Ah... met a couple Reserve PsyOp guys back up at Lewis in WLC last year. I'm currently in the 37F Pipeline (two months into Russian... fun!) myself.
All the 4th POG guys I knew, and Psyops is a close community so people get to know one another, were divorced as as they were away from home some 300 days per year. Don't get me wrong it's a great gig as Army gigs go, lots of travel, freedom from the typical Army BS, independence, etc... but its not a career choice for a family man. If you're young and single though then it really is a chance of a life time to learn a foreign language and travel just about any where you could ask for.
"!" Don't tell my wife! Hopefully the doubling of the POG and changing our role (we only deploy with other SOF forces now, only Reserves deploy with Regular Army), will help cut that down. And if not... then the money should be awesome!
The funny thing is that I first saw that in an email from an internet model store that sends out weekly specials updates. I guess since it's "plastic" (they sell only the stock adapter thing) that's close enough.
Do they also have a big disclaimer saying that even having that thing in the same house as a pistol that can fit is considered a crime by the BATFE (without the Tax Stamp of course)... 'intent to construct' a NFA firearm.
This is all the website says: I guess they either don't know about the SBR issue or are counting on their customers to know about it. The item is apparently legal to own in Germany without any additional restrictions. Then again, the SBR regulation is among the most stupid of our gun laws, IMHO, giving us the abortions of semiauto Thompsons and Uzis with 16" barrels.
the Short barrel rifle (and Any Other Weapon) restrictions are bullshit, I wonder if there is any way to get them struck down
Times have changed in 3 years. I tried some Tru-Spec 24/7 pants a year or so ago and I'm sold on them. Got 3 more new pairs coming any day now. And Elwood, I still wear my shoot-me-first vest occasionally to conceal that inside the waist holster. In summer, more often than not, I just open carry with it.
I like the plain old ranger-style cargo pants from Cabelas. Wait, is this thread about gunz or pants?
Point of order. Sig never "scaled up" their 9mms to .40SW that I'm aware of. They were the first company to actually design a gun around the .40 (P-229) rather than retro-fit an existing design. I'm also unaware of any problems Sig had with the design. ETA: I didn't realize this was an undead thread.
The M&P line wasn't even a sparkle in someone's eye when .40SW hit the scene in 1990. So, duh. Of course they did. They modified the P226 (9mm and debuted in 1984) to fire .40SW by reinforcing the slide and some other small tweaks. That was the whole allure of the .40SW at the time. The cartridge was the same length as a 9mm Para cartridge, so it could fit in the same package. For the ballistics at the time, it was a heap ton more firepower.
Reinforcing? They went from a stamped steel slide to milled stainless steel. You call that a tweak? I call that a fairly major re-design. What were the teething problems?
Point of Order, I have been using Point of order for quite a while now. I am in the process of completing my copy righting of it (it worked for apple). You'll be hearing from my attorney's
Why did they do that? Because the early P226's chambered in .40SW's slides were cracking. Browning had the same problem. Source
So, did they sell .40 chambered Sigs with the stamped slide, have problems, and then switch to the milled slide, or did they switch to the milled slide before chamering the .40? Because your link doesn't say anything about the stamped slide cracking...unless I'm missing it?
No, they never sold a .40SW P226 with a stamped slide. Let me rephrase it. Sig wanted to do what every other builder was doing. They wanted to put the new whiz bang .40SW cartridge into their existing 9mm platforms. The problem was, the .40SW was blowing up the prototypes. The most common problem was the welded breach block separating from the slide and rattling around causing all sorts of bad things to happen. There were a few slide cracks too. Das bad. So, to put the .40SW in the 9mm package they reinforced the slide (by changing process and material) along with a few other tweaks. Thus endeth the history lesson. To get back on topic: Yes they did.
Okay, so if by "scaled up" an existing design, yuou meant, "Totally re-designed" an existing design before ever putting it on the market, then point taken I guess. ...and why does it say that you edited my post? It doesn't look like you changed anything. Did you accidentally hit the edit button instead of the reply button?
