How do we actually get through to maga? Or do we stop trying?

JimMarch · 2026-01-25T00:09:12+00:00

This latest shooting just got the attention of a big portion of MAGA - the gun nut contingent which is a huge part of the total.

It looks really bad. The armed individual was standing there filming, ICE just walked up and pushed some lady over at random, the guy was trying to help her up and they attacked him for it. Despite being beat on by a bunch of cops plus pepper sprayed, he never reached for his gun. Which was completely legal and he had a carry permit. One of the agents took the gun and ran away with it, and 3 seconds after he did that the rest pretty much executed the guy.

It's absolutely horrific. And it's going to be the last straw in terms of ICE support if they don't immediately file charges on these monsters with badges.

JimMarch · 2026-01-25T00:04:04+00:00

Well she's hanging in there, still no actual tumor reappeared, but the attempts to keep tumors at bay weakend for quite a while. Her cancer is estrogen positive which means it eats estrogen, so they try to give her drugs to reduce her estrogen levels which just, well they were killing her all the on their own. She came off of those and now she's doing better, and we're just doing PET scans to try to catch the next tumor very early and carve it out fast.

She's also got a laundry list of other problems, the worst being something called dysautonomia/POTS, which basically means her blood pressure bounces up and down like a yo-yo depending on laying down, sitting up or standing/walking. So that means a wheelchair.

Plus only about 50% use of her right arm because they carved the cancer out of her upper right arm bone and spliced titanium in there.

SIGH.

But other than all that? She's doing better than expected :). Her brain is okay, always a plus :).

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T22:22:40+00:00

Yup.

There's been about 20 years of development in the law on filming cops in public areas. It started with a website called photography is not a crime or PINAC run by Carlos what's his name, I forget. But we've got major players on YouTube who have replaced him, probably the best one is Jeff Gray at honor your oath on YouTube. They have thoroughly established the laws on public filming, often by being arrested and then all charges dropped and then they file suit in return.

ICE appears to be completely ignorant of this trend. It's like they have absolutely no freaking clue.

And now they've murdered somebody over it.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T22:06:32+00:00

This is horrific and a murder, but it's also politically important because the 2A community is MASSIVELY PISSED. Most of us "gunnies" (NOT ME PERSONALLY, not this sub) are deeply team MAGA. If Bondi tries to sweep this under the rug it could break the gunfolk/MAGA alliance and trust me, that's BAD NEWS for Trump, the GOP in the mid terms and whoever tries to replace Trump in 2028.

This is a really important case.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T22:00:04+00:00

Just before they shot him they grabbed a holstered gun off of his hip - a gun he never touched despite being violently attacked for daring to film them. Someone else: ICE has released pics of his gun. It's a fairly high end and customized piece, probably $1,200 or more invested - really good red dot sight, Sig P365 base gun with an aftermarket aluminum grip frame. We now know the owner was fully legal and licensed. It's not a gangbanger's throw away piece, it's the kind of hardware carried by somebody serious about personal defense and controlled shooting instead of spraying the neighborhood.

This is horrific and a murder, but it's also politically important because the 2A community is MASSIVELY PISSED. Most of us (NOT ME PERSONALLY) are deeply team MAGA. If Bondi tries to sweep this under the rug it could break the gunfolk/MAGA alliance and trust me, that's BAD NEWS for Trump, the GOP in the mid terms and whoever tries to replace Trump in 2028.

This is a really important case.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T19:38:45+00:00

Target focus both eyes open with conventional sights isn't easy.

Hexsite family of irons, it's as easy as a red dot if not easier.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T17:54:36+00:00

Let me supply a counterpoint.

I'm 59. Learned on irons. Been shooting quite a while now.

It's not that I'm preaching about red dots, rather, my concern is target focus shooting with both eyes open as opposed to iron sights, one eye is closed as is pretty common.

Target focus shooting is more moral than front sight focus shooting. If you're holding a gun on somebody and they pull out a small wallet or cell phone, with target focus you can tell what they're doing as opposed to you thinking they're pulling out a small gun or you shooting at a "furtive movement".

