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I am glad someone mentioned the Mak. Most of those are well built little guns that stand up to a lot of shooting. On the heavy side, but very affordable and good ammo is available from Cor-bon.

If your Sig is the older stamped slide made of carbon steel, look at bottom of the slide on the dust cover(the part just below the muzzle). There should be two letters. Likely the first letter will be an "K" followed by a second letter. Sigs made in W. Germany used these letters as a date code: A=0 B=1 C=2 D=3 E=4 F=5 G=6 H=7 J=8 K=9 So, if the letters you have are "KC", then your Sig was made in 1992.

Lawyers can and will make you look bad by any means neccesary, no matter what ammo you use. So relax and use the most effective ammo available to you and worry about the potential trial afterwords.

You could go around with an AR with ten 30-round magazines and under certain circumstances you may still "feel" outgunned.

I have the P3AT and a S&W Airweight. I have formed the opinion the P3AT is almost too small. By that I mean if I ever had to get it into operation quickly from a pocket carry it is not easy to get the right grip and your finger in the trigger guard.

As long as you use safe handling procedures, that sounds fine to me. The big concern as I understand it is that someone might put a loaded gun in a safe, leave it for months, come back, assume it's empty, and then potentially bad things might happen. If you do this with a frequently carried gun, I'd say there's no danger because you are aware of its condition and only you have access.

Think you said it to begin with....Sig P232 ...............or Walther PPK

Quote: So, where does the myth of "knockdown power" come from? Just my opinion but... Mostly I believe it comes from hunting, that is the term comes from hunting. Folks that knew that no handgun or rifle round could literally knock a man or another mammal down none the less spoke of "knock down power" or "stopping power" or "knockout power", etc. They knew the rounds were...

Everyone feels like they're wearing a volkswagon under their clothes the first time they carry. Glad to hear you got through your first day. Pretty soon, you'll realize that noone is looking at you and you'll be very comfortable with it all. If you're responsible with it, noone will ever know unless the situation dictates that you inform them (you are forced to draw). Congrats! SRT

Quote: The incident was used in formal training at the federal academy I attended. That's probably why the previous poster thought it happened in CA. Ayoob's article mentioned that Chaney had done a "videotape for the Huntington Police Department".