[milhous]

do you own firearms? if so what do you have, and how long have you had them?

no need to discuss gun control or anything of the like. save that for the political lounge.

don't own any myself, but i've shot my friend's 12-gauge shotgun in clay pigeon shooting, a .22 rifle (peashooter), a .270 rifle (what a kick!), and a kel-tec 9mm pistol at the target range. it was as exhilarating experience.

i'd like to get a pistol someday mainly for target practice followed by self-defense. a glock 19 would be nice, though the only thing that concerns me with glocks is that there is no safety switch, but the safeties are built into the trigger itself.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by milhous:
don't own any myself, but i've shot my friend's 12-gauge shotgun in clay pigeon shooting, a .22 rifle (peashooter), a .270 rifle (what a kick!), and a kel-tec 9mm pistol at the target range. it was as exhilarating experience.

Did your penis get any bigger from the kickback?

Hey, at least I didn't bring up gun control like you ask us not to

[Randman]

Never owned a gun. Never fired a gun.

[SSharon]

I do not own a gun, but I have always wanted to go to a range to try some out just to see if I'm any good. I have friends that live in south carolina that have some shotguns for hunting, but I haven't had a chance to go with them.

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by SSharon:
I do not own a gun, but I have always wanted to go to a range to try some out just to see if I'm any good.

Easy way to find out.

[phantomdragonz]

ok fine, I will be the first gun owner, OMG RUN AND SCREAM!

I have a crappy .22 rifle that I bought off some dude on a local message board (forum)

When i turn 21, I will buy a glock, or some other hand gun, I figure it's better then getting wasted (I dont drink)


EDIT:: OH OH! I almost forgot I have a 2" diameter barrel on my other gun, and it's loads of fun to shoot off, and no I am not talking about my penis! it shoots potatos and I made it, only cost me $20

DAR... IM onea dem hicks


Zach

[E's Lil Theorem]

It's a tradition in my family for the males to own a handgun. At the moment, I own a Beretta 92 Brigadier Inox, 9mm (full size, weights just over 2lbs unloaded).



Unfortunately (fortunately?), the tradition is dying. Most of my cousins who have boys don't plan on buying them their own piece. My brother, who bought me mine, says he wont buy my nephew one, but he will teach him how to shoot (and gun safety, etc.).

[ASIMO]

A .38 Colt semi-auto (model 1911-like) and a .22 hunting rifle. Sold/turned in a few others collected over the decades in the family.

And recreational sharp shooter in a former life. Very pro-gun control.

[AKcrab]

Ancient .22 rifle my dad got as a kid.
.38 that a relative kept under his pillow when he came to America.
30-06 that I keep in case the stores run out of meat.

[sideus]

Glock 17 9mm
Glock 19C 9mm
Beretta 9000s .40
2 Beretta 92f 9mm
Winchester 30-30

[CD Hanks]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
Did your penis get any bigger from the kickback?

The term is recoil.

[Randman]

Originally posted by sideus:
Glock 17 9mm
Glock 19C 9mm
Beretta 9000s .40
2 Beretta 92f 9mm
Winchester 30-30

I could see having one gun but why an entire arsenal?

[Psychonaut]

• .22 Remington semi-auto. (It's cheap and has jamming problems, but it's my first firearm)
• .32 Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver. (Was my grandfather's. He carried it around with him in his boot when he was a truck driver.)
• 12-gauge over-under shotgun (Was my other grandfather's.)

I've got pictures around here somewhere, but they're not anything special, just sentimental.

[mitchell_pgh]

???

[Randman]

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
???

[Thorin]

Originally posted by Randman:
Never owned a gun. Never fired a gun.

Even seeing an armed police officer makes me quite uncomfortable .

[Mastrap]

I've got no need for a gun.

[ManOfSteal]

[sideus]

Originally posted by Randman:
I could see having one gun but why an entire arsenal?

I could see owning one Mac, but why an entire supercomputer?

[Randman]

Originally posted by sideus:
I could see owning one Mac, but why an entire supercomputer?

Which individual owns a supercomputer?

Besides, multiple computers can be used all at the same time. Can't say that for guns can you? Unless you're sharing with your friends, but if they're like-minded, they should have their own arsenal.

[pooka]

A .38 Colt semi-auto (model 1911-like)

A colt .38 super? I've started getting rid of my collection over the years but I do plan on getting a .38 super one day. Love the 1911 frame.

