I have carried a Kalashnikov across my handlebars for years and gotten a great deal of respect.

I would stay away from the Chinese Uzi's, unless, of course, you're lucky enough to come across one made in Fuk Dup, a small village about 150 clicks north of Hu Shiit, where 99% of the Chinese Uzi's are made.

The Fuk Dup Uzi's are made by a well known gunsmith, How Long, who has been meticulously crafting these guns for, oh, I don't know how long. I know How Long, having actually met him in his Fuk Dup gun works while on a wild Feng Shui, nunchuk hunting trip in the province of Nunchuk. How Long has his whole Fuk Dup family working on these fine pieces.

Stay away from the mass produced Hu Shiit Uzi's; compared to Fuk Dup Uzi's, they stink.

How Long is from Hu Shiit and wants to retire there. He's getting older with the passing years and, according to his Fuk Dup family, has been becoming more lax in working on his Fuk Dup Uzi's, spending hours on end wandering around his Fuk Dup gun works, wistfully mumbling, Hu Shiit, Hu Shiit.

I don't know how long How Long will be producing his Fuk Dup Uzi's, and his Fuk Dup family wants to go to Nunchuk province and make nunchuks when he retires to Hu Shiit, so if you want a Fuk Dup Uzi, I'd start looking now.

You're right. I need to get out more.

Get a hard chromed Kel Tec P32, it's the smallest and lightest auto pistol on the market.

If you can handle a pistol slightly larger, your choices open up immensely to all the new .380 pocket pistols:

Kahr P380 (stainless/polymer)
Ruger LCP (stainless/polymer)
Kel Tec P3AT (hard chrome/polymer)
Taurus TCP (actually available in titanium/polymer)
S&W Bodyguard (not sure?)
Sig P238 (stainless/polymer)
Etc, etc

The Kahr is the smallest and probably the best of the lot. I personally have a Ruger LCP that i like a lot.

If you have a tiny little pistol, why not carry everywhere? That's the entire point of buying such a small gun to begin with.

And as pointed out earlier, it really doesn't matter who approves or understands.

I carry my LCP everywhere, it is totally unobtrusive, and even if it does show or print once in a while, i live in an open carry state anyway.

I've had a couple places comment on me carrying a weapon, but it was always my tiny little pocket folder knife. Once my bank branch's ass't manager commented i shouldn't bring my knife into the bank (imagine if she knew i had a gun too) because "we have a (unarmed) guard, we're all safe here." Once it was in some buddies shared rented house where some little leftist roomie of his whined about it (he told her to STFU), and finally, at a pizza place. I used my pocket knife to cut the pizza pie they delivered that they forgot to pre-slice for us. Instead of complaining, i cut it myself. The owner came over and asked me to never bring a weapon in her place again, I told her that her staff sucks for bringing me an un sliced pie, and that don't worry, i'll never come back under any circumstances ever again. I also told her i was legally licensed to carry weapons, including a gun. And asked her how smart it was to go over and instigate someone she saw with a weapon, that she thought might cause trouble.

Not very smart.

Last week, at a local ymca, a locker was pried open and a concealed weapon and a CWP was stolen. Be careful.

Then it wasn't properly concealed. When I lived in VA, I walked into the locker room to see some cops there taking reports. These crooks had not only pried off some padlocks and cleaned out the lockers, they put new padlocks on when they were done, so people thought they either had the wrong locker or had forgotten the combo. Gave them some more time to get away and took the cops a while to sort it all out. I park my bike in front of a huge wall of windows (bikes can park on sidewalks in AZ to stay in the shade). So I always have it in my line of sight. And I keep my stuff concealed and locked. The one time I went to the gym and then planned to open carry for a long hwy. ride on the bike, I first rode to a secluded area of the parking lot, so no one at the gym would see me strap it on.

I hear ya bro!

I've had the same sort of experience, numerous times. There are a fair number of pizza parlors where I live and I've been banned from every damned one. WTF is an armed dude with finely honed situational awareness supposed to do?! Now if I want pizza I gotta settle for the frozen crap from the supermarket. :mad:

Is it an Italian thing or something? I've NEVER had a problem at the gyros joints I frequent - except for the fat little Greek at the joint on State St. He used to hassle me when I ordered, said, Gyros? We don' sell gyroscopes, we sell YEAROS!

I finally got fed up with that shyte, whipped out my man-card and stuck it in the fat little fkrs face and said, STFU and gimme my GYROS! The little fkr's eyes got big as mini pizzas (I really miss pizza :(), his jaw dropped, then he dropped his falafel and said, Comin' right up sir!

Haven't had a problem with him since.

I'll bet if you had a "print" going, that greasy little fkr wouldn't have messed with you! That would be so stupid! Hell, I hear even having a big-a$$ knife between your teeth will teach them to never mess with you again!

