What is the untrue gun myth that irritates you the most

1 Gun show loophole
2 the Form 4473 registers your firearm
3 ATF has a database of all your guns and all your information
4 the FBI has a database of all your guns and all your information
5 there is a family exemption to federal laws on the interstate transfer of firearms
6 ATF can walk into a home based dealers home anytime they want to do a warrantless search
7 Nobody needs a silencer
8 The Clinton administration prohibited kitchen table dealers
9 FFLs get huge discounts on firearms
10 The Class 3 license
11 That you can convert a semiautomatic firearm to fully semiautomatic firearm.
12 Shoulder things that go up are a feature of assault weapons
13 Nobody hunts with a 30 round magazine
14 Nobody hunts with a weapon of war
15 Weapon of war
16 Sniper rifle
17 Magazine ads cause mass shootings
18 You should only buy silencers rated for full auto
19 Having a Texas LTC means you don't have to fill out the Form 4473
20 NFA firearms are "hard to get"
21 Glock 18's are impossible to control, fire or shoot accurately
22 You sell more than X firearms you are considered a dealer and need an FFL.
23 Women buy pink/teal/rose colored pistols
24 "Saturday Night Specials" or cheap, inexpensive firearms are only purchased by criminals
25 the address you write on the Form 4473 has to match your drivers license.
26 S&W "Military & Police" models are intended only for the military and police
27 Only US Citizens can legally possess a firearm
28 It's a "suppressor", not a "silencer"
29 Gun barrels need cleaning after every use
30 Stippling your Glock grip enhances its value.
31 Your gun dealer really wants to see your carry gun
32 The best gun for a woman is a revolver
33 Constitutional carry means you can carry a firearm anywhere without violating the law
34 Your state having "reciprocity" with another state means you can carry a firearm anywhere without violating the law
35 Arm braces are actually arm braces
36 Having a gun in an unpopular or obscure caliber is ideal for SHTF because that all that will be on the shelf.
37 The owner of an NFA firearm is required to have his tax stamp with him.
38 YouTube gun personalities know what they are talking about
39 Gun transfers are 100% profit and only take five minutes of the dealers time.
40 GOA is less wasteful and corrupt than the NRA
41 NAGR actually does something
42 Nobody needs more than seven rounds of .45
43 The M14 was a wonderful weapon and should not have been replaced
44 The AR/M16 doesn't need cleaning
45 The "contiguous state" restriction means you can only acquire long guns from the states that border your own
46 Out of state sellers are not required to collect sales tax on your states behalf
47 Shipping guns to California is nearly impossible
48 Shipping high capacity magazines to California is fine because you are not a resident of California and not subject to California law
49 A Bill of Sale offers protection for the seller
50 Donald Trump is a Second Amendment advocate

The all too frequent Hollywood image of somebody waving a pistola around with a limp wrist and shooting "pew-pew-pew" followed by all the bad guys falling over dead has fed the myth that handguns are a magic talisman that vaporizes all foes with zero effort or preparation.... which is decidedly untrue.

dogtown tom said:

3 ATF has a database of all your guns and all your information
4 the FBI has a database of all your guns and all your information

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Watch this video, it might change your thought of those.

Guy buys multiple guns and ATF and State trooper show up to "check" the firearms. With 2 separate sheets of paper for 2 different transactions.

Robbins290 said:

Watch this video, it might change your thought of those.

Guy buys multiple guns and ATF and State trooper show up to "check" the firearms. With 2 separate sheets of paper for 2 different transactions.

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Good grief man....there a multi page thread here on THR.
If true, that there IS a national gun registry.......WHY THE HECK would ATF be coming to ask if you still had those guns?

In a REGISTRY, with REAL gun REGISTRATION......they would already know.

You've got to spend at least x amount of money on a gun for it to be good/reliable/accurate/whatever. Same thing goes for optics. Technology has advanced so well that a good amount of the time there's little practical reason to go beyond entry level or mid tier unless you simply want to. There are, of course, exceptions.

The Glockodile said:

They're still pretty lethal.

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Jim Watson said:

I doubt many of those were fired up a plumb bob and suspect they were in trajectory with a good bit of their initial velocity remaining.

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Once again I refer y'all to General Hatcher. He has a whole chapter on this subject.

The Second Amendment pertains to hunting rifles.

dogtown tom said:

Good grief man....there a multi page thread here on THR.
If true, that there IS a national gun registry.......WHY THE HECK would ATF be coming to ask if you still had those guns?

In a REGISTRY, with REAL gun REGISTRATION......they would already know.

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It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The ATF don't even know! Don't you get it?

That any additional regulations/laws will prevent any kind of crime.

That silencers are illegal.

That fully automatic firearms are illegal.

With two pages I figured someone would have beat me to it. #2 for the win.

That the only things guns are good for is to kill people .

I've been a hunter all my life . I enjoy shooting skeet and trap . I enjoy target shooting .
For nearly 20 years I shot NRA Target Match with handguns in 22 LR , 38 special and 45 acp . We would shoot on Tuesday nights , indoor range ... like a bowling league . No money involved ... the range presented trophy's to the winners . It was a lot of good clean fun ... no one ever got into even so much as an argument.
You can enjoy the shooting sports ... guns are not evil things that jump up and kill .
Me and a friend even tought my son's Boy Scout Troup how to shoot skeet ... and I'm here to tell you ... them boy's had F - U - N fun, fun, fun ... each boy earned his skeet shooting badge too ...every one !
And I was so proud of each and every one .
Gary

https://www.yahoo.com/news/proud-gunmaker-figures-mass-shootings-040311100.html

Here's a whole article from an author creating their own myths based on some myths passed along by a former gun company exec turned anti-gun "expert".

Short action rifles are more accurate.

High bc bullets are required to hit a target or to kill game.

Attaching the name Creedmoor to a cartridge makes it magically better.

Rifle scopes need to go up to 20x or more to shoot past 100 yards.

Retained energy is no longer an important factor when selecting a hunting cartridge/bullet.

Han shot first.

tark said:

Lol. dogtown tom, some people just aren't too tightly wrapped.

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Some people just cant get the humor.

If the government took all our firearms we would be safer. And expensive = quality.

Scout21 said:

You've got to spend at least x amount of money on a gun for it to be good/reliable/accurate/whatever. Same thing goes for optics. Technology has advanced so well that a good amount of the time there's little practical reason to go beyond entry level or mid tier unless you simply want to. There are, of course, exceptions.

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Yup, the old 'you get what you pay for' myth.
Of course you get what you pay for, did you think they were giving them away for free?

That z liberals don't own guns.

My {insert the name of your gun here} shoots clover leafs at 100 yards.

More guns = less crime.
An armed society is a polite society.

Robbins290 said:

Some people just cant get the humor.

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Sorry, the amount of stupid in that thread makes children cry.

dogtown tom said:

Sorry, the amount of stupid in that thread makes children cry.

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I could only make it past the first few post and had to stop. It was pretty stupid. But got a good laugh from it.

That the government wants to take away the guns from the law-abiding to stop criminals from using them.
That the government wants to take away the guns to protect us from each other.
That banning guns has nothing to do with the mutual distrust between the government and the law-abiding people.

All of them.