Good shoot is a good shoot.

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Originally posted by car541:

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Originally posted by DrewR:
If you have an over zealous prosecutor who is looking to make a name for himself then it doesn’t matter whether you have modified your EDC firearm or not, he is going to try and come after you even if you have done everything correctly. A recent example of that would be the prosecution of James Love in Illinois by Assistant State's Attorney Brian Kerr. During the trial Kerr stated that Love intended to kill someone based simply upon the hollow point ammunition that he had loaded in the LC9 pistol. If it is his intention to get a conviction (whatever his motivation) then the prosecutor will throw everything at the wall to see what sticks and it won’t matter what you or haven’t done to your pistol.

https://www.galesburg.com/news...not-guilty-of-murder

He was also acquitted after a very short jury deliberation (1 hr 15 min). It takes 60 minutes or so to elect a jury foreman and get settled in the room.

A deliberation that short usually means that the jury was unanimous on the first vote, or in this case, That the hollow point argument made no difference and was ignored.

Apparently the only way for him to avoid that trial was to move years ago.

But, but, but look at what it cost him, and the blah, blah, blah something or other.

I saw the thread title pop up, and KNEW the gun rag readers would pile in vomitting back all of the talking points of the "NEVER MODIFY OR THEY'LL STEAL YOUR CHILDREN" have in their arsenal.

A few points to consider-

If you live in a place to where mere possession of a pistol to exercise your Rights is criminalized (Yeah, Illinois), you probably shouldn't carry a gun because you'll likely go to jail. Let alone modify one.

Don't brag about action jobs after a shoot, have Punisher grips, and any of the other foolishness. Here's the thing, if the action job is internal, they have no way to know unless you brag about it.

Crime labs and detectives don't disassemble guns after a shooting and even look for stuff like that. I think that a lot of the bullshit gun rag "NEVER MODIFY" comes from two things. One, gun writers, who write about guilty people, scaring people "IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU". (Funny part of this when you question these people, and make very direct points that damage their assertions, they say stuff like "Well, you do what you want, it's your life" instead of addressing it). The other is the CSI MIAMI/NewYork/LasVegas/Fresno/Fargo/Mayberry that has people in awe of all the things that crime labs can do in AN HOUR. Man, they get fingerprints from inside of cotton gloves, and get DNA back in less than five minutes from a cigarette butt left at a gun range. The ID always comes back to someone in the system. They also do some AMAZING things with guns that.....wait for it......aren't real. That's A. B is that in a clean shoot in a free state, the cops/lab aren't going to take your gun, disassemble it, and determine with the Hewlett Packard 57A Dual Column gas chromagraph with flame analyzation detectors. (Only turbocharged on the floor model). They don't.

The problem isn't for many about modifying a pistol. It's where you live. Don't live in communist held shitholes, and you'll not have this issue.

The only argument that people have is news articles that appear to be bad, but really don't say the why. But, you know what you can't find? Case law of a solid good shoot, that was turned into a bad shoot by an action job. If this was truly a concern in this country, the courts would be littered with case law. But. It. Is. Not.

So, that leaves the "never modify" crowd with fear mongering. They have no real basis to say modify or don't modify. It is always quoting a gun rag, personality, or the dreaded "Don't let it happen to you".

Reality is not on their side. Case law doesn't support their assertions. It, like many other gun related issues, is a talking point. Really funny part is that amount of modification that goes on in west coast law enforcement. I've taught for some pretty big agencies out there, and just about all of them allow a certain amount of modification.

Modify, or don't modify. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, put I don't like light triggers.