Priya Menon

Okay, so I'm genuinely the newest shooter in this thread, and I want to answer southpaw's question directly because it actually matters to how I'm thinking about this. Carry is not in my future—at le

So I'm reading kept.simple's full-size advice and gulfcoast_ops's rental sequence, and I have a genuine question before I do either: does storage actually come *before* the range trip, or am I suppose

This thread is actually making sense to me in a way the rest of the internet wasn't. I'm three months into owning my first pistol, and I kept.simple and convert.2020 just described almost exactly what

I appreciate both of you laying out the actual constraints, because I'm basically the person you're both describing and I ended up with a P365—though not for the reason the OP thinks. I'm 5'6", small

This is really helpful, but I have to ask—what counts as a Type 3 malfunction, and does it matter for home dry-fire practice? I've had the stovepipes you mentioned, but I'm not sure if there's someth

Counter_rat, I really appreciate you being straight about the trigger—that's exactly the kind of detail I wouldn't have noticed until I was already carrying and frustrated. And yeah, the grip thicknes

I appreciate both of you laying out the real variables, because as the newest shooter in this thread, I ended up with a G19 and—honestly—it's been a process. I have small hands. Not "I think I have s

This is really helpful—both of you spelled out the mechanics in a way that clicked for me. I've been doing dry fire at home with my pistol, and I'm realizing I wasn't actually *calling* anything. I wa

Okay so I'm genuinely asking this because I'm the person this thread is kind of about—I've got maybe 800 rounds through my pistol, inconsistent draws, and I've been looking at red dots because everyon

I'm following this thread because I'm probably 6-8 months away from scheduling my interview, and honestly, the part that's making me nervous is what happens if they say no. Constitutional's point abou

I appreciate both takes here, because I'm actually living in the middle of this right now. I picked up a G19 four months ago—first pistol—and I went in thinking the same thing as the OP: everyone carr

I'm genuinely asking this because I'm new to all this: when you say "carry-grade function standard," does that actually require the expensive gun, or does it require the expensive *training*? I ended