Hi there folks,
My reasons for joining this community are to learn more about being a responsible gun owner, stay in the know of important law changes, to learn and better understand current laws, hopefully find some additional public ranges nearby (south broad ripple resident) and some cool people to shoot with and learn from (self defense tactics).
In my family, we were raised around guns, finally, I am a proud handgun owner. My username gives me away, I own a Springfield XDS 9mm. I was partial to this gun, growing up around my uncle who has three XD's and swears by them to be reliable. To my surprise, he tried to steer me away from it for daily carry, but I like the versatility, size, and weight for a multi-use gun.
I have had a few mis-feeds. I've sent about 350 rounds through it so far with probably 15 mis-feeds, which is highly concerning to me. I'd have to look back to figure out which rounds I was using. Not terrible terrible quality by any means. If anyone can speak to this, that would be great. My only thought is that it simply needs to be broken in a bit more for reliability. It's cleaned after every use.
My my second question is about the laws for Marion county self defense. I read a post here, which originally led me to joining... that you are able to let loose if you are defending your life or for protection of property... How far does this go? On property / off property? I'm curious about the legal (court proceedings) ramifications on the property side. Say someone is in my back yard at night steeling my belongings, at what point would it be legally justified
to shoot? I don't intend to shoot unless I feel threatened for my life or they have a gun from what I can gather at that time. But how do the cops and legal system view it if it doesn't go down just like that? Hope I'm coming acrossed ok here... Any insight and real life examples would be great on this one.
Well, nice to meet y'all! I look forward to hearing back.
XDS9
My reasons for joining this community are to learn more about being a responsible gun owner, stay in the know of important law changes, to learn and better understand current laws, hopefully find some additional public ranges nearby (south broad ripple resident) and some cool people to shoot with and learn from (self defense tactics).
In my family, we were raised around guns, finally, I am a proud handgun owner. My username gives me away, I own a Springfield XDS 9mm. I was partial to this gun, growing up around my uncle who has three XD's and swears by them to be reliable. To my surprise, he tried to steer me away from it for daily carry, but I like the versatility, size, and weight for a multi-use gun.
I have had a few mis-feeds. I've sent about 350 rounds through it so far with probably 15 mis-feeds, which is highly concerning to me. I'd have to look back to figure out which rounds I was using. Not terrible terrible quality by any means. If anyone can speak to this, that would be great. My only thought is that it simply needs to be broken in a bit more for reliability. It's cleaned after every use.
My my second question is about the laws for Marion county self defense. I read a post here, which originally led me to joining... that you are able to let loose if you are defending your life or for protection of property... How far does this go? On property / off property? I'm curious about the legal (court proceedings) ramifications on the property side. Say someone is in my back yard at night steeling my belongings, at what point would it be legally justified
to shoot? I don't intend to shoot unless I feel threatened for my life or they have a gun from what I can gather at that time. But how do the cops and legal system view it if it doesn't go down just like that? Hope I'm coming acrossed ok here... Any insight and real life examples would be great on this one.
Well, nice to meet y'all! I look forward to hearing back.
XDS9
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