Do you ever get silly requests from non-gun owners?

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You are the company that you keep and I prefer not to keep that kind of company. If I am shooting at a range only pro-gunners know. If I got guns only pro-gunners know, it's that simple.
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I see two problems with that theory. First, you never have a chance to expose and recruit people who are truely ignorant of firearms, but with few preconceived notions, a clean slate as it were.

Second, if the only people who ever mention, even casually in passing after you have known then for a few years, any sort of interst in guns are the crazy types (who may or may not actually have guns) it paints all gun owners in that light.

Now, I am not saying you should follow a handshake with a new aquaintance with 'btw, I am into guns!" or even restrict it to only with people you know pretty well, but I think it is a travesty to keep your gun ownership totally hidden
 
What Vern Said...

I agree. I've read postings in the past stating we should hide the fact we're gun owners. Why?

What is the point of hiding our support of what we believe to be a foundational human right? :confused:
 
just one question said:
People could steal your guns


It's enough to shut me up.
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Great reason.

In addition to guns, I own cars (which are worth way more than guns) but I keep my car ownership secret. I hide them in garages and only drive them in the middle of the night when no one can see me. I walk or ride a bicycle to work because I have to keep my cars hidden. Otherwise someone will, you know, steal them. That's why I keep it a secret. Clothes too. I have lots of them.
 
My younger brother, a sophomore in college, consistently refuses to go shooting with me and my wife. But one day, he said "so, if aliens invade and you run to the hills with your guns, you'll give me a rifle and take me with you, right?"

I explained to him that he was more likely to shoot me or himself, or at the very best waste ammo and give away our position (I know an alien attack is not likely - but I didn't want to tell him about the impending zombie attack ;) ). I told him that I could help him buy a good, inexpensive rifle with ammunition, train him, and store the rifle for him (they frown on guns in the dorms...). He wasn't interested in that, but he said "really, if aliens invade and you run to the hills with your guns, you'll give me a rifle and take me with you, right?"

I just shook my head.
 
The other day, I was chatting to a gun-owning colleague about the Thompson-Contender line of rifles. Another colleague who was nearby and does not own guns, asked "my God why do you need a machine gun?"
 
As far as being the computer geek and gun nut... well..

I am the guy with the welder and air compressor. And trucks and trailers. And guns.

My previous neighbor, who was in the driveway next door while I was unloading guns (cased) from the car, targets, range bags, etc. to bring inside, walked over and said something to the effect of, "So, out with your machine guns, huh?" :banghead:
I replied..:scrutiny: "hunh?" And opened one randomly to show a plain jane Mauser bolt rifle.
He shrugged, looked at my targets, then said, "When you clean your guns, make sure you are on the other side of the house so you don't shoot through your walls and into mine. Those bullets go right through houses, you know."
Again, I replied..:scrutiny: "hunnh?"
He looked annoyed and said, "Well, the only way to get a bullet out is to shoot it right? Just don't shoot at my house. I see that stuff on the news all the time. People cleaning guns and shooting them clean."

Then I realized that this fella thought that once a round was loaded into the gun, the only way to unload it was to FIRE THE ROUND...! :what:

I offered to show him the safe way to handle guns but he wasn't interested and went back inside. Probably hunkered down in the bathtub all night waiting for the sound of the shot...
 
I have a republican uncle who is pro gun only because the party is. He's more of a closet anti. The first (and only) time I showed him one of my firearms, his hands shook like leaves the whole time he held it.

It was a Ruger MKII.

I think his problem was that he couldn't see it as just an object. He was unable to disassociate it from the personality traits ascribed to guns, so he was afraid of it. Oddly His wife, who is a raving Liberal, dealt with it a lot better. She was more worried about getting nasty oil all over her hands. She even knew how to clear it. I suspect she could be converted.:D
 
maybe this thread should be a "stickie"

as evidence of the on-going stupidity of the average non-gun owner.
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People are willfully stupid about a lot of stuff, or just extremely unthinking.
I'm Chinese-American and believe me, the comments here are just as stupid (maybe less so) than questions I was asked growing up. Fortunately as an adult, I am subject to much less of that - whether because adults (me) are more intimidating, adults (them) are more worldly or incurious, or people are just too busy.

For the "or X will shoot" - yeah that's like saying "your Catholic? Better hide my boys" or "your not a virgin? Better not let you around my daughters!"
Ironically, you cannot raise your voice or act overly offended because as the gun owner, you will be the bad guy. It is also interesting how they cannot see this.
 
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Many times I've mentioned to my friends or random people in chat rooms that I'm "going to go shoot some stuff."
Meaning I'ma go to the woods and shoot water bottles! Whee!

