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#1 ·
Scott made me think a bit after mentioning about MS13 on another thread.

I hear this is becoming more than significant in VA - and maybe over time if they ''migrate'' - spread further North, they will be in PA too - maybe already are in Philly and Pitt' for all I know.

It prompts me tho to think on the ''gang thing''. Not something I am likely to come across (hopefully ) where I live but - these folks seem reluctant to take prisoners. While I think any of us would get the heck outa Dodge rather than face any confrontation - I cannot but help wonder how things might go down, if somehow cornered by a bunch of them.

By all accounts - weaponry could included machetes - plus in many cases too guns no doubt. I imagine a scene where I am at a red light and a group of MS13 - or any gang come to that - see my vehicle and decide the color sucks - and want to ''get it on'' (may have been a slack day for capping people!). I have no avenue of easy escape.

This immediately brings up one big factor - ammo - and quantity thereof.! Now on an average day - I am just 15+1 - well enough you'd think to deal with most things (and some). However - imagine four not so friendly, all armed, itinerant gangstas - I really then would be glad if I had at least one mag change ... foreseeing that if it went down badly - there could be one big load of shooting.

You folks know I carry full time but - just how much extra ammo do we need. Enough is having some left over after a successful ''event''. :wink: I do occasionally when going to Pitt for example - have two extra mags, in pockets or mag pouches - that'd be 45+ - enough for WWIII in some folk's books ... but I sure don't want the incumbrance of that daily - and don't.

So - rambling again - gangs - the threat thereof - and how this might affect spare ammo carry - thoughts and advice etc?
 
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#2 ·
Ms13

I have seen MS13 spraypainted in PGH.
But, I don't know if it's just a wannabe emulation thing or really a problem here yet. Quantity 45+ rounds should have you covered for anything up to & including a National Emergency!:yup:
 
#3 ·
National Emergency!
LOl - gottcha QK! :tongue:

Seriously tho, as I said - enough is having ''some left'' and the way these gang dudes thow lead - I could easily imagine a firefight of epic proportions. In the open - good shot placement etc - of course 45 is all but laughable! That said - if things went to a sustained firefight with cover - then the whole deal takes on a different perspective. For which read (worst case scenario) - getting thru unscathed and actually getting home alive to sleep in own bed!

I confess to some flippancy - but am also probing for input!
 
#4 ·
From my stand point and believe it or not, Being a part time LEO, have not had too many run in's with what i would consider a real gang where i am at. but i believe that i train like i play... given between both of teh 45's i carry at any given time, the most i can carry is 13 rds per mag. so with my G21 i have 40 rounds and with my G30 i have 31 rds. on a bad day i have both weapons and usually at least one spare for each. slot of weight, but ready for the world. rambling to you i'm sure, but ya asked!
 
#6 ·
P95Carry & Armed In TN

Actually, when you factor in that you could hafta eject a mag early OR (a sometimes forgotten reality) is that in doing a reload...in the heat of a firefight (when you are actually catching return fire) that one full spare mag COULD get dropped & slam the concrete AND hit on the magazine feed lips which would likely put that one extra magazine totally out of service.
Stranger Things Have Happened.
 
#7 ·
Perhaps this is the time to thank our unsung, and often times unseen, members of shopping security we refer to as 'mall ninjas.'

How many times have you just come back from the gym, there's nothing in the house and suddenly you have a hankerin' for some mystery meat on a stick? You've just done three sets of six and pushed almost three tons of cold iron with your thighs. You're a tad cranky. Your lats are so tight that all you have to wear is a light jean jacket, that might cover only 70 or 80 rounds of Golden Sabers. You're as helpless as a kitten.

You might be the prey in the deadly embrace of some 95 pound pimply wise-ass mugger in the food court, and that three bucks in your pocket is just shreiking for a buritto. The Glock presses against the Pro Tech in your cargo pants. You have a black draped guardian angel.

Hey, you know the mall ninja is there for you! Oh, you can't see him. You might catch a faint wiff of Oxy5 as you rush past Victoria's Secret, averting your eyes from the intolerable filth. Your ear might catch the 'schwing' on the wind, as the suburban samurai unlimbers his Sharper Image katana, $29.95 at your better sword distributors. Man, you wish you could tie paracord like that!

