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If for some reason, you no longer wish to receive these e-mails please accept our apologies and respond to this message with REMOVE in the subject line and we will remove your name from the mailing list. Citizens Association for Responsible Gun Ownership = CARGO www.cargogunclub.org ============================================================= Hello Fellow CARGO Members, The next meeting will be held at Napoli’s on Thursday, June 21st. We will meet at Napoli's in Wylie. Napoli's 701 N Highway 78 # A Wylie, TX 75098 For the dinner portion of the meeting, we will be in the meeting room between 5:45 and 7:00 for food and fellowship. The meeting will begin at 7:00 PM and run until about 9:00. Under the new Texas Open Carry Law, you could be committing an offense if you remove your pistol from its holster while open carrying. While at Napoli’s DO NOT remove your pistol from its holster unless it is an emergency. Member Don Bridges has volunteered his shop for the meeting. There are a very limited number of chairs at the shop, so please bring a camp chair for the meeting. We will meet there from 7:00 (ish) until 9:00 (ish) The address is: 2274 EAST Brown Street in Wylie While heading east on Brown Street, it is 1/2 mile past stop sign that's at the intersection of Brown Street and Kreymer Lane on the right hand side. The shop is behind a small white house with a picket fence around the front yard. Meeting gun topics: • For show and tell, we will be going down the S 2095 and HR 5410 (please see the end of the newsletter for the full text of S 2095) list of banned firearms for a while so if you have any firearms: All of the following rifles, copies, duplicates, variants, or altered facsimiles with the capability of any such weapon thereof: • (iii) Calico Liberty pistols. • (iv) DSA SA58 PKP FAL pistol. • (v) Encom MP–9 and MP–45. • (vi) Heckler & Koch model SP–89 pistol. • (vii) Intratec AB–10, TEC–22 Scorpion, TEC–9, and TEC–DC9. • (viii) IWI Galil Ace pistol, UZI PRO pistol. • (ix) Kel-Tec PLR 16 pistol. • (x) The following MAC types: • MAC–10. o MAC–11. o Masterpiece Arms MPA A930 Mini Pistol, MPA460 Pistol, MPA Tactical Pistol, and MPA Mini Tactical Pistol. o Military Armament Corp. Ingram M–11. o Velocity Arms VMAC. • (xi) Sig Sauer P556 pistol. • (xii) Sites Spectre. • (xiii) All Thompson types, including the following: o Thompson TA510D. o Thompson TA5. • (xiv) All UZI types, including Micro-UZI. Have anything non-firearms related to share? Got a great knife that you just picked up, an air-rifle or Pistol, a new tactical flash light or red-dot scope? The club always enjoys seeing this as well. If you have any suggestions for future speakers or topics please send your feedback to [email protected]. When was the last time you visited our web site? Please take some time to go to the CARGO website at www.cargogunclub.org https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/glock-34-gen-5- review/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=20180528_BlogDigest_279&utm_campaign=/blog/glock-34-gen-5- review/ Glock 34 GEN 5 Review – Out Of The Box Battle or Race Gun Ready by CLAY MARTIN on MAY 24, 2018 The Glock 34 Gen 5 is a long slide 9mm that is equally capable on the battlefield or at a competition. The longer slide allows for greater sight radius and it’s easier to control recoil and have the gun “track” back on target. Glock has been updating the line up to Generation 5, as seen here on the 17/19 and here on the 19X. We aren’t going to rehash all the changes for the Gen 5 here, but a highlight reel is helpful if you haven’t been paying attention. The accuracy is improved by a factor of half, the new triggers are better, gone are the finger grooves, and there is a right side slide release for the devil handed. This week, we got a chance to look at the new Glock 34 in all its glory. Now I have to caveat this review with the fact that I am a Glock 34 fan, so I carry some bias towards the gun. Not only do I prefer the 34 as a tactical pistol, I used one as a race gun in both USPSA and 3 Gun for years. In my mind, nothing is more fun that curb stomping some clown with a $4000 pistol at a match, using your $500 Tupperware and talent on loan from Ares himself. And on the tactical side, if we are talking armor and helmets level event, why not