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Good points SlowRain. I remember back in the early 90s helping train police for Glock's and double action shooting... That has to be one of the scariest experiences I've had in my life.
While I stilled lived in the Pacific Northwest in a town near the Canadian border.
Our Martial arts class was joined by local law enforcment for their shooting checkout tests and training! The martial arts class was only allowed 2 tries to pass the shootin test... The police were giving unlimited attempts. ALL the MA students passed by thier second try, most passed on their first... Over half of the Poilce took 4-5 times... one of the guys took over 11 tries and ended up having to mooch ammo off the MA students to complete his testing... I was not feeling so good about the idea the LE is supposed to protect the community at that point.
Take the time to train and KNOW your firearms and thier holisters! Most people can't even get their fire arms out to be used for self defence. Let alone the people that have to cock the weapon or forget about the safeties... I'll leave the finger in the trigger issues alone at this point.
Reguarding the legal issues also... What do you think happens if you do have to shoot someone... and you have a MODIFIED the weapon? Even adding safety features is MODIFIED from stock. Now all the sudden You have assasinated someone with as weapon you obviously have obsessive behavior with, having taken time end expence to modify and convert into a killing machine...
Think thats extream? Its not I've seen it happen a number of times over the years.
Ported barrels, custom colors, custom grips, custom triggers, even getting it etched with some custom image, like your grandfathers hunting rifle might have been engraved... All gets turned into a gun obsessive wack job looking to kill people.
Here is another thing that guns and scuba have in common... Think your insurance is going to cover you if you've done something custom to your dive equipment that changes its stock design?
Might want to look into that a little bit... Get killed playing with that homemade rebreather and your family most likely won't see a penny from your life insurance and be paying for your funeral out of pocket!
A shot gun IS the best weapon for home defence. Think its because of the fire power?, Think its the spead or the shot? NO... Its because your responsible for your bullets until they come to a full stop. That .45 or even a 9mm ball ammo will pass right through walls of your house AND the nieghbors. The soft lead shot won't hurt/kill the nieghbors as easily.
Take this actual senerio, the dad wakes up to a noise in the house... Grabs his 9mm from the night stand and creeps into the hallway. He sees a stranger in the hall and unloads the entire weapon at the intruder... missing him with ALL the shots. The intruder breaks for the back of the house and sliding door, he excapes... Now the dad hears his kids screaming. Rushing into his childrens room (across from the master bed room door) He discovers that ALL of the 9mm rounds have pretty much destroyed the kids room... Luckly the height the ideot was shooting was higher then the sleeping childrens beds... Not so lucky was the family vehicles in the front of the house... Or the neighbor across the street with front windows and door were broken or full of holes. Again...luckily no person was hit. Then I get hired by his ex-wife to investigate him and get her full custody...
So the moral is, if you don't use your head, don't get propertly trained and practice... But like to tinker with your equipment and customise it. Odds are your going to get yourself in trouble.
Keep it stock, keep it simple, keep it safe.
While I stilled lived in the Pacific Northwest in a town near the Canadian border.
Our Martial arts class was joined by local law enforcment for their shooting checkout tests and training! The martial arts class was only allowed 2 tries to pass the shootin test... The police were giving unlimited attempts. ALL the MA students passed by thier second try, most passed on their first... Over half of the Poilce took 4-5 times... one of the guys took over 11 tries and ended up having to mooch ammo off the MA students to complete his testing... I was not feeling so good about the idea the LE is supposed to protect the community at that point.
Take the time to train and KNOW your firearms and thier holisters! Most people can't even get their fire arms out to be used for self defence. Let alone the people that have to cock the weapon or forget about the safeties... I'll leave the finger in the trigger issues alone at this point.
Reguarding the legal issues also... What do you think happens if you do have to shoot someone... and you have a MODIFIED the weapon? Even adding safety features is MODIFIED from stock. Now all the sudden You have assasinated someone with as weapon you obviously have obsessive behavior with, having taken time end expence to modify and convert into a killing machine...
Think thats extream? Its not I've seen it happen a number of times over the years.
Ported barrels, custom colors, custom grips, custom triggers, even getting it etched with some custom image, like your grandfathers hunting rifle might have been engraved... All gets turned into a gun obsessive wack job looking to kill people.
Here is another thing that guns and scuba have in common... Think your insurance is going to cover you if you've done something custom to your dive equipment that changes its stock design?
Might want to look into that a little bit... Get killed playing with that homemade rebreather and your family most likely won't see a penny from your life insurance and be paying for your funeral out of pocket!
A shot gun IS the best weapon for home defence. Think its because of the fire power?, Think its the spead or the shot? NO... Its because your responsible for your bullets until they come to a full stop. That .45 or even a 9mm ball ammo will pass right through walls of your house AND the nieghbors. The soft lead shot won't hurt/kill the nieghbors as easily.
Take this actual senerio, the dad wakes up to a noise in the house... Grabs his 9mm from the night stand and creeps into the hallway. He sees a stranger in the hall and unloads the entire weapon at the intruder... missing him with ALL the shots. The intruder breaks for the back of the house and sliding door, he excapes... Now the dad hears his kids screaming. Rushing into his childrens room (across from the master bed room door) He discovers that ALL of the 9mm rounds have pretty much destroyed the kids room... Luckly the height the ideot was shooting was higher then the sleeping childrens beds... Not so lucky was the family vehicles in the front of the house... Or the neighbor across the street with front windows and door were broken or full of holes. Again...luckily no person was hit. Then I get hired by his ex-wife to investigate him and get her full custody...
So the moral is, if you don't use your head, don't get propertly trained and practice... But like to tinker with your equipment and customise it. Odds are your going to get yourself in trouble.
Keep it stock, keep it simple, keep it safe.