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If you ever get the opportunity to fire a Featherlight, I suggest you do it once, and then never ever again.
I'll bite. Why never again?
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Hear hear, I understand the whole your-weapon-is-your-life feeling, but I still view gun obsessions as an odd fetish over what is essentially a tool. A bit like people drooling over different varieties of spade. Of course, there are such spade people. I imagine they have a magazine.
This is untrue. You can also blame a gun if its magazine habitually falls off, the plastic handguard melts when fired, the ejector bolt doesn't eject rounds, the magazine always jams rounds in the chamber, it doesn't fire when it's too cold, it doesn't fire when it's too hot, it doesn't fire if you are within 900 miles of some sand or mud, and if when you don't want it to fire the safety catch doesn't make safe, and a round can discharge if the weapon is knocked hard. But then you have to call it 'SA80 weapon drills'. I hear the new one is much better, but the old one was an extraordinary fucking nightmare. Also a good example of why one shouldn't let the Ministry of Defence handle anything, ever, at all.
I'm trying to get a damn M1 Garand, but finding money (and waiting on the CMP) is hell.
On my ankle I carry a compact Smith and Wesson M&P .40.
When I want to go to the range, I bring my Smith and Wesson M&P .9mm Gotta love the 17 round mag
More like cars or guitars or — wait for it — video games. If it's something you do for fun, what's the difference?
I think some people find it disturbing because their minds make these connections:
Cars are to driving/racing as
Guitars are to music as
Video games are to playing as
Guns are to killing things
I'm fairly sure I'm the first, or at least close to it, owner that has actually operated it.
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Never mind that guitars cause more deaths, huh?
Besides I don't think we're allowed to talk about this.
This is the perspective of people who are put off by intense interest in guns, I believe.
That link to the British modern rifle was crazy. The engineering and design behind the weapon is my favorite thing about guns rather than firing them or killing things.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
So, about them Mausers. I would like one one day.
having a passing interesting in firearms is alright with me!
So yeah I have never fired a firearm in my life, and I doubt I will anytime soon. Nonetheless, I really likes to read about guns; everything from the classics to the oddities.
Here is a question for you lovely folks: If you could have any gun ever, no strings or charges attached, which gun would you choose?
Fun.
Playing military laser tag with a SAW?
Super fun.
They are silky smooth and oh so delicious.
Possibly fattening though.
Sig p220
Desert Eagle Mk1 357 10 inch barrel
Desert Eagle Mk 19 with 6 inch barrels for both .44 and .50 and a 10 inch .44 barrel.
Calico 950
Franchi Spas12 shotgun
F you.
...don't know if they say that, but bet I can show you more guns that have killed fascists than you can show me guitars.
Actually, if you read the context, I wasn't commenting on whether it was a good thing or not, and I wasn't making Shinto's point about gun obsession being disturbing (though it can be). I was merely agreeing with Numi & LondonBridge that after spening a significant amount of time using a gun as it is intended, even if during that time it was essentially the most important thing in my life, I'm not much sentimental about them. Guns for fun seems like taking a copy of Excel home and making spreadsheets for fun in your spare time, and it's just amusing that so many people treat it as a higher calling and exercise of fundamental civic duty rather than a slightly geeky hobby.
Also, from a worldwide perspective, I would be very surprised if guitars and cars combined killed more people than guns.
I fired many pistols, rifles and shotguns at my families farm, but never really intended to own one.
until i found this baby
Beretta stampede buntline carbine.
soooo much fun at a range. and you get some great stares.
That looks like something Colonel Mortimer would carry.
Drunks Against Mad Mothers
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You realize how rare these are?
<< needs clarification. Colonel Mortimer not ringing a bell.
Really? Picked mine up at a local gun store about 6 years ago. Walked in, they had it on the rack complete with folding stock, combat hook, and with the original model and box. Little wear on it, i should probably have it refinished. Plus i need to take it apart and replace the shock absorber in the receiver.
Anyway if anyone wanted a spas 12 gunbroker usually has at least one for sale. I did a quick search
http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=85534762
Note. i am in no way, shape or form affiliated with this auction.
My personal collection:
Several 1911's of various manufacture
Several AR-15's of various manufacture
Several M-1s, M-1 carbines and M-1A's of various manufacture
3 Remington 700's - .243, .270, and .300 mag
Browning Cenergy O/U 12 gauge shotgun
Various other shotguns in 12/20 gauge
A few S&W revolvers in .357
An FAL (DSA manufacture)
And the gun that every collection should have, a 10/22
Oh! I can't believe I forgot!
My Winchester Model 1894 lever-action 30-30. It was bought by my great-great grandfather new when he immigrated to the US. It's a really special gun to me.
My father's collection has some real gems, old German shotguns from the 1800's, etc.
I suppose it's just nostalgia for the A2.
This is on my short list of what to get next. I just have to decide what kind of configuration I want, but the DSA seems to have a great reputation.
My father's M14 he received while serving in 'Nam.
His father's M1 carbine, modified to be damn well near fully auto.
An AK47 my dad claims to have stolen from a VC. I'm not sure how true that is.
A Beretta 92, but I'd much rather own a 1911.
An SKS with bayonette and field-rigged extended magazine.
Some crazy Russian or Czech thing that fires .45 rounds and looks somewhat like a Walther pistol.
A .30 caliber bolt action that I'm fairly certain is a Springfield 1903. Somebody told me I was wrong about that, but I think they're crazy.
A Sten, not sure which model, belonged to my grandfather as well, but I'm thinking it might be pretty valuable.
That's all that's notable from my collection. I've got a Winchester sporting shotgun, a .22 revolver that I fired when I was a kid, a .38 police issue piece of junk, and a few Civil War rifles. If you couldn't tell, the majority of my collection is from hand-me-downs. I don't go out to the range anymore, but I'm intent on keeping some of those nice and clean for future sales.
this handy-dandy realtime death counter based on statistical data from the WHO suggests otherwise (right now, after 400 odd seconds, I'm reading 14 traffic deaths, and 8 (2 from war and 6 from violence) gun-related deaths, assuming all of those deaths are gun-related. The self-inflicted and accidental injuries could all be gun related. Or guitar related.)
Probably not the best guide though - the WHO's statistical data is still a little bit spotty in places, a lot of deaths in the developing world probably go unreported (more info here). Still, deaths from crime and war certainly aren't as high as I would have thought (and heart disease is frightening).
EDIT: I live in Britain, where firearms are not so much problematic as involve a lot of hoop-jumping to sort out licenses for. I have an air rifle and fired a .22 and an L98 (cadet version of the SA80) when I was in the cadets.
I want a pepperbox so bad
DSA makes a great gun. Mine is a vanilla model with synthetic furniture.
A gun from here is on my short list. More specifically the 1874 Long Range Express chambered in 45/70. But there's over a year wait. It's not tacti-cool, but man I love drop-block/rolling-block buffalo guns.
Since I'm in the Coast Guard pistol training is only for people at stations of law enforcement and not like the ARMY or Marines where everyone practices. To use a M16 in the CG is equivalent to being a SpecOPs guy.
The only thing that keeps me away from asking to shoot is the extreme rules they have. Sure you need proper handling skills but when they demand you stand a certain way and put your thumbs out in a weired fashion or make you strap on a M16 to your arm I decide its not fun and just more boring training.
The counter-argument can be summed up as such:
In World War 2, over 60 million people died.
Also, this Thursday I get a chance to use an automatic MP5. Excited.