What is the untrue gun myth that irritates you the most

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That ANY big game cartridge that’s larger or more powerful than someone’s own personal favorite will “ruin too much meat" - especially if it's a magnum.

And NOBODY can accurately shoot a gun, be it a rifle or a handgun, that’s chambered for a cartridge that’s larger or more powerful than someone’s own personal favorite because guns like that “kick too hard” - especially if they are magnums.

Of course there’s always the story about how someone’s second-cousin’s friend’s brother suffered a broken wrist from firing a 44 Magnum once.

Shot placement is everything.
 
Dirtybob said:
I've only handled one with the Mattel grips but it clearly said Colt on the lower receiver, lol.
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Ok that does it. Did any part of any M16 ever have the word Mattel embossed, engraved, embellished, embroidered...whatever on it???
I've never had the opportunity to handle any M16's so I wouldn't know.
On a side note there was a story that a Canadian FN-C1 could be made full auto with a matchstick stuck under the sear. Never tried it myself. I like my freedom.
 
lightman said:
Bullets from an M-16 tumble.
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Oh, golly! in 1970 a young Marine more or less my equal told me the then extant 5.56mm round (M193). He was very confident in telling me the bullet tumbled in flight. So, I asked him if he had ever worked the targets on the rifle range; then asked if he had every seen a 5.56mm round strike the target other than point first. He admitted he hadn't, but offered the factoid the bullets were timed to hit the targets right.

I gave up.
 
When I hear..

1.357 carbine is a 80 yard gun only. 357 is marginal on hogs. Only hardcasts can harvest hogs humanely.

2. Headshooting is unethical/bordering on impossible
 
TarDevil said:
Glock's can pass through metal detectors.

(A few here may be too young)
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That is absolutely true of the model 7. Would Hollywood lie about such a thing? Say it ain't so Joe Biden.

Oops, looks like I'm late to the party. Sorry to all the Glock 7 owners who go here before me.
 
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"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

Those sworn and elected to protect and preserve this right, have worked so hard to subvert their Constitutional duty.
 
Archie said:
When the .357 Magnum came out in 1935, cars were built a little simpler. The initial load for the .357 Magnum was a 158 grain bullet at an advertised velocity of close to 1500 fps. (Soon it was loaded down a bit as it was pushing the limits of the mechanism.) The round was advertised as being suitable for police in stopping cars.
At any rate, then and for quite a while, (perhaps still) a long barreled .357 Magnum would crack an engine block and generally disable an automobile in a short period. As is common, the story got better with the telling.

In the later 1980s, the idea of shooting at a moving car became rather suspect and then (I can't remember when) many agencies and departments by policy forbade shooting at moving vehicles with certain exigent circumstances. Which pretty much put the .357 Magnum out of that game.
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I shot through both sides of an engine block with a .357 Magnum.
It was from a Crosley - sheet metal shell with the cylinders brazed in place.
Not a major accomplishment in penetration... .
 
Pudge said:
"the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"

Those sworn and elected to protect and preserve this right, have worked so hard to subvert their Constitutional duty.
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Yes, and we need to bring back tar and feathering for those subverting it most egregiously. It would not take but a couple of examples before the others fall back into compliance.

On a serious note, what does it say about their actions that so many of our duly elected officials are in need of constant armed security to protect them from their constituency?
 
citizenconn said:
On a serious note, what does it say about their actions that so many of our duly elected officials are in need of constant armed security to protect them from their constituency?
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It says that they believe that they are Aristocrats.

Aristocrats do not handle or use firearms for any purpose other than recreation.

They do not have to physically defend themselves, they have people for that purpose.

They do not approve that common people may have the means to defend themselves, as that may lead to those common people deciding to resist the wise leadership of the Aristocrats... .
 
I've taken apart around 1000 M16s to include Colts, Harrington and Richardson and GM Hydramatic. A1s, A2s and every AR type (SP1, AR-15 and dual stamped AR-15/M16). I have never once found a grip on any single one of them that was stamped "Mattel". Never.
 
My beef's, Semi-Auto called AUTOMATIC Weapon. Magazine called a CLIP, Clip called a Magazine. etc etc

oh yeah, one more. COP KILLER bullets ??
 
citizenconn said:
Well not a grip....
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That is a stamp added by somebody after the gun left the colt factory. Mattel NEVER had anything to do with any AR/ M-16 production anywhere. They did make a toy gun copy of an M-16and I suppose that's how the rumor got started.
 
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