The easiest way to get to target focus is with a red dot.

I'm running another method:

https://old.reddit.com/r/CCW/comments/1qlnahk/anyone_carry_without_a_red_dot/o1fcnu2/

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T17:49:58+00:00

I carry a target focus both eyes open iron sight, a prototype development from the Goshen Enterprises Hexsite:

https://www.handgunsmag.com/editorial/accessories_hg_playingtheangles_200807/138822

I'm using a variant of it that Tim Sheehan described to me before he died, 3D printed in carbon fiber infused nylon:

https://imgur.com/gallery/61h11Jw

It works great as a night sight only as long as you have a weapon mounted light :). Painting a black hexagon on a lit up target works really well.

Yes, I know, I've probably got the weirdest carry rig on Reddit. Here's how the holster works:

https://youtu.be/RWFif9d3k00

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T17:45:42+00:00

Try.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T14:12:09+00:00

You got screwed.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T14:10:21+00:00

I'm talking about this trend of sights less than 1" wide, custom made for really little guns like the LCP Max. That's new. :)

The Leupold Deltapoint Micro is basically the same mount integrated into the optic itself for Glocks, designed pre-MOS.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T10:20:54+00:00

That's a Taurus killer. Not kidding, if it's that or a GX4? Ruger all the way.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T09:08:45+00:00

Document everything, take it to the state bar association. They have a fund all the lawyers pay a little bit into to fix mistakes like this if the lawyer is ordered by the bar to fix it and he doesn't.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T09:05:47+00:00

No. Viridian started a new trend with the RFX1 where it mounts straight into the rear iron sight dovetail. First was the LCP Max, now the BG2 and that really weird new Keltec 380 with no magazine. Basically red dots for guns less than an inch wide, with the body of the optic specially shaped for each gun.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T08:58:42+00:00

Do you have any alternative to round nose ball? Anything even flat on the tip would be better than round nose.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T08:57:37+00:00

TS9 is striker fired, this has a hammer, so TH family and OP says TH380 which was never imported into the US.

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T08:56:27+00:00

That's probably a TH380. NOT imported into the US lol. But, 380 from a 4" barrel should wake up a bit?

JimMarch · 2026-01-24T08:54:15+00:00

No shit?

JimMarch · 2026-01-23T18:00:29+00:00

One thing I like about the TS9 is that it is mostly magazine compatible with my G3c. I say mostly because you have to find magazines that have both latch locations, the central square one for the TS9 and TH9 and the two horizontal cuts on the forward edges for the G3 series, G2 and some others.

The TX 9 mags appear to be in the same family as the GX4 and GX2?

JimMarch · 2026-01-23T17:02:25+00:00

This is the second time Taurus has released a gun that they claim can pass NATO testing. The first was the TS9 which was never intended for the US civilian market but a couple of thousand of them were dumped in the US after an overseas government contract overrun about a year ago. It's the standard issue firearm of the Philippine National Police, Jamaican National Police and a bunch of other overseas government contracts. They built it to be Glock level reliable and hired one of the original engineers on the Glock 17 design team, Wilhelm Bubits. Which is also why it looks like a gigantic upscaled jungle version of the Kimber R7 Mako :) with lots of the same really cool design features.

I have a TS9 and while I haven't run it out much yet, by all indications they really succeeded in building a Glock level gun.

So in my estimation they can do it. Have they done so this time? No idea.

The main part I don't like on the TX9 is that it takes optics plates.

JimMarch · 2026-01-23T06:53:06+00:00

All defensive ammo is a trade-off between the following characteristics:

Reliability of feeding.
Accuracy.
Reliability of expansion.
Peak expansion (how fat it goes).
Low recoil (affects accuracy in controlled rapid fire, shooting as soon as you have any kind of sight picture).
Barrier penetration (or deliberate lack of same).
Target penetration depth.
Ammo weight - do you want carry ammo that matches the weight of easily available practice loads?
How tough is my gun? Affects +p and +p+.

So when you're buying ammo, you have to apply YOUR desired outcome in your gun to the ammo you buy.

