Have you fired or swung a weapon?

[Redingold]

Shot a bow, fired a shotgun (at clay pigeons).

Likewise.

 

[TZer0]

Bow, crossbow (home-made - two skis + plank + string), pistol (low-caliber).. pretty much it.

None were aimed at nor harmed.

 

[FoolKiller]

i have a huge dagger next to my bed strapped to my bookshelf for easy access... if you attack me in my sleep and i wake you are in trouble

 

[historybuff]

Fired a pistol and a bow and arrow.

 

[Iampringles]

I've fired a bow.

Which I made.

I've fired an L-98 military issue semi-automatic rifle, and another rifle (older make, can't remember exactly what it was) with live ammo, at my old school. This is in the UK, by the way, and the teachers allowed me to do so. I've also fired a pistol (not sure what type but it was at an indoor range) and an air rifle, and this is all live ammo. I've fired blanks in an old pistol that my parents have, though never live ammo, at country-and-western nights. My parents were into that scene for a while and I used to go with them, and they had shoot-offs as part of the evening usually, firing blanks at a balloon or ping-pong ball to see who was fastest, as a competition.

Oh, and my family also has a machete and a boomerang hanging on the wall in our conservatory that we had when clearing out my uncle's house after he died. He travelled a lot so we had to clear his house of all the clutter and stuff he'd collected before we could sell the house.

I've fired and used WAYYYYYY too many weapons for the average British teenager, haven't I?

How do you even get your hands on such weapons in the UK?

 

[lockeslylcrit]

I'm a bowhunter and was in the Army. I'd fired my fair share of weapons.

Specifically...

M16A2
M9
Compound Bow
Longbow
Shortbow
Crossbow
.22 Hunting Rifle

 

[Helimocopter]

knives, nunchaku,archery.

martial arts classes, if that counts

 

[Agent Larkin]

I have fired a re-built Brown Bess musket and I was challenged to fire three rounds in a minute. I did it somehow and won 30 quid. Also a Lee-Enfield firing blanks.

I have swung various weapons of the melee variety. Axes, swords, a bayoneted Lee-Enfield and a mace.

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

My dad has a rifle but has never used it.

Oh, and I've swung at a monkey with a broomstick and missed.
Does that that count?

 

[Commissar Sae]

I've fired a bow. But I've also cut through stuff with a ridiculously sharp katana. These are the things (water jug, pumpkin) that happen when you have friends with more money than sense.

 

[hazabaza1]

I've swung a Katana. A blunted Katana, but still, a Katana.

 

[Cekil1]

A Katana and my .38 Ruger LCR.

 

[Wadders]

I've fired a bow.

Which I made.

I've fired an L-98 military issue semi-automatic rifle, and another rifle (older make, can't remember exactly what it was) with live ammo, at my old school. This is in the UK, by the way, and the teachers allowed me to do so. I've also fired a pistol (not sure what type but it was at an indoor range) and an air rifle, and this is all live ammo. I've fired blanks in an old pistol that my parents have, though never live ammo, at country-and-western nights. My parents were into that scene for a while and I used to go with them, and they had shoot-offs as part of the evening usually, firing blanks at a balloon or ping-pong ball to see who was fastest, as a competition.

Oh, and my family also has a machete and a boomerang hanging on the wall in our conservatory that we had when clearing out my uncle's house after he died. He travelled a lot so we had to clear his house of all the clutter and stuff he'd collected before we could sell the house.

I've fired and used WAYYYYYY too many weapons for the average British teenager, haven't I?

How do you even get your hands on such weapons in the UK?

Army or Air Force Cadets I'm guessing

 

[Stormanne]

I've fired, be it hunting or target practice, the following

SKS assault rifle
AK-47 assault rifle
Vietnam era M-16 assault rifle
Taurus .40 handgun
HK MP5 sub-machine gun
Browning .50 sniper rifle
AR-15 assault rifle
Mossberg 12 gauge pump shotgun
Winchester 30-30 hunting rifle
Sears Roebuck single shot 12 gauge shotgun
various makes of .22 rifles
Desert Eagle .50 handgun
Sig Sauer 9mm handgun
various makes of compound bows
various makes of long bows
various makes of recurve bows
various makes of black powder rifles
British .303 military rifle
Smith & Wesson .30-06

and the piece-de-resistance

the Royal Ordinance L7 M68 105 mm cannon from the M1A1 Abrams (friends father pulled a lot of strings to get us on the tank range for that one)

 

[monkey_man]

a bow,for target pracrice, at some birthday-party
a paintball gun

and at nights, when i am alone, i turn into a ninja and use my epi knives to free humanity from the enslavement of the society (i battle against imaginairy enemies, using whack combos and fatality moves, due to my high level of nerd-ism and slash-games- experience)

 

[Ashtovo]

never fired a real gun, but i have used real swords (grandpas military sabre, a real katana he brought back from WW2) and bows (never hunted but i have shot targets)

 

[sokka14]

i have shot a gun.
i found it pretty damn uninteresting.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Never fired a (real) gun.

Swung a couple of weapons however

 

[BabySinclair]

Melee weapons:
Uh...I hit a guy over the head with a Maglite once. Does this count?

Speaking those things hit like a brick and have at least one urban legend about a cop armed with two of them holding off a prison riot makes them count

 

[MercenaryCanary]

I own a bolt-action rifle, two machetes, four crowbars, and three police batons.
So yes.
I have fired and swung a weapon.