Have you ever drawn down and been laughed at?

[orangeninja]

True story:

One night my girlfriend...soon to be my wife...was spending the night with me. There had been some attempts by some dude to break into my apartment while I was out of town and she was a little skittish. We were fast asleep, when someone pounded on the bedroom window and BANG BANG!!! two really loud firecrackers. She jumps out of bed screaming "GET YOUR GUN! GET YOUR GUN!" I jumped up in my whitey tightys and grabbed a Bersa .380 two tone. (I did not know it was fireworks yet) and start making towards the other room with her in tow. She screwed her face up staring at my gun with this look of "you're kidding right?" and yells, "NO NOT THAT ONE THE OTHER ONE...THATS A PUSSY GUN!!!" Well right away I froze, if it didn't scare her how was it gonna scare a real life armed bad guy. I had a Magnum GP100 that I used as a duty gun when working armored in the closet, so I grabbed that and while loading it with both of us cringing in the closet we noticed that quite a few minutes passed and came out. Upon investigation I discoved the spent fireworks.

She slapped me on the arm when I came back in looking slightly mad, then started laughing, "What did you think you we're gonna do with that little thing?" she said almost in tears laughing. I felt as if my very...um..."manhood" had been ridiculed and got mad. But the next day I sold the thing and bought a .45 Stainless Taurus 945. She was much happier.

As a side note, my girlfriend HATES shooting guns, to her, they are noisy, smelly and heavy and kick hard. So if she laughed at it.....

 

[Balog]

People who laugh at the thought of getting shot by any gun are probably not the brightest bulbs in the drawer. I guess we'll just chalk that up to ignorance.

 

[orangeninja]

True

but criminals are usually not well informed individuals.

 

[tc300mag1]

Nope never had that problem

 

[denfoote]

No, in fact, the only time I have ever drawn a gun in self defense, it was Pistolet Makarova in .380ACP. What I got from the BG was "Don't shoot me!! Don't shoot me!!"... as he ran away!! The cops found him cowering in a neighbors yard!!
Three time loser for house breakins (that was what he was trying to do when he encountered my little Soviet friend). He went down for a LOOOOOOONG time!!
I feel that I did my good deed for society that day!!!

Point is: Just displaying a firearm in the appropriate circumstances will "solve the problem" most of the time!!
Caliber does not seem to matter!!

 

[Bopleo]

Is she even in to guns?

What the hell does she know about guns, except what she's seen on TV

 

[c_yeager]

Conclusive proof that size DOES matter..

 

[orangeninja]

Bopelo

no she isn't.

Yeah size matters....I'm a real breast man and I'm here to tell you...size matters.

 

[Beren]

At the risk of behavior unbecoming of a moderator, I must ask: does she have a sister?

Anyway, I wouldn't want to be shot by a BB gun, t'be honest. I tell myself I won't draw on someone unless I am fully prepared to shoot until they stop whatever it was that forced me to draw on them.

 

[Delmar]

Beren-you really need to put the computer down, get out of the house and socialize. Its amazing what you'll see these days. Womens smokin and drinkin and playin cards and gamblin.............

 

[P95Carry]

My Bersa has gone to sulk ..... in the furthest corner of the safe ... it is mortally upset!! It is tho trying to make up with the 1911 .. maybe it hopes for some breeding lessons so as to progenerate a new generation that is bigger.

 

[Delmar]

I hear silicone grips are all the rage these days

 

[gbelleh]

A Bersa .380 is certainly not a P**** gun if it's aimed or fired at you.

 

[Feanaro]

I would not want to insult your lady's intellect but anyone who thinks that a loaded weapon is a "pussy gun" is certainly not going to win any Nobel Prizes.

 

[PCRCCW]

Id have to see what she'd have to say if you bought a little WHIMPY K40 Kahr and let her shoot it.....its a similar size to your Bersa.

She may rethink any comments after this one.

Size doesnt matters a hell of alot if you dont know how to use it properly

Shoot well...........

 

[Delmar]

One thing you might do is load it up with the fastest expanding bullet you can find, take her out in the country some place, and splatter a head sized melon with it. It might drive some of the unknowing out of her.

 

[Intune]

Or she knew the difference between a .380 and a .357 mag. She may be wiser than some give her credit for. Size (and speed) matters! At least, apparently, to some women. I'm gonna leave it right there.

 

[treeprof]

I jumped up in my whitey tightys

"What did you think you we're gonna do with that little thing?"

Boxers won't cure a caliber problem, but they make for good concealment.

 

[Baba Louie]

alduro,
LMAO
Sounds like you're in the market for a new S&W 500 She'd be hard pressed to say...

"NO NOT THAT ONE THE OTHER ONE...THATS A PUSSY GUN!!!"

I'm biting my lip to keep from saying whats on my mind here, but it would do well with the rhyme "This is my rifle, this is my..."
I would have kept the Bersa just so I could tell that story to my friends, kids and grandkids. And of course its new nickname from that day forward would have to be "P.G."

 

[Feanaro]

Or she knew the difference between a .380 and a .357 mag. She may be wiser than some give her credit for.

And the time it can take to get the big shootzen magnumen could cost you your life.

 

[Intune]

Not when SHE'S loading the magnum pooper and I'm holding the 007 special caliber!

 

[lycanthrope]

Dizzaam. She knows enough to see the .380 isn't the best self defense caliber.

Do us a favor and buy a youth model 870 in 20 gauge that she can shoot later and feel like it's ...um.....adequate diameter for the job.

 

[Feanaro]

Not when SHE'S loading the magnum pooper and I'm holding the 007 special caliber!

Ah, now we're talkin'.

But the situation Alduro was in required speed and a .380 in hand is better than a half loaded .357 covered in your blood.

 

[Mikul]

I remember reading a report of a police shooting. The officer and his partner responded to a domestic disturbance. The woman is there by herself claiming that her boyfriend took off. They search the place and as they enter the bedroom the boyfriend is pointing a gun at the lead officer. I still remember his words:

"...when he pulled a big revolver and I'm thinking to myself 'Oh my God, it's a .44 magnum' "

When it was all over, and the officer saw the gun laying on the ground, he saw that it was a .22 LR revolver.

All guns look big when they're pointed at you.

My big fear, because I'm such a gun afficianado, is that if some fruitloop points a gun at me, I'm going to say, "Hey, is that the new Glock 37? Is it really smaller than the 21?"

 

[c_yeager]

I challenge ANYONE to tell the difference between a .380 and any other pistol in the ".38cal" family from the muzzle end. I cant see the several thousands of an inch difference in diameter of the bore.