Author Topic: gun safety (Read 1566 times)

culero · « **Reply #75 on:** March 19, 2005, 09:57:25 PM »

Yeah. Same here. Don't get me wrong, I've known quite a few DEA doods, and some of 'em were fine folkses.

But in my experience a lot of 'em tend to be just as much idiots and thugs as the criminals they're supposed to be targeted towards.

The component of their attributes represented by their Federal sanction makes them more dangerous to us as a society than drug smugglers.

IMHnsO of course, YMMV.

culero

edit for PS - I just realized you and I share something, Lizking - my BIL is a badge too. He's police chief in a medium-sized central Texas town, and he's a butthead too

Leslie · « **Reply #76 on:** March 20, 2005, 06:40:22 AM »

Yeah, one time I was at the post office mailing a package, and the man in line in front of me started up a conversation. He said he was a DEA agent and he (was competely nuts,) bragging about the recent bust he made over 3 million of cocaine in Miami. He was a nice enough guy, but I thought he was overly exuberant.

It was almost as if he was bragging about it, and i was thinking this guy is nuts. He said he ripped off a cocaine dealer and was headed to go buy his own island. I wished him luck.

Les

Widewing · « **Reply #77 on:** March 20, 2005, 08:27:36 AM »

Back in '98, we did some life cycle testing for the INS with their Beretta 96D in .40 S&W. I really didn't care for the 96D much, but I found their (the INS) choice of ammo to be excellent; the Remington Golden Sabre .40 S&W +P+ was very impressive.

During the course of our testing we broke three of the 96Ds. One was minor, the front sight fell off. The other two were serious. One suffered a cracked frame, another had the slide retaining pin fail and the slide, barrel and recoil spring went down range, leaving me holding the now barren frame. All failures occured between 11,000 and 14,000 rounds fired.

My regards,

Widewing

lazs2 · « **Reply #78 on:** March 20, 2005, 08:42:14 AM »

culero.. I don't know if I am all that but I have lived a while and have allways had and enjoyed firearms. One of the mexicans I went out shooting with had the laser grips on his 4 inch smith L frame. they were of course useless in the bright sunlight and 25-50 yard ranges we were shooting at. I really don't see the point of the things and... they limit grip choice.

I am not a fan of DEA but they are not as bad as BATF... I am not a fan of any federal police except possibly federal marshals and air marshals which should be all the same thing.

I have seen lots of semi autos break including glocks and I have broken revolvers (mostly just wore out).

lazs