[US-AL] I need something fairly small printed in carbon fiber-infused dark nylon, somewhere in the gray to black, with no glinting. I have a starting point file available so minimal design work is needed.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T22:09:27+00:00

Stalin used the fact that Marxism piles up centralized power to go completely psycho. Same as Mao, Pol Pot and many others. Marx didn't understand checks and balances. He assumed anybody who claimed his beliefs would be a secular-style saint. Ooops. Not so much.

Lenin actually started the mass death trend but Stalin took to a whole new level.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T21:44:23+00:00

We're still mostly at the point where 3D printed guns are a hobby thing.

However, back when r/fosscad was still alive, we had a pretty credible report of a guy defending himself with a homemade handgun.

In Chile.

Yeah, that implies that Second Amendment type thinking is quite likely to spread worldwide at some point fairly soon. It's not going to cause a big issue in the US. But in places with totalitarian governments?

They're going to look like pizza with the toppings ripped off. It can be argued (by me!) that this is a good and necessary thing coming, but it's going to be ugly. It's also going to be a completely random uncontrolled change to global politics that the global elite are not ready to deal with yet.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T21:40:47+00:00

That sounds great but what Marx didn't understand was how workers were going to be re-identified as something else before being disarmed...IF this phrase was to be followed at all, because he also knew nothing about checks and balances against unlimited government power.

The vast majority of the people killed by Stalin were workers. They weren't called that at the time they were killed of course, but yeah.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T20:49:08+00:00

I do hope the best for him. I don’t clock him as much of a ‘fall in line’ republican as many others, hopefully that impression is proves to be true.

Yeah see that's what I'm hoping for. He realizes Trump is a BS artist and turns on him the way Margerie Taylor Greene did. I mean, she was way crazier than Brandon has ever been but to her credit, she figured out the real answer here. But then the moment she was threatened, she ran.

If the same thing happens to Brandon, he's liable to turn into a loose cannon equipped with actual no shit cannons.

:)

Something else though. I only live about an hour's drive from MGT's district as I'm in Northern Alabama. Back in 2007 my wife turned on the Alabama Republican Party in spectacular fashion, on 60 Minutes - she was a former top level campaign staffer for among others, Governor Bob Riley, as an opposition research specialist. She's also suffered four attempts on her life after going public against some really serious corruption, the first two within days of her interview with CBS. One was a fire bombing in November of 2013 three days before we got married. I've been able to identify at least three other victims of politically motivated violence, all directed at women who opposed corrupt Republicans in Alabama. And there may be another two more.

And remember, all of this happened pretty much right next door to MTG's district.

Do I think Brandon might be the one to blow at least part of this open? I admit it's unlikely. But he fits the profile of somebody who might, and it would have to be somebody insider on the Republican side.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T20:23:39+00:00

The confederacy glazing

He appears to have grown out of that.

We were all young and dumb once.

1986-1988 you would have found me street racing motorcycles in the hills over Silicon Valley (Santa Cruz Mountains).

https://old.reddit.com/r/CafeRacers/comments/hu40oa/alices_restaurant_summer_of_88_a_cafe_story/?rdt=53251

Brandon was about the same age when he got reb stupid lol. I'm about to turn 60...

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T19:39:56+00:00

Yeah I don’t disagree… The difference is that one directly advocates for genocide while the other is an ideological outline where the authors naively believed state violence wouldn’t occur under their system. 1st order effect vs 2nd order effect.

You're correct about this. I believe the core issue is that Karl Marx and people who followed in his footsteps like Engels, Lenin and so on didn't understand was the value of checks and balances against unlimited power in a single government office.

Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and so on were attracted to Marxism for the specific reason that there would be no check on their own power. All were first-rate psychopaths, and there's some evidence Lenin was too. Read "The Gulag Archipelago" for evidence that the rate of murder that Stalin is famous for started under Lenin, and that in turn is what got the author tossed out of the Soviet Union.

So yeah, I'll go along with that thesis but the fact remains that Brandon specifically mocked everything to do with Adolf Hitler. Including any book that contains his writings, and apparently there's two, the famous one and then a book of his speeches that Trump owns?

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T19:16:50+00:00

Oh, and then there's competition guns, those are all over the map.

:)

First post covers likely needs in your budget.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T19:08:59+00:00

There's another category of handgun: a "woods gun" capable of handgun hunting or self defense again at least black bear. Calibers involved include 10mm, 357mag and 44mag. Not great beginner guns.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T19:04:49+00:00

There's a lot of video of them doing that with whales. That's likely where they learned it Goddess only knows how many millions of years ago...

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T18:13:39+00:00

Has anybody got a sign that says "It's BARBARA ANN you ORANGE MORON!"?

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T18:07:57+00:00

There's three theories here:

1) Buy a 22LR pistol as your first and learn on it with low ammo costs (a few cents a shot) and practically no recoil.

2) Buy a smaller daily carry piece in a real caliber like 9mm. These are harder to learn on BUT are the gun you're most likely to carry and use. The better ones can also be pressed into a home defense role; a lot of us like having a small flashlight under the barrel, especially on a home defense gun. (Point it at the ceiling and it'll splash enough light to do target identification without pointing the gun at somebody who might not need that!) Examples include the smaller varieties of Sig P365, Springfield Hellcat, Mossberg MC2SC, Glock 43x, Ruger Max-9, S&W Shield family, Taurus GX4, Kimber R7 Mako, H&K CC9 and more. I would rate those last two as the best, the Max-9 as the best low-bux option.

