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"what's up with a taurus .45 only costing $270? i never realized they were that cheap."

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"Their Beretta 9X clones are cheap cause they're made on old Berretta equipment, so the customer doesn't have to eat the high initial investment costs. Those clones aren't bad BTW."

I own a Tauras PT-92 which is a Beretta 92FS clone. Mine shoots very well and is fairly accurate. From what I understand, Taurus bought the tools from a Beretta plant in Brazil and still uses them to make the clones (with a few small revisions over the years such as the Taurus trigger lock.)

The only other Taurus that I've shot was a 9mm semi-auto that was so far off you had to aim about a foot to the right to hit something 10-15 feet away. The guy paid $300 for it and it was brand new. It had never been dropped or anything. The sites were not adjustable, so he was basically screwed.

From the other horror stories I've heard I think they have some quality control issues and I probably wouldn't recommend anything from them except the Beretta clones.

I've got three Beretta 92 15-round magazines if anyone wants to buy them at a fair price. They are the cheap stamped steel aftermarket magazines and I only use the factory ones now. One of them occassionally jams with hollowpoints, but the other two have never failed me. I'll toss in the one that jams for free if anyone buys the other two.

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 10:54 AM. Reason : s]

1/24/2006 10:42:30 AM

I'm looking at getting a pistol in the near future, but I cant find the handgun permit application online. The Wake County Sheriff's Office site online says nothing about exactly where you get the permit application http://www.rtpnet.org/~wcso/pistol.html

For Guilford County you can download the pistol permit application online, print it, then take it in to the Guilford County Sheriff.

Is this the place? (this is mentioned under the Concealed Permit section of their website)

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"Applications are available at the Sheriff's Records Office located on the 2nd floor of the Wake County Public Safety Center, 330 S. Salisbury Street, Raleigh, between the hours of 8:30am and 5:00pm Monday-Friday. Telephone 919-856-6949."

1/24/2006 11:04:14 AM

:just reread your post: yeah the "public safety building" is pretty much the jail, its across the street from the courthouse on salisbury i think, go to the 2nd floor take a right out of the elevators and its at the end of the hall. and someone find me the thread on here about what roads around campus you can drive on with a handgun

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 11:17 AM. Reason : +]

1/24/2006 11:15:49 AM

12341542

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1/24/2006 1:14:58 PM

cops in the south are gonna stereotype if they see you with a gun

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 1:35 PM. Reason : .]

1/24/2006 1:35:06 PM

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"The only other Taurus that I've shot was a 9mm semi-auto that was so far off you had to aim about a foot to the right to hit something 10-15 feet away. The guy paid $300 for it and it was brand new. It had never been dropped or anything. The sites were not adjustable, so he was basically screwed. From the other horror stories I've heard I think they have some quality control issues and I probably wouldn't recommend anything from them except the Beretta clones."

I have a 5 shot Taurus .38 special. It shoots great - a friend of mine actually used it to certify for his CCWP and shot a tighter group than I did with my Beretta 92FS - of course, thats mostly my fault.

1/24/2006 1:54:32 PM

sig pro .40.

1/24/2006 1:59:42 PM

nm found what a i was lookin for, wanted to know if pullen was considered school property, new sig pro 2022

1/24/2006 2:06:12 PM

i found the thread that I was looking for but it didnt answer my question really well, I wanted to know if all of pullen was considered school property or partially starting from the bridge to hillsborough or on the cutthrough by the bell tower or what? also what are the rules for transporting a firearm if you dont have a conceiled permit?

1/24/2006 3:01:49 PM

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"No, it's in the $325-350 price range. A small step up in price for a large step up in quality."

The used ones they have now are closer to $500.

1/24/2006 6:02:48 PM

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"what's up with a taurus .45 only costing $270? i never realized they were that cheap. "

Quit thinking about that damn Taurus, you already have one of the best ccw handguns of all time

1/24/2006 7:30:56 PM

the best CCW of all time is the glock 36, which i am a proud owner of

1/24/2006 8:22:29 PM

Slim is in.............allthough I prefer the 30, 27,26,23,22,21,20,19,17

[Edited on January 24, 2006 at 10:18 PM. Reason : 35]

1/24/2006 10:15:35 PM

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"From the other horror stories I've heard I think they have some quality control issues and I probably wouldn't recommend anything from them except the Beretta clones."

Even those clones have quality control problems. Small-caliber Taurus revolvers seem to be pretty solid, though.

1/24/2006 10:17:29 PM

i am the proud owner of a glock 22

1/24/2006 10:39:01 PM

glock 22 here also, very dependable

1/25/2006 3:41:46 PM

2/9/2006 4:18:07 PM

EAA Witness, 9mm/.40/.45. If you shop around, you can probably snag one at/below $300.

2/9/2006 5:08:33 PM