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Hey Mark,
I too carry my Kel-Tec PF-9 chambered for the same reason you mentioned on the air. That REALLY long trigger pull make the firearm inherently safe as long as your finger stays indexed until ready to fire.
Also, a really intentional trigger pull is required to make it go bang. Although it is not as heavy as mentioned on the air, the specs on their website says 5 lbs.
I’ve not measured my gun, but it feels like 2x my Springfield XDM.
Great show tonight.
Martin
Looked where you could be heard in Missouri..only rural areas…How can I bring you to Kansas City, MO area?
Aloha Mark,
If I was allowed to carry it would be a Sig 229 DAK in .40 SW. the double action only trigger takes a little getting used to but when muscle memory is properly developed hammer pairs come rather quickly. I found that after getting the draw, presentation and sight alignment down at slow speed, running drills against a training partner really increases the speed and accuracy.
As far as being allowed to carry here in Hawaii, I think your guest today will be able to address where we are moving to correct that aggrieves situation.
Here is a link to the recent PBS Hawaii discussion on Gun Control in Hawaii that demonstrates what we are up against to bring things back to a more sane condition. If you could occasionally bring up our plight in Hawaii it might keep pressure on our “pollatitions” by letting them know that we are watching them.
http://www.pbshawaii.org/ourproductions/insights_programs/insights20110203_gunctrl.htm
Thanks for the show,
Marshall
USCC Member and Proud Gas Grill Operator
how would your Columbian friend done w/ a 22?
Hey Mark and Sean! Im listening from up here in fargo ND. I have been listening for a couple months now and love the show. Im ashamed to say it but I really was not aware that our right to keep and bear arms was being attacked as much as it is. My eyes have been opened thanks to your show. And for that I thank you. Since I started listening I have become more involved via contacting my rep(R-rick berg) through handy emails from the GOA website.
I have been telling lots of people up here about your show, at work and at the range. We would love to have you broadcasted from a fargo station! Please try to make it happen! keep up the great work!
Your friend, Luke Mickelson
P.S. I have some of the Personal Defense Network DVDs and they are awesome! Rob Pincus is great.
I don’t know if your aware and I noticed before, a commerical will break in during your conversation. twice in the last 10 mi.
love the show
I have moved From Arkansas to York Pa. We have open carry in Pa
But like you and Ted say to open carry is not as good as conseald the only is on a hot day or you garmente blows open.
Of interest from Gallup:
{trend charts at http://www.gallup.com/poll/150341/Record-Low-Favor-Handgun-Ban.aspx?}
October 26, 2011
Record-Low 26% in U.S. Favor Handgun Ban. Support for stricter gun laws in general is lowest Gallup has measured
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ — A record-low 26% of Americans favor a legal ban on the possession of handguns in the United States other than by police and other authorized people. When Gallup first asked Americans this question in 1959, 60% favored banning handguns. But since 1975, the majority of Americans have opposed such a measure, with opposition around 70% in recent years.
1959-2011 trend: Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?
The results are based on Gallup’s annual Crime poll, conducted Oct. 6-9. This year’s poll finds support for a variety of gun-control measures at historical lows, including the ban on handguns, which is Gallup’s longest continuing gun-control trend.
For the first time, Gallup finds greater opposition to than support for a ban on semiautomatic guns or assault rifles, 53% to 43%. In the initial asking of this question in 1996, the numbers were nearly reversed, with 57% for and 42% against an assault rifle ban. Congress passed such a ban in 1994, but the law expired when Congress did not act to renew it in 2004. Around the time the law expired, Americans were about evenly divided in their views.
1996-2011 trend: Are you for or against a law which would make it illegal to manufacture, sell, or possess semiautomatic guns known as assault rifles?
Additionally, support for the broader concept of making gun laws “more strict” is at its lowest by one percentage point (43%). Forty-four percent prefer that gun laws be kept as they are now, while 11% favor less strict laws.
As recently as 2007, a majority of Americans still favored stricter laws, which had been the dominant view since Gallup first asked the question in 1990.
1990-2011 trend: In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now?
Americans’ preference regarding gun laws is generally that the government enforce existing laws more strictly and not pass new laws (60%) rather than pass new gun laws in addition to stricter enforcement of existing laws (35%). That has been the public’s view since Gallup first asked the question in 2000; the 60% this year who want stricter enforcement but no new laws is tied for the high in the trend.
2000-2011 trend: In terms of gun laws in the United States, which of the following would you prefer to see happen — [ROTATE: enforce the current gun laws more strictly and NOT pass new gun laws (or) pass new gun laws in addition to enforcing the current laws more strictly]?
Support for Stricter Gun Laws Down Among Key Subgroups
All key subgroups show less support for stricter gun laws, and for a ban on handguns, than they did 20 years ago. In 1991, 68% of Americans favored stricter gun laws and 43% favored a ban on handguns. Those percentages are 43% and 26%, respectively, today.
