If I carry a concealed semi-auto it has to be based upon a platform John Browning designed. Hence my choice of the Colt Gorverment model 380. If TSHTF, my choice is my S&W model 65 and 4 speed loaders. 😉

BTW, a .380 will put down in close encounters a dog or a man. Practicing close range shot placement is the key. My little Colt has gone through one barrel, one firing pin, and one recoil spring. I put nearly 5,000 rounds per year through that little gun over the last 25 years. Fortunately, I reload.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjYtISS08U

Ok, I’m off …

My further guess is that even a .25 emptied at close range in the face and neck would stop it if it were menacing rather than ripping your throat out. But that is just my offhand guess and I would not bet my own life on it.

The point Parker was making was: light weight and convenience balanced with effectiveness. Anyone who had actually carried a 9mm P38, or a 5″ barrel .38 or .357 around for long – even for sporting purposes – knows how they begin to feel like a weighty and cumbersome nuisance even for a 6′, 200 lb man.

Additionally, the price of a short barreled high quality hammer-less domestic .357 revolver is not cheap for most people.

No Colt listed here. Though I guess the Brazilian gun would suffice for shooting a dog. http://www.guns.com/review/2012/10/15/five-hammerless-revolvers/

And you cannot trust the prices or assume availability, I suspect, given the current situation, and demand in general.

You can have fun surfing for yourself.

If people want to escalate the diplomatic contact by having a snarky response designed to be witty, I can play along with that. And if people want to escalate more beyond that, I’m a mirror, I reflect whatever people put into the contact. Communications with an adaptive filter. I find it funny that some individuals like to talk about nuclear deterrence here complete with their own policy positions, but can’t remember that I told them this before. Sometimes what you put into X is what you get out of it. Diplomatic negotiations and nuclear deterrence is complicated. Negotiating and communicating with me here is simple, in comparison. Or at least, it should be.

Don’t raise the nuclear threats if you don’t want someone else to meet your raise and stop you. That’s what I find hilarious. Humans stumble around claiming that they are the ones being stopped in their goals, when their every action distorts the world around them. They, in the end, get in their own way more times than not. As for me, my words cannot change reality nor can they prevent people from sharing their opinions.

In the first place, I do not care whether people agree or disagree with me. I’m quite neutral on that. Another thing I have to remind people of at least twice a year. To put it another way, I hate it when people try to agree with me, and I also hate when they try to disagree with me. But like a mirror, sometimes people are more pleasant doing one thing over the other and get a better tone as a result. That’s just what they put into the contact, though.

The old generation probably cannot understand, as in their day, conformity was the rule and the expected status quo. It was the rule that everyone agreed to abide by rules everyone was expected to understand and abide by. Good thing we got rid of that now a days. Chaos of the 21st century. When Dog attacks Zombies.

On a recent trip to Mexico (towns along the Rivera Maya) I was surprised to see stray dogs roaming all over the place. Most seemed friendly, although I didn’t get too close.

You see machinations, where there are none.

I have frequently admitted to the possibility that I can be wrong and have admitted so more than once. I cannot recall you ever having done so. Thus my perception that whenever anyone strays into ‘your territory’, you quickly assert the superiority of your position. That’s quite telling.

I never asserted that my suggestions applied to ALL municipalities, just to the likelihood that a large sword is likely to be more objectionable to the cops than a small machete in a scabbard. That may not be so and could certainly vary in jurisdiction and with any individual cop but it seems to me to be far more likely. I’m fairly certain that many cops would agree.

In the past, disagreement with you as to the allegiance of liberal LIVs to the constitution does not equate to being a “Democrat collaborator”, which is a slander and a cheap shot. But I’ve learned to expect no less from you. Being ‘the expert and right’ is clearly more important to you than any other consideration. Which sadly, speaks to a lack of character.

You refused to make that point before and now complain about it. Now you make the point, which makes up for your mistake before. Doesn’t make up for your retro active complaining though.

Your ego is showing, being ‘the authority’ here on all things military and defensive is important to you, isn’t it?

GB is the one declaring that people will have private property and non weapons confiscated by the police in certain (updated to all) states and cities. Not me. Declaring something to be true and using your former Democrat authority, isn’t something you can pin on me, GB. As I said and asked before, this is something in your city/state, isn’t it.

It’s up to you to prove your machete is of the proper length and that a sword is not, when you start going around making baseless claims that you somehow know how the police operates in every city and state.

It is also up to you to prove that your machete is for self defense, since you think a person with a sword/blade has to claim that as an affirmative defense first. That’s something you laid down backed by your non existent authority, it didn’t come from me. My claim is that a person with a blade doesn’t have to say it is for self defense, even if a cop asks them, in or out of handcuffs.

Again with the outbursts, GB. The ego and authority thing seems more like your problem than mine these days.

Now that the election cycle has spun you around on a dime and dropped you with nothing else better to do GB, don’t think you can just take your angst out on people online without some blowback. You had a similar problem 1-2 years ago concerning your Democrat collaborators you refused to drop or blame. I told you they would Obey Orders, now look at the kiddie bathrooms which they helped setup and will obey orders to help enforce. You can’t blame them for being arrogant, because you would feel guilt, these are your own family blood and friends after all. So you look for people online to fight with. Pathetic.

Human nature is very transparent to me. Trying to hide things from me, GB, would work better if you avoided making conflicts. Just as not getting into trouble with the police would be aided by avoiding antagonizing or fighting the police.

As for the actual topic, when a person is on their property or just in walking distance of it, this isn’t Great Britain. Blades of whatever length, when seen outside the home in GB, are confiscated. In American states, for the most part the police needs a warrant or some good reason to suspect you are a danger. Many people carry “cultural artifacts” and “historical pieces” in their cars, for example, due to cultural activities, hobbies, cultural appropriation, you know, stuff like that. Of course, that doesn’t guarantee the Leftist union obeying police won’t attempt to confiscate your supposed arms. GB would know more about his specific situation and scenario, which he should have shared in the start. Because not every American city and state has the same effective enforcement of their blade laws. Assuming they even have any restrictive blade laws. There are far less of them than there are for guns and certain knives.