Best "Gun" Advice or Saying?

Dad said, "Keep your eyes open."

My mantra to my kids & grands: ALL guns are ALWAYS loaded. (no if's, and's, but's, treat, or assume) It's a placard over my safe door.

It's pointless to have a weapon if you have no training, practice or situational awareness.

Then you have a pointless weapon.
-At least until you get training, practice and situational awareness.

I have a number of pointless weapons.
They hang on the wall.
Pretty, but pointless.

The Evangelist Cowboy said:

"When you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk" -Tuco

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“You see, in this world, there’s two kinds of people, my friend – those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.” - Blondie

Happiness is a belt fed weapon

ATLDave...speaking of guitars,, think about Willy Nelson and his guitar “Trigger’. Only one guitar for that man,, are you going to call him a fool???

Message to self......"If you want it, buy it."

Can we not argue over whether the guy with one gun is better or worse than the guy with multiple guns? I know people with 10+ guns that can’t hit the side of a barn from inside it, and I know people with 1 gun that can remove a squirrels head from a good ways off. It goes the other way also.

The sentiment of the saying is simply and truthfully that if you focus and dedicate yourself to a single skill, you will likely get good at that skill. Nothing more, nothing less.

Now let’s get back to some fun and informative sayings. Geez.

Not just guns, but...
"Your best weapon is the one between your ears and behind your eyes...
provided it is loaded." (Heinlein)

When I was a kid, every time my dad would hand me a gun, he'd ask "is it loaded?" That of course was my prompt to open the action and check. Doesn't matter if he or someone else had just handled the gun thirty seconds prior, you check every time for the habit of it.

Now every time I grab a gun, I hear that voice in the back of my head. "Is it loaded?"

The "check first to see if it's loaded" thing was drilled into me early. I drilled that into my son when he was growing up. The phrase I still remember from my youth was being asked - " Do you realize how many people have been killed by an "empty" gun ?" Along with - " Famous last words - Don't worry; It's not loaded".

ok i admit ..... to having four gun safes and not doing any type of count in a long time...... But for the record any time i have had a gun pointed at me,
I wasn't thinking about how many guns the other guy has...... No not at all, my focus was in other areas.

A 22 in hand is better than two 44's in the safe.

dirtman said:

ok i admit ..... to having four gun safes and not doing any type of count in a long time...... But for the record any time i have had a gun pointed at me,
I wasn't thinking about how many guns the other guy has...... No not at all, my focus was in other areas.

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Funny how that works. All I ever noticed was that big hole in the end of the barrel.

"What caliber was it ?"

"Dunno....what caliber is a golf ball? I mean a tennis ball.
Maybe a softball ."

"Squeeze the trigger like a teat." - My Dad (former USMC DI in WWII) would always tell me.

"Use your handgun to get to your rifle. The goal is to put the danger to you that much further away."

"A handgun is only useful for getting a shotgun. A shotgun is only useful for getting a rifle." - multiple sources.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Usually, I feel that it is more useful to have a pistol and not be noticed than to have a long gun and start a commotion.

I think this saying presumes things have gone south.......once you have the first one work your way to all three.

Not directly gun related but why many come to guns:
"When seconds count, help is minutes away."

"Keep your powder dry."

Sort of gun related but probably more in a CCW context. It was an inscription (in Spanish), on the blade of a Mexican Bowie knife that loosely translated said: "Do not draw me without reason...Do not sheath me without honor!".

Always liked that saying.

"One mistake can cause a life time of misery"....

22250Rem said:

The "check first to see if it's loaded" thing was drilled into me early. I drilled that into my son when he was growing up. The phrase I still remember from my youth was being asked - " Do you realize how many people have been killed by an "empty" gun ?" Along with - " Famous last words - Don't worry; It's not loaded".

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The only gun I will presume is unloaded is one that is field stripped. Of course, at that point it is pretty clear that it's loaded or not.

Hooda Thunkit said:

Funny how that works. All I ever noticed was that big hole in the end of the barrel.

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I have noticed that gun muzzles are elastic. When peering down a barrel of a gun I'm cleaning, they pretty much appear caliber size. When pointed at me by some orc, they grow much larger. When cocked they appear large enough to walk down. Funny that.