TargetTalk

...I was, and am proposing to shift the gravity towards a practical discussion ... I'm coming from a postulate that we implicitly have this fundamental right, because until a week ago (in NY) we did. ... What other concrete practical shooting related issues do we care about and can influence? I don...

People who live in states where a concealed carry is all that is necessary to buy a gun without a background check are ... I'd like to be clear on the semantics and it's clear I wasn't. I would define "showing your CHL to the dealer" and "submitting to a background check" to be ...

Interesting post. Mind if I ask for a few clarifications? I have never been privileged to witness such superhuman exercise of selective blindness. Who is being willfully blind to what? Gun owners to other problems? I don't think that follows; I was well aware of everything on your list. Since Harlon...

I don't think people have a problem with background checks - these are already done if you buy from an FFL. The proposals are just to beef them up with access to more data and whatnot. The distinction is when check becomes registration. The FFL does a check, and then tells them what you bought. Thi...

Even the mental health issue side is full of dangerous paths. What exactly will be disqualifying mental issues? This one bothers me. The current standard is "adjudicated mentally incompetent" meaning a judge had reviewed a prior action and ruled that the person was unable to handle their ...

Gun rights, abortion rights, free speech when in reality it's all the same, these are individual rights. It's easy to give up other people's rights that you don't agree with, that's why your founding fathers made it difficult to amend the constitution. I personally agree that in individual rights e...

BPBrinson wrote: Never heard of the Day/night thing, and I was a TSRA Director for several years. Thought I knew the laws fairly well. Can you post a link to that, Ben?

After a quick google, see the first paragraph under "Deadly Force to Protect Property": http://www.self-defender.net/law3.htm

...especially in West Texas (El Paso) you can drive for hours and not see anything much more than scrubby desert and fenceline... Which is why the speed limit on Interstate 10 from just west of San Antonio to just east of El Paso is 80 miles per hour. I've made that drive several times on business ...

It appears that this thread is leaning towards America bashing. I hope it gets frozen or shut down. I respectfully disagree. This site has a large international following who might not consider a little USA-bashing to be a bad thing, overall. As a Texan, I do more than a little USA-bashing, myself,...

Ben the fact that it was done early basically just proves it was in the can just waiting for the right opportunity, just like the Patriot Act. I have no doubt it was in the can. I'm just saying they knew nothing like this had a chance of passing unless they could skate on the blood of innocents to ...

Please tell us why you feel the alleged number of deaths since this particular date is so important to you that you keep repeating it? I hope he answers but I'll butt in with my supposition. I hope he proves me wrong. Quoting the number appeals to emotion. It's the same reason Joe Biden's study gro...

As it stands now you're going to have worthless legislation foisted on you, which won't change the shooting murder rate...but will negatively impact on shooting sports and enthusiasts. I would be looking for solutions, not complaining that everything is impossible. Solutions to what? Stupid politic...

It's not a universally held approach, but the vast majority of pistol competition writing alludes to a need NOT to be overly exact in terms of the precise location of the sights in relation to the black circle. ...it's only a guess as I've never used a circular front sight like that, would be that ...

It seems every place where people of varying backgrounds meet online or in person is an appropriate place. This is a discussion which is better had sooner, and often over the coming years, both while in the heated emotions of reacting to the slaughter of children and later when it's become at least...

I've always been intrigued by people who own multiple of the same rifle...I just wish to understand. Good for you. If you don't have the collecting bug, you'll live a happier life. The mentality of the collector, though, is that there are rare or special or appealing things that they wish to own. M...

...Better, more secure doors at schools and on class rooms. Worked on planes. I'm not brushing it off either. I'm just saying it's not much of a solution. Consider that solution in heavily urban areas with large classes. The only thing that has been shown to work in reducing the number of guns brou...

...Looks like fun and apparently a big deal for quite a few Dutch shooters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_wKJDz7J64&feature=related 3-Gun is definitely fun, even if I'm too fat and old to take part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cakpLdxcvJI IPSC definitely qualifies, though this vid looks...

I think you're really stretching if you think because a teacher would protect a child that they would also choose to conceal carry. They chose to be teachers and you're asking them to be police. While I'm not saying you won't get any takers it's asking quite a lot and it hardly qualifies as a solut...

This is interesting because I think that this is a situation where pro and anti look at the same situation and see very different things. Agreed. Perhaps it would have been better if you were armed but at the same time if you had been the situation could more than likely have been escalated. That w...

...I'm left with a very bitter taste. Human-shaped targets dominate. Yep, just like the Olympics, pre-war, and just like the Olympic "coffin" targets. Is that a problem? ...a donkey and a cart... That was funny and had to be a leftover from a Cowboy Action match. It definitely looked out ...