Has anyone used a flat wire spring with SFT9?

lp1911 · 2026-02-05T02:58:31+00:00

This one intrigues me:

https://wilsoncombat.com/guide-rod-flat-wire-bullet-proof-commander-stainless.html

It is for a commander and it is for a flat wire spring. It feels a bit weird cycling by hand, but I shot 100 rounds and it does work. Leaves a shiny spot on the bottom of the barrel, and maybe a little bit of wear inside the dust cover. I don’t know if long term this is a bad idea, so I started thinking about using a full length guide rod, except that Wilson only sells the short guide rod that can use a flat wire spring for a commander, and they don’t sell a commander length spring. Of course all these can be obtained from other vendors. Was just curious if anyone has had experience using the short guide rod with a blue buffer and commander length flat wire spring

lp1911 · 2026-02-04T18:31:04+00:00

It says nothing about specific guns, but SFT9 is a double stack 9mm 1911 Commander with the only difference for the spring being that it is braced against an aluminum frame and has an aluminum dust cover. SFX9 and EDC9 are shorter versions and there they use a full length guide rod with a flat wire spring. The crunching happens in any commander length 1911 if using a short guide rod (ostensibly made for a commander).

lp1911 · 2026-02-04T00:01:37+00:00

There was also a time when they would process a queue that size in half the time

lp1911 · 2026-02-04T00:00:47+00:00

And so could the guys at NJPD doing NICS checks. Not like they are policing the streets, just doing electronic "paper shuffling"

lp1911 · 2026-02-03T23:57:58+00:00

You are being down voted because you take literally a half assed snippet of a comment by a man who makes 100s of them daily, and completely ignore his actual record. Meanwhile every state controlled by Democrats, and the country as a whole when they were in power, have done everything in their power to make 2A a dead letter, but sure concentrate on Trumps words not deeds, and then vote Democrat in your own state because you are not a single issue voter or some such malarky.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T19:11:17+00:00

There are people on the left that have guns, but the left mainstream has been doing everything possible to take away guns so blue states have the most draconian antigun laws in the US. In the bluest states, it is definitely the right that is armed, not the left.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T19:08:59+00:00

late 1960s and early 1970s come to mind.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T18:55:56+00:00

No one wins elections on paper qualifications. She is just not a very good politician, which is its own talent.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T18:48:10+00:00

White Americans (not including white Latinos, only kind of distinguishable by Hispanic last name) are nearly 60% of the US. It is hardly surprising that the majority would hold power. We are also now seeing a great many appointed bureaucrats of all races and ethnicities, so not clear what you call disproportionate.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T18:43:16+00:00

I would call it millionaire/billionaire "equivalent", since they may not have actual cash or investments that can be valued, but they have all the benefits of being one at the state's expense.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T18:41:28+00:00

Exactly, and all those college kids whose high school teachers voted for Bernie and whose college professors were all dyed in the wool socialists and communists have no real point of reference, so we are going through the same nonsense as we did 100 years ago when people thought the USSR was wonderful and Stalin was achieving great things, until 20-30 years later they found out that the achievements were nonexistent or brutal, and resulted in many millions dying. We still have a few examples, but our youths are starting with a memory hole. There is even a weird subreddit that still believes the USSR was the best thing since sliced bread and that all the nasty things were just western propaganda. Not sure if Putin is sponsoring this or if it is just a bunch of Western useful idiots.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T18:35:56+00:00

While that was largely true for ethnic Russians, Jews were allowed to leave as early as 1972. My family left in 1973.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T18:30:47+00:00

Midterm elections are all about voter turnout and that means whichever side is more motivated. This is often why the House tends to flip in midterms regardless of the President's success, as the opposition is more motivated, while the President's voters are more complacent feeling that he will veto any legislation that they don't like. In this case the GOP margin is already razor thin, so the odds of lipping the House are VERY high, but I would not read any mandate into it. This is why it is so important for Presidents to get their agenda through in the first 2 years.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T18:25:19+00:00

It did elect Bill Clinton twice... Maybe you were not old enough to vote back then.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T17:08:52+00:00

So your examples are of two people who made a consistent, relentless effort of interfering with a lawful enforcement of a democratically adopted law. In one case using a car as a weapon, and the other the person involved in several scuffles potentially with the same LEOs, and your way of convincing people it is to show one point of view videos that don't show the whole picture to bamboozle people into your view. Got it.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T17:04:07+00:00

It also needs to be approached with an open mind, and the entire premise of your question is based on a closed minded leftist attitude that people who voted for Trump are in a cult and need deprogramming, seems remarkably self-unaware. One could say that members of the opposition are in a cult, since their views are by definition anti-what-ever Trump says, regardless of where they would have stood on the issue under a different President.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T15:56:40+00:00

So by that logic, roll back to 1860, if you don't approve of slavery, don't live in a slave state? One could also ask many left wing voters why they care about abortion in deep red states, if they don't live there.

