What is the silliest thing you've heard in a gun discussion?

...silliest thing on a gun post?.....on one forum some guys got into an arguement about shooting a rifle round @ 3000FPS while in a jet flying at 3000FPS....where you could reach out and pick the bullet from the air...

"does Taurus have a custom shop?"

I had a roommate who told me he was a Navy Corpsman attached to a Marine unit. Any time the subject came up, he insisted on calling the M60 machinegun a ".60-cal".

Overheard in a local gunshop,CLerk telling a guy looking at 45's to stay away from 1911's cause they'll start jamming when they get a little dirty.

insisted on calling the M60 machinegun a ".60-cal".

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Heard quite a few guys do that. The M2 Browning is referred to as the "fifty-cal", and some how the M60 translated into the "sixty-cal".

Once heard a first lieutenant refer to the M9 pistol as a "Glock".

one would imagine a Lt. would know better!

kimbers are a gook value.
flash suppressors keep your enemy from seeing your muzzleflash.
glocks are pretty.
45/70 is better than a 444.


everytime i hear the old ceramic glock bit from someone who knows a guy or brother-in-law has one i offer them $1000 on the spot to let me hold it. just tell him to let me hold it and i'll give him 1K cash on the spot.

Rembrandt said:
"on one forum some guys got into an arguement about shooting a rifle round @ 3000FPS while in a jet flying at 3000FPS....where you could reach out and pick the bullet from the air..."


HAHA that would actually work! the bullet would drop though....and i would be impossble and unsafe to actually do......but still!

...silliest thing on a gun post?.....on one forum some guys got into an arguement about shooting a rifle round @ 3000FPS while in a jet flying at 3000FPS....where you could reach out and pick the bullet from the air...

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I'm sure that was just an arguement for the speed of the SR-71. In fact, in some cases, if it were physically possible to reach out into the slipstream of a Blackbird, (Over 3500 fps at times) you might have to slow down to catch that bullet. Fired by someone else, of course.

How'd you do that quote? I don't see a quote button anywhere.

magic ..... there is a quote button in the VB code area

• When a bullet hits the human body, even a .22 LR, it is not just the physical trauma that can kill -- if it hits an artery anywhere in the body, the hydrostatic shock wave travels along the blood vessel and back to the heart, where it shocks the heart into stopping. If you need proof, fire a shot into a watermelon and watch it "explode" from the hydrostatic shock wave.
(This was from the person who was my instructor when I took my firearms safety training course! )

• No-one except the military or the police needs a gun!

• Our (Australian) system is better than in America where you can just walk into a petrol station or hardware store and walk out with a gun!

• Fundamentally, guns are designed to kill, and the practice which competitors at Commonwealth Games participate in, is just the same as normal target prcactice. This is aimed at making the shooters better equipped to kill some living thing.
John Crook - Gun Control Australia
Letter to Australian Commonwealth Games Association asking to ban shooting sports.

• Our logic is that shooters are the most ill-disciplined people of any recreational group. That's what attracts them to guns. It's a state of mind. They are usually poorly educated, they never had much success at school and were never very good at sport.
John Crook - President Gun Control Australia

The .22 Hornet is a high-power centrefire cartridge.
Police Sergeant, WA Police

• You can't overload a .223 -- you just can't get enough powder in the case to do any damage. (Hmmmm, what about a full load of the wrong powder??)
Told to me by an "oldtimer" who should have known better.

• The old .303 was a far more accurate cartridge than the .308.
Gun club Range Officer

• The 5.56mm round in the Steyr-AUG is deadly accurate to 600 metres.
Aussie army useful idiot at an armed services display; said in a hushed voice. When I mentioned that I wouldn't call my 10FP in .223 with 69-gr BTHP handloads and a 10-40x50 scope "deadly accurate" at that range, he went blank for a second or two, then looked really smug and said, Yeah, but this is a 5.56mm!

I read so many things in on-line gun forums that are so silly, ridiculous, or out right BS that I don't think I could narrow it down to the one best.

"Any time the subject came up, he insisted on calling the M60 machinegun a ".60-cal".

This goes the other way also, I have heard a lot of people call an M2 .50 cal, and M50.

