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I greatly appreciate your perspective on this. While I'm certainly not remotely qualified to assess the quality of PSDs myself, in talking with Japanese over the past day who are at least somewhat...

Without trauma, there have been a very few cases of survival with good neurological outcomes after about 1 hour, up to a possibly unique case of about 3.5 hours (A Case of Survival after Cardiac...

My deepest sympathies for the loss of your friend. It is a loss that is felt and shared by many who never knew him personally, and I can only imagine how much more so by someone close to him as you...

As shocking as this would be in a country like the US, it's beyond unthinkable in Japan. While there have been some political assassinations in modern Japanese history, they are incredibly rare and...

Looking at the problem from a cultural-mental health perspective, yes, that's a very useful way to think and talk about incidents like this. The features of what might be called "public mass...

That is definitely a fixed/integral front site. Beretta's technical data lookup shows a manufacturing date of 2003 for that pistol (based on the serial number on the box).
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Even though he's sometimes referred to in the comments as an "Afghan soldier", he's speaking Urdu and he's on the Pakistani side of the border, so technically not Afghan, but still Pashtun:

"Note...

You are absolutely right, and there should be no doubt at all. The companies making them don't really even make the effort to obscure what they are doing:

"Committed to perfection, innovation, and...

Sorry to be coming in a little late on this thread...

I'm in daily contact with a number of people currently in lockdown, both in Shanghai and other places around the China (there are...

Inflationary price aside, those are nice pistols. The French liked them enough to re-up on their order around 2 or 3 years ago with another 580. I think the contract price for the full kit was around...

Rabies is very, very rare in mice in North America and Europe, but splashing any wild animal's bodily fluids into the eyes, nose, mouth, or broken skin is probably a good enough reason to call your...

AliExpress is basically China's version of eBay, in that it's only an e-commerce platform, not an actual retailer or direct-to-consumer merchant. AliExpress itself is as safe to deal with as any...

How did you know I was wearing bunny slippers when I posted that? :D

Most of the extra parts for an LEM could probably be arranged in front and diagonally down forward from the hammer axle, so it...

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That reminds me, what ever happened with this? I wonder if they really exist in the wild. As far as I can tell, even the Japanese contract ones don't have manual safeties, and the Japanese usually...

If they would do something like that with an LEM and keep the paddle release, it would be very interesting. Since that would really be a single-stack P30SK, I'm pretty certain it won't happen, but...

There you have it. Being drunk and careless with words gets you the tiger chair (a device I could go on about, but that's too much thread drift even for me), in this case most likely because somebody...

Thanks, I'm happy to have the time to be back reading and posting here.

It's so true. Opaque, unilateral governments are almost always kleptocratic in addition to all of their other terrible...

Oh, they have pepper spray, but a guy swinging a cleaver isn't an approved UoF scenario to deploy...however, grandpas being grandpas do apparently meet the guidelines. :rolleyes:

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Thanks for posting that video, and thanks to him for making it. If anything, he could go harder on how bad things are in some places,...

In east Asia, these are actually fairly widespread today, albeit in slightly less aggressive models. In China most airports, train stations, schools, malls, even city hotels have them for use by...

JAD and TGS are absolutely right about this. The Chinese government's intention in Xinjiang isn't just subjugation or exploitation, it is extermination of the Uyghurs as a distinct culture or...

The P225A1 is a good example of why I can't get comfortable with SIG these days, even when they get things right. By all accounts, the design and execution was very solid, and it was a fairly worthy...

Telegram was used a lot in HK during the protests last year, and while they didn't appear to be feeding information directly to the PRC authorities, a lot of people were concerned about just how...

Like so many people, I love the old P-series guns and I appreciate the concepts at work in the new guns, but their problems with QC and corporate ethics over the past 15 years or so have just about...