I keep a 8 3/8" M629 (stainless .44 mag) in my left hand at all times...ain't no spandex bimbo gonna get the drop on me in the gym. I only holster it when I hop on my mc for the ride home (amongst the idiot "cagers"). If'n I could only learn to operate the mc clutch holding the 629, I'd be a LOT safer :).

ps: I "get" guns...owned 'em since I was 9, but I don't "get" the paranoia some seem to have if they're not packin'. Flame away...

OH YEAH!!

That REALLY works! I've actually done that twice. Both times at Jamba Juice joints. The limp wristed little juicers behind the counter literally quaked in their boots. HAHAHA!

I used the mini katana that I pack - the blade of choice for whacking frozen pizzas (real men cut their frozen pizzas before they microwave them).

I'm so good, and my mini katana is so freakin' sharp, that I can whack a frozen pie into 288 slices.

But I don't do the katana-between-teeth bit any more; the first time I did I sliced my upper lip and sucked down blood for an hour. The second time I decided to show a little less bravado and kept the sharp edge facing out.

That worked fine, but I showed just a leeetle bit too much flash and chipped two teeth. So now I just walk in with a rose clamped between my teeth and use my natural charm to get my way.

I know some of you wankers are gonna pile on and say, Wow, what a manly man! Them roses got really sharp thorns! :eek:

Yeah right, ass holes. I whack off the thorns with my katana first. Do you think I'm stoopid? :rolleyes:

you funny MOFOS!! i am laughing my butt off.

i wish there was a magic button i could push, that would turn this entire thread GREEN! for sarcasm.

of course by magic button, i mean a big ole RED button that has "A-BOMB" stamped across it. you can never be too careful to step that far away from the A-BOMB button.

you all are funny MOFOS! that pizza stuff is damn funny.

LMAO Funniest thread for ages.

My giant knife that got the pizza people all worked up. All 2oz's of it:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...rybattery2.jpg
The pistol it's next to is a Kel Tec P32 with an extended 10rd mag, the smallest auto on the market.

Just imagine the trouble a fella could start with a 2oz 3" blade at a pizza parlor! I fully understand why that pizza nazi chick got so upset, me bringing a "weapon" into her pizza parlor.

I could have slaughtered the entire staff with it, for sure.

LOL...

Your priorities are all eff'd up! Won't someone please just think about the innocent little pepperonis that have their whole lives in front of them...well, at least until you get around to that slice :)

I am a well known murderer of pepperonis! :D

..."extended 10rd mag, the smallest auto on the market."

"This is my rifle, this is my gun. This one's for shooting, this one's for fun." Anyone who's been in the Army learned that.

And everyone knows that women can tell the size of a man's personal repeepeeter by the size of his repeater.

Well, except for some clueless macho dudes who brag about packing the smallest repeater on the market...with an extension!! HAHAHA!!

I'll lay odds those dudes are solo shooters...and probably get off on the rapid ejaculation of their spent cartridges. HAHAHA!

Same generalization applies to the size knife a dude packs.

I was at a pizza joint the other night and this strapping big dude wearing camo pants and tight white T shirt, packing one of those little repeaters in a pink holster saunters in and sits down at a table.

The cute little waitress came up to his table and saw he was packing and had pulled out a teensy 3" knife and laid it on his napkin. She REALLY went off on him! She stood right over the dude, laughing her cute little apple shaped ass off. :D

Is there a problem miss? he asked sternly. No, no! I just noticed your cute little gun - love your holster! Would you like to order a mini-pizza? Or some finger food? Then she cracked up laughing again.

Now everyone in the place was watching and giggling. So the big dude stands up, really pissed and says, Forget you, ya little pizza Nazi! I'm blown' this joint! Not in here your not Bruce! I'm going to have to ask you to leave. And be forewarned, don't blow your little joint in our parking lot - we have security cameras.

Boy was he pissed! He turned as pink as his holster and stomped out the door. The pizza parlor crowd roared with laughter when they read the big black letters on the back of his T shirt as he stormed out - they spelled out INSECURITY. :)

I was at the NRA show this weekend, somewhere over 100,000 people came through, most of them were probably carrying guns. I felt safer on the street outside the Lawrence center than inside. I kept thinking of that demonstration of nuclear fission, where they put 1000 armed mouse traps on the floor of a room and put a ping pong ball on each one, and then toss one ball in. One goes off, and in a second there are traps snapping and balls flying and none of them had any reason except that the first one did it.
Yeah, yeah, I know. You guys have your fears, I have mine.
I did meet Ted Nugent Saturday afternoon. :D

Picture a Muslim suicide shooter in the middle of the floor, whips out his spoon and starts spinning in circles spraying bullets.