I worked in DC in a super-liberal IBM office (it was a PAINFUL two years). I heard one guy I worked with saying this about one of our coworkers before the 2000 election:

"Can you believe her? She said she will vote Republican because 'I want to keep my guns.'" I swear to God, that's what she said."

Sitting in the next cubicle, I thought my pro-gun colleague was being quite reasonable!

It always amazes me how liberals who say they so strongly believe in 'civil liberties' are so willing and eager to give up the most basic civil liberty - the right to self-defense.

12) I want the swat team in polo shirts......BDU's look to much like the military.(my county police dept.)

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This doesn't sound silly to me at all. Police aren't military, and shouldn't dress or act like they are part of the miltary. Too many cops get an "us vs them" attitude where everyone they encounter is a criminal except their fellow officers. Worse is a mindset of "shoot first, and don't ask (or answer) any questions later".

I second what CMcDermott said

The ceramic/plastic Glock is a favorite bedtime story of mine.

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Actually its kind of pitiful. I have a friend who's fully convinced it is true. I told him I was buying a composite pistol and he pleaded with me to not do it because "they make those just to pass through a metal detectors". I didn't tell him the last time I went to the courthouse the detector went off and their wand beeped for my belt buckle, my shoe eyelets and my GOLD TEETH!

Police aren't military, and shouldn't dress or act like they are part of the miltary.

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Sorry to disappoint you, but they aren't trying to make a fashion statement, they dress the way they do for it's functionality and the safety it provides. It would be similar to asking a construction worker to wear sandals to work instead of steeltoe boots. If every officer wore such uniforms then it would be time to be concerned, but a specialized unit requires specialized equipment.

Cohiba, just out of curiousity....

kimbers are a gook value.
flash suppressors keep your enemy from seeing your muzzleflash.
glocks are pretty.
45/70 is better than a 444.

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We'll ignore the Kimber and Glock questions... (Not sure about Kimbers and Glocks don't appeal to their mothers)

What do you suppose flash suppressors do?
And a 45-70 will throw more lead at similar or higher velocity than a 444 Marlin. I suppose it depends on what you mean by "better".

My favorite goofy commando claim is
"M-16 bullets tumble in flight!"

one of the interesting things looking back on all of these posts is that a lot of them (everything from "60 cal" [less than literate reference to the M60 which I also ran into from a Cat IV type, not a corpsman or medic] to the 3000 fps "reach out and grab it" comment [appears to reflect the er, unpublicized early attempts to arm the SR-71], to "polo shirts" [if police are performing a paramilitary function - i.e. SWAT/ERT - what do we do if the politicians don't want to admit that's the case?] are all really distortions of actual issues.

Interesting how that all shakes out, isn't it?

• The 5.56mm round in the Steyr-AUG is deadly accurate to 600 metres.
Aussie army useful idiot at an armed services display; said in a hushed voice. When I mentioned that I wouldn't call my 10FP in .223 with 69-gr BTHP handloads and a 10-40x50 scope "deadly accurate" at that range, he went blank for a second or two, then looked really smug and said, Yeah, but this is a 5.56mm!

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Well, he obviously told what he had been told, but didn't know much about guns or calibers.

However. I have shot clay pigeons with my AUG at 500 meters.
Don't think hitting a bigger target at 600 would be much of a problem.
K.

have to take a shot at something here...

What do you suppose flash suppressors do?

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what Cohiba was getting at that ALOT of folks miss is that a Flash suppressor is to keep THE SHOOTER from having bad effects from muzzle flash in lower light conditions. it has little to do with what the ENEMY sees. they are there to keep a soldier from being temporarily blinded by his own gun!

the supression effect they have with regards to those on the receiving end is a nice bonus. but that is NOT the goal that was being sought when they first appeared.

and as i understand it you can see MORE of a flash down range from the likes of the M-16A2 than you can from behind it.

Wow, what a vast pool of ignorance we have catalogued.

Guys, we better stop. I'm fairly certain the gun rags are reading this thread and getting ideas for their articles.

tell you what. i'll stand 300 yards down range and you fire a round through a flashhider. will you then let me shoot back?
flashhiders DO NOT HIDE FORWARD MUZZLE FLASH! they may reduce it a bit but not enough to keep you from being zero'ed.
archie, i wont even begin a 444 vs 45/70 thread.


but 444 is better.