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What is the Palm Pistol^®?

The Palm Pistol^® is an ergonomically innovative single shot defensive firearm chambered in .38 special that may be fired using either hand without regard to orientation of the stock. Suited for home defense, concealed carry or as a backup gun. It is also ideal for seniors, disabled or others who may have limited strength or manual dexterity. Using the thumb instead of the index finger for firing, it significantly reduces muzzle drift, one of the principle causes of inaccurate targeting. Point and shoot couldn't be easier.

For more detailed information, read the Palm Pistol Specification.
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Pre-Production Sales

We plan a limited initial production run with a projected retail cost of $300. Sales are restricted to US citizens and resident aliens as permitted by law. All transfers must be made through a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL).

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Key Features

• Uses thumb instead of index finger to fire
• Optional Picatinny rail for accessorizing
• Designed for LaserLyte Subcompact V2 laser sight
• Loaded chamber indicator
• Cocked striker indicator
• Easy breech access and loading
  
• Dual independently operable grip safeties
  
• Discreet concealment
  
• ATF classified as standard "pistol"
  

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Constitution Arms™
12 Hoffman Street
Maplewood, NJ 07040-1114
phone: 973-378-8011
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CHOOSE A NEW RIFLE SCOPE

Is Fixed or Variable Power right for you?

If you're planning to purchase a new scope -- or, better yet, a new rifle and new scope -- now's the time to start noodling what you need so you'll have plenty of time to get everything set up and sighted in before the next big-game season rolls around. When it comes to scopes, a key starting point is whether you should choose a fixed or variable power model. To help you decide, watch two experts from Guns & Ammo magazine, Dick Metcalf and Wayne van Zwoll, debate which is better.

• Watch a short video from Guns & Ammo on the pros and cons between fixed and variable scopes.
• Find a shooting range near you where you can sight in and practice.
• Print out a free sighting-in target from Shooting Times magazine.

GunsAmerica Web Magazine Articles - April, 2010

Perfecting Your Glock
by Brian Jensen
http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst58_Perfecting-the-Perfect-Pistol.aspx

How to Select a Handgun for Self Defense
by Jim Higginbotham
http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst59_Choose-Your-Weapon-Part-I.aspx

Don't Blow the Shot of a Lifetime!
by Craig Boddington
http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst60_DONT-BLOW-THE-SHOT-OF-A-LIFETIME.aspx

The Ultimate Rifle Sight
by Ross Seyfried
http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst57_The-Envelope-Please-My-Best-Rifle-Sight-Award-Goes-To---.aspx

Accuracy by the Thousandths
by Troy Lawton (USAMU Custom Firearms Shop) http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst61_Accuracy-by-the-Thousandths.aspx

Get Out Turkey Hunting This Year!
by Carlos Lopez
http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst63_Get-Out-Turkey-Hunting.aspx

The State of the Gun Blogosphere
by Steve PW Johnson
http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst62_The-State-of-the-Gun-Blogosphere.aspx

Cowboy Diary - SASS Winter Range 2010
by Legendary Guns of the West
http://forums.gunsamerica.com/yaf_postst56_Cowboy-Diary--Winter-Range-2010-Feb-2428.aspx

Shooting the Glock

This article is an excerpt from the new book, Massad Ayoob's Greatest Handguns of the World!

Ayoob demonstrates the G18 machine pistol on full auto. There are six spent casings in the air.

When it came my turn to do an edition of the Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery, I said among other things, “There is no easier pistol to learn to shoot well!” It’s the truth, and the statement deserved the italics, then and now. The manual of arms is drastically simple. Insert magazine. Rack slide. Pistol will now shoot when trigger is pulled. End of story.

The low bore axis and the steep Luger-like grip angle make the Glock a “natural pointer.” If poor light or urgent circumstances keep you from getting the sight picture you might want, the wide flat top of its slide guides the eye in coarse aim like the “BROADway” rib popularized on tournament claybird shotguns by the Browning Superposed. Caliber for caliber, it kicks less than you’d think it should, because the polymer frame is flexing very slightly with the recoil and absorbing some of the impact.