[pooka]

dp

[Eug Wanker]

I've got a couple of these. I never leave home without them either.

[AKcrab]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
I've got a couple of these. I never leave home without them either.

Nice forearms!

[BoomStick]

Lessee what few do I have.....

Sharps 45-70 - 1865

Spencer Repeating Rifle-1865

Harper's Ferry Navy Flintlock - 1789

Springfield 1903-A4 with telescopic sight (the sniper's rifle from Saving Private Ryan) - 1942

Springfield M-1 Garand-1942

M1 Carbine - 1943

Wetherby Monte Carlo 30-06 - mid 60's

Ruger model 77 .22

Ruger .22 MK1

Tarus PT906 9mm

Sig Sauer P229 9mm

AYA Ultralite autoselect 12 guage side by side

[ghporter]

Originally posted by Socially Awkward Solo:
Did your penis get any bigger from the kickback?

Hey, at least I didn't bring up gun control like you ask us not to

Didn't you know that it's big trucks that increase penis size? Take a look at the kind of people driving big trucks and you'll see.

And a Nintendo video game is not the same as having the physical control over your own body to be able to put five shots into the same hole at 300 meters. To misquote Solo, "Good against a game is one thing, good against a real world situation is something else again."

[Randman]

Nice collection. But I still haven't heard a serious answer to my question about the need for an arsenal.

[ghporter]

Originally posted by Randman:
Nice collection. But I still haven't heard a serious answer to my question about the need for an arsenal.

Different competitive applications call for different tools. A track-and-field competitor uses one pair of shoes for sprints and another for marathons; a target shooter may have one pistol for one event (say off-hand shooting at 15 meters) and another for a different event (like steel targets at 50 meters). Other themes for collections can include historical significance (the issued rifles of the U.S. military from 1900 through 1955, for example), mechanical design, or collectibles from specific manufacturers. Collections are not arsenals, merely collections.

[Randman]

Originally posted by sideus:
Glock 17 9mm
Glock 19C 9mm
Beretta 9000s .40
2 Beretta 92f 9mm
Winchester 30-30

I doubt those are used for target shooting.

Don't get me wrong. I have no problems with people owning guns. I can even accept contolled hunts. I just wonder why people (who aren't collectors per se or are competitive target shooters) own so many guns.

[BoomStick]

Originally posted by Randman:
Nice collection. But I still haven't heard a serious answer to my question about the need for an arsenal.

All but the 9mm's in my collection are family heirlooms and are never used.

I use the shotgun and the Wetherby to hunt with.

[Randman]

Originally posted by BoomStick:
All but the 9mm's in my collection are family heirlooms and are never used.

I use the shotgun and the Wetherby to hunt with.

As I said, sounds like a nice collection. And as mentioned above, I can accept controlled hunting. My question was more to the poster above with so many glocks and berettas.

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by ghporter:
Didn't you know that it's big trucks that increase penis size?

Wrong. OS X uptimes are the most correlated with penis size.

[Judge_Fire]

Carry a gun? Only in games.

J

[ghporter]

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Wrong. OS X uptimes are the most correlated with penis size.

That implies that OS X fails from time to time. That's never happened to me.

Regarding trucks, I must have been confusing penis with the nickname for "Richard." Yeah, that's the problem right there.

[theolein]

Owned one of these 18 years ago:



Astra 357 Police.

Haven't had a gun since and don't want one.

[Millennium]

I don't have them, and I don't need them. At some point in the future I will inherit several antique guns, but when this happens I intend to take them to a gunsmith and have them rendered inoperable, at which point I'll put them in display cases and that will be that. I don't much care about them one way or another myself, but my wife has stronger views than I do, and so I am doing this to accommodate her. It doesn't harm me.

However, I would not force my wishes or hers on anyone else. I have my own means of self-defense, and if someone else wants to choose a different means that is their own prerogative, not mine and not the State's.

[discotronic]

I don't own any type of firearm but I did have the opportunity to fire a few when I was in the Navy.

9-mm (of course)

5" Deck Gun (on a Navy Missile Cruiser)

M16A2 machine-gun

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m16.htm

M2 .50 Cal machine-gun:

http://www.texastradingpost.com/mili...rowningm2.html

The M60 machine-gun

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m60e3.htm

While not a firearm I got to "play" with the claymore mine and the M61 fragmentation hand grenade:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claymore_mine
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m61.htm


It's amazing that I actually had a chance to use these. I was classified a noncombatant because of my job as a Hospital Corpsman (Medic). It was still very cool to get the opportunity to use them.

