and pistols by the cartload. Willy Wonka would have blushed.

I am now a gun owner and probably will be for the rest of my life. My Kel-Tec has found its way into my daily equipment – wallet, cell phone, gun – and I never leave home without it. Tucked behind my driver's license is my Florida CCW.

My gun likely causes me more problems than it's worth. During most of my day, it is annoying, distracting and downright illegal. (My CCW is void in bars, schools, school events, national forests, police stations, court, sporting events, polling places and Buck's Gun Rack.) I often wish someone would just steal it.

Barring that, I don't know what it would take to part me from this weapon. It seems few people are willing to give up their guns once they have them. They are hard to take back.

 

[Mulliga]

Ooof. $289 for a used P32?

 

[Amish_Bill]

well... he's a newbie - you kind'a have to expect a learning curve on the buying side... well, sales tax too - retail store after all.

I liked this:

"Many salesmen I've known have had to resort to dirty tricks to move their product. With guns, it seems, it's just a matter of letting you handle one."

So true....

 

[AJ Dual]

I liked this:

I put the bag next to me in my car and tried to get used to the odd feeling of having a gun. Everything felt suddenly strange, like I'd been handed special authority to go anywhere and do anything. The police suddenly seemed extraneous; the whole reason for calling them, after all, is to get a guy with a gun to show up.

He's being trite, but within his triteness is an uncontrovertable truth. No one's going to argue that the Police are truly extraneous. There's tons of things they do that the average individual can't. Investigation, forensics, crowd control, traffic enforcment, and the list goes on and on...

But it does illustrate the point. Ironicaly, when it comes to the most basic assumption of why we have police, i.e. "Save me! NOW!" is where they're the most innefective. SCOTUS has actualy ruled they have no such duty, and can't be held accountable for failing it if they did.

Anyone with two brain cells to rub together understands why, Police don't come from the planet Krypton, they lack telepathy, and instantaneous teloportation is a long way off...

 

[MarkDido]

You would never see an article like that in the Orlando Slantinel.......

 

[Standing Wolf]

...the whole reason for calling them, after all, is to get a guy with a gun to show up.

I'm partial to straightforward, simple thoughts.

 

[Mannlicher]

Another example of carring just about any piece of crap giving the neophyte a sense of being warm and fuzzy. God forbid he should ever have to use that lil mouse gun.

 

[38SnubFan]

God forbid he should ever have to use that lil mouse gun.

Mousegun, yes. But we all know a .25 in the hand is better than a .45 left at home.

It's actually kind of heart-warming to see more publishings of people learning the shooting sports and obtaining their CCW licenses.

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy myself.

 

[PATH]

It is not a mouse gun! It is a well made and completely serviceable firearm. I carry one every day! Now if you want to put the word "mighty" in front of mouse then we have the correct description. Excuse me now I have to go get my grilled cheese sandwich!

Oh heck! The Kel-Tec rocks!!!!!

 

[Chrontius]

Ooof. $289 for a used P32?

I thought the Kel-Tec was new. I misread it. I was about to make a 'getting screwed' joke, but Buck gave him full price store credit on the returned Back-up. (God, I'm glad I didn't buy that one I saw!)

You would never see an article like that in the Orlando Slantinel...

You misspelled "Slantinel".

And chalk up another Kel-Tec fan; in something that tiny and plastic and light, .380 is pushing it, recoil wise. My close range bans 'rapid fire' due to poor backstop design, I've never been even remotely tempted to push that. (For the record, my 'good' range will probably let you fire a SMG -- if you let the RSO fire it too! ) The P32 still offers advantages that other guns its size lack, like 10-round magazines with something that's still pocket-concealable, in something powerful enough to penetrate enough.

All in all, this article is a good thing. Remember, manipulating public opinion in your favor is how you get things done in politics.

EDIT: Yep, he's got the 10-round magazine and the Kel-Tec lanyard in the illustration. My money's on him shelling out for accessories, too.

 

[Cacique500]

(My CCW is void in bars, schools, school events, national forests, police stations, court, sporting events, polling places and Buck's Gun Rack.)

Why not valid in Buck's Gun Rack? Did they slip something in on me since the last time I renewed?