Hell, he'd be Swiss cheese before he got two shots off. The instant, circular firing squad would be fantastically effective.

Of course there'd be some collateral damage, maybe a couple dozen bodies to carry out? Yeah well, this freedom we enjoy doesn't come cheap.

Never mind me. I'm such a downer. :(

Awesome! Impossible to top that.

Thank you. I have no idea how I come up with this Shyte. :D

Just a bit of info, so this thread isn't entirely useless to the OP.

The Sig P238 has either an aluminum or stainless frame--depending on the model--and a stainless slide. I have one of the early ones (before they came out with every color of the rainbow) with an aluminum frame. It is a very soft shooter. It is also VERY accurate, with a decent trigger and excellent sights. I would carry mine regularly except the thumb safety is set up righty-only, so for this lefty it is doomed to an easy life as a range spoon. :(

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9720/p238sm.jpg

What the hell do you mean by that crack?

+1. While sarcasm permeates this thread, don't underestimate "the message" that many have been posting...

+1. And don't underestimate the power of sarcasm delivered with humor to sharpen the point of that message.

I always keep a gun inside the butter dish compartment in my refrigerator.

I figure that if I am ever the victim of a residential takeover robbery, I will offer the robber a cold drink and then BANG BANG BANG!

:D

That's an excellent idea!

But my keenly honed situational awareness, with its concomitant high level of paranoia, causes me to consider that my refrigerator light may fail to come on and I won't be able to find my butter dish.

So I keep one of my numerous grab guns in my cookie jar and hope that my robbers are bonkers for Oreos.

Hoplophobes never have a message. They only have a smug air of "moral superiority".

Perhaps this is fueled by the certainty that if they ever need to come to the defense of themselves or someone else, their only option will be to catch a bullet.

..

I was just holding one of the newest models of this pistol the other night at a gun store. REALLY nice, and it comes with a +1 mag /grip extension now, so you can get a better grip on the pistol.

If they could be had with an ambi safety I would seriously consider buying one.

Here is my personal EDC set up:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...s/cfb905c3.jpg

The whole thing combined weighs barely a pound, and I don't need to wear a belt or any pouches/holsters with it, as the knife and gun both have clips, and the flashlight and extra mag slide right into the watch pocket of any pair of jeans.

Super convenient.

Here's my setup. Has worked well in the past and has gotten me out of some pretty tight spots.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1304535710.jpg

I have Amexiphobia...them things scare the hell outta me :)!!! Bluesky, I assure you that if a situation calls for it, I'll be prepared, but other than "credit", I'm not phobic of much...pretty sad way to live one's life if ya ask me. If one is going to toss around the honorable Col. Jeff Coopers' (RIP) coined "phobia", at least have the decency to recommend a caliber that wouldn't bring laughter from the "guru" that I read religiously some 40 years ago...

Ahah! Blackened brass, black AMEX Card, blackbelt buckle.

You badass! :eek:

it would be in your best interest to practice that jackie chan move where you use the upper freezer door as a weapon. you slide under, slam door into perps face,..

"If one is going to carry an underpowered pistol he sould carry the neatest and handiest one available, and that is the H&K P7."- Jeff Cooper

nobody thought to stab the pizza girl with a fork...for irony?

irony is strong juju.

Thanks Snipe (I just learned something)! I'm sure JC would prefer my Combat Commander instead of an "underpowered pistol" though :). Seriously...that's why my CC is my go to piece (though I rarely carry)...Jeff Cooper.

"Spork 'em" if they can't take a joke :)

I just added that NEBO light to my kit. Excellent tip Sniper. Tks.

My #1 CCW is a Dan Wesson Commander Bobtail (CBOB). Sadly, not all situations permit the bulk/weight overhead to support a caliber that starts with "4". When such is the case, I carry 9x19 (typically a Kahr MK9). Admittedly "less than optimum" in Col. Cooper's view but still acceptable. All of the peashooters in the collection are assigned to BUG duty.

My personal philosophy is that one should carry whenever feasible. Carrying when you expect trouble only means you'll find trouble when you're not expecting it. If you're expecting trouble, why enter the situation at all?

Pizza Nazi!

I always strive to remain neutral in pizza parlor standoffs.

That's why I ALWAYS pack a Swiss Navy knife (yes, Navy - they are very rare).

However, I am NOT a Swiss wimp and I HAVE been in several pizza parlor standoffs wherein some pretttty perky pizza Nazis felt the terrible tingle of the tangs of my fork (I got the REALLY rare one with the folding fork and spoon).

When I eat at rough Chinese joints, I pack my Chinese Air Force knife with folding, needle sharp, Chopsticks.