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I have to wonder why folks are buying all the tacticool rail doodads for their guns? I mean, really…to me, it seems that these folk need to draw attention to themselves when they have a little ole’ Taurus PT 145 with a rail mounted light that’s easily an inch wider than the slide, 4 inches long (so it protrudes out from under the slide) and does white light, strobe, green, yellow, and red.

Then they get exasperated when they can’t find a holster for this abomination, and wonder why, when they ask you to modify one of your regular holster *just a bit*, the cost goes from $115 to $200…

Its because the whole tacticool ninja light-under-the-rail thing is just stupid when you get a light unit that’s the size of a Jewish Deli barrel pickle and you try to stuff it under a 3″ Springfield XD.

Here’s a suggestion…you want a light unit? Get a Crimson Trace Lightguard. Its nice and slim, and its much easier to make a holster for that than it is for the Super-Whiz-Bang-as-seen-on-the-interwebz combination ninja light/laser/bayonette/letter opener.

Just sayin’….

Just got a Taurus PT 709 Slim. Nice pistol (I’m starting to have an affinity for Taurus…their Plastic Fantastic pistols are unbelievably accurate…) built well and well-balanced.

So I’m reading the handbook that came with it, specifically about the internal gun lock (it takes a special key to lock/unlock it) which is there for the Nanny-States who think an internal lock with which to SECURE the gun makes it safer….but I digress….

The gun lock section comes with two warnings:

1) Securing your firearm may inhibit access to it in a defense situation and result in injury or death.

2) Failure to properly secure a firearm may result in injury or death.

OK…so let me get this straight…the manufacturer is admitting that if you’re stupid enough to use the internal lock that takes a special key, and you need to use the gun in self defense and are fumbling with a freakin’ key when you should be shooting back at the person shooting at YOU, your stupidity in locking the gun in the first place may result in your injury or death because you couldn’t stop the threat…

And they’re also telling you that if you *don’t* secure the firearm, you could risk an accidental discharge which may result in injury or death.

So…you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. This is what Ambulance-Chasing liability lawyers have foisted on us. Taurus figured out how to cover their asses in case you DO lock the gun and then can’t use it properly in self-defense, and also in case you DON’T lock it and start playing with the thing while its loaded and shoot yourself or someone else. They are telling you not to lock the gun because, well, its a gun stupid, and a mugger isn’t going to wait for you to UNLOCK THE DAMNED THING while he’s holding you at knifepoint and demanding your wallet, and they are also telling you that you’re too stupid to own a gun so you had better lock it because if you don’t lock it you could wind up shooting yourself or someone else.

Geez Louise…

Hello folks!

OK…I’m a few days late with the announcement, but at least its not a month or so late.

Dragon Leatherworks has had its second magazine review!

The first was here, in USCCA Magazine, and featured our Talon holster, with a full window Python treatment.

The second just came out a few days ago, and is in Shooting Illustrated! To say I’m thrilled beyond belief is an understatement. The author of the review, ,Bob Owens, contacted me back in June of 2011, and did a brief phone interview for his blog about my start up, and how I was going about building market and name recognition, seeing that I was doing it rather quickly and with good results.

Another phone call or two followed, and he asked if I could send one of my newly-released Quantum holsters to him for a product review. I said sure, thinking that it was for his blog. I was pleasantly surprised when I got an e-mail explaining that he wanted to do the review for Shooting Illustrated. Naturally, I was thrilled, and sent him a Quantum.

Well, he received the Quantum in early August, and tested in the North Carolina heat and humidity, followed by the more pleasant fall, and into the winter of 2011 / 2012.

His review of the Quantum is up! You can read it at Shooting Illustrated!

Dragon Leatherworks is in its first retail store in Oak Ridge, Tennessee!

Yep….we’re in our first retail establishment. I had a carousel designed by a very good friend (who is also a former boss when I was working in a cabinet shop in Philadelphia). Its a three-sided display on a Lazy Susan mechanism. Takes up very little space, so it can sit nicely on a countertop in a store…now to get a few more carousels made, as I’ve got five more stores pending…one in Ohio, one in Kentucky, one in Texas, and two more local stores (one in Maryville, and one in Knoxville)

Now…THIS is how its done!

Seems that NY State, NY City, and the Pied Piper (Bloomberg) who has lead them in his ignoble crusade to rid the world of evil guns (only the Pop should have them, so that the PoPo can control the population like the Stasi did…history repeats…) has drawn the ire of the state of Tennessee, who’s Legislature has redefined the term *reciprocity*…

Read it here.

