I’m kinda geeked up about this one. The Walther PPS.

Image stolen from official Walther site. I’m pimping the product, that’s fair use, right?

Two reason:

1) It’s 1.04″ thick. That beats the Glock 26 by 0.14″ which doesn’t seem like much, but it can be.

2) That magazine release. God I love that thing on my P22. Sure, the P22 is a pile of crap, but the magazine release is really spiffy and the PPS is using the same kind. I’ve got little hands. They’re about the same size that you’d find on a 5’2″ to 5’6″ sized woman. I can work a traditional American-style thumb magazine release but it usually requires me to position my hand outside of a firing grip to do it. With the P22′s lever at the bottom of the trigger guard I can drop an empty mag without changing my grip at all. Plus, it’s ambidextrous by it’s very nature.

Do I plan on buying one? Well, no. I’d like to, but the funds just aren’t there. Still, I consider this a rather exciting introduction to the pistols currently on the market. I’m suspecting that it’ll work well for a lot people, and I’d really like to get my hands on one and give it a go.

Uncle sums it up pretty nicely.

If you haven’t been following the recent events online with the anti-gun blogs coming up, getting nailed in comments by the pro-gun side, and evetually closing down comments he’s got a pretty good refresher course over there.

There’s simply more of us than them in the online community. We’ve naturally organized ourselves into groups, like at The High Road, The Firing Line, ARFCOM, and our blogs. Hell, even Democratic Underground has an online forum for gun rights.

The anti-2A crowd is never going to win the online debate. There are simply too many gun owners in this country and with that ownership comes knowledge. We know the laws, we know that our guns are out on the streets shedding innocent blood, and we can smell bullshit from a mile away.