Glock 37 holds 11 rounds of .45 GAP, and is standard issue now for state troopers in Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.

While any semiautomatic pistol can have a stoppage due to cycling failure if it is not held with a locked wrist, absent human error the Glock performs at a high order of reliability shared only by the best Beretta, HK, SIG, S&W, and Ruger products. Its durability is unexceeded.

The company’s motto, “Glock Perfection,” sounds rather bold. They might have better said, “Quest for Perfection,” because I have to say that the company has been responsive to constructive criticism. When some felt the 5.5-pound trigger was too light for police work and self-defense, they made heavier pulls available.

The first fix was an 8-pound connector between the trigger bar and the unique cruciform sear plate, but that didn’t do much to mitigate unintentional discharges and just made the pistol harder to shoot accurately. At the request of the New York State Police, Glock came up with a new module to replace the trigger spring.

Dubbed the New York Trigger (NY-1), it gave a firm resistance to the trigger finger from the very beginning of the pull, and brought total pull weight up to about eight pounds while still using the 5-pound connector. NYSP adopted the Glock 17 so equipped, and kept the NY-1 when they later switched to the Glock 37. NYPD wanted an even heavier pull for the Glock 19 that was the most popular on the city’s list of three approved 9mm service pistols. Glock introduced a module that raised pull weight to nearly 12 pounds, the NY-2, but it made the gun so difficult to shoot that no entities but NYPD and the New York State Parole office seem to have adopted that variation.

This, plus strong emphasis from Glock and other sectors of the police training community on keeping the finger out of the trigger guard until one has actually chosen to fire, has made the Glock pistol a safe gun in competent hands. It can be argued that no gun is safe in incompetent hands.

While I personally feel the NY-2 trigger passes a point of diminishing returns with its nearly 12-pound pull weight over a short travel, the nominally 8-pound NY-1 trigger gives a remarkably good pull, one that can satisfy the liability defense attorney and the marksman alike. I have it in all my carry Glocks, have won matches with it, and prefer it for several reasons. First, there is the liability element.

Glocks handle recoil well with proper grasp. This is the G33“baby Glock,” loaded with 125 grain/1350 foot-second .357 SIG ammo…

…and here it is at height of recoil. Locked thumbs, crush grip, and “wedge” hold with support hand all help here.

It’s not safer so much because it’s a couple of pounds heavier; it’s safer because it gives a firm resistance to the finger from the very beginning of the pull. The standard Glock trigger pull is rather like that of a classic Mauser military rifle: a long, light take-up, and then only a short space where the trigger resists the finger before giving a clean break. The vasoconstriction that accompanies fight or flight response makes us lose our sense of touch and fine motor skill, and that light take-up can be lost under stress. The firm resistance of the New York trigger is more likely to be felt by the shooter, under these circumstances, in time to prevent an accidental discharge.

Second, the New York pull gives a crisper, cleaner break. The regular Glock trigger gives you a bit of a sproing like your childhood cap pistol when the shot goes, and the NY does not. It also seems to control backlash better. Finally, it is more durable. I’ve seen several of the little “s”-shaped springs that connect the trigger bar to the cruciform sear plate break over the years, but I’ve personally never seen an NY-1 fail. It’s simply a stronger unit.

Early on, shooters discovered that the plastic Glock sights tended to break. Install some good metal night sights (you can order them as a factory option), and the NY-1 trigger module, and you have an extraordinarily robust pistol.

The 3.5-pound trigger is, as Glock clearly states in its literature, for target shooters only. I wouldn’t put it in a carry gun, and I’ve seen a lot of people who do better with the New York because it gives them more of a surprise break. The lighter pull will of course better survive a trigger jerk, but jerking the trigger is not how people win affairs involving pistols. Another option popular among the cognoscenti is mating the 3.5-pound connector to the NY-1 module, which gives a smooth, revolverish pull of about five pounds.