take the extra ¾ inches of slide over a G17? So, I am very happy to report that the new Gen 5 34 is, in my opinion, Glock’s first ever out of the box race ready pistol. The trigger isn’t as good as some aftermarket jobs, but it is an improvement over the Gen 3 factory options. The biggest change, however, is in the sights. Glock offers a new option called the Bold sights, made by Ameriglo, which are fantastic. Do plastic Glock sights work? Yes, they work. But they are a less than ideal option and the first thing most people change. The old style night sights worked too, but they were a less than ideal option. I prefer a thinner front sight with a wider light gap in the rear, I find them faster to employ. The original Glock night sights had a wide front, with a very narrow light gap. This is preferred in accuracy intensive disciplines but is slower to line up. The new Bold sights have a ratio closer to the preferred options of champion shooters. Check them against the Sivigny Performance options. Dave Sivigny is the only man to ever win a National title in USPSA Limited with a Glock, I think he has this one dialed. Bold sights made by Ameriglo. The Bold sights are tritium front and rear, satisfying the tactical requirement for seeing in the dark as well. The front isn’t fiber optic, but it does feature a large, bright, orange dot, hard to miss at close range speed shooting drills. In use, I find the sights to be a fantastic compromise of tactical and sport, and good enough for either. I also like that the Gen 5 34 is a MOS configuration, which means it is red dot ready. The slide is pre-cut with a cover plate in place. The gun comes with the adaptor pack for red dots, most of them under the sun. This is a fantastic move by Glock. Many of us aren’t ready to fully switch to red dots, but at least you now have the option in the future. Or if you are invested in red dots you just saved $200 at the gunsmith. The last two changes worth noting are also dual use competitor/tactical. First, the Gen 5 guns feature a right side slide release. This is awesome for lefties. And the G34 has always come from the factory with an oversized slide release. So for the Gen 5, Glock combined those two. Left and right, we have a slide release similar in profile to the Glock original extended slide release. There was some concern this would require new holsters, but it fit my Safariland ALS just fine. The changed magazine well is also an improvement worth noting on the Gen 5. The Glock 34 is most commonly used in USPSA Production class, which specifically bans a bolt on magazine well, or modifying the factory one. The new, wider factory opening is a huge advantage for Glock racers, and probably worth the price of the new pistol alone. With some USPSA stages requiring up to 5 mag changes on the clock, every advantage matters. And for use as a tactical gun, the need to reload quickly is a given. As much as what changed, what stayed the same is also important. Much ado has been made about the Gen 5 magazines. Nothing to worry about, they are backward compatible. And older gen magazines work in the 5, provided you don’t swap the magazine release to the right side. Then only Gen 4&5 magazines work. To prove this, I reached out to my boys over at GunMagWarehouse. They sent me ETS 31 and 22 rounders, which ran flawlessly. The 22 rounders are also 140mm, therefore competition legal. And at a sale price of $16.99, very hard to pass up. All in all, the Gen 5 34 is a winner. The changes aren’t Earth-shattering, but they are changes that matter. I am liking the steady improvement we are seeing in the Glock family while staying true to the roots. If you don’t have a 34 yet, this one is hard to argue with. Learn more about the Glock 34 Gen 5 by clicking here. Glock MOS red dot plate adapters allow you to mount just about any red dot out there to the slide of your 34. https://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/medical-training-the-life-you-save-may-be-your- own/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=20180528_BlogDigest_279&utm_campaign=/blog/medical-training- the-life-you-save-may-be-your-own/ Medical Training – The Life You Save May be Your Own by JEFF CRAMBLIT on MAY 23, 2018 It doesn’t matter if you’re out hunting, on the range practicing, or driving down the highway, when chaos strikes, it strikes fast.