Your visit is uneventful. And as the last vestage of antibiotic enriched beef slides down the gullet of your 54-inch chest, you breathe a sigh of relief. The beast is out there. You can almost smell his Adidas running shoes, you can almost hear his voice breaking as semi-adult testicles descend. You're a puppet on a string in his deadly ballet of destruction.

There's a shadow just out of peripheral vision, and it knocks over a Super Soaker display at Spencers, but this ebony hero has your back. You'll make it home tonight. Thanks to the mall ninja and his oath to fight crime, whether it's there or not.

Safe journey, my unseen ally. Once in your twenties the aroma of battle, and comic books, will draw away from the warrior you are as you guard these spittle covered halls. I hope the agonizing journey of misadventure ends for you. And I hope someday you get to kiss a real girl.
 
#8 ·
P95Carry said:
...So - rambling again - gangs - the threat thereof - and how this might affect spare ammo carry - thoughts and advice etc?
I've always assumed that I would be up against more than one opponent, and that's the way I train. I carry one extra mag, so 12+12+1. I suppose I could carry more, but I have a hard time coming up with a probable scenario where I would need 37 rounds.
 
#10 ·
Tourist, you owe me a keyboard.

P95,
I think situations like what you envision is where the "truck/trunk gun" comes into play. Grab that baby and a ammo can, hunker down behind some good cover and start making your environment a little less "target-rich".
Seriously, I'm only gonna engage until I can flee, unless I'm at home, or burdened with someone/something that prohibits my escape. I'm not gonna have a pitched battle on main street if I can avoid it. I don't play fair. I'll mow gang members down with my vehicle without a thought. Much easier than hitting a moving target under stress with a half inch piece of lead.
That said, I used to have a quad mag holder for my G22. I can't find it since the move. But when my CHL arrives, that's what I'd like to have on hand. 4 mags of 15, plus 16 rounds in the gun. 76 rounds. decent firepower. Oregon weather makes cover garments easy. I think I'm tainted by living in the Bay Area too long. I (luckily) never needed any firepower while I lived there. I can hardly imagine needing 76 rounds in my little town of 8,000, here in Oregon. But then again, you never know....
 
#11 ·
I am perhaps over playing this re amount of ammo - I don't carry extra most of the time. I guess I was exploring the outer limits somewhat - imagining if you will a situation where it was just me - and a few of ''them'' - with no easy option to retreat. Unlikely in the extreme but as ever - I try and ''stretch the envelope'' at times!


Dan - go here --http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1347306/posts

Here is some of it ....
Spreading from El Salvador to L.A. and across the United States, Mara Salvatrucha 13 is increasingly well organized and deadly.

Within one hour, two people were found murdered miles apart in suburban Nassau County, N.Y. After an intensive investigation, police officials learned the murders were the work of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13. It also soon became apparent the gang was sending a bold message to its members and associates. That message: ?If you are not loyal, you are dead.?

But there was another message in the brutal slayings for the people of Long Island. And that message was that gang violence had moved into the upper middle class enclaves of the Island, into the kinds of communities where the locals assume that crime is somebody else?s problem.

Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) is unfortunately becoming everybody?s problem. This plague that came to Long Island from El Salvador by way of the streets of Los Angeles follows the same migratory patterns as the Salvadoran immigrant community that it preys upon, fanning out across the United States from ethnic enclaves in California.
 
#13 ·
Dan - an expert on these thugs I am not. But it seems like they have a special tatt', tho whether that is visible I am not sure. I suspect that in their ''AO'' - the first you might know is - being under attack!
 
#15 ·
Ms13


America's Most Dangerous Gang
by Shelly Feuer Domash

Spreading from El Salvador to L.A. and across the United States, Mara Salvatrucha 13 is increasingly well organized and deadly.

Within one hour, two people were found murdered miles apart in suburban Nassau County, N.Y. After an intensive investigation, police officials learned the murders were the work of the violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha 13. It also soon became apparent the gang was sending a bold message to its members and associates. That message: “If you are not loyal, you are dead.”


But there was another message in the brutal slayings for the people of Long Island. And that message was that gang violence had moved into the upper middle class enclaves of the Island, into the kinds of communities where the locals assume that crime is somebody else’s problem.


Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) is unfortunately becoming everybody’s problem. This plague that came to Long Island from El Salvador by way of the streets of Los Angeles follows the same migratory patterns as the Salvadoran immigrant community that it preys upon, fanning out across the United States from ethnic enclaves in California.