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Russian Roulette, at a wedding, with a Baikal IZH-79-9

Hollywood romanticized and turned an act of suicide into some sort of mystical interaction with the "universe". One of my favorite movies, Man on Fire, is a classic example of this. A former member of the special forces attempts suicide. When the round in his gun fails to fire he assumes the "universe" is protecting his life. You do not have to be a member of the special forces to know that cartridges often fail to fire. The protagonist keeps the mis-fired cartridge assuming it will only kill those who deserve to die. Sure, it is not classic Russian Roulette but the same principle. The upshot of Hollywood's fascination with Russian Roulette is that drunk teenagers and adults dabble in this misguided, incredibly stupid, quest for enlightenment. Late last year a Chechen man, drunk, arrived at a wedding with a Baikal IZH-79-9 less lethal pistol. The pistol fires 8mm less-lethal CS gas or rubber bullet rounds. IZH-79-9 "Makarych" He cocked the put it to his head and, before pulling the trigger, surreptitiously decocked it. The pistol is a single action / double action that can be decocked by applying the safety. Baikal IZH-79 The idiot then racks the slide, cocking the gun in the process, and hands it to another guest who fires a shot into his head. At point blank range a rubber bullet from the IZH-79-9 has up to 36 ft/lbs of energy. This is a 1/3 of a .22 LR but I am sure it would either cause death or brain damage. The incident was caught on video and has been reported by the Russian media. You can find it on Google, if you wish. So in summary: Russian roulette is not mystical and less-lethal is not always. [ I know I am preaching to the sane. This was posted for the benefit of anyone Googling the above incident. Maybe this post will save the life of a drunk teenager. ] THE ABOVE IS FROM THE FIREARMBLOG

GUN DIGEST: MOST POPULAR POLICE HANDGUNS

1900-1999 - Part 1

Colt and Smith & Wesson battled for police duty supremacy throughout the 20th century. In part one of a series, Paul Scarlata looks at the history of early law enforcement handguns. Their evolution may surprise you. Full Story

When The Threat Is Real - Fight or Flight?

By George Finegold

In a "real-life" situation the effect of a threat or aggression will cause what is known as an ADRENALINE DUMP. The tremendous increase in the flow of adrenaline is normal and even with extreme training, it cannot be stopped - only somewhat managed. If not properly trained, it can mean the difference between life and death! When properly trained, your natural instincts can make use of this extra source of power when having to use lethal force.

There is an expression, "keep it simple - stupid" and there is much truth in that statement. Practicing techniques over and over cause a "habit" to form and muscle memory does the rest. Under the stress of an attack situation, you have no time to rationally think. You will act according to instinct. The goal is to turn your untrained instinct to survive into a survival mode that reacts according to your training. You will experience "tunnel sision - withe your peripheral vision gone. Most of your fine motor skills will disappear which leaves you with the large motor skills. These are the basic "arms and hands rising to protect your face, kicking, poking" and essentially going ballistic. Only your prior training and practice may save your life!

In a threat situation that would require a response to use your gun to save yours or someone else's life, you MUST be able to respond spontaneously without thinking! Only practice and professional training can give you this level of skill. Do not fool yourself into thinking that a few hours at the range does it. Getting your "Carry" license did not give you the skills.

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Whatever Happened to Shoulder Holsters?

By Frank W. James

You don't hear much about shoulder holsters anymore. To many, they are about as popular as spoiled milk and about as useful as a dial telephone or a typewriter. I am an advocate of shoulder holsters, or underarm holsters, as some refer to these designs, but I acknowledge their weaknesses. I just prefer them for their strengths. I feel anyone contemplating concealed carry should be well informed about all aspects of these designs.

