Nothing but respect for Taurus, though I've never owned one... maybe because I always thought I could "afford better". Sold plenty at the dealer I used to work for 30 years ago. Good idea as a "first gun", even if it's not perfect. What's the worst that could happen? Getting some experience...
Yep... plus plain luck. Even with FMJ, one solid hit in the head or heart or major vessel and you're (probably) done. And I wouldn't be surprised if the old lady was only loaded with .38s, since .357s are no fun with "atha-ritis" like mine. Or maybe she's just tougher than me. Does appear she...
85 year-old woman home invaded. Perp came armed, apparently looking to steal firearms, etc. from the old lady (BIG mistake!).
She shoots him twice w/her .357, and he hits her multiple times w/his 9mm. He stumbles into the kitchen and dies, she survives the next ten hours handcuffed to a chair...
Hell, a recent article implied they should just get rid of $100 bills, because:
"As part of a longstanding campaign to stop printing and even recall existing $100 bills, the New Republic wrote, “Benjamins are the favorite currency of criminals and almost no one else.”
HAVE YOU BOUGHT GROCERIES...
If he was knowingly selling to criminals, I would agree. But the known "crimes" involving his sales were the mere possession of said firearms by the buyers, i.e., that some one HAD the firearms he sold. Well, I would HOPE someone had them! AND REMEMBER...
Idiot? Maybe...
Or maybe he was looking to invoke Bruen in a test case re: the "text history, and tradition" of requiring FFLs under the Second Amendment. My pocket Constitution seems to be missing that page, if that was the case.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the GCA of 1968 that...
Can't understand the difficulty some are having in concealing a full size, though. My Harley "Wild West" hip bag (it's NOT a "holster"!). Sadly, no longer in production ;)
Yep... been carrying an S&W full size (459 > 5904 > 5926 > M&P 2.0) since the '80s with +/-50 rds. magged up. Still have the 5926 in reserve status, in fact.
BINGO.
63 years old, been arrested once in my life, and it was for "open carry" (though I was NOT open carrying) DESPITE my having a "concealed-carry permit".
Which of course is a complete B.S. excuse they've been using since JANET RENO was Assistant State Attorney for Dade County (1987). And the NRA said "next year" (1988) then:
https://www.floridacarry.org/issues/concealed-and-unconcealed-carry/141-janet-reno-s-ban-on-open-carry-in-florida
Alabama...
Wendy Sherman & Rob Malley? Fake Jews.
Biden? Zionist.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/
Heroine of my long-festering geo-political thriller? A Hebrew girl in the MOSSAD who endeavors to expose their plot to...