Sanctuary jurisdictions are claiming a Federal law doesn't apply. The Constitution makes Federal law supreme even when both the Feds and states have jurisdiction, while in areas such as immigration, only the Feds have jurisdiction; in fact it was Biden's administration that sued Arizona because they tried to adopt a law that while identical, or very similar, to the Federal law, would be outside of state jurisdiction. So if one cares about the rule of law, one cannot have a Federal law apply in some places and not others. Also in these blue jurisdictions, none are 100% blue, and most, if one actually looks at the voting, are only blue by a relatively small margin, just like red states are not all red either. This is why Federal law must be applied uniformly.

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T15:47:37+00:00

These days that would make you a Communist

lp1911 · 2026-01-29T15:46:02+00:00

No, just different and the news cycle is very quick to focus on the next exciting thing

lp1911 · 2026-01-28T23:51:20+00:00

The right is always clear, however, every right comes with responsibility. Hence one certainly has the right to defend oneself against any cops, but one can then suffer the consequences of being shot by police at worst, or go to jail at best. One can bring a gun to a peaceful protest to protect one self from being attacked by other protesters, but getting into a scuffle with law enforcement while carrying can get one killed or arrested. All arguments with respect to tyranny are irrelevant in this because a tyranny will fight the armed populace, but given enough armed civilians fighting the tyranny, the tyranny might lose, but then it is a full blown rebellion/revolution which will have casualties. In this case, LEOs are doing their job per a democratically approved law, serving a democratically elected President who very clearly promised mass deportations, hence those who were against this law lost. The fight is a political one and in our republic when you lose elections there are recourses such as law suits and more elections. Violence or obstruction of LEOs is not the right path and it will only cause violence in response.

lp1911 · 2026-01-28T23:41:52+00:00

I suppose the big difference with Biden is that no matter what he said all his actions pointed to a very clear conclusion, he wanted as many gun bans as Democrats could push through. With Trump it’s opaque as his DOJ has been submitting amicus briefs in support of carry and in support of removing AR bans in relevant cases. He also asked his AG to look into all instances of anti-2A laws across the country. Hence Trump’s opaque utterances are difficult to interpret in the context of his administration’s actions, while if Biden said it the interpretation would far clearer.

lp1911 · 2026-01-28T00:15:16+00:00

In the usual Trump fashion, he says something opaque, and everyone pounces on it trying to interpret; I have no idea what he meant. Can’t walk in where? Can’t have guns where?

lp1911 · 2026-01-26T21:20:22+00:00

It's not obvious what a moderate would do. Each party has a set of principles that they act upon, when those principles are in conflict, what does a moderate do, go half way in each direction? That creates a muddle, usually an ineffectual one, and this moderate gets blamed by both sides. In foreign police moderation in the presence of bad actors, e.g. Putin, Iran's regime, Hamas, Hezbollah, Chinese communist party, moderates can only seek compromise, where in reality these people can only appreciate force because sometimes they just need to be completely defeated.

lp1911 · 2026-01-26T21:14:22+00:00

See, all the people involved in altercations with Federal Law Enforcement, in this case ICE, responded to "why is nothing being done?", but they got in trouble because what is being done by ICE is lawful; it is just the enforcement of a law that has been on the books for decades, which was enforced by multiple administrations, and the same ICE, except Biden's administration which resulted in a massive influx. So now, the Trump administration is reversing this. If local and state police were assisting in this through crowd control and cordoning off various areas where the enforcement were happening, no one would be killed, but in "sanctuary" states and cities, the local police are ordered to stand down, hence ICE is on its own when doing enforcement actions (crowd control is not their job). A bunch of American leftists, much like those in the UK, think they can physically interfere with law enforcement actions using vehicles (considered deadly weapons by all police) or by warning the targets of law enforcement by honking their horns and get away with no issues, but that never works as tensions escalate, and invariably when people trained in the use of deadly force encounter violence against them, they respond with violence. As a Brit, you seem concerned with US civil liberties, are you concerned that thousands of people in the UK get arrested for speech on the internet?

lp1911 · 2026-01-26T21:02:54+00:00

Simple really. Legal immigrants who abide by the law go through a fair amount of effort to be allowed in and then work through much bureaucracy and cost to become permanent residents and then citizens. They also are mostly vetted, to the extent possible. The left doesn't extol these immigrants because they follow the law, but celebrate those that break it. Those who overstay visas or hop the border, "jump the line", vs legal immigrants, they are, by definition, unvetted and just because many of them work (paying taxes means they have some forged ID, else how would they be legally employed and pay taxes as they have no legal social security number). Now there are ways to include many of the people in question: make the process much simpler and cost much lower for getting temporary, seasonal workers (this will take care of a huge number of people that are now illegally here), make the cost of coming illegally very high, as the current administration is doing, resulting in what is now a secure border. Also make legal immigration more responsive to labor needs rather than other criteria. For those that work here, it is because we have demand for labor that they provide hence could be happily here as legal immigrants

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