Sgammo is my favorite, but TargetSportsUSA, LuckyGunner, and AbleAmmo also have great prices. It pays to shop around, as different vendors get different deals.
Lately I’ve been buying a lot off GunBroker of all places and have been scoring awesome deals at pre-covid prices. Not on 9mm, I have a few cases I bought at .18 a round. Wish I had sold more when prices were sky high. I have also sold ammo on gunbroker, and I don’t remember Maine being a fucked up place you can’t do business with, so that’s odd.
It struck me as odd, too. Why not ship ammo to Maine? That’s their policy now.
I should call that ammo company up and ask “Why?” because Maine as a state has really great gun laws in my opinion. We have constitutional carry and almost no state-level gun laws, with our constitution being unambiguous about our right to keep and bear arms. State of Maine has no problem with machine guns, but you still have to sort it out with the Feds if that’s what you want to shoot.
More violent fuckery has materialized lately, but the same is true everywhere and Maine remains one of the most peaceful corners you’ll find anywhere in the western world.
My Python should arrive on Monday, and I can go to bed knowing that I own a revolver capable of stopping any bear attack I’m likely to encounter. There hasn’t been a fatal bear attack in Maine in over a century, but I’m not too keen on being the one to break that record, so I spent somewhere north of $2,000 to buy a shiny revolver and and everything else I need to safeguard my well-being.
Curious as to why it is really only law enforcement encountering this. I know thousands carry daily with these weapons as well.
It is almost if they are afraid of getting fired for negligently discharging their weapon.
Sounds like good cases of user error to me. Because this latest set of lawsuits is after the trigger / drop safety upgrade too from what I understand.
Glock had this issue in the 90s. there were a ton then when many departments switched from revolvers with 12-pound triggers to Glocks with six. Administrative handling errors mostly.
I wonder if we aren’t seeing many of the same thing here as departments are often moving from 226 or 229 hammer fired to the 320 striker fired and it’s lighter first pull.
For handling weapons everyday some cops are really dumb with them.
My county just had a young sheriffs deputy who lost his life because his roommate (also a deputy) pointed a gun he thought was unloaded at him and pulled the trigger…
A young man lost his life and this guy gets charged with manslaughter (as he should) for ignoring the first two rules of gun safety:
I am a nazi when it comes to this. NEVER point a gun at anyone unless you are planning to use it.
I agree with this to an extent. When I have the mag dropped, breach locked open, and I have cleared / checked the chamber multiple times - I violate this some.
Especially when attempting to check the barrel or some other maintenance. But, this is only after confirming multiple times the gun is 100% clear and my person being the only one in “harm’s way”.
IMO these are a CYA / trying to save their job / reputation. I don’t buy the duty excuse of being harder on weapons either. I and my shooting buddies are FAR harder on my guns than 99% of cops and I have never seen this issue.
I’m not sure what that is. There’s a reason law enforcement trade-ins are great deals: they are typically almost like-new pistols with a little finish wear from the holster.
Shooting-wise, there’s little doubt that anyone who shoots somewhat regularly is harder on his guns. I’d say there are very few people who handle firearms more often under equal or greater stress, though.
I agree there are times when 2 must be violated but that’s mainly like you said when cleaning or other maintenance is necessary.
This was drilled into me from the time I started shooting with a BB gun at 8 years old. Don’t point it at anything you don’t want to kill/destroy even if you “know” it’s unloaded.
So I couldn’t find any specific mechanical complaints about the p320 in any of the articles I’ve read. Just that it “fired when I didn’t want it to.” I can’t seem to find any specific details on what the suit alleges is defective.
“To make a gun with a trigger this short and this light without any sort of external safety is reckless and unprecedented," Ceisler said.
This lawyer basically admits that. Is the gun defective and goes off without pulling the trigger like all the examples they claim? Or is the trigger too light? Can’t be both.
Edit: Interesting to note, the man from Philly filing suit claims the gun just went off while he was going down some stairs. He said it was “holstered in his pocket.” Excuse me? Was it holstered or in your pocket?
I finally got to pick up my Python after the Feds concluded their investigation into me that took almost a week. I’m generally okay with that kind of scrutiny.
My only complaint is that the rear sight was a bit loose, but that’s an easy fix. I’ve spotted no other flaws on the weapon. As someone who has spent their entire adult life working in American manufacturing, I can confidently say that this product is every bit the modern American manufacturing masterpiece I hoped it would be.
The team at Colt should be proud of the work they are doing. The new Colt Python both acknowledges its lineage of hand-fitted fine revolvers while simultaneously spitting in the face of those manufacturing methods. As a manufacturing professional, I deeply admire what they’ve achieved.
This is the second “new” version of a very old weapon design I bought this year, with the other being the new “RemArms” version of the Remington 870 Wingmaster in 12 gauge with a 28" barrel. I’ve been really happy with how that looks, functions and shoots, but doesn’t have the same tight tolerances and flawless lines of my new Python. It was also half the price, so there’s that.
The only negative I have read about the new Python, from any source I considered worth listening to is that the rear sight is a weak design and can be shot loose, even with a generous helping of red loctite. However, Wilson Combat makes aftermarket front and rear sights that are good to go.
