Do you modify your carry weapon

[Irving]

I stuff all the nooks and crannies with dust and lint.

[TFOGGER]

Any time you are involved in a defensive shooting, you are likely to have to defend your actions in at least a civil court. I do indeed carry hollowpoint ammo(similar to what LEOs are using in my area), but no handloads. My knives are sharp because they are safer that way. Literally ANYTHING you do will be scrutinized, and possibly used to try to influence a jury. I always keep in mind that the burden of proof in a civil trial is much lower than in a criminal court. Simply by choosing not to be victims, we open ourselves to possible civil suits in the event that we are forced to defend our lives and those of our loved ones, so I am very careful about how much I give the potential plaintiff's attorney to work with.

[nathan0259]

Any time you are involved in a defensive shooting, you are likely to have to defend your actions in at least a civil court. I do indeed carry hollowpoint ammo(similar to what LEOs are using in my area), but no handloads. My knives are sharp because they are safer that way. Literally ANYTHING you do will be scrutinized, and possibly used to try to influence a jury. I always keep in mind that the burden of proof in a civil trial is much lower than in a criminal court. Simply by choosing not to be victims, we open ourselves to possible civil suits in the event that we are forced to defend our lives and those of our loved ones, so I am very careful about how much I give the potential plaintiff's attorney to work with.

I agree and a more accurate fire arm is safer that's why I alter them to work for me. My point is I'm not going to carry a gun I'm a worse shot with because the prosecutor will pick apart every change I have made to the gun. The prosecution will do that no matter what.

[brutal]

I stuff all the nooks and crannies with dust and lint.

This too. You forgot dead skin cells, leather fluff and Kydex wear marks.

[SouthPaw]

Most I have ever done was night sights. I have a +2 grip extension on the same G26. Other than those two I leave them alone.

[Zundfolge]

Every time the issue of modifying a carry or SD gun comes up there's always a chorus of:
"OMG an anti-gun DA will throw you in prison forever even though the shoot is 110% justified!"

And yet I've never seen a case where a modification to a gun got an otherwise good guy in trouble (and I've been interested in this subject for a couple decades).

This discussion is never anything more than a bunch of armchair DA's debating the hypothetical. Everyone speaking with such absolute certainty and yet not a single "so-and-so vs. such-and-such-state" case reference linked.

[TFOGGER]

Every time the issue of modifying a carry or SD gun comes up there's always a chorus of:
"OMG an anti-gun DA will throw you in prison forever even though the shoot is 110% justified!"

And yet I've never seen a case where a modification to a gun got an otherwise good guy in trouble (and I've been interested in this subject for a couple decades).

This discussion is never anything more than a bunch of armchair DA's debating the hypothetical. Everyone speaking with such absolute certainty and yet not a single "so-and-so vs. such-and-such-state" case reference linked.

Not a case of a modified firearm, but merely the choice to carry a 10mm instead of a .40 or .45...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2790117/posts

[blacklabel]

It was a standard Glock 19 loaded with a combination of Slivertip ammunition and some other miscellaneous ammo that was at the bottom of the mag. He was trying to paint the picture of this gun being inherently dangerous, reckless, unsafe, saying "It doesn't have a safety on it, does it?"

Page 29, paragraph 2.

http://www.armedcitizensnetwork.org/...%20Booklet.pdf

I've found other instances of the firearm, it's safety or modifications being called into question in the past but don't feel like digging them up.

[BuffCyclist]

^ The answer to the safety question is no, a Glock does not have a safety ON it. The safeties are IN it!

[BuffCyclist]

To answer the OP's question, I have never done anything to my carry pistol (Glock 23). Was always spending my toy money on other things, so I never did anything to the trigger or bought night sights.

My M&P40c however, I swapped out the sear housing block (from factory part) to get rid of the Internal Lock and the Magazine Disconnect (I did this mod because if I bought the version without the IL/MD, then it would have a huge ugly warning on the slide that says "This firearm is capable of firing with the magazine removed). I then bought an Apex RAM in the slight chance that the trigger spring were ever to break. I have some Trijicon HD night sights ready to install when I get free time and eventually I'll get the Apex Duty/Carry Action Enhancement Kit. But, that's probably all I will ever do with it other than shoot the snot out of it.

And to be fair, an attorney could claim that because you have a range membership that you were preparing to be in a gunfight. They can claim anything, but lawyers are lawyers and they will make up all sorts of crazy shit just to get their client off the hook, or make the defendant look guilty.