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At the risk of spoilering my forthcoming review, if I were going to actually going to tote the Roscoe, I’d just toss some Boot Grip clones on it. The factory grips aren’t compatible with serious...

How many Smith or Colt revolvers made in the last five years have you put more than a hundred rounds through?

The cylinder window is J-frame sized but there’s a little more meat in the frame (the 85 was +P rated before the J was) and a noticeably larger trigger guard. They’re close enough in size that they...

It’s basically a restyled Taurus 85 reboot.

Cover story in an upcoming issue of SI.

These boilerplate denunciations of USN Freedom of Navigation operations happened all through the last couple administrations, so miss me with that.

EDIT: Someone at Wikipedia has done a full nerdy...

Should be a slam-dunk for the homeowner-licensee, then.

EDIT: I should probably clarify my position, in that I don't see a lot of the "hair on fire" potential in this particular rule clarification...

Oh no. The federal authorities will not help you violate local ordinances. The absolute horror.

Even under existing rules as currently interpreted, that hypothetical gun show table would be tap-dancing right up to the edge of "engaged in the business", although even if it did draw attention and...

Ell. Oh. Ell.

If you ever see me refer to myself as a "warrior" or "guardian", somebody's hacked my account. And I sure as hell ain't got no messiah complex.

If I'm in aisle twelve at Meijer's...

Greg’s post said absolutely nothing about mass shootings/active shooters, as even a cursory read-through would have revealed.

It was talking about dudes with beef shooting at other dudes with...

I'm not doubting you, just pointing out that even as far back as 1968 we were well into the "luck of the draw" years in the QC department at Smith. And then came 1970...

Somewhere John Ross had a...

It's a little bit of that and a little bit of the fact that there's an innate conservatism to the gun community, and I don't mean the political kind. I just mean that there's a general belief that...

1968 is three years into Bangor Punta ownership and well into the first era of cost cutting. CNC and MIM guns from the 1990s-2000s are better than any Smith revolver made between 1970 and 1990.

I...

A good example of that swell Bangor Punta / Lear Siegler Era quality control from Smith & Wesson would be this Model 581-1, made shortly after the sale to Lear Siegler.

I ran into it when it was...

The Bangor Punta and Lear Siegler era Smith revolvers were indeed buck wretched. Getting bought by that Limey company in the Nineties was the best thing that ever happened to S&W. Things started...

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner here.

The Good Old Days mostly exist in people’s imaginations.

How many rounds have you run through how many new High Powers?

I'm curious as to how much weight I should give your opinion on the gun.

I understand that some folks have a point of view that biases them to think that every handgun should primarily be designed to be first and foremost relevant to the needs of the Everytown PD SWAT...

Wow, you’re right. :eek: I’m surprised that not even the usual sources for cowboy stuff have any in stock.

I think it’s more of a theoretical worry than a real problem. I’ve never had it occur with FMJ in my Beretta or Skorpion.

And I’d climb over a pile of LCPs and P3ATs for a P32.

If your grip is legitimately perfectly identical whether shooting DA or SA, you don't need to worry about this.

So no fear and drive on! :cool:

It’s not the mechanical dwell time that differs, but what the gun does during that time. Thank you for clarifying your understanding of the topic at hand.

This is the sort of shit that results from viewing the DA trigger as an evil that must be overcome in order to allow undertrained shooters to qualify rather than a feature that allows trained...

Didn’t the FBI also still teach some “get on the trigger as soon as the gun clears leather” 1930s holdover doctrine at the time?

I seem to recollect that the FBI’s methodology combined with that...