Ruger LCP Recall

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Update 12/31/2008: Our LCP’s have been returned. 8 days, including Christmas Day. Very good turn around, Ruger!  Each gun came back with the promised extra magazine. Plus, each came back with a Ruger LCP hat (photo below). So this completes out LCP recall story.

Ruger LCP hat

Update 12/20/2008: Our LCP’s are going out to Ruger on Monday 12/22

Update 12/17/2008: We received our 3 shipping boxes from Ruger to return our LCP’s for the recall. I will post here when we get them back so others can see how long the process takes. I hear Ruger will give a free magazine for each LCP that goes through the recall.

Some Ruger LCP pistols are being recalled. Seems they can discharge (fire a bullet) if dropped in a certain way onto a hard surface. Opps, BANG  – Only kidding. Here’s a link to the Ruger page which tells how to determine if your LCP is being recalled. Michael Bane’s blog has some discussion on this issue.

We’ll  check our LCP’s this weekend, though I think ours have the latest hammer assembly.

Ruger LCP Article with Gary Interviewed

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The Prescott Courier had an article on the Ruger LCP in which Gary Gromer (my husband) is interviewed (towards the bottom of the article). KTAR – a Phoenix radio station – posted that article on their web site. Looks like Gary is now a famous gun expert.

Our Ruger LCPs in Use … Firing, Of Course!

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guns, handguns, pistols, ruger lcp, Shooting

As promised, here’s a few images of our new Ruger LCP .380 pistols in use. We like them! They are very light and so are a handful to shoot. It had a bit less felt recoil than my Smith and Wesson Airwieght .38 Special using standard loads. After ~ 100+ rounds through each we feel these are very reliable. And accurate for pocket pistols.

LCP Cycling. We had 1 failure to fire in ~ 250 rounds, I was shooting one handed, weak hand, it might have been my fault.

Gary shooting 2 LCPs SASS Gunfighter Styl

My hand aiming LCP. Taken with Nikon D80 with 50 mm lens, camera in my right hand, pistol in my left hand. “Though the lens sight picture”. The yellow paint on the front sight was a modification we made.

Group I fired at 7 yards with Federal Hydra Shoks. Not bad at all for a pocket pistol.

Ruger LCP’s – We have 2 now

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After much searching and repeated calls to local gun shops, we now own a pair of Ruger LCP .380 handguns. The are made (mostly) right here in Prescott, AZ.

Our Ruger expert says the LCP’s should be broken in by firing ~ 100 rounds through each. Gee, that’s a real hardship (not!). We have obtained a couple hundred rounds of .380 FMJ ammo, as well as a few boxes of Federal Hydra shocks – carry or “meat” ammo. The plan is to go out to the YRL range Friday evening and burn up the FMJ ammo, and try a magazine or so of the Hydra shocks to confirm they feed reliably. Never carry ammo in a weapon that you have not verified that it feeds every time. Even though they cost around a buck each, you must test them in your weapon.

After we play with the LCP’s I’ll post our first impressions and some photos.

Ruger LCP

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Michael Bane has a short video on Ruger’s new LCP pocket pistol. Not too much in the video, but worth watching if you like tiny, concealable weapons. I sure do 🙂 In fact, I’m coming to the belief that this class of weapon is more important than standard service pistols. Because of my size and the nature of women’s clothing I can’t conceal a Glock 23, full or commander size 1911, or S&W 686 real well unless I wear a sweatshirt. This is OK on the weekends during the winter, but hardly consistent with the “carry always” philosophy. BTW Gary has no trouble concealing full size handguns. Open carry is fine when hiking out in the boonies but not my thing for daily life.

More on the LCP: Much of it (well, the metal parts anyway) is made at the Ruger plant in Prescott, AZ. We are friends with one of the design engineers who worked on the LCP – he’s a bright boy and a dedicated shooter.  I’ve not had a chance to try one of these yet. Gary, I, and good friend G.H. (who has the same concealment issues I do) have each preordered a LCP. I’ll write more after I’ve shot it.