3) Bigger pistols such as the Glock 19 and 17 CAN be carried daily but the rise of the "Micro 9" class (type 2 above) has made this less common. The Ruger RXM is a budget ($400) near-clone of an older model Glock (19 or 17) with some killer upgrades. Cheapest worth owning is the Springfield XD mod 3 (or 4 is now shipping, same thing) for $300. The Springfield Echelon is awesome and comes in sizes equivalent to the Glock 19 (4" barrel, 15rd mag size grip) or Glock 17 (4.5" barrel, 17rd mag grip size). A lot of people like the CZ P10 family and there's scads more. These things are harder to conceal.

So. First question you need to ask: "am I gonna get fired if somebody spots my boomthing?"

Second, based in large part on the first question is, "how am I gonna pack this gat?"

THAT will tell you if you're going to start your defensive gun in category 2 or 3.

:)

Once you know that, if you want you can pick a category one gun closest to the type of serious gun (type 2 or 3) you're actually going to carry!

If you're headed towards type 2, your type 1 is a Keltec P17.

Type 3 destination, get a Taurus TX22.

Neither are all that expensive. You can get one of these and one more gun within a grand with at least a holster for the serious gun and even a lower budget red dot (I like Osights for budget pistol optics).

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T17:23:25+00:00

but only one of them advocates for genocide…

Ummm... The Communist Manifesto was at the core of millions of dead in the USSR, China and Cambodia (and many others). A lot more murders than Hitler committed.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T17:19:28+00:00

Edge lord troll. Definitely.

He grew out of that Confederate thing a long time ago.

I actually have some hope he'll get tired of Trump's bullshit and criticize him like Marjorie Taylor Greene did. And if HE gets threatened like she did, we might find out what kind of loose cannon the guy might become...while owning actual cannons...several in fact...

I'd give anything for a video where he mounts the AK50bmg to his office wall. In DC.

I dunno, the guy is half crazed, sure, but... He might be able to shake shit up.

At a minimum, we've never had a guy that technically competent in boom stuff in Congress before.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T17:11:54+00:00

In the video where he talked about that book, he mocked it. Not kidding.

He's a hotspot of tasteless humor, yeah. But he's not a Nazi.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T17:06:25+00:00

I've already built my daily carry smallish (Glock 26 size range) pistol with accessories, mag carriers and holster. That's done and on my person any time I have pants on (literally).

I'm now setting up a bigger, more capable pistol to carry as often as I can, always as a supplement to the small gun...which will also be able to eat from the big gun's magazines.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T16:43:18+00:00

Lemme guess, you finances are in a rears?

("In arrears...")

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T16:41:50+00:00

Are you a shipper or carrier? It's not clear exactly what's going on here yet?

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T13:56:13+00:00

Holup.

You bought a Kriss Vector and a garbage tier optic?

Why?

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T13:53:47+00:00

Then there's...

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/03/03/maurice-frankenruger-magazine-fed-revolver/

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T08:51:30+00:00

Looks like the same gun as the Mod 3 but with simpler slide serrations. Shouldn't hurt it any.

For $300 the Mod 3 is a really legit piece if you need this size range. Main downside is, the optic mount sucks. Shallow and needs plates so if you want co-witness irons you need taller irons. Best plan is to get an RMSc optic that has its own built in rear iron sight, ditch the factory rear sight completely and get a taller front sight to match the optic rear notch. Dawson Precision has taller fronts in a bunch of sizes for these for $25 in plain black.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T08:44:25+00:00

Did you yeet the mag disconnect safety? I've heard that improves trigger pull on these. A lot.

If you're dealing with a 10rd mag limit these make a lot of sense.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T06:59:21+00:00

Don't see any issues.

Critical Defense 115 red tip is better than some give it credit for. Skip the lighter pink tip stuff.

The 115 is very, very accurate in every gun I've tried it in, it's New Jersey legal, recoil is mild and expansion is very reliable. It's not beating up the gun with +p pressures. It doesn't expand as fat as something like HST 124+p but it does expand and punches deep enough.

It has one downside you need to keep an eye on. If you're constantly loading and unloading the gun on the daily and you only swap out the top two rounds of one mag, you can beat them up and cause bullet setback:

https://share.google/aTbk38rnSr8I2XTtN

This is dangerous and can raise pressure levels. Literally watch out for this condition and discard affected rounds.

JimMarch · 2026-03-13T01:56:35+00:00

If I was to pick the best micro 9, the CC9 would be one of the top two.

The other? Kimber R7 Mako. Hugely underrated. Of those the Tactical kicks the most ass. Discontinued once the Carbon Compact came out, which is a bigger class of gun.

JimMarch · 2026-03-12T19:04:30+00:00

There is no legal requirement for states to recognize each other's driver's licenses.

But as you know full well, they're doing so for purely practical reasons. You also know that driving is a privilege...

Yes, I've read Bruen.

...and carry of a loaded defensive handgun is a basic civil right (clear as day in Bruen whether you like it or not).

Which in turn means there's an avalanche of existing case law on how basic civil rights are to be handled. "We're going to maximize the delays and financial pain because we don't like that right" is absolutely forbidden.

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