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I can't get a picture from my phone to post here. This is exactly what mine looks like though.I don't go as often as I want. I bought a new S&W 686 .357 a few months back and haven't shot nearly enough.
If you buy a gun from a shop with an FFL now, they call your local sheriff's office for you for approval and you don't have to bring the gun in for a safety check, just a copy of the permit filled out at the store. If you have a CPL it is easier still as you mentioned. If you buy a handgun from a private individual you need to go the sheriffs office for a purchase permit, but again, you do not have to bring the gun in for a safety check. This was all changed recently I believe, and I've bought two hundguns this year and that was the process.Thank you...here's a few more:
View attachment 4741 That's a Smith & Wesson Model 41 with the Ultra-Dot scope...2-lb trigger...accurate and fun to shoot. Top right is a Springfield XD 45, and below that to the right is a Colt .45...7-rounds in the Colt, 15 I think it is in the Springfield...Bottom is a Sig...I forget which one, the P226 or P228. In the middle is a Taurus Ultra-Lite Titanium .38 Special, the one I was plinking with when a ricochet hit me in the temple...awasI've all these green cards in front of me as I type...in Michigan, one must pass a safety test prior to the purchase of a handgun...unless one has a concealed carry license...and upon being provided with a piece of paper from your local chief of police or from your constitutionally elected sheriff, you make your purchase, and bring the gun to that office for a "safety check"...which is nothing more than registration, by all accounts something the Founders frowned upon given their experience with a standing army and rule from abroad. Anyway...heh!...I've forgotten about a couple I have...in the safe...a Magnum Research Inc. Desert Eagle .357...a large and heavy semi-auto...and this other a Professional Ordnance Carbon 15...investments, as I said earlier. Actually, the Sig is up top right and the XD-45 is down low bottom.
And they are absolutely investments. Guns never lose value.
Of course the guys that justify it like that are the ones that never get rid of 'em.
Nice looking pieces. I'll have to drive up that way and we can do some shootin'!
Nice Desert Eagle. Is that a gas operated loader or recoil? I'm still learning..You bet! I'll let you shoot the AR-50...bring ear-protection. And regarding the process...yeah, I recall something from a few years back about changes to the system...but haven't made any purchases new or used to experience what happens. At least this thread got me to open the safe and see if what I thought I had is still present and accounted for. Heh! Here's a few more:
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In the first, top is an Israel Military Industries Desert Eagle .357 Magnum Pistol, below that is a Springfield Armory Model 1911-A1 (.45 Auto...meaning Automatic Colt Pistol or ACP...it is semi-auto)...both of them are 1st & 2nd...and the last is a Cobra Model C22LR...it is actually my wife's...made in Utah.
That second shot is a Professional Ordnance Carbon-15 Pistol, classified as a pistol/handgun...shoots the same NATO round (.223/5.56) as the AR-15 and they also make a Carbon-15 rifle or perhaps more than one version of each. Should have taken a shot of the Carbon-15 with a handgun to give some perspective of size. I've never shot it...it's been in the box in the safe since I brought it home.
Nice Desert Eagle. Is that a gas operated loader or recoil? I'm still learning..
View attachment 9483 Picked this up from a guy that lived in the middle of nowhere.
My favorite..
also own the model 42,you just can't go wrong with these for personal defense and range shooting.Accurate,highly dependable,well machined,they are not built for beauty but for functionality..and considering their purpose,quite apt..