For the most part, many leading authorities condemn shoulder holsters. Their reasons are multiple, but the main objection has to be simple comfort. There is no question that shoulder holsters are an acquired taste, maybe like escargot, but I know French citizens who don't like to eat snails, so education and explanation is certainly necessary. Many shoulder holster designs are uncomfortable, while others are probably too complicated for the average end user. They may require too much attention in order to get the design to fit properly.

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SKS Collecting: The Last Hold Out?

December 16, 2009

by Dan Shideler

Summary
Having held out for years, Dan Shideler gives the SKS a chance.

The red fiberglass stock on the author’s SKS is actually heavier than most wood stocks.

I used to feel lonely — but no more. I used to feel left out — but no more.

I have finally broken down and bought an SKS.

Owning an SKS isn’t anything to be particularly proud of, even though I’m probably the last person in my shooting circle to buy one. It’s a guilty pleasure, like filling your mouth with Kraft EasyCheese straight from the can. Yet in these increasingly bleak economic times, when filling your truck’s gas tank seems like an orgy of financial excess, the Samozaryadniy Karabin sistemi Simonova 1945g (Simonov’s Self-Loading Carbine, Model of 1945) looks like a pretty darn good deal.(Click here for the complete article)

The Consequences of Deadly Force - Part 1

November 12, 2009

by Michael Bender

Summary
Using, or threatening, deadly force with a gun carries with it serious consequences. These tips by an expert personal defense instructor will keep you safe from criminals and criminal prosecutors.

Michael Bender of the Personal Protection Academy demonstrates defensive handgun technique, but stresses the legal and financial consequences of a defensive gun use (DGU).

Physical Consequences

Many of you have seen photos of gunshot wound victims. Ugly stuff. Even for those who survived those injuries, their wounds had to have been debilitating for a lifetime.

Emotional Consequences

Shooting someone — or getting shot — is likely to affect your outlook on the world, perhaps for the rest of your days.

Financial Consequences

Defending yourself from prosecution and/or civil litigation can be expensive — just a huge financial burden for the average Joe. Expect to shell out $10,000 or more in attorney retainer and legal expenses if you even draw that gun, let alone shoot someone with it. If the thing goes bang, $100,000 can disappear quickly in your legal struggle to stay out of prison.

Legal Consequences

You’ll have a very small window to get this right. Do this wrong, and you might go to prison. I’ll repeat that. Do this wrong, and you might lose your freedom.

(click here to read entire article)

The Consequences of Deadly Force - Part 2

December 02, 2009

by Michael Bender

Summary
When a Trier of Fact determines reasonableness of your actions, the nature and immediacy of that danger and the probability that it’s going to result in death or serious bodily injury will almost certainly be considered. You must be reasonably in immediate fear of death or great bodily harm.

Reasonably in immediate fear of death or great bodily harm. Hmmmmm. Sounds kinda squishy. Legalese. Let’s parse that a bit.

Many states call these threats forcible felonies …aggravated assault, various types of murder andmanslaughter, kidnapping, rape, sexual abuse of a child, arson, robbery, burglary … really any felony offense that involves use of force or violence against a person so as to create a substantial danger of death or serious bodily injury.

Here’s something we all need to keep in mind. Reasonable fear is in the eye of the victim … in other words, in the eye of the one who is scared.

What’s going to be most relevant is that the victimhad a reasonable perception and a belief that the threat was real, regardless if after the event it was found that the attacker’s gun wasn’t loaded, or was a toy, for a couple of common examples of how foolish folks get shot by the Po-Po.

Keep this in mind, too. The Wolf doesn’t necessarily have to be threatening you with a gun before you’d be justified in threatening or using one on him. Big strong wolf attacking a smaller and weaker victim … great disparity in capabilities. In such a case, the smaller person might be justified in employing a firearm to avoid being maimed or killed.

Same thing with multiple attackers and a single defender.

(Click here to read entire article)

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