Thanks for all the advice, this helped me sort through priorities. I'm going to use whatever I can shoot at the nearest range, and if I don't get proficient enough I'll look for a carbine.
I might just forgo the buckshot and use low-recoil slugs so that I don't have to worry about wide patterns, or trek out to Baltimore to verify my setup is safe. Maybe this is the excuse I need to get a carbine.
Is it necessary to pattern a shotgun at HD distances? I've got a new Mossberg 500, cylinder bore with a 18.5" barrel. I didn't realize that indoor ranges do not permit shot, and MoCo has no ranges nearby that do. I'm also not too keen on learning to shoot it with the heavy recoil of slugs.
Clergy rally for gun safety at Bethesda church
They believe in their own hyperbole, and the Gazette published it unchallenged. Their ignorance could only be maintained by completely disengaging from reality, they are operating in an echo chamber where gun owners don't exist and don't need to...
Washington National Cathedral Leader Labels Homophobia 'Sin;' Homosexuality 'Not For Me to Say'
His phobia of gun owners, however, is a-ok with Jesus. :sad20:
The Episcopal leadership won't stop it. The best we can do is call them out, don't let them pretend that this is anything other than shameful demagoguery.
National Cathedral to host vigil on one-year anniversary of Sandy Hook shootings
The National Cathedral has become the religious wing of the capital region's political left. They have made gun bans a mission, and they sell it as a religious cause. :rolleyes:
Maryland has been gerrymandered since the last election, your chances of defeating a D are even less than they were before. Your chances of defeating that same D with another D are not only better, they are absurdly easy in some cases; less than 1000 votes will unseat an incumbent. How hard is...
Our best defense isn't the Constitution, it's O'Malley's rhetoric. His arguments aren't being challenged in the media, how can he call Virginia Tech or Columbine common sense? Those are examples of his idea of gun safety: 10-round magazines, a G19. Let O'Malley explain why those deaths are...
We need fewer than 1000 votes to crush a couple of the incumbents, and with 20,000 we could be electing conservative D's in the primaries. Those numbers are easily within reach if we dedicate ourselves to registering voters before 2014.
That stabbing in China has been used by gun control proponents as proof that guns are more dangerous. The problem is that we don't know whether it was the same type of attack -- a premeditated one meant to kill as many people as possible. There have been other knife attacks in China where most...
I'm optimistic about the future, there are enough Republicans and other conservatives in Montgomery County to have a major impact in the primaries. I'll be working until 2014 to make them registered Democrats. This law will serve as proof that they can't afford not to vote, or make protest votes...
Our failure was promoting gun ownership and conservatism when we should have been challenging O'Malley's broken record "common sense-safety" rhetoric. The MGA doesn't care about rights they don't believe in, and people who are on the fence don't care about rights that they believe are a danger...
Our side keeps talking about lost rights, which to non-gun owners is less persuasive than the safety argument. We should be warning people that O'Malley is taking advantage of Newton, offering them a false sense of security with arbitrary, ineffectual restrictions on guns. What we need is more...
Liberals will not accept gun ownership if it is a package deal including conservatism, they will outright reject it. I understand why many here are politically opposed to O'Malley and his helpers in the legislature, but don't fall into the trap of making guns and party politics a single choice...
Better mental health treatment will make society safer, arbitrary gun bans won't. This is what the public needs to hear, they want solutions to these shootings. The supporters of SB281 have succeeded in winning the "safety" mantle because we didn't challenge them for it.
Look at these recent quotes:
I see a lot of talk about our rights, which are under attack, yet nothing to refute the false promises of safety and 'common sense' that SB281 depends on.
The debate looks like a choice between our rights and our safety, and it isn't. People who are indifferent...
We need to do more outreach and education. The Washington Post and other influential media outlets have a monopoly on the supply of information in our region, and they are using it to push propaganda. When we go on the attack against people who they've misled, we're not correcting the...