guns, Guns, GUNS!

[Drich]

do you have pics? How heavy were the bolts/projectiles?

lo, no pics. That was 20+ years ago. The bolts weren't especially heavy - a pound or so, I think.

Boru

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'Not having a gun is an invitation to govermental oppression'

-The bill of Rights

'If you and the rest of your gun-toting mates ever have to go up against with the US government, with their tanks, attack helicopters, flamethrowers and so forth, your pretty well fucked from go.' - Brian Sodding Boru4.

(and your Bill of Rights says nothing like what you quoted. Not even remotely)

Boru

The Taliban made a pretty serious go of it, they even put the Russians out of business.

That said the bill of rights more over the second amendment was directed at our government specifically, it was directed at yours

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A STuG would be awesome.(technically its artillery)

Or a K5e

Btw google the guy who built a 1/6 Shwere Gustav, holy Crap!

I could not find the 1/6 gustav but the 'rail gun' would be pretty awesome to see.

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When I was in elementary school I had a teacher who had a muzzle loading cannon. Every 4th of July he fired it.

Some years later it blew up in his face.

He survived with serious injuries.

Lol, didn't most people back then have to use those cannons in actual battle?

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Guns in the home are far more likely to kill/injure a family member or neighbor than any intruder. The kind of stuff that the NRA does not want you to know.

You were an old acid dropping dirt foot hippy weren't you?

That is like saying People with knives are more likely to be cut by one of their own knives than being stabbed by a stranger. It's circumstance that get people injured or killed by family members not the tools used.

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I have no desire to shoot anything that lives. If I have to channel my animal bloodlust, I have video games in which I can fire fake bullets out of fake guns and nobody is harmed.

Have you ever shot a real gun before?

What is your favorite video game gun?

If you had a chance to shoot or even own that gun (with no pressure to kill anything except paper targets would you have it?)

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Yet another gun thread ... predictable as they come:

Started with harmless question.
Followed up with anti-gun insult.
Response includes reference to Bill of Rights
Insert NRA defense and propaganda
Followed by endless barrage of statistics backing both sides
Random insults having little to do with guns
/end thread.



I think I'll skip this one. I've already seen the end.

I did a search and did not see any gun threads.

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I'm in the military, but I don't believe in owning a gun. Shooting at an intruder in the home or at a mugger on the street gives them unwritten permission to brandish their own firearm, whatever that may be.

Since I'm in the military, I have a very fair grasp as to what guns are for. I believe in keeping a gun on me while down range. I also agree that guns are for hunting. There are specific guns/artillery for wartime, and they should be used as such. There are specific guns for hunting, and the same applies.

Are you at war in our own homes? Are you hunting things on the street? If you answer "no" to both of these questions, then why are you buying a gun?

Zombies.

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When gun nuts understand nobody wants to take your goddamn guns! All we're saying is you don't need 10, what is so hard to understand about that? Do I think there should be a limit on how many guns you should have yes do I think there should be a limit a separately on antique guns yes since I don't think anyone is going to be hunting with or shooting anyone with an antique gun.

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And I don't see why most don't want to submit to psychological testing I think the only reason that they don't is that they'll be afraid that they won't pass the test which most of them won't, and they won't be able to get anymore guns

Well I know that is why I do not want to be tested.

After all who wants to live in a place where only people who have guns are the ones the government wants to have guns. Scary scary.

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I'm in the military, but I don't believe in owning a gun. Shooting at an intruder in the home or at a mugger on the street gives them unwritten permission to brandish their own firearm, whatever that may be.

Since I'm in the military, I have a very fair grasp as to what guns are for. I believe in keeping a gun on me while down range. I also agree that guns are for hunting. There are specific guns/artillery for wartime, and they should be used as such. There are specific guns for hunting, and the same applies.

Are you at war in our own homes? Are you hunting things on the street? If you answer "no" to both of these questions, then why are you buying a gun?

I am confused by your post. One buys a gun for hunting or competition or protection.

Don't forget about zombies.

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Because an armed populace prevents government tyranny. You take the guns & it will be Red October all over again!

Y'know, I'm not really sure that works in practice. Even in America, you can have 50 guns if you want, but you can't shoot 50 of them at once and you don't have drones and missiles and the like. I mean, really, if the U.S. government wants to seriously flex muscles against its own people, us having guns isn't going to do much to stop them.

That would never work. You got to remember who volunteers to go into the military to begin with. It is the people who have or at least want to have 50 different guns. In the end if push came to shove do you think gun nut junior will fire on gun nut senior? No. An order like that would have millions of the military go AWOL with all of those choice guns! What would have to happen would Obama or whomever would have to make an appeal to the UN which would only further make the 'rebels' more united.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kU0XCVey_U

That movie was the reason I did not follow the family tradition of military service. It scared the hell out of me. I was a little too gomer Pyle-ish to have made it. Everytime I sat on a toilet for like a year after seeing that movie I thought that was how my military service would end.

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Y'know, I'm not really sure that works in practice. Even in America, you can have 50 guns if you want, but you can't shoot 50 of them at once and you don't have drones and missiles and the like. I mean, really, if the U.S. government wants to seriously flex muscles against its own people, us having guns isn't going to do much to stop them.

I support the right to bear all sorts of arms! Even cruise missiles should be legal!

In all seriousness I know where to get some cruise missile parts.

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I conform my life to the statistical analyses I read and believe.

In the case of US gun ownership:
Carrying a gun increases your chance of being shot in an assault by 4.5 times.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2759797/
Having a gun in the house roughly doubles your chance of dying by homicide.
Guns are very useful in committing suicide.
Being a male in a house with a gun increases your chance of dying by successful suicide by 10.4 times.
You are 31 times more likely to succeed in suicide using a gun compared to other methods.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/160/10/929.full

Before I knew this, I used to be pro gun control.
But being in favor of a lower world population and a believer in natural selection;
Go for it guys!

Again, if someone wants to kill hurt or mame it does not matter what tool they use to do it. They will still hurt kill or mame.

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Does anyone here own a gun or would like to own a gun, if so what?

I use to collect WWII guns. I still have a few.. Anyone else?

I'd love to own one but it's tricky here in the UK. I think I would mostly go for WWII guns like the MP40, Thompson, Karabiner 98k and M1911A1. An AK47 would definitely be on my list too because of its legendary status.

Perhaps I could find some deactivated versions with a but of luck and an excessive amount of money. In the meantime I'll probably get airsoft versions seems they are cheap and I get to use them once the spring comes and I go airsofting again.

They make an awesome reproduction (semi auto) mp-40 with the right feel and weight they even have the correct markings on them. I was looking at getting one a few years back. They also do the thompson in .45acp. The history Chanel sponsored a company to offer k98s Lugers and p38s. They were a bit pricey but were well worth it as what they offered was all period pieces with the prized unit markings on them.

Ak's are coming back down in price. A few years ago you could get one for about 300 dollars, they went upto 900 and now you can get one between 4 and 5 hundred.

I've got an m1 garand m1 carbine, 1910 Luger, p38, arisaka type 45 carbine with "mum" intact. A jap sword, and some more modern stuff. I would like a BAR or even a Johnson .30 caliber. Since November I have been looking to get a carcano 6.5mm for some reason..