Yesterday I had the chance to shoot a S&W Shield Plus

with a red dot sight.  If you haven't seen one, without sight looks like this*

This version comes with the slide already cut for an optic, the one I fired had a Crimson Trace on it.  I was only able to fire a few rounds through it, but I'm sold.  It has a double-stack magazine, so the grip is more rounded than the earlier Shield, which fits my hand nicely.  Flat trigger which broke very cleanly.  And, especially with older eyes, that electronic sight works very well. 

Yeah, I want one.  Won't have it unless sell something/s first, but it would be a really nice carry piece.



*Picture found at TTAG

And let there be the 7th night

stuff

That's an interesting thing to hear about Sako, up in Finland, and should be nervous-making to some people

One of my Loyal Readers has a spy at Sako, who tells him that we’re not going to be getting new Sako rifles in the U.S. anytime soon, because their entire production is being directed towards “local consumption”.
If I were Russian, and knew that the boss had thoughts about Finland, this would damn well be troubling me.

If Mt. Hood does decide to wake up,

 how will antifa & Co. tell us it's racist and fascist?

Maybe, just maybe, they should've listened to him

Before members of the LAPD bomb squad destroyed part of a South L.A. neighborhood by exploding a stash of illegal fireworks last summer, they repeatedly ignored warnings from one of their most experienced technicians that the plan was not safe, according to a new report by the LAPD’s inspector general.
...
He said his colleagues and his supervisor told him that he was wrong and that he should “relax,” and the fireworks were loaded into the vessel all at once anyway, the inspector general found.

One more thing: that had to hurt on the really bad level

blank load or not

Found at GFZ

And now we have a data night, and

I have a movie to finish, so

All righty, let's clear some things