Try it…they show you 21 images of militarized men…you have to determine if they are soldiers, or cops.

I really do think its time that we scrap the Union, break off into smaller like-minded groups of states…some who want to be all Socialist and Progressive can band together, those who want to be Commie / Marxist, those who wish Facism, and the rest who want to hit the reset button and go back to a true Constitutional Republic.

I’ll bet my money on the Constitutional Republic being the only one to thrive, prosper, and rise to the greatness that America used to be….

The New York Post has this story, but in a nutshell it comes down to Nanny-State mentality and stupid laws that don’t stop or deter crime. A store owner in NY was fined $50,000 for selling a kids toy Cowboy set, which included a plastic six-shooter (with Federally mandated orange tip on the barrel), plastic handcuffs, etc.

Problem is that NY thinks its too *realistic* looking, and therefore illegal in NY. The comment by the Consumer Affairs spokesperson was this:

But a Consumer Affairs spokeswoman countered, “Realistic-looking imitation guns are illegal and dangerous, and just last week, a 15-year-old in Texas was killed while holding one of these guns.”

Toy guns are dangerous? This one doesn’t *shoot* anything out of the barrel.

And no, you twit, a 15 year old in Texas wasn’t killed while *holding* a toy gun…he was holding a pellet gun, he had removed the Federally mandated orange tip, and he was pointing the thing at police officers! The officers told him to drop what was in his hands, and the kid LIFTED THE PELLET GUN AND POINTED IT AT THEM!

This isn’t a problem with the toy gun causing police shootings! Its idiot kids getting shot because they are STUPID!

Just go and read….

OK people…lets get it right out on the table….

Pocket Holsters are NOT Fast-Draw holsters…they take finesse and practice to use correctly, and they require situational awareness so that you don’t get caught in a situation where drawing your weapon is an afterthought. Anyone tries to tell you different is full of BS. I don’t care how many episodes of Top Shot they’ve tried out for, or been an alternate for in each season. Reality TV is not based on…reality.

Pocket Holsters are also NOT able to hide the gun and make it magically disappear in your pocket. It WILL print…especially if you insist on wearing pants as tight as David Bowie’s during his younger days, or like David Lee Roth, or any other tight-pants hair-metal frontman.

No, I can’t make a pocket holster that will be so thin as to disappear in your pocket…that would require making the holster thinner than your pocket gun, utilizing quantum physics where you would stick your 3/4″ wide pocket heater in a 1/8″ wide holster, and the gun would enter a parallel dimension where it would be flat until you pulled it out of the holster. Can’t be done. I don’t care that George Jetson was able to fold up HIS car into a briefcase when HE got to work.

Carrying a pocket self-defense pistol requires thought and planning. Your clothing choices must adapt to the the carry lifestyle…in other words, Spandex is OUT, very loose cargo pants are IN.

Thank you, rant over.

Today is the Brady Campaigns *Light a Candle to stop Gun Violence* day…you see, they seem to think that lighting a candle in memory of people who have been victims of Gun Violence will somehow raise awareness to the numbers of people killed by guns. Problem is, they lump everyone who has ever been on the recieving end of a gunshot as a *victim of gun violence*.

Thug breaks into your house and threatens you with a knife, you shoot him in self-defense? Thats one more *victim of gun violence*.

You’re being forcibly raped, so you reach into your handbag, point your snub-nose at his torso and squeeze off a few rounds that surprise the shit out of him (and kill him, but thats just a side benefit)…chalk up another victim in the *gun violence* column.

Someone steps out from the shadows of a dark street corner at night while you’re obeying the traffic signal, he opens the door and gets in wielding a knife, but you pull your pistol and defend yourself…yep, another *victim of gun violence* right there.

So, the gunblogger community figured today would be a great day to light a candle to stop violence…all violence, not just a nebulous and ill-defined metric like *gun violence*. It spread like wildfire, and gunbloggers/blog readers are posting the pictures of their self-defense rigs with a lit candle, to signify that they will stop *any* violence dead in its tracks by defending themselves against any and all violence, by meeting the threat of deadly force with the *promise* of deadly force.

Because, in the end, thugs and criminals are nothing but cowards who, when faced with a choice of getting shot, or running away and finding a different victim, will run away 9 times out of 10. There are those thugs who are dumber than rocks, who will try to push their luck….