Absurd firearm "knowledge"

[pete f]

Hastings makes a 30 inch or so choke tube, Yup that's right, choke tube that is designed to lengthen the barrel to the point where the pressure from the burning gasses from the propellent are low enough that sound it more like popping a champagne cork than a gun blast. Very useful in the urban hunter, pest thinning role. I Also have seen loads that use buck shot encased in a Tyvek like substance, upon hitting anything the paper shreds and the loose pellets loose all energy very fast, but if it hits a deer at say 30 or 40 yards out of a shotgun barrel it acts just like a slug.

Suppressing a shotgun is relatively easy, as well with conventional means.

I am also always dismayed at the lack of understanding of the fundamentals of firearms shown by cops. One told my daughter that she was physically unable to shoot a 45 as it was just too much for her shoulders to take, that she would get arthritis from shooting one. Another Customs officer, was positive that shooting a bad guy with a 9mm was so deadly that aiming for his leg or hips was just going to blow his leg off.

The other whole genre that defies imagination is the lack of understanding that screenwriters show, but that is another post...

 

[whm1974]

I am also always dismayed at the lack of understanding of the fundamentals of firearms shown by cops. One told my daughter that she was physically unable to shoot a 45 as it was just too much for her shoulders to take, that she would get arthritis from shooting one. Another Customs officer, was positive that shooting a bad guy with a 9mm was so deadly that aiming for his leg or hips was just going to blow his leg off.

Right, and I've seen 11 and 12 year old girls shoot .45 cal 1911s with no problem. 45 ACP does not kick like a mule. And I doubt a 44 mag would be even powerful enough to blow someone leg off.

-Bill

 

[AnthonyRSS]

Don for the win!


Anthony

 

[Strings]

Odd... my wife (who has a bad back) prefers her .45acp Kimber to the 9mm Beretta...

>You may have read stories about attackers disarming people who are armed with Beretta 92-series pistols by simply disassembling the gun (i.e., removing the slide) in their hands.<

Since i have a Beretta 92, I decided to try this trick: it takes a bit of cooperation on the part of the shooter for the manuver to work...

 

[Carl N. Brown]

"Since 1934 there has only been one crime committed in the U.S. with a machine gun, and that was done by a law enforcement officer."

Corrected to:
"Since 1934 there has only been one crime committed in the U.S. with a legally registered machine gun, and that was done by a law enforcement officer."

But not to worry folks. Since 19 May 1986 no new machineguns can be registered for legal civilian ownership.

That does not stop crime with unregistered machineguns but hey the politicians could not do anything more about illegal machineguns so they outlawed future legal machineguns instead.

 

[Stauffenberg]

I love my friends. They're all wonderful guys, and I'd happily stand beside them through thick and thin - princes of the Earth, every damn one of them.



...but we were at a gun shop yesterday, and my pal Dan pointed to a .38 sp revolver and suggested I "buy that Nine."

It took a transcendent act of self-control not to start swinging.

More favorites:

- "Full-Auto revolver."

- Some kid on the internet claiming to regularly carry "two revolvers and two wheelguns," and then rapidly disappearing when I asked him to describe the difference between the two.

- Some chick on CNN describing the jam-o-matic Tec-9 as a "fully automatic assault weapon."

- Teflon, teflon, teflon!

- Another kid on the internet talking about owning two AK-47's. I asked if he meant the civilian, semi-auto versions. Nope. Full auto. So I asked what he thought of the process of getting the necessary paperwork through the ATF. He insisted he had walked into a gun store and bought them, not even a background check. I flew off the handle and accused him of being a liberal plant.

- "Anybody can just walk into a gun store in America and buy a gun" - that just never gets old.

 

[carterbeauford]

(Speaking of movie stuff. Any truck drivers in the THR audience? In the 1989 James Bond (Tim Dalton) movie where he goes after the cocaine smugglers, someone severs the air brake lines with a machete between a semi tractor and the trailer... and suddenly the semi has NO BRAKES!!!! Remembering the times when I attempted to move trailers before air pressure built up & ROFLMAO)

Never seen the movie. If only the red air line, or both air lines were cut, the trailer emergency brakes would come on and the trailer wheels would lock up. Tractor brakes would not be immediately affected, at least not before the whole thing likely crashed. If only the blue air line were cut, the trailer would not have any brakes. Again, no effect on tractor brakes.

 

[evan price]

Carterbeuford: Exactly. But you would be surprised how many people out there firmly believe that if the air lines are severed the entire rig has no brakes. Like I said, I driven trucks and spotted trailers before and I know how tight them wheels lock up without air. And the tractor brakes are a different air circuit entirely. But people who do not drive- they know it because they saw it in the movies.

 

[whm1974]

Since i have a Beretta 92, I decided to try this trick: it takes a bit of cooperation on the part of the shooter for the manuver to work...

A while back I've an ad in some gun magazine that's suppose to "fix" this problem of people disarming you in this way.

My "fix" is to shoot BEFORE he gets close enough....

- Another kid on the internet talking about owning two AK-47's. I asked if he meant the civilian, semi-auto versions. Nope. Full auto. So I asked what he thought of the process of getting the necessary paperwork through the ATF. He insisted he had walked into a gun store and bought them, not even a background check. I flew off the handle and accused him of being a liberal plant.

It amazings me on many people who do own guns and who should know better think that the AK47s and AR15s and other "EBR" in gunshops are automatic weapons... They were selling these things since the '60's, come on folks.

-Bill

 

[Wes Janson]

Don Gwinn wins. That's just too damn funny. Is there any chance the entire thing is a hoax?

 

[paramedic70002]

If you are overly sensitive to blatant firearm idiocy (and really, otherwise I LOVE his stuff) don't ever read a Stephen King book.