Coming Together


Until recently, MS-13 wasn’t that big a player in East Coast gang culture. The reason for its weak position in the East Coast crime world was obvious: It wasn’t very well organized. MS-13 was comprised of a group of cliques that operated independently of each other.


No more. Law enforcement officials now report that gang members from across the country have come together to unite affiliated groups up and down the East Coast. The leadership for these cliques is now coming from as far away as California and even from El Salvador.


Robert Hart, senior agent in charge with the FBI, says that when individual groups of MS-13 unite, the results can be devastating. “The cliques, instead of operating independently of each other, are beginning to come together,” Hart explains. “The difference is by doing that, obviously you have a much tighter organization, much stronger structures and, instead of having various cliques doing whatever they want, wherever they want, there is one individual who is the leader and is able to control the payment of dues and the criminal acts they engage in. The result is very, very similar to what you would see in what we refer to as traditional organized criminal families.”


Finding Sanctuary


Los Angeles and New York law enforcement and even politicians are aware of the impact of MS-13 on their streets and on their crime statistics. So they’ve taken action. The results are usually not stellar, but at least these cities have recognized that MS-13 is a problem. Unfortunately, the leadership of MS-13 is not stupid. Once the heat comes down hard in L.A. and New York, they head for new turf, choosing Midwestern and Southern and suburban cities where gangs “are not an issue” and local officials and authorities are in denial.


And once MS-13 takes hold in a community, it grows fast. The gang reportedly has some 300 members in suburban Long Island. A few years back it didn’t have any.


Once MS-13 shows up on the radar, some local officials and authorities will take action. In Nassau County, for example, a joint gang task force headed by the FBI and comprised of local police departments, has arrested 16 leaders of MS-13. They were charged with two murders, assault, conspiracy, and firearms violations.


Such investigations aren’t easy because MS-13 has a pretty strident zero-tolerance policy toward anyone who informs the cops of their activities.


Court papers reveal that one of the Nassau County defendants was captured in a secretly recorded telephone conversation detailing how he killed a male victim because he had provided law enforcement officials with information and that he had “put one in his chest and three in the head.” In another recorded conversation, a second defendant said he killed a young female because, in part, she had also provided information to law enforcement.


Fighting Back


The senseless violence of MS-13 has shocked the local citizens of Nassau County, so the Nassau County Executive appointed a “gang czar” to deal with the increasing gang problem.


A seasoned, dedicated officer, the new “czar,” in reality, will find it difficult to accomplish what he has been mandated to do. His department, like many across the nation, is at its lowest staffing levels in recent history, and he has been given no additional personnel or resources to combat the problem. The public was placated by the appointment, but while politicians put Band-Aids on deep cuts, the problem continues to escalate on Long Island.


And Long Island is not alone. Nationally, police departments are dealing with the surge in violence emanating from MS-13 members.


In Charlotte, N.C., 53 gang members were arrested as part of Operation Fed Up, which targeted MS-13 members. Officials in the medium-sized Southern city say MS-13 has been involved in at least 11 murders in the Charlotte area since 2000. And with a membership estimated at 200, MS-13 is by far Charlotte’s largest gang.


Some 400 miles north of Charlotte, the northern Virginia and southern Maryland communities around Washington, D.C., have become MS-13 turf. Local authorities estimate that there are between 5,000 and 6,000 MS-13 members in the metropolitan area.


And where MS-13 goes, violence follows. In July 2003, an 18-year-old federal witness was stabbed to death; last May, a 16-year-old boy had his hands almost completely chopped off with a machete; and a week later a 17-year-old was shot and murdered. All three crimes were tied to MS-13 members.


The rapid increase in MS-13 activity along the corridor between Charlotte and D.C. is simply explained by Det. Tim Jolly, a gang specialist with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. The area has the nation’s second highest population of Salvadoran immigrants.


Gang of Chameleons


One of the more unusual aspects of MS-13 when compared to other street gangs is that it is extremely flexible in its activity. While some gangs are only into drugs, MS-13 will do any crime at any time.


Sgt. George Norris, supervisor of the gang unit in the Prince George’s County (Md.) Police Department, says MS-13 doesn’t sling drugs in his jurisdiction. “We see mostly citizen robberies, auto theft, shootings and cuttings, and homicides,” he says, adding that drug sales by MS-13 may be just a matter of time.


Violent and Vicious


When MS-13 moves into a new community it tends to announce its presence with violence. The same can be true when a new leader takes over the local cliques.


