American gun control debate.

[Zimobog]

Yes, thank you, but I have been thinking about how to translate the sentence "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base" for

about a month now and I still only have the preliminary version there. And the book is ending soon
The one I found:



The brand mark does not look like a symbol or logo which would the automatic no-brain translation. So is this familiar Remington brand mark actually letters R-P? If you have the cartridge, could you just have a look for me? I think bigger cartridges for rifles bear the whole Remington name, but the one I am concerned with is a small pistol round.

Sorry! The only 9mm I have on me at the moment are half a box of PMC 124 grain FMJ and 15 rounds of Federal hollow points.
I do have some Remington rounds here, but they are .22 LR and have the little "R" on the rim.
That's just what I have here in the office. I can check the gun safe when I get home, I might have some Remington .300 WM there. I will check them for the "R-P".

[squeezyjohn]

Meanwhile back in the old country:

Which is not dissimilar to this which is what I do:

[Frankie Reloaded]

Yes, thank you, but I have been thinking about how to translate the sentence "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base" for about a month now and I still only have the preliminary version there. And the book is ending soon
The one I found:



The brand mark does not look like a symbol or logo which would the automatic no-brain translation. So is this familiar Remington brand mark actually letters R-P? If you have the cartridge, could you just have a look for me? I think bigger cartridges for rifles bear the whole Remington name, but the one I am concerned with is a small pistol round.

Full context can be read here (It is a teaser to make you buy the book though...): http://www.michaelconnelly.com/novel...ckbox/excerpt/

[rickcharles606]

Enjoy breaking that puppy in! ? You do know the .45 is God's caliber, right?

Yep, it's my people getter, errrr protection piece ;-) Well, that and my Mossberg 500a, lol

[rickcharles606]

I might as well ask right here:

Does anybody have any Remington 9mm pistol ammo at hand? I need to know what is stamped on the casing. I found a photo showing "R-P Luger," but the casing I should describe is from a Beretta 92 and I think that one does not use Luger

Or, in other words, WTF is "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base"?

9mm Luger is just the name they call the round in europe, and here in the US they call it 9mm Parabellum. Both measure 9X19 and can be fired in your Beretta 92f.

[Zimobog]

Remington is the manufacturer of the ammo, Luger is often used as the offical name of the 9mm Parabellum round, harkening back to the heady days when there were more than one type of 9mm around.

Around 1911, there were like five types of 9mm like 9mm Lago, 9mm Bergmann, 9mm Luger, 9mm Browning Long, 9mm Steyr, 9mm Glisenti etc just in Europe.

Beretta 9mm does shoot the 9X19mm Luger (or Parabellum) as it is called. Cause 9mm Luger became the 9mm of choice.

[Frankie Reloaded]

I might as well ask right here:

Does anybody have any Remington 9mm pistol ammo at hand? I need to know what is stamped on the casing. I found a photo showing "R-P Luger," but the casing I should describe is from a Beretta 92 and I think that one does not use Luger

Or, in other words, WTF is "the familiar Remington brand mark stamped on the base"?

[whalen]

Enjoy breaking that puppy in! ? You do know the .45 is God's caliber, right?

[rickcharles606]

just purchased a new Smith & Wesson M&P .45 and love it. Just thought I'd leave this here, lol.

[Frankie Reloaded]

Gang Wars

Meanwile in Slovakia...

[Skell18]

Actually I looked at the pictures first because the cited law seemed stupid. Kusari means chain in Japanese... And the weapon may or may nor be attached to a sickle. Unattached it lookes like this: [ATTACH=CONFIG]2970[/ATTACH]

Attached it looks like a chain on a sickle but then I suppose the weapon would be the sickle. Badass criminals might even carry a... [ATTACH=CONFIG]2971[/ATTACH]
...scythe

Anyway, in this hole over here the laws are not much better, so do not be sad Americans are just lucky to have the right to own all those guns... even though I would not like certain ethnic groups to be armed over here...

hahahaha, my life ended when I couldn't carry my throwing stars and chain with a weight on it

[Frankie Reloaded]

Its a huge knife with a chain attached and the chain has a weight on it, a Japanese ninja weapon, like the rest its listed with. You didn't put the name of the weapon in that the blurb describes, it makes more sense that way.

Actually I looked at the pictures first because the cited law seemed stupid. Kusari means chain in Japanese... And the weapon may or may not be attached to a sickle. Unattached it lookes like this:

Attached it looks like a chain on a sickle but then I suppose the weapon would be the sickle. Badass criminals might even carry a...
...scythe

Anyway, in this hole over here the laws are not much better, so do not be sad Americans are just lucky to have the right to own all those guns... even though I would not like certain ethnic groups to be armed over here...

[whalen]

It's funny really, my new "hobby" has been stropping knives. Art and a science really. There is sharp, and there is "scary" sharp. I am a collector by nature, and knives have always been an affordable hobby, with some quality knives having achieved collector status. I had two Gerber "boot" knives designed by Allen Elishewitz. I just liked his designs, and twenty years later I found a famous knife collector stating in an article, that the only knife he wanted to round out his collection was that very knife. I about fell out of my chair, and he has one of them now, mine, and I have about a half dozen of his in trade. That was nice! It was originally a twenty dollar knife.

[Skell18]

What I really liked was the last item in the Knives that Are Illegal list: "weight attached to a rope, cord or wire" That must be a really bad-ass knife the Brits decided to ban

Its a huge knife with a chain attached and the chain has a weight on it, a Japanese ninja weapon, like the rest its listed with. You didn't put the name of the weapon in that the blurb describes, it makes more sense that way.

[devilock76]

What I really liked was the last item in the Knives that Are Illegal list: "weight attached to a rope, cord or wire" That must be a really bad-ass knife the Brits decided to ban

It looks like someone threw it in there with a list of related Japanese weapons...

Ken