Relatively few key subgroups favor stricter gun-control laws today, whereas in 1991, all did. Since then, Democrats’ views have shown less change, with a 10-point decline in the percentage favoring stricter laws. Republicans show a much larger decline of 35 points. In addition to Democrats, majorities of Eastern residents and those without guns in their household still favor stricter gun laws.
Percentage Favoring Stricter Laws Covering the Sale of Firearms, by Subgroup, 1991 and 2011 Gallup Polls
Democrats, Eastern residents, members of gun non-owning households, and women were among the few subgroups to favor a ban on handguns in 1991, but now no key subgroup has a majority in favor. Those with guns in their household are least likely to favor a handgun ban.
Percentage Favoring a Ban on Handguns, by Subgroup, 1991 and 2011 Gallup Polls
Implications
Americans have shifted to a more pro-gun view on gun laws, particularly in recent years, with record-low support for a ban on handguns, an assault rifle ban, and stricter gun laws in general. This is the case even as high-profile incidents of gun violence continue in the United States, such as the January shootings at a meeting for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.
The reasons for the shift do not appear related to reactions to the crime situation, as Gallup’s Crime poll shows no major shifts in the trends in Americans’ perceptions of crime, fear of crime, or reports of being victimized by crime in recent years. Nor does it appear to be tied to an increase in gun ownership, which has been around 40% since 2000, though it is a slightly higher 45% in this year’s update. The 2011 updates on these trends will appear on Gallup.com in the coming days.
Perhaps the trends are a reflection of the American public’s acceptance of guns. In 2008, Gallup found widespread agreement with the idea that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of Americans to own guns. Americans may also be moving toward more libertarian views in some areas, one example of which is greater support for legalizing marijuana use. Diminished support for gun-control laws may also be tied to the lack of major gun-control legislation efforts in Congress in recent years.
Survey Methods
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 6-9, 2011, with a random sample of 1,005 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600 landline respondents per 1,000 national adults, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, and phone status (cell phone only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2010 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
View methodology, full question results, and trend data.
For more details on Gallup’s polling methodology, visit http://www.gallup.com.
I’ve mentioned this before, that when listening off the web page, there are interuption commercials that interupt the broadcast. always when your talking to someone so we miss the point or the main point anyway. It’s annoying…just don’t understand
also last week and today the broadcast is black are you broadcasting?
I see now if you want to skip the adds you need to pay a subscription…. Is that the way it’s supose to be?
your broadcast isn’t free?
but it’s not telecasting I’m listening but unable to watch
I’ve done everthing I know to bring it up. Same thing last week
listen live… refreshed…. audio is fine video is not. maybe I need tech help
Just bought me an used 45 desert eagle. IMI made. It’s a heavy gun. I’d rather carry that here in Wi. now thats it’s leagle. than carry my Ed Brown Ultra Classic. At least if I have to use it, it won’t get lost in inventory
Dean
thank you for telling of the video
I also heard a law that prevents the ATF from keeping a national registy.. this puts some teeth into it and passed as an attachment to another bill.
concealed carry and public restrooms. Here’s what I constantly think about when I enter a public restroom. 1: will the stall along the wall face my carry hand? (Left handed)? or, will the stall on the end show clearly my gun as it is on my belt as I sit?
Listening on AM 1390, WLCM in Charlotte, MI.
God Bless.
Ted you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Where is the evidence to support this . I open carry almost everyday and have never had a problem. Go on opencarry.org and see how many people oc everyday. Were are all the bodies. IT JUST DOES NOT HAPPEN. Don’t spout off with out supplying the facts to back it up.
please inform me on how to watch live? your web sight doesn’t pick it up. I can listen from the radio station. U-stream doen’t pick it up. always get the one from march with Ted Nuggent
Hey Mark,
After listening to the 01/15/12 podcast about Frank Barret’s book Glock: The rise of America’s handgun I went to Books-A-Million the next day and bought my copy. I’ve been reading it in my free time and I’ve been enjoying it. As a Glock owner (Glock 23) I’ve been really interested in the book. Keep up the good work on AAR!
Keith
Benton, Ky.
I give up…thanks anyway
Mark,
I was hopping to hear your and thr Mad Oger’s view on a Howa rifle in 308 and rock island 3 1/2 in 1911. Thanks
i agree with ted, Suprise IS Key, as a Home invasion survivor, it was My element of Suprise against the three armed criminal that broke into my house that allowed me to defend myself and survive their intentions. long story short, 3 entered, 2 left in cuffs, 1 left in a zip lock bag. after roughly 10 Hours of Intense las vegas police questioning, and Interrogation i was released, with my Ruger P89 9mm returned to me. and a stay compliment of the “victims fund” in a fairly decent hotel while my “crime scene” apartment was processed, and rebuilt. What the 2 Surviving Defendants said to the police is a PRIME Example of Why we NEED an Armed General Public. when asked “why did you pick That apartment?” they Both said “we thougth it would be an Easy Hit, we didnt think he would fight or have a gun” .. if that doesnt sum it up.. nothing Does