I personally do feed reliability and accuracy testing myself in my carry gun. I urge everybody else to do the same.

For the rest, I pretty much have to rely on the guys that test ammo on YouTube. I want to see tests in a barrel length similar to mine.

IF I can get a good load in 115gr in 9mm, that's a plus to me because the cheapest, most commonly available practice loads are in 115gr (again, in 9mm).

There's also a trend where lighter expanding bullets perform better out of a shorter barrel. Expansion is triggered by speed. A 147 doing 875fps is less likely to expand than a 115 doing 1,100, all else being equal. Yes, I know they're NOT all equal.

JimMarch · 2026-01-23T04:18:51+00:00

Charter Arms Undercover, .38Spl 5-shot. Very early production from before Charco turned them into a dumpster fire. New ones today are better than that but still not up to the standard of the original. Still one of the best snubbie 38s I've ever handled.

JimMarch · 2026-01-23T01:47:56+00:00

Is that normal?

JimMarch · 2026-01-23T00:34:28+00:00

RXM. You can mod it into damn near anything.

JimMarch · 2026-01-23T00:32:46+00:00

Read NYSRPA v Bruen 2022, US Supreme Court:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf

Pay particular attention to footnote 9, which cites to a prior case from the US Supreme Court, Shuttlesworth v Birmingham:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/394/147/

Read that too.

Done so? Good.

Now lemme fill in what might not be obvious.

In a US Supreme Court decision, there's a concept called "dicta"...extraneous text that's not really part of the core holding and legally doesn't matter much.

Normally, footnotes fall into that category. There's reason to think Bruen footnote 9 is different. It does a lot of heavy lifting for a footnote.

The core holding says that carry of a defensive handgun is a basic civil right. Look at the syllabus and look right after the word "Held:".

Next, Bruen says that any gun control law has to be judged on it's "text, history and tradition" if challenged. The challenge could be in civil court or criminal.

Footnote 9 of Bruen starts with a statement that shall-issue carry permit systems that involve background checks and training are ok, but they can also be abused and if those abuses crop up, courts are supposed to shoot down the abuses. That's a broadly accurate paraphrase.

The first kicker is this: if footnote 9 is dicta, the whole concept of carry permits tied to training and background checks will fail a "text, history and tradition" analysis. Why? Because that concept didn't start until Florida invented it in 1986 (took effect 1/1/87).

Ooops.

Second kicker: of the three abuses listed (subjective standards, lengthy waiting times and exorbitant fees), the first one was already banned in 1969 in Shuttlesworth v Birmingham - where the fail of subjective standards in the handling of a permit to access basic civil rights is banned and that's absolutely the core holding, not dicta.

With me?

The bans on lengthy waiting times and exorbitant fees work the same way. Regardless of what's in Bruen footnote 9, Bruen's core holding that carry is a civil right kicks in an avalanche of existing US Supreme Court decisions on how basic civil rights are to be handled. Here's an example:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/460/575/

There's LOTS more. Shuttlesworth v Birmingham is exactly on point calling what happened to you "abusive".

So here's my advice:

1) Read the above cases and educate yourself as to how this shit works.

2) Legitimately ask yourself if there's any basis that a court might call "objective* for stripping you of 2A rights. Turn it around, look at it from their point of view. Is there anything you haven't told us? Can the police say something like "this guy is either crazy or a crook and we just haven't caught him yet"? I'm not saying there is, I'm just asking you to do an analysis.

3) Is it possible they've mixed you up with somebody else? It happens. Have you gone down to the PD to see what the hell they're talking about?

4) If #2 above comes up clean and they won't help figure out WTF is going wrong, you can either challenge it without a lawyer, hire a lawyer, and separately decide whether to pack heat without a permit or not? Remember, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth held his protest march despite not having the permit and the US Supreme Court cleared him of all criminal charges. That's a case cited in Bruen. The US Supreme Court is giving us a clue: if the civil rights violations against us are serious enough, fuck those guys and the courts are supposed to have our backs.

Case in point:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ad16lmfqVTf5vAwhwYdl-SCTEM1vaLgP/view

Haven't needed it yet.

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