You would not believe how many "Oh noes don't shoot people!" responses I've gotten (Or similar responses).
Since when do people associate 'stuff' and 'things' with 'people'?
 
You would not believe how many "Oh noes don't shoot people!" responses I've gotten (Or similar responses).
Since when do people associate 'stuff' and 'things' with 'people'?
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They must not have as high a regard for human life as you do.
 
He wasn't interested in that, but he said "really, if aliens invade and you run to the hills with your guns, you'll give me a rifle and take me with you, right?"
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The correct response is, "No. My plan is to make my getaway while they're eating you.":D
 
Who's Burt Gummer .

Burt was a character in the movie Tremors that had an extensive gun collection.
 
some great stories here, but I didn't see the most common comment I get personally once someone learns that I collect firearms...

"remind me never to piss you off" like if you own a gun and someone makes you angry its OK corral time. I have CCW'd for years and there have been plenty of times someone pissed me off, meanwhile the last thought in my head is to shoot the person... more like focusing on how to blow it off and not let it escalate.

some people have this notion that carrying a gun makes you prone to violence. those of us that respect the 2A and care a lot about gun safety etc for the most part will be much more cautious in how they approach confrontations. a carry permit is not a license to kill, contrary to what some seem to believe.
 
Once, a girl who lived in the same dorm as me (the HONORS dorm, mind) asked me if I was in the KKK, because I had a bunch of guns. I was completely dumbstruck, and I stared at her for a little while, managed a "No..." and left.

The same girl asked my roommate if the fraternity he was joining (Kappa Kappa Psi) had anything to do with the KKK because it had two Ks in it.
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Unfortunatly many of these very same people wind up as politicians.

I've had a few people say to me crap like well if the 'shtf' I'm comming over to your place since you have all the guns. They usually just get the look. If I'm bored I might ask them what makes them think I have any guns at all?
or as an alternate (if I know they have a family) - I look out for myself so I can look out for whats important to me like my kids. If you would like some private instruction on your own firearm handling and safety I would be glad to help. If the s ever htf if your unarmed chances are you wouldn't make it a mile much less any closer to where I am. And in that case how could you even phantom being unable to protect your own first?

Some people live a falsehood about others always comming to their rescue, dumbazzes.
 
"That's when it hit me that Bob, like so many others who shun firearms, have a kind of stunted growth, a psychological immaturity about guns, just like most of us who probably draw stick figures when we try to draw people. Either no one ever taught us, or we never made the effort to get past that level of awareness and skill."

Spot on.
To some extent I blame suburbia. The suburban lifestyle does have an anesthetizing affect on the senses.
I'm a technophile as much as the next geek but I love going out and "rolling around in the dirt" now and then.
I think I may actually be a gun geek if there is such a thing.

It's a strange experience to introduce people to guns and shooting who have had very limited contact with it. Or have never handled a gun before.
Some are in awe. Some are a little horrified. Some are just like kids in a candy store.
There is no gun tradition in their upbringing and it is sometimes scary and depressing how the inexperience can manifest itself.
 
I ordered a holster and had it shipped to work. One day the lady that runs the mail room called and said I had a package and come and get it. It's return address on the box was 'Holsters R Us' or some such place - I forgot where I got it.

Anyway, she says, 'you got guns?' I say 'yup I like military rifles'. She said, 'I went to military school in Vt. but never got into shooting.'

So playing along I said, 'then you wouldn't mind me living next door to you if I owned some military rifles?'

Nope, no problem.

'How about id I had a bunch and some handguns too?'

Nope no problem.

'How about if I had a couple of AK47's?'

She says I don't think I'd like that.

Why?

"Because you might go crazy and shoot me !

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One day I showed my liberal bro-in-law my AK47. He said "Well thanks a whole lot for putting another assault weapon on the street!"
 
Honestly I've lost all patience with antis and treat them the same as I treat anti-semites or other racists.

"I have not patience for your bigotry, now go away."


Seriously, if someone said of one of their black co-workers "You don't want to piss Bob off or he'll get all crazy and start shooting all the white people." or of a gay co-worker "Don't bend over in front of Bob or you might get a surprise!" there are plenty of companies that would consider those fireable offenses.
 
"Once, a girl who lived in the same dorm as me (the HONORS dorm, mind) asked me if I was in the KKK, because I had a bunch of guns."

:( sigh
That's the sad part. She's an "Honors" student. A lot of honors students can be dumb as posts in some ways.
They've been groomed most of their lives to think and say the "right thing".
 
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