Got my Truglo Working

February 6th, 2010

I Shall not Fear for the Terror by Night

I think I have my carry thing together now. The Truglos are installed, and they work fine. They don’t light up the room, but you can see them in any light, so they’re everything they need to be. I also borrowed the belt pack I gave my dad for Christmas, so I could try it out. It’s excellent. Yank the zipper with the left hand, pull the Glock with the right, and it’s showtime. And when you wear the pack, you don’t look like a gun-toting maniac, except to the small percentage of people who have a clue what concealed carry is all about. To most people, you look like a dumpy tourist who can’t stand to leave the house without a digital camera and a video Ipod.

I think it’s better to look armed than unarmed, but it disturbs gun-phobics, and they’re all around us.

I plan to continue to carry in a pocket most of the time, but that’s not possible with some types of pants, and there are some situations in which I will be more concerned about quick access, and at those times, a belt pack is the prudent way to go. It’s an annoying thing to wear every day, so I’m generally willing to risk the small chance that the extra second it takes to pull a gun out of a pocket will matter.

You can have a seat belt. You can have a seat belt and a front air bag. You can have a seat belt and a front air bag and side air bags and a suit of armor and a trained polar bear and a Gatling gun. Readiness comes in levels, and everybody has to choose one, and you can drive yourself nuts insisting on an unrealistic level of safety.

This is pretty cool. I can have 21 +P 9mm rounds ready for use at almost all times, and now I can shoot in the dark. That sure beats depending on the kindness of strangers. You can do a lot with 21 shots, especially with a highly accurate Glock that’s easy to shoot.

My church permits concealed carry for certain people. That is like a perfect storm of joy. Throw in pizza prepared to my specs in the church kitchen, and you have something that approaches ecstasy.

Every church ought to allow it. It sure beats waiting until the God-hating lunatic with the AK-47 shows up and then praying for God to make him miss.

Churches collect cash at their services. I think criminals are aware of that.

In the future, the secular world is going to become more hostile to Bible-believing Christians and all Jews. A polarization is going to occur–you can see it happening now–and we’ll be in the minority. Might as well get a carry permit and learn to shoot now, before the rush.

It’s very odd. We’re the nice ones, but for some reason we, and not the godless, seem to be ending up with a lot more guns per capita. That’s okay with me. The only thing more troublesome than an angry hippie is an angry armed hippie. Look at the misery they cause without guns, and then imagine them treating firearms laws the way they treat laws against vandalism, theft, indecent exposure, drug possession, and trespassing.

7 Responses to “Got my Truglo Working”

  1. Heather P. Says:

    “In the future, the secular world is going to become more hostile to Bible-believing Christians and all Jews.”
    Have you seen the backlash against Tim Tebow and his mom? Simply because she put her faith in God and did not kill Tim before birth. Yesterday The New Yorker came out and blatently mocked them for “ignoring doctor’s advice.”
    It is completely disgusting.

  2. Aaron's cc: Says:

    “Churches collect cash at their services. I think criminals are aware of that.”
    .
    Criminals in my neighborhood haven’t figured out that well-dressed people walking in LA on a Friday night aren’t carrying… a wallet.
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    An increasing number of my Orthodox friends are now carrying pistols. Even without an impossible-to-obtain-in-LA CCP.
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    The Talmud notes that carrying a sword is not considered a violation of public carrying (one of the the 39 forms of labor proscribed by the Torah on the Sabbath for Jews). A sword, and by extension, a firearm, is considered part of a man’s garments. Ergo, it’s not an issue for Orthodox IDF soldiers to serve while carrying their Uzis and handguns.

  3. Milo Says:

    Do you by chance carry a seperate light to use in conjunction with the night sites?

  4. Linkblog » Tools of Renewal Says:

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  5. Milo Says:

    I must be clueless about these type of sights.
    Do they project a beam of light like a flashlight or are they luminous vials installed in the rear of the front and rear sights?

  6. Ritchie Says:

    In my limited experience, an inside-the-waistband holster seems to be an optimum solution. It’s really a two part system, the holster and the cover garment. In my position as a production tech, I wear a tee (tucked) and a sweatshirt (not) most of the time. At work, the gun, known inside the walls as codename yogurt, stays in the reinforced car trunk using a shoulder bag to make the transfer. The bag is already full of cameras, lenses and extra mags so it’s just natural. I keep the holster on for simplicity. If it gets warm, nobody seems to care if I take the sweatshirt off. One guy asked me about the holster, and after that it was not an issue. This is in the outer Denver area, so it’s not too outre. In hot weather, I use a tee that’s one size larger and leave it untucked. A slightly thicker mat’l with some body helps, as does choosing darker colors, and some kind of a pattern. To my knowledge I’ve not been made so far. Colorado is an open carry state so total deep cover is not imperative. Still, C-M-C. I have some pockets that will swallow a 1911, but that’s just less practical. “Is that a .45 in your pocket, or $50 is quarters?”

  7. Firehand Says:

    Milo, night sights like these contain capsules of tritium, which emits light as it degrades. There’s generally one in the front sight, two in the rear- one on each side of the notch. Idea is that even in very dim light you can see the glowing spots and so line up the sights.

    The spots are only visible from the rear, so nobody in front can see them.

    A laser sight actually projects a beam to make a red(or green in some cases) dot on the target; that can be seen by anyone around, especially as dust particles and such cause the beam to be visible.