Ask a gun owner something.
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You own a gun because you like to shoot, yet you use it for self-defense?Cody211282 said:
I guess you're a person who has to defend himself a lot then...
I dont name my guns.Alphavillain said:
The idea of firearms as phallic substitutions comes from the minds of psyche doctors, not from reality.
They are great fun to learn, challenging at the same timeDudemeister said:
They are important tools for self defense
they cause no harm by themselves, they are tools which require a person to activate.
It almost is, in an automatic handgun an empty magazine causes the slide to stay open.bernthalbob616 said:
The operator then simply drops the empty mag, inserts another and utilizes whatever mechanism the gun uses to close the slide (sometimes as little as a small thumb movement) which puts a round in the chamber, and the firearm is ready to fire again, its very quick with practice
I dont have many, and I dont keep pictures, but the weird ones would be a replica 1851 navy revolver (black powder revolver) and a shortened double barrel shotgunHaraDaya said:
Certainly.Mathurin said:
To dismantle a Glock hand gun the trigger has to be pulled to disengage the slide lock. Which is fine provided you make sure the chamber is empty.
It's depressingly common for Glock owners taking their gun apart to be lax in this check and have a round chambered when they go to disassemble, they pull the trigger to start removing the slide and BANG. An ostensibly 'unloaded' weapon goes off and Glock wall is the result.
It's so common that Glock Wall is pretty much the go to term for an accidental discharge during maintanence. Usually because of poor handling practice.
So basically, have you or any friends had a gun you didn't think was loaded go off in your hands or work vice? If so what were the consequences?
As a Hitman: Blood Money fan, does a bolt action mechanism actually increase the accuracy of a shot?
And being from England and hence only ever having fired a .22 rifle under VERY strict control in the cadets, how much harder is it to fire a double action revolver than a normal gun? I've heard you have to put "more pressure" on the trigger, but nothing more accurate.
And being from England and hence only ever having fired a .22 rifle under VERY strict control in the cadets, how much harder is it to fire a double action revolver than a normal gun? I've heard you have to put "more pressure" on the trigger, but nothing more accurate.
What size caliber are our non-target practice handguns? And what caliber do you think is the best for home/ self defense?
If you fire two shots with a revolver, and then reload, do ALL the shells automatically eject, or just the ones you fired? Or do they not automtically eject at all? (would probably depend on the gun)
Do you have any guns with really bad kickback? Like send you flying or it shoots up in the air when you fire it kind of bad kickback.
Also have you ever been in the military?
EDIT: If you haven't been in the military did someone teach you to use your firearms or are you self taught?
Also have you ever been in the military?
EDIT: If you haven't been in the military did someone teach you to use your firearms or are you self taught?
If you had to go on a typical FPS style mission, i.e. lots of baddies to kill, which gun would you choose? (out of any in the world, not your, quite frankly, pedestrian collection).
And, don't you think that you should turn your attention to educating your massive criminal population instead of shooting them?
Where exactly in America are you from? Did you vote for that McCaine fella? Don't you think practicing to shoot is a waste of time? Why not learn a musical instrument? At least that may lead to sex with a woman, rather than shooting tin cans.
And, don't you think that you should turn your attention to educating your massive criminal population instead of shooting them?
Where exactly in America are you from? Did you vote for that McCaine fella? Don't you think practicing to shoot is a waste of time? Why not learn a musical instrument? At least that may lead to sex with a woman, rather than shooting tin cans.
Never heard about the lazy police, or high Danish crime rate.HaraDaya said:
Im quite happy the european laws are much tougher on gun-owning than in other countries. But still: I believe there are more needless deaths through legit gun owners, and wrong safekeeping, than lifes safed (By privat! Not by official firearms).
...okay, I'll break it down for you:Rickyvantof said:
my dad's got a concealed carry license and regularly carries a .45. He's never had to use it for that purpose.
Sometimes he and I will pop down to one of the local ranges to shoot holes into paper targets (I like to draw dinosaurs and vikings on them). The .45 always gets a workout, as do most of the rest of our handguns. Shooting guns for sport and carrying guns for self-defense are not mutually exclusive.
Only slightly, the problem is that even smaller guns are totally deadly if used properly, so the old "get a bigger gun" thing means absolutely nothing at all.zenfox3 said:
The old "if they were never invented" thought?Pr0 InSaNiTy said:
No, because if you look into history you find that firearms were the dominant cause of the fall of the aristocracy.
No longer could kings and douchebags ride around the battlefield virtually immune to the commoners weapons.
And a warrior which took a decade to train could be killed by a peasant taught to use a firearm in a day.
It shifted the balance of power dramatically to the people.
Not entirely true. They can go off by themselves. When my dad was in the navy, one of his friends guns went off and shot him in the arse. (The gun was holstered, safety on and it still went off) of course, the chances of this happening are very rare.Mathurin said:
How easy is it for an englishman to get a gun in America? I was thinking of moving there in maybe 10 years and i want to keep up with my hunting.
It means shooting a pattern and then adjusting the scope so the pattern lines up with the center of the target. You usually want to do this with the gun in a vise. Then you adjust the vise so target lines up with the sights or the cross hairs with a scope.Shurikens and Lightning said:
Then after firring you take a look at where the center of the pattern is on the target and adjust them accordingly, the end result is that the center of the pattern lines up with the center of the target.
Once you have the sights zeroed in you can then make minor adjustments for distance, wind etc.
