Are owning a gun a bad thing?

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Even if they outlawed guns, criminals will still be able to get there hands on them. point well taken, and proven. Look at the war on drugs, yeah that stopped drugs all-together.

Lets defend our homes, with knocking out the robber with the conveinantley place vase next to your bed stand

At some time in the future I would like to collect enough books to have a library. Most of the books being textbooks which actually go into depth of their subject matter, which would be in stark contrast to most of the public libraries of Minnesota. I don't want to keep such a resource to myself though, so I will allow my library to be publicly accessible. However, I'm not going to blindly trust people I do not know personally. To be prepared for an occasion of violence performed against myself or my family I will be armed. I am willing to extend an hand of trust, but should people wish to betray my trust and threaten me with bodily harm I would prepare my hand to wield a sword so that later I may extend that hand in trust to others who are more trustworthy rather than allow my hand to be cut off by those who are not.

I don't have a picture of it at the moment, but one of my favorite carry guns is an Armscor 1911 that was made on the same tooling as the WWII era models that was sold to the Philippines after the war. I've modified it minimally, mostly by polishing up some bearing surfaces in the trigger mechanism and stoning down the sear just a hair for a light and clean break, but I've otherwise left the internals fairly stock. I did some funny cosmetic stuff with it a while back when I used it as part of a Halloween costume (I went as the Comedian from Watchmen) where I polished down the bluing to give it sort of a dulled steel look, and fitted a set of grips with smiley face logos set in them. I ended up liking the look enough that I've kept it that way, the smileys actually look kind of appropriate on the thing.

When it get's cold out and I switch to heavier clothing, I tend to reach for my 10mm automatic, since It's a bit harder to conceal but packs quite a bit more firepower than my single stack .45 does. Mine is a CZ75 clone that holds 15 +1, and I feed it the 180 gr cor-bon loads that break 1400 fps... Surprisingly, it's very pleasant to shoot, the thing is heavy enough that it really tames the recoil, and the grip is wide enough from the double stack magazine that it spreads the impact around pretty well. I get a real kick breaking that thing out at the range, the bark is much louder than a 9mm but sharper than a .45, so I tend to get a lot of questions about what exactly it is that I'm shooting. 10mm isn't cheap to shoot though, it's really a handloader's caliber if you practice regularly.

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