Years ago, I posted a "Rant' on here about a dumbass Officer that I worked with and the "why" some people shouldn’t be allowed to touch guns- in essence; genius used "the red lube" on his AR, which wasn’t lube at all, but the Red Loctite- as in the permanent stuff. Yeah, that was a fun one to figure out…

Well, today I get to inform my good imaginary friends of the Sig Forum that some people just shouldn’t do their own gun-smithing!

I'm known as one of the resident "Gun Guys" wherever I work. I have a pretty comfortable working knowledge of most modern firearms and how they work.
I'm also honest.
If I know how to do it, I'll do it. If I don’t know how to do it, especially on a firearm, I AINT DOIN IT. And I'll tell you- "Hey, I just don't know how / aren’t comfortable doing this". It doesn't hurt my ego or screw up someone gun. Let's call that a "Win / Win" situation.

I have a beautifully stippled G-19, done by Kent at Polymer Refined. (Which is a separate rant, because he did AWESOME work, super-fast turn-around time, but is unfortunately no longer in business.) Genius sees mine, and a few of the other guns done by people that know what they are doing, and he wants it done to his pistol. I guess he didn’t want to spend the $ or wait the time. This guy works in my District "fancies" himself a gun guy… and has a tendency to overdrive his headlights a lot of the time. Well, he really overdrove his headlights this time! This genius decided to do his own stipple job, trigger guard reduction and remove the finger groves on his duty weapon, A G-17. Y'all know the picture of that Glock spray painted green without a trigger guard? That gun looks better than what this fool did! The stipple job could only be described as grabbing on to warm dogshit. Instead of using a small sanding band for a dremmel tool, he went all out! Belt Sander with probably a 40 grit belt. And yes, he took off just enough material so when there's no magazine in the gun, and you give it a decent grab, it flexes. But hey, there's no finger grooves or the factory texture on the front strap, back strap or sides! Good Job Lil Fella! Then he went to work on it with a soldering iron with a screwdriver tip. An epileptic seal could have done a better job. And he stippled the trigger guard reduction! I thought the object was for that part to be smooth, but hey, to each his own I guess. I've seen soup sandwiches that turned out better than this. I believe the words I actually used were "I rather have someone else's limp dick in my hand than ever hold this ever again."
I cautioned the young Jedi about using that gun, and that he should probably go to the Department Range and show some of the instructors his handiwork.

What's the saying about "Stupidity should be painful or expensive"? I think this one is going to cost him about $500.

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on his duty weapon

Not that this makes it much worse, but...department owned or personal?

sounds like a page ripped from Tim The Tool Man Taylor. More power.

As the Dept. Armorer, I was often greeted with someone holding up a Ziplock bag full of parts and being asked "Can you fix this"?

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Originally posted by 92fstech:

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on his duty weapon

Not that this makes it much worse, but...department owned or personal?

Personal.
Now he gets to buy another one!

OP stated duty weapon but is it personaly owned or department owned????.. Department needs to pull out of service and make him personally pay for its replacement if it is screwed up as much as he stated. Either way it should cost him to meet the department standards.
.......................................... drill sgt.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Personal.
Now he gets to buy another one!

Well, I guess $500 is better than $500 AND a write-up, lol! Dude needs to get a P320 if he's gonna do that kinda stuff, then he's only destroying a $30 grip module...

Would love to see a picture of that handiwork!

Story is good but your colorful analogies are pure gold.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
As the Dept. Armorer, I was often greeted with someone holding up a Ziplock bag full of parts and being asked "Can you fix this"?

That is funny.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
As the Dept. Armorer, I was often greeted with someone holding up a Ziplock bag full of parts and being asked "Can you fix this"?

I mean, I could but the problem is not with the gun but with the holder of the bag.

After my attempt to field strip a Ruger MkII and reassemble it years ago in my youth, I'm VERY careful to: 1) know my limitations and 2) hide my shame where only I can see it.

I have a G32 done by Kent in his solar array pattern. I was getting ready to send more in when I found out he closed up.


I sent my duty gun to cold bore customs for a stipple job. No way was I going to trust the guy at the service garage who offered.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
As the Dept. Armorer, I was often greeted with someone holding up a Ziplock bag full of parts and being asked "Can you fix this"?

Well, at least they ultimately did the right thing.

I tell my trainees not to disassembly their guns beyond a certain point and if they need more than that, to contact me.

But I also tell them that if they get home one day and discover that their cat has taken a gun apart and they don’t know how to put it back together, to still contact me. All I’ll say about the situation is to keep their guns out of the reach of their cat in the future.

^^^ The dog ate my armorers book!

I actually enjoy the occasional "gun in a bag" project. Especially when it's something I've never worked with before. It's like a puzzle, lol.

A buddy gave me a pair of detail-stripped Jennings J-22s a while back as a big box of parts. It was actually more like 1.75 guns, and they were 2 different generations. Took me about an hour with one of those exploded parts diagram books and I had them cleaned, lubed, and assembled. I got one complete gun out of it. The other is missing all the striker parts (probably got launched at some point in the gun's history), the recoil spring, and the plastic safety lever. It's gonna stay that way, as they're terrible little guns and sourcing the missing parts would cost more than the gun is worth....but it was a fun little project.