Norris says gang members from other areas had once been able to join the new gang by simply being “jumped in.” But now that new leaders have moved into Prince George’s County and consolidated the cliques, the gang’s local culture has become more violent and vicious.


“According to one of our informers, things have changed,” says Norris. “Now in order to get your letters or clique [symbols] tattooed on you, you have to also put in some violent act to show your commitment.”


Cop Killers


And MS-13 violence is not restricted to civilians, rival gang members, and clique traitors; the gang will go after cops. Threats against police officers, known to gang members as “green light” notices, have increased so much in the past few years that the Virginia Gang Association has warned officers in Virginia and states to the north and south to be wary of MS-13 members.


Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Jolly says he is aware of the threats against police officers in his community and in Virginia. Prince George’s County’s Norris says he’s heard them, too. “If you do something to them, their natural response is, ‘OK, I’m going to kill you,’” he says. “Or at least they talk like they will.”


Norris dismisses some of MS-13’s threats, but that doesn’t mean that officers should take all MS-13 threats lightly. The gang is extremely violent and it has attacked and will continue to attack anyone who gets in its way. That includes law enforcement officers.


Roots of Evil


Named for La Mara, a street in San Salvador, and the Salvatrucha guerillas who fought in El Salvador’s bloody civil war, Mara Salvatrucha 13 was organized in Los Angeles in the late ’80s. At first, the gang’s primary purpose was to defend Salvadoran immigrants from being preyed upon by other L.A. street gangs.


But like any other street gang that was created to defend a particular ethnic group, MS-13 was quickly perverted until its primary purpose was preying upon the Salvadoran community. It also violently defends its turf against any other gang that might seek to slice away a piece of its action.


Gang members sometimes wear blue and white, colors taken from the national flag of El Salvador. They can also sport numerous body and even face tattoos. However, some members are much less visible and therefore much more dangerous.


Recent reports indicate that MS-13 has expanded from California to Alaska, Oregon, Utah, Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Washington, D.C., and Florida. The gang has also been exported back to Central America.


Back Home


It’s estimated that there are 36,000 MS-13 members in Honduras alone. In Honduras, according to a March 2004 report prepared by the Washington, D.C.-based, right-wing think tank the Maldon Institute, MS-13 has, with increasing frequency, resorted to leaving a dismembered corpse, complete with a decapitated head, as a calling card. Recently, according to the report, such a grisly message was left with a note for the Honduran president.


The note is supposed to have stated the gang’s displeasure with an August 2003 law that made it illegal to be a part of a gang. Under Honduran law gang leaders can be sentenced to prison for up to 12 years and rank-and-file members from six to nine years, just for being in the gang. A gang member can be arrested for simply having a tattoo.


El Salvador has also launched a crackdown on MS-13. A police offensive called “Operation Strong-arm” has resulted in the arrest of more than 4,000 gang members.


For MS-13, these are small losses. The gang is nothing if not mobile. When it feels heat in the U.S., it moves to another state. When it feels heat in El Salvador and Honduras, it sets up operations in Mexico.


The Maldon Institute report indicates that MS-13 “appears to be in control of much of the Mexican border and, in addition to its smuggling and contraband rackets, the gang collects money from illegal immigrants that it helps [move] across the border into the United States.”


The ultra-conservative Maldon Institute is known for doomsday predictions when it comes to the U.S.-Mexico border. But there can be no denial that MS-13 is very active in smuggling people, drugs, and guns across the border. And independent reports indicate that many illegal immigrants have been assaulted, robbed, and even raped by MS-13 members.


Mexico is now taking steps to fight back against MS-13. In December, Mexican authorities arrested 224 gang members in response to what they called a threat to national security. Among the arrests were members of MS-13 who were charged with trafficking in drugs and firearms across Mexico and Central America.


Illusion of Cooperation


While some of the Central American countries appear to be cracking down on MS-13, serious problems still exist. And they are being missed by politically correct reporters who want to tout U.S.-Latin American cooperation.


For example, on Long Island, the media was quick to cover an agreement between El Salvador and Suffolk County to share information on MS-13. What the local reporters didn’t cover was a much more serious issue. If these gang members commit serious offenses, they can return home, and there is no extradition agreement. And, of course, they are doing so in increasing numbers.


“I would say that between Honduras and El Salvador, there are seven or eight people we are seeking to take into custody,” says Lt. Dennis Farrell, head homicide investigator for the Nassau County Police Department. “Proportionally, if you take that across the country, the numbers are astronomical, the number of people who have probably fled to these two countries.”


