Public Service Annoucement: "+1" Carry vs. Condition 1 Carry.

I keep seeing this pop up on forums and YouTube and I think there must be an  error somewhere.

I don't know is this is the new "clip = magazine" for 2010 or what, but it's starting to piss me off.


Condition 1: Magazine inserted, round in chamber (safety on if applicable)

+1: A firearm in condition 1, and another round inserted into the mag to make up for the chambered round.

You see this term in reference to a guns capacity, like 8+1, or 15+1. This is the magazine capacity +1 round in the chamber.

So yes, a +1 gun is condition 1, but a condition 1 gun does not always mean +1.


Spread the word.

CLIMB OUT OF YOUR HOLES PEOPLE!

Had another guy drop the "In Iowa a loaded magazine is considered a firearm" line tonight at the weekly bullseye match. I need to make a sign, or stickers or something addressing this myth and start posting them all over town. Maybe some nifty T-shirts or something.

On a happy note, I shot a 531-4X tonight which is now my second highest score shooting bullseye.

Go me.
Date                 Score             X Count

2-Nov	490	N/A
9-Nov	491	N/A
16-Nov	489	N/A
25-Nov	532	14
2-Dec	529	7
16-Dec	491	4
23-Dec	520	7
1/6/2010	502	4
1/13/2010	521	6
1/20/2010	512	6
1/27/2010	531	4

Cutting down on the caffeine seems to be helping.

The Let Down of the Century.

Bushmaster ACR

After seeing this vid, I don't think there's anything else to add other than I love my Noveske.

Language advisory: It get's pretty rough.

Instructors are fallible too.

So I took my required class in order to obtain my Iowa Permit to Carry Weapons (PTCW) and while the overall class was ok, there were several things that bothered me.

First off, the content was more opinion based than fact based  which resulted in issues two and three.

Issue Two: When a student asked something about accidentally showing a concealed firearm, the instructor supplied the following answer: "Your gun must be concealed at all times, this is a concealed weapons permit" Well, that was about as incorrect as it gets. Here in Iowa, you can open carry without a permit outside of incorporated limits and if you have a PERMIT TO CARRY WEAPONS, you may open carry as IA Code states the following: