What is the untrue gun myth that irritates you the most

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With me it is this one: It is unsafe to shoot 7.62X25 Tokarev in a C-96 because it is loaded to much higher pressures.

No, it isn't.

Tok ammo is loaded to the same pressures as 9mm, according to the CIP. Saami doesn't list pressures for Tok ammo but 9mm comes in at 35,000PSI, supers are 36,5000 and 9+P is at 38,5000. Broomies had no trouble handling the 9X25 Mauser round which was loaded to 37,5000 PSI. If your C-96 is in good shape with fresh springs it is perfectly safe to shoot 7.62X25 ammo in it.

And don't start in with " look out for submachine gun ammo" or "stay away from the Czech CZ-52 ammo." The former doesn't exist ( never did, ask johnnyC ) and the latter is another myth. Cz-52 ammo is not higher pressure than any other 7.62X25 The Warsaw Pact would never have allowed one member to load higher pressure ammo that might damage the other members pistols.

As an interesting aside, what do you think would happen if you chambered and fired a 9mm round in a 7.63 C-96. (You can do this.) Answer: Nothing. It has been done, and the result was a very loooong 30 caliber bullet flying downrange. The C-96 was undamaged. Tough enough for me.
 
Gosh, how 'bout the new one making the rounds, that the old guy himself told the country: "The 9mm round will blow someone's lungs right out!" That's pretty irritating.

But the biggest myth is that all the "mass shootings" as well as all the "gun crime" in our country are almost solely due to "easy access to guns."

All due respect to Clint, the .44 Magnum will not blow your head clean off (it will leave a mark, though).
 
that people believe anything they see in TV and Movies has any bearing to reality of firearms. that is entertainment, if someone shoots 50 rounds at a car and hits it 40 times, all the occupants of said car are not going to be OK. I've never been in a real armed conflict and I hope to never be, but whatever they show in TV and Movies, for the vast majority of times, it doesn't work how they show it at all ... at all ...
 
My pet myth is that a bullet fired straight up will be lethal when it comes down. Sorry, when it lands it will be traveling at terminal velocity. The same as if you dropped a bullet from a three story building.
Now an arrow on the other hand, that’s scary.
 
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My pet myth is that a bullet fired straight up will be lethal when it comes down. Sorry, when it lands it will be traveling at terminal velocity.

In a study, 30-caliber rifle bullets reached terminal velocity—the speed at which air resistance balances the accelerating force of gravity—at 300 feet per second. Lethal? Maybe, depending on where it hit you. Certainly is gonna hurt.
 
In a study, 30-caliber rifle bullets reached terminal velocity—the speed at which air resistance balances the accelerating force of gravity—at 300 feet per second. Lethal? Maybe, depending on where it hit you. Certainly is gonna hurt.

If you go to the source, Hatcher also said that a 150 grain bullet at 300 fps had 30 ft lb of kinetic energy. Army doctrine of the day was that it took 60 ft lb to cause a disabling wound.
One falling bullet of the few that happened to land on the firing platform "left a mark about 1/16" deep in the soft pine board." Ouch.
 
.22 Long Rifle is a great choice for self defense since it'll bounce around inside the bad guy and do much more damage than larger, more powerful rounds.
I have it from a reliable source that it just lodges in the lung. I heard that the .22 LR only bounced around doing all that damage when you shoot em in the head.
 
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I have it from a reliable source that it just lodges in the lung. I heard that the .22 LR only bounced around doing all the damaged when you shoot em in the head.
Especially a politician's head because there is nothing inside to slow the bullet down ! I have a few names in mind...which I will not share. I'm sure you do as well.
 
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