[BoomStick]

Originally posted by Millennium:
At some point in the future I will inherit several antique guns, but when this happens I intend to take them to a gunsmith and have them rendered inoperable,

Just by having no ammunition, it's rendered inoperable.

Don't destroy them as they have historical and monetary value in working condition.

Right now my Sharps 45-70 is almost priceless because of the history behind it.

[ghporter]

Originally posted by Millennium:
At some point in the future I will inherit several antique guns, but when this happens I intend to take them to a gunsmith and have them rendered inoperable, at which point I'll put them in display cases and that will be that.

I agree with Boomstick on this. When you have those antiques "rendered inoperable," you could be doing a serious injustice to your own heirs. There are various ways to make a firearm unusable without permanently disabling it. One way is to have a gunsmith pour potmetal into the chamber and barrel, blocking it sufficiently to prevent any ammunition from being introduced into it, yet not damaging it. It should even be less expensive to do this than to have someone permanently alter it and destroy the value of the thing.

[sideus]

Originally posted by Randman:
I doubt those are used for target shooting.

Don't get me wrong. I have no problems with people owning guns. I can even accept contolled hunts. I just wonder why people (who aren't collectors per se or are competitive target shooters) own so many guns.

You are right. I carry the Glock 17 on duty. The Glock 19 and the Beretta 9000s I conceal carry (not at the same time). And the others I take to the range and have fun.

There is no law that limits how many guns I can own and since it is my right to do so, I will.

[RAILhead]

Smith & Wesson.

Maury

[OldManMac]

Originally posted by Randman:
Nice collection. But I still haven't heard a serious answer to my question about the need for an arsenal.

The answer is quite simple; because one can own so many guns. Different people have different interests, and therefore collect items in their line of interest. Some people collect guns, some people collect stamps, some of the wealthy collect cars, etc., etc. Why does anyone do what they do?

A half-dozen guns is hardly what most would consider an "aresenal."

[PB2K]

i haven't had an airgun in 10 years

[Socially Awkward Solo]

Originally posted by ghporter:
That implies that OS X fails from time to time.

No he is talking about the geeks who don't want to install security updates because they have to restart the computer and mess up there uptime.

[unkle_brains]

this is blasphemy!

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=215416

[f1000]

Originally posted by milhous:
i'd like to get a pistol someday mainly for target practice followed by self-defense. a glock 19 would be nice, though the only thing that concerns me with glocks is that there is no safety switch, but the safeties are built into the trigger itself.

You should visit Targetmaster off Route 202 (between West Chester and North Wilmington) the next time you're in Philly.

My deep conceal piece:

[euchomai]

I have a kel-tec 9mm and also a P-32 deep conceal and carry piece like the above poster has. I carry my gun often and have a permit to do so. Living in Oklahoma with the law as it is allows me to carry a gun as long as it is hidden. I hope I never have to use it, but if I do it means I've either saved my life or the life of a loved one.

Let the flaming begin!

[mitchell_pgh]

Originally posted by Randman:
I doubt those are used for target shooting.

Don't get me wrong. I have no problems with people owning guns. I can even accept contolled hunts. I just wonder why people (who aren't collectors per se or are competitive target shooters) own so many guns.

Because it makes them feel powerful. I had a college friend that had a bunch of guns arond. He wasn't a gun nut, but it was just something he did. I honestly felt like he thought it made him safer.

I'm smart enough not to own a gun. In a fit of rage, who knows what someone might do.

[pooka]

Originally posted by f1000:
My deep conceal piece:

...
How.. deep?

[Millennium]

Originally posted by ghporter:
I agree with Boomstick on this. When you have those antiques "rendered inoperable," you could be doing a serious injustice to your own heirs. There are various ways to make a firearm unusable without permanently disabling it. One way is to have a gunsmith pour potmetal into the chamber and barrel, blocking it sufficiently to prevent any ammunition from being introduced into it, yet not damaging it. It should even be less expensive to do this than to have someone permanently alter it and destroy the value of the thing.

My plan had been to have the firing pin removed. As long as it were retained, surely it could be put back in if the need arose?