Farrell says that two gang members who his detectives are looking to arrest for two separate murders are now living in the same town in El Salvador. He calls the situation extremely frustrating. “You undertake a very in-depth and comprehensive investigation, pursue all possible leads, build a case, essentially conduct a successful investigation, only to have it thwarted by the fact that after having identified the killer or killers, you are unable, under the present international agreements, to return them to Nassau County to face murder charges.


“Even more than that frustration, how about the injustice and sense of desperation on the part of families who have lost loved ones? Where is the measure of justice? There is really no justice for those families, and absent some reworked or new initiative between our state department and those sovereign states, I don’t see any change in this condition in the foreseeable future,” Farrell adds.


In addition to extradition treaties, many gang investigators believe stricter and more uniform laws are needed here in this country. According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Jolly, one of the reasons MS-13 has migrated to the East Coast is the strict anti-gang laws on the West Coast. He also believes that, with the stricter gang laws in Central America, many MS-13 members may be coming back to the United States illegally.


Long Arms


With the number of MS-13 members growing nationwide (some cliques now even accept non-Hispanic members), and the violence escalating, the future for law enforcement appears grim.


“They adapt to what the police do,” says Prince George’s County’s Norris. “They will change the way they operate, depending on the way things are enforced by the police. If there is no enforcement, they will wear their colors and bandanas because in the communities they are in it is common knowledge and the people fear them, so it is a form of intimidation.


“Once the police recognize and confront them, they will change and wear different colors from the blue and white, no bandana on their head, maybe now in their pocket, and instead of the number 13 they will wear 67 or 76 because it equals 13. They adapt so it is a continually evolving thing.”


While the nation focuses on terrorism, the issue of gang violence has taken a lower priority. But to many, the violent acts of MS-13 members are more of an everyday threat that is being overlooked.


Shelly Feuer Domash is a Long Island-based freelance writer and a frequent contributor to POLICE magazine.
 
#17 ·
If you are in your vehicle, use it as a weapon. Also trunk guns, forethought actions as you pick up possible trouble and a winning attitude will help. If ya take out 1 or 2 the rest most likely will be headed the other way. More ammo will only help so much.
 
#18 ·
QK, thanks for the rundown on MS13. That is considerably MORE than our school administration told us at the last faculty meeting when we were informed that MS13 was operating within SIX BLOCKS of our inner city high school and they said..."Don't worry the police have it all under control....."
 
#19 ·
"Don't worry the police have it all under control....."
Yeah, right!!! If truth be known, I'd reckon the cops are more than a little concerned about these scumbags. Something to be VERY aware of methinks.
 
#20 ·
Gang Wafare?

P95Carry said:
Scott made me think a bit after mentioning about MS13 on another thread. I cannot but help wonder how things might go down, if somehow cornered by a bunch of them.

By all accounts - weaponry could included machetes - plus in many cases too guns no doubt. I imagine a scene where I am at a red light and a group of MS13 - or any gang come to that - see my vehicle and decide the color sucks - and want to ''get it on'' (may have been a slack day for capping people!). I have no avenue of easy escape.

This immediately brings up one big factor - ammo - and quantity thereof! Now on an average day - I am just 15+1 - well enough you'd think to deal with most things (and some). However - imagine four not so friendly, all armed, itinerant gangstas - I really then would be glad if I had at least one mag change ... foreseeing that if it went down badly - there could be one big load of shooting.

So - rambling again - gangs - the threat thereof - and how this might affect spare ammo carry - thoughts and advice etc?
These days my backups are situational dependent: If I'm close to home, it's my Glock M27 and a 10rd backup or my Sig P245 and an eight rd backup. If I'm in "Indian Country" then it's a M22 (15rd back up) for the Glock OR TWO 8rd backups (or more) for the Sig P245.

When I was really young and REALLY stupid....that is....when I was an active duty Second Lieutenant of Infantry, I'd likely as not have taken some of me mates who also held CCW's and gone looking for a scrap. "Cops having trouble? Call the US Army!" And gotten quickly killed for my bravado and stupidity. Being a little older and hopefully wiser now, I have to think carefully in advance in light of some vital training and experience gained since leaving active duty.

