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MikeWaters · 02-02-2009, 03:42 PM

I don't pay attention to guns for a few years, and boy can things change.

Like ammo being 2-3x more expensive. And probably even more shockingly--S&W makes a decent auto-pistol? What?

Back in the day my friend bought a S&W Sigma, which is universally acknowledged as one of the most disappointing pistols in history. I remember dry-firing his pistol--it literally felt like it had a 20lb trigger pull. I remember when I went shooting with this friend, and I watched his shots hit the dirt in a puff of dust 10 feet in front of the target. Flinching like crazy.

But anyway, my uncle tells me, when I was inquiring about a more female-friendly option in a handgun, "have you thought of the S&W M&P?" My uncle is a bit of a snob, and I had never heard of the M&P. A S&W auto-pistol? WTH? It turns out it has pretty good reviews, and anecdotally, according to my uncle, women have an easier time racking the slide (for those that are deficient in the strength area). Hmmm.....my uncle likes his.

But for me, a glock-snob, the idea that the S&W might be better than the glock, for example.....that is hard to swallow. Now get this right--a glock snob is nothing like a SIG-snob, or a H&K-snob, or a XD-snob. Glock-snobs are like the first people who bought a Datsun in the 1970s. What was heresy then is practicality and honest/smart living now. We are the ordinary hard-working practical non-flashy snobs. We don't care about looks, we only care about MPG and not having to get it repaired--however, you would never catch us in a Ford Focus, no matter what the reviews are.

While I am writing about guns....one thing I have noticed is the lack of good gun-writing. Or put another way, there is only one way of gun-writing--it come from a very white, middle-class, conservative, good-ol boy, middle-aged perspective. There is no post-modern Gen X funny ironic take on these things. And in a way, I think that shuts out people from guns. It becomes a cultural battle, where if you don't think you are a good-ol boy, then you ought not own a gun, or care about firearms.

02-02-2009, 03:42 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	S&W m&p I don't pay attention to guns for a few years, and boy can things change. Like ammo being 2-3x more expensive. And probably even more shockingly--S&W makes a decent auto-pistol? What? Back in the day my friend bought a S&W Sigma, which is universally acknowledged as one of the most disappointing pistols in history. I remember dry-firing his pistol--it literally felt like it had a 20lb trigger pull. I remember when I went shooting with this friend, and I watched his shots hit the dirt in a puff of dust 10 feet in front of the target. Flinching like crazy. But anyway, my uncle tells me, when I was inquiring about a more female-friendly option in a handgun, "have you thought of the S&W M&P?" My uncle is a bit of a snob, and I had never heard of the M&P. A S&W auto-pistol? WTH? It turns out it has pretty good reviews, and anecdotally, according to my uncle, women have an easier time racking the slide (for those that are deficient in the strength area). Hmmm.....my uncle likes his. But for me, a glock-snob, the idea that the S&W might be better than the glock, for example.....that is hard to swallow. Now get this right--a glock snob is nothing like a SIG-snob, or a H&K-snob, or a XD-snob. Glock-snobs are like the first people who bought a Datsun in the 1970s. What was heresy then is practicality and honest/smart living now. We are the ordinary hard-working practical non-flashy snobs. We don't care about looks, we only care about MPG and not having to get it repaired--however, you would never catch us in a Ford Focus, no matter what the reviews are. While I am writing about guns....one thing I have noticed is the lack of good gun-writing. Or put another way, there is only one way of gun-writing--it come from a very white, middle-class, conservative, good-ol boy, middle-aged perspective. There is no post-modern Gen X funny ironic take on these things. And in a way, I think that shuts out people from guns. It becomes a cultural battle, where if you don't think you are a good-ol boy, then you ought not own a gun, or care about firearms.