(August 12, 2016 at 10:57 am)Minimalist Wrote: That was a weird story.  Still, this thread is full of them.

[wildspeculation]He could have been waiting for someone else to come through the door.[/wildspeculation]

(August 12, 2016 at 11:19 am)Crossless1 Wrote:

(August 12, 2016 at 11:02 am)Minimalist Wrote: Once again, that damned "round in the chamber" comes home to roost!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/fl...-1.2713470

Whoops.




I know it's not sexy and gangsta, but maybe some of our dimmer and more careless ammo-sexuals could be persuaded to purchase weapons they can handle, such as single-action revolvers -- or pea shooters.

Quote:I know it's not sexy and gangsta, but maybe some of our dimmer and more careless ammo-sexuals could be persuaded to purchase weapons they can handle, such as single-action revolvers -- or pea shooters.

You know, like what the Founding Fathers had in mind!

Ammosexuals just can't stand the thought of not being able to wave their substitute dicks around in public.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/suit-fil...caliornia/

Quote:Suit filed to allow guns to be openly carried in Caliornia

Most of your single shot folding breech guns are pretty damned nice. It's extremely popular for bigger calibers.  When you have a round the size of a coke can...how many do you need to off Bambi, amiright? One of my .22s is single shot, breech. 2 of my shotguns. I don't have any pistols, not my bag. They all get the job done. Surrounded by people at the range (and in the woods) with ar's.....and honestly, I think alot of them would starve to death regardless of how many rounds their magazines could carry - if they had to count on their rifles.

Singles have the benefit of slowing everything down, making shots more deliberate than the down range semi-auto pattern. I'm a biased shooter, though...I like to hit shit more than I like to shoot at shit.

(August 18, 2016 at 1:04 am)Rhythm Wrote: Most of your single shot folding breech guns are pretty damned nice. It's extremely popular for bigger calibers.  When you have a round the size of a coke can...how many do you need to off Bambi, amiright?  One of my .22s is single shot, breech.  2 of my shotguns.  I don't have any pistols, not my bag.  They all get the job done.  Surrounded by people at the range (and in the woods) with ar's.....and honestly, I think alot of them would starve to death regardless of how many rounds their magazines could carry - if they had to count on their rifles.  

Singles have the benefit of slowing everything down, making shots more deliberate than the down range semi-auto pattern.  I'm a biased shooter, though...I like to hit shit more than I like to shoot at shit.

I used to swing a Browning M2 .50 cal. MG. If somebody want to abuse the piece they could be 82 pounds of lead a minute in the air. I thought of it as an area weapon. 

I agree with you on the single shot idea, "make it count".

Florida wins today's Gun Nut Nation Dead Kid Lottery

http://www.winknews.com/2016/08/16/17-ye...nter-mall/

Quote:17-year-old dies in shooting at Coastland Center mall

Quote:Police say 17-year-old Thomas Lane, a senior at Lorenzo Walker Technical High School, was showing his friends a 9 mm, semi-automatic handgun when he may have accidentally shot himself.

Quote:“Sweet, nice kid and I’m so sorry for them,” said Kelli Karavas, describing the teen who was her neighbor. “He adored his little sister, all of his sisters and his parents. Everybody around here loved him.”

Yeah..."sweet, nice, kid" with a gun that he didn't know how to handle.

(August 18, 2016 at 5:36 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I agree with you on the single shot idea, "make it count".

There's precious little utility for rate of fire as a civilian.  Basically, dangerous game/fast moving predators that might rush you ( a rarity in N. America nowadays) and target shooting.  In the case of the latter the smaller the better, imo, it costs alot of money to put a few thousand rounds downrange a week.  I've been doing the target shooting maintenance end with a 17wsm, basically a pellet gun with a .38 nailgun cartridge behind it that uses the same action as the 303.  I've got alot of buddies that hunt with ARs now...but I still schlep the Enfield.  22lr has come down in price so I dusted off my semi-auto tube two two as well but haven't had time to shoot it as often.  I did plink a few rounds at a small 100m range with my black rifle toting friends and their shit was jamming left right and center.  IDK if my little sears popgun actually -has- a faster rof but I know I put more rounds out in the same frame of time.    

I've heard them say "what if it's a long shot and I miss" - well...as an ambush hunter I don't believe in taking shots at an animal that you might "miss".....what if you horrendously and painfully - but not lethally...injure them and they escape through the palmetto to live a harrowing life of disability, right?

More on point to the thread...my sons in kindergarten, so he;s going to get his own first "real gun" for his birthday this year. It's been sitting in my closet. It;s a folding barrel pellet gun with the compression chamber removed. It doesn't actually work...but I;ll have him follow me around in the woods and to the range properly holding and toting it. Pointing it at what I point at and not pointing it at what I -don't- point at. When he shows me that he can manage that I have an identical piece that actually does work....figure he'll get to shoot it with supervision in the next year or two. Honestly, alot of the time that kids end up shooting themselves I wonder how familiar and how wll disciplined the kids were. Daddy had a gun, but never bothered to do anything that might keep his kid from shooting himself...from improper storage all the way to operational ignorance on the part of the child. We have alot of guns, in america...but no meaningful "gun culture" anymore.

(January 4, 2013 at 2:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, possibly over a dispute about where they parked their cars during a snowstorm, state police said Sunday.

http://www.wxow.com/story/20468960/maine...ge-tenants

I can't even...


You'd blame this on the gun? This guy could've murdered them in their sleep, or hell - stolen their car that they parked and ran their ass over in the street...
This is some mentally ill 74-year old dude, who went ham with a gun he probably had lying around in some drawer since forever.

You'd really take away the right to bear arms from the common populace, because stuff like this >might< happen?

(August 12, 2016 at 11:24 am)Minimalist Wrote:

Quote:I know it's not sexy and gangsta, but maybe some of our dimmer and more careless ammo-sexuals could be persuaded to purchase weapons they can handle, such as single-action revolvers -- or pea shooters.

You know, like what the Founding Fathers had in mind!

This argument again?

Only - The founding fathers were perfectly aware of the scientific advancement within armament.

Flint-locks were already on their way out and volcanic semi automatic "pistols" as well as revolvers were being made.
Carbines with lever-action and ammo-capacity were expensive, but they existed and the gatling-design existed in a very simple form.

This is a bullshit argument, obviously the founding fathers would be able to imagine that guns in 200 years wouldn't be the same as it was back then.