Do you admire your guns while watching TV ?

I've just seen too many accidental firings from too many unloaded guns... .

theotherwaldo said:

I've just seen too many accidental firings from too many unloaded guns... .

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If so, you're hanging around the wrong people.

trackskippy said:

If so, you're hanging around the wrong people.

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People who play with their guns?

LOL.

Well, theres that too. But I was referring to the weapons side of things.

Well, tons of shooters are too incompetent to do a press check. So here we are.

tark said:

Do you ever lay a few of your guns in front of the TV to admire during the commercials? I have for years and I suspect I'm not the only one...

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I have thought about wiping down my lever action while watching westerns = otherwise, no.

theotherwaldo said:

I've just seen too many accidental firings from too many unloaded guns...

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Except, well, the guns were loaded. If some people can't distinguish between guns that are loaded and those that aren't, I guess I concede whatever point is trying to be made here: some people shouldn't be handling guns period, irrespective of whether they're watching TV or not.

When I admire my guns I like to give them my undivided attention.

tark said:

Do you ever lay a few of your guns in front of the TV to admire during the commercials? I have for years and I suspect I'm not the only one...

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Well yeah!!

SwampWolf said:

...some people shouldn't be handling guns period, irrespective of whether they're watching TY or not.

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Well, I doubt said people would care when they exercise their God - Given Right to Bear Arms.

Nor will they cease to extol a military pedigree that they perceive as an appropriate modifier in reducing the risk of accidents. Or rest comfortably when justifying methodologies rife with pronouns “I” or “my” in reducing said unnecessary risk.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/favorite-movie-handgun-still-frames.896744/

There’s a great selection of TV shows and movies here, by the way

The Glockodile said:

Well, I doubt said people would care when they exercise their God - Given Right to Bear Arms.

Nor will they cease to extol a military pedigree that they perceive as an appropriate modifier in reducing the risk of accidents. Or rest comfortably when justifying methodologies rife with pronouns “I” or “my” in reducing said unnecessary risk.

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How long to it take you to construct this word salad (which can be inferred as a carefully worded, too-subtle swipe toward anyone who previously posted in this thread)?

Okay, you win the thread!

Nope...They come out of the safe to go to the range where I admire them at least twice a week. Sometimes they come out for a little work or cleaning but that's it. Firearms are for shooting, not admiring imo...

"Pompous diction" doesn't necessarily make what you're saying true (whoever you are ).

Old Dog said:

I am not shamed by those who claim they don't have/watch television, but I am puzzled by those who claim they don't admire their guns... yet here they are, on a firearms forum.

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I think there’s a distinction between admiring a gun in its function and performance, and specifically pulling them out to just fondle and ogle. As stated, I don’t pull out guns to admire, but I do dry fire a lot*, and I do appreciate the nicer ones at the range or cleaning afterwards.

I think some of the argument has been lost in the distinction between appreciation and admiration so to speak.

And a fetishistic love of guns isn’t a pre requirement for a gun forum, there’s plenty of info on here for folks who want to shoot better, or find a different CCW option, or any of the myriad reasons other than “admire pretty guns” (though I do like to look at pictures of nice guns myself, surely).

SwampWolf said:

Pompous diction" doesn't necessarily make what you're saying true (whoever you are ).

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Doesn’t necessarily make what they are saying wrong either.

*I have used the TV for dry fire on occasion, not nearly as much as with kids around. My preference is in my basement with solid wall backdrop and no distractions, however.

I've just finished rebuilding a Fanner Fifty.
If I feel the need to point and click at a screen, that's what I'm likely to reach for... .

What a weird thread.

theotherwaldo said:

I've just finished rebuilding a Fanner Fifty.
If I feel the need to point and click at a screen, that's what I'm likely to reach for... .

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Not routinely. However, I have on occasion pulled out my Walker when watching Josey Wales.

-I've considered using my Walker, but I'd have to put a strip of latigo leather in the hammer slot so that the hammer can't contact the nipple,
This acts both as a safety and to protect the mechanism.

JR24 said:

And a fetishistic love of guns isn’t a pre requirement for a gun forum,

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Well, you'd be correct there, but "fetishistic" connotes an irrational, obsessive or excess devotion or commitment -- maybe even a worship -- to or of a particular thing, so most folks are probably going to fall on the side that believes having a gun fetish is not a healthy thing...Especially those folks not involved in gun-ownership, hunting or shooting. As I noted early in this thread, most people probably wouldn't want to publicly profess they have a gun fetish.

Fine Figure of a Man said:

What a weird thread.

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You got that right.

It was all light-hearted though, which was the way most of the posters took it, until the safer-than-thou crew stepped forward. And when folks start arguing the semantics and making implications about other members' risk-management practices, the thread becomes lost.

I was raised to believe that whenever I do anything that could possibly put other people at risk then I should ALWAYS do it right.
No exceptions.

Putting myself at risk is on my own head... .

Fine Figure of a Man said:

What a weird thread.

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Winning post!

Old Dog said:

connotes an irrational, obsessive or excess devotion or commitment -- maybe even a worship -- to or of a particular thing, so most folks are probably going to fall on the side that believes having a gun fetish is not a healthy thing...Especially those folks not involved in gun-ownership, hunting or shooting. As I noted early in this thread, most people probably wouldn't want to publicly profess they have a gun fetish

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I was going more with the following definition …

“1a: an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its ownerbroadly : a material object regarded with superstitious or extravagant trust or reverence”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fetish

In terms of the superstitious or extravagant reverence, not necessarily the irrational or obsessive version of the definition. Sure, perhaps slightly hyperbolic but not as much as one would think with some comments on gun boards in my experience.

Either way, the point stands. One can like to cruise boards for things like learning how to shoot better, or looking for opinions on the most size/weight efficient CCW combinations without any particular joy in aesthetic looks or function of guns. Utilitarian needs are still needs.

I carve fetishes for some folk.
It's part of my early training as a medicine man.
Does someone need a gun fetish?

I get my SAA and my Remington 1858 out sometimes and oil while I am watching westerners and I do the same with my 1911 when watching war shows and magnum pi . I would like to find a PPK for watching James Bond movies .