When I was a State Probation and Parole Officer I learned some vital things:
1. Real "Bangers" like those found in MS13 have very little fear of death. It's almost as if they fear LIFE more. Death is a constant companion and each has seen close friends borne away by the reaper. They will not be intimidated by the thought of getting killed or arrested.
2. Average citizens going about they're daily lives probably have little to fear from a gang unless they are somehow drawn into a "situation" either as target of opportunity or more likely as a witness to a crime.
3. If you're targeted and you're unable to detect the attack and thwart it in some way, you're probably toast. Depends on the range. Multiple attackers, extremely close contact at initiation of hostilities? I think they'd be overconfident (especially seeing an old, gray bearded overweight fart like me). My only hope to survive would be sudden massive intense and lethally focused violence. Very bloody, very spectacular. Crush and rip out a windpipe; rip off an ear; slice an achilles tendon (with Spyderco) and THEN draw for retention shooting stance!

If the range is longer and you're targeted, draw and take cover. Try not to let them flank you. Get on the cell and call 911. Stay low. Try not to contemplate The Battle of Hastings, The Alamo or Diem Bien Phu.

4. If you're a witness....well this is where the older and wiser part might come into play. Were I single, I MIGHT testify and hang the retaliation....bring it on! But I'm not single. Am I willing to risk the life of my wife and family on a corrupted Criminal Justice system that will only turn the bad guy loose AND give him my home address? Because once engaged a gang (especially a brutal one like MS13) will not back off....NOT EVER. You'll have an enduring war like legendary mountainman Jeremiah Johnson and the Crow Indian tribe. Or the fictional Mack Bolan and the mob. I'm too old for that crap.
 
#22 ·
QK - the worrying thing is the ''foothold'' is already more than serious! This is why I brought this up.

I fully expect to never be even close to these thugs - relishing as I do the area in which I live. But sure as heck - would not want to be in their ''hood'' without serious retaliatory capability! It is hard to believe we have vermin like this in our midst.
 
#23 ·
I can only use a newspaper and harsh language....

P95Carry said:
QK - the worrying thing is the ''foothold'' is already more than serious! This is why I brought this up.

I fully expect to never be even close to these thugs - relishing as I do the area in which I live. But sure as heck - would not want to be in their ''hood'' without serious retaliatory capability! It is hard to believe we have vermin like this in our midst.
Six blocks from where I work and my best protection is a rolled up newspaper--which I'm still capable of using to the point of death...but I'd really rather avoid having to do so.
 
#24 ·
It's not MS13, but recently some gang folk out here came off the local Indian reservation and went trying to kick in people's doors on the outskirts of town. They cut up one man and forced him and his family into hiding, tried my friend's house in the middle without success, and moved on to the next where they tore up an empty house of valuables and plaster for a while until the police caught them.

The admitted number was in excess of six - my friend thought what would have happened had he answered the door with his 13 round Glock mag, and at that moment, finally understood the "paranoia" I brought with from Chicago, where chances are no amount of ammo I can carry would be enough if things really hit the fan.

I've half joked I carry less than thirty seconds of ammo, which is probably about right.
I don't want to think about 6-1 odds. I'm not coming home in one piece against that in very real terms, and I know it. Even with 18 in the stick and another 17 in another and another 17 in another and five rounds in the snub, I'm loaded for bear and have either massive overkill for a 'regular' situation or can't have enough.

That's one of the reasons I keep a FAL in the trunk of the car, ready to roll. It won't save me, but it's something to fight towards.

I've had the luxury of 1-1 odds precisely once in the last dozen times I've had to touch a firearm in anger. I know I'm a good shot under stress - but I figure that 18 rounds gets me three dropped BGs most of the time, regardless of caliber or situation. Anything more than that is gravy.
 
#25 ·
P95Carry said:
Now on an average day - I am just 15+1 - well enough you'd think to deal with most things (and some).
If you choose to carry an auto, IMHO you should always carry at least one spare mag. Like a spare tire, I feel a spare mag is a "must have," even if there is no perceived higher threat level. If you think MS13 justifies carrying more, go for it, but always have at least one spare (for Mr. Murphy).

My $0.02.

SSKC
 
#26 ·
The Critical Magazine

The mag is the weakest link in any semi~auto firearm (long or short gun) and fully 85%+ of all otherwise properly cleaned and working firearm FTF & FTFunction Weapon Failure can be traced back to either an incompatible, defective, dirty, or Out Of Spec. magazine. Just F.Y.I.
Extra/Spare Magazines are a very GOOD thing to have with you! :singing:
 
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