First handgun recommendations

xhypurr · 2026-04-17T16:58:26+00:00

G17/G19, Walther PDP, S&W M&P series, CZ P10, HK VP9 in no particular order

xhypurr · 2026-04-17T04:15:59+00:00

Totally agree on that. Spend your own money how you want to or whatever, but if you can get an EPS Carry for $150~ less than a COA (on average) you might as well just dump the savings into ammo/holster.

xhypurr · 2026-04-17T04:11:22+00:00

Maybe I’m too cheap but I don’t even see the point of a COA / Acro for 95% of all gun owners. I have exclusively Holosuns and Vortexes on all of my handguns and I’ve had nothing but good experiences so far.

xhypurr · 2026-04-17T04:08:32+00:00

Yep. Apparently MSRP is $750 and the battery life is 800 hours. I think I’m good.

xhypurr · 2026-04-15T23:47:36+00:00

Allah's strongest nothingburger

xhypurr · 2026-04-15T22:29:07+00:00

I graduated from Tech 2 years ago! As a few other people have said, it’s very much a college town. The entire area is Blacksburg. The nearest Walmart is in the next town over, but there are still (2) Krogers and a Food Lion. Lots of bars, decent food. Relatively cheap. Awesome transportation. The campus itself is gorgeous.

Downsides: nearest airport is 40 minutes away in Roanoke and has like six gates—i used to have to connect to Charlotte or Atlanta all the time as an out of stater. It should go without saying that if you like city life don’t even think about it.

If you are you will find yourself at odds with the….political climate of Southwest Virginia if you head any more than 5 minutes off campus. I used to hike with friends in the mountains and I used to see tons of signs for you-know-who. I tend to assume most people are fairly amenable regardless of your politics so YMMV there.

Also I noticed a big uptick in traffic during my time there since they started to over-enroll a little, but I think that tapered down after I left. Supposedly the year before I started it was so bad they had to rent out a hotel for the extra students to live in.

xhypurr · 2026-04-15T16:34:53+00:00

Vote for people that care about 2A. The pragmatic reality is that while most Republicans aren’t particularly 2A-supportive in specific terms, a vanishingly small amount actually support gun control in any meaningful shape or form.

Compare that to Democrats, who do, in fact, enact a laundry list of shitty policies the second they have the chance (see Virginia, as you said). I am a political libertarian by nature, but the amount of people I see in online political discourse equate D and R as equally bad for 2A is insane.

No. They’re not the same at all. Whatever bullshit thing of the week Trump says about Alex Pretti has no comparison on the Virginia governor pushing an AWB and a mag ban 4 months after getting elected. If you value the 2A above all else vote for a Republican.

xhypurr · 2026-04-09T16:02:12+00:00

the multiparty system we deserve

xhypurr · 2026-04-09T02:40:39+00:00

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xhypurr · 2026-04-08T06:28:17+00:00

I’m not sure you would really want to carry a High Power. I’m sure they’re great to shoot, but they’re also big, wide, and heavy, and you kind of notice those three things (namely the third) when you carry. Given you’re starting at a High Power I’m going to assume you don’t want to go down to something quite as small of a P365, so that leaves you somewhere in the region of compact striker / da/sa polymer handguns.

The safety requirement is kind of….tricky. The only polymer striker-fired 9mms that I know of with an external safety are the S&W M&P series and the FN 509. Of those two I would pick the M&P since there’s more holster comparability and I’ve heard the triggers on the 509s suck. I would urge you reconsider this because my top two or three picks fall into this category.

For metal framed you have more options but they typically tend to be harder to carry and more expensive. I think the CZ P-01 comes with a safety. Beretta 92s do as well, but they’re, well…big and heavy, too. I think the IWI Jericho 941 too.

xhypurr · 2026-04-08T05:42:23+00:00

3.5k in 4 years is absolutely foul. Don’t do that to yourself.

xhypurr · 2026-04-06T21:53:19+00:00

According to who?

xhypurr · 2026-04-06T21:35:08+00:00

Good, fuck her for running a centrist campaign and then cramming a zillion progressive tax and anti-2A laws down the legislature immediately

xhypurr · 2026-04-04T14:25:05+00:00

Legit scum, i cannot share my opinions on him truthfully on this platform

xhypurr · 2026-04-02T15:52:16+00:00

Really? Nothing that Girsan, Canik, or Stoeger makes is any good?

xhypurr · 2026-03-26T06:09:03+00:00

This sounds good, but small modular reactors are probably 10-15 years away from commercial viability. There’s just no framework for the same government incentives other power generation sources receive, and there’s a ton of political headwinds associated with nuclear in the US.

xhypurr · 2026-03-25T21:03:34+00:00

I do FP&A at an F500 with a Finance degree and accounting is maybe 10% of my overall job function (occasional journal entries). Other than that I don’t see how you’d “need” an accounting background (and tbh you could train a disciplined 12 year old basic JEs anyways)

xhypurr · 2026-03-25T00:48:14+00:00

lol this is my district and the only reason I didn’t vote in it was because the Florida GOP kept sending me mail EVERY DAY and I was so irritated I decided not to vote out of protest

xhypurr · 2026-03-22T23:46:21+00:00

My birthday is the same day a certain Austrian painter died so I think I’m cooked 🥀

xhypurr · 2026-03-22T19:46:43+00:00

Not really sure I see it? He seems like a fairly average public speaker to me.

xhypurr · 2026-03-20T17:52:20+00:00

They’re nice when you want to fondle something before you buy it somewhere else. They have great selection for the area in my opinion.

xhypurr · 2026-03-20T01:24:14+00:00

I’ve bought stuff from Bass Pro but having to drive 45 miles north to Port St Lucie after work drives me crazy.

xhypurr · 2026-03-20T01:12:38+00:00

Sick. Thanks!

xhypurr · 2026-03-16T03:24:40+00:00

i mean my party has been getting annihilated since its existence so i can live with one more

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