{"id":3414,"date":"2015-12-14T21:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T01:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2015-12-14T21:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T01:10:59","slug":"chilling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/chilling\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILLING\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last class of the year\u2026COMPLETE.\u00a0 Last court appearance of the year\u2026DONE.<\/p>\n

There are still deadlines, gun tests, and some demonstrative evidence and such to be recorded, but dammit, this is as close as I get to vacation, and I\u2019m gonna enjoy it.<\/p>\n

Christmas is upon us, and whatever your belief system, even secular folks find it to be a landmark on America\u2019s calendar.<\/p>\n

This is the Gun Corner of the Backwoods Home blogs.\u00a0 While I may actually have all the guns I need, <\/em>I don\u2019t necessarily have all the guns I want, <\/em>so there is still that element of the Christmas List in abeyance.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in my life, however, I expect I\u2019ll be giving at least one firearm as a present to someone I care about, and I\u2019d really like to give one more.<\/p>\n

My significant other, the Evil Princess of Podcasts, Pixels, and Polymer Pistols, has become enamored of the short-lived and now discontinued Glock RTF2 series.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t that interested in them when they came out.\u00a0 However, she \u201crediscovered\u201d the concept (gill-shaped slide grooves, and a gazillion little prongs sticking out of the grip that just lock the pistol into the firing hand), she decided she had to have one. Or more.<\/p>\n

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The Evil Princess demands RTF2 gills on a carry-size Glock 19, like these on her competition Glock 17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a full-size Glock 17 9mm in the gun shop where she and I tend to hang out, and I bought it for, uh, \u201cus.\u201d\u00a0 That was supposed to be our \u201cshared custody\u201d pistol, but after she put Dawson adjustable fiber optic sights on it, it has spent all its time with its female parent. She wanted another one, so I bought her a Glock 23 .40 caliber RTF2 (thanks, Ernie).\u00a0 But now, not being satisfied with a RoBar Custom Glock 30S .45 apparently, she wants a Glock 19 RTF2 for concealed carry.\u00a0 (Not the one Glock recently produced as a special run for one distributor with straight slide grasping grooves: she\u2019s gotta have GILL-shaped grooves, or nuthin\u2019.)<\/p>\n

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After a few months carrying this 11-shot .45 caliber RoBar Custom Glock 30S, a potential gift recipient wants one particular 16-shot 9mm version. San Bernardino and all that may have something to do with it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The next Glock 19 for the Evil Princess must have gilled slide grooves like those on this G17, and polymids like this all over the RTF2 grip, or she will make a poor old man suffer…and it will be all YOUR fault. (The Dawson sights are up to her.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So\u2026help a poor old man to make his life happier. If you see a 9mm Glock 19 RTF2 with gilled slide serrations at your local gun shop, let me know and give me a seller contact, preferably in time for Christmas. Sigh\u2026<\/p>\n

But, enough about that.\u00a0 Black Friday, the premier shopping day after Thanksgiving, set a record for firearms purchases that put our anti-gun President\u2019s teeth on edge. (Thank you all for that!)<\/p>\n

What guns are you buying for Christmas gifts for folks you care about, and what guns do you want for the Holiday Gift Season yourself?\u00a0 (Brief but important hint: let the adult recipient decide what gun they want, and get that person a gift certificate at the gun shop, and make sure THEY fill out the 4473 form for it. If you\u2019re buying it for someone too young to buy it from an FFL dealer themselves, make sure possession stays in your household to avoid anti-gun-motivated BS.)
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Last class of the year\u2026COMPLETE.\u00a0 Last court appearance of the year\u2026DONE. There are still deadlines, gun tests, and some demonstrative evidence and such to be recorded, but dammit, this is as close as I get to vacation, and I\u2019m gonna enjoy it. Christmas is upon us, and whatever your belief system, even secular folks find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearms","8":"category-gifts-for-shooters"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}