"Possibily" Stupid Fireams Quotes ?

[Arkansas Paul]

"Glocks melt" - often repeated by the older guys
"Plastic guns are garbage and unreliable" - refering to anything that is newer than an M1 garand.

I agree those are silly. I've also heard the following:

"1911s are notoriously unreliable and obsolete." - often repeated by younger guys

"Revolvers are a thing of the past," - referring to anything that didn't originate during their brief lifetime

 

[MinnesotaFats]

What Vice President Biden said. Something along the lines of [you only ever need a double barreled shotgun to protect your home, just step outside and fire both rounds in the air to scare off the bad guys]. Edit: sorry i just seen that was already posted...kind of.

 

[Lost Sheep]

As much as I have enjoyed Clint Eastwood's movies over the years, and relished the "Dirty Harry" flicks ...
"... being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clean off ..."
... well, again, sometimes the famous movie quotes just create some problematic misperceptions among those that know no better ...

Most of the guys Harry Callahan made that statement to were probably unaware that Harry commonly carrie "Light 44 Specials", as he stated in "Magnum Force" after the competition shoot.

Cops lie to suspects all the time and if it produces a surrender rather than a shooting, so much the better. Except, of course, Harry could not have cared less.

Lost Sheep

 

[Skribs]

It seems there are three categories here.

Category #1: Stupid things gun owners say. Things like "stopping power", "knockdown rating", "one-shot-stop statistics" are big buzz words. For me, it's whenever you're trying to weigh the pros and cons, and someone simply says "it's not the gun, it's the shooter", which completely invalidates any discussion.

Category #2: Stupid things uninformed people say. This is largely the entertainment media (not the news), which have an anti-gun agenda, but I have to believe a large portion of them are just uninformed. Look at how much they screw everything else up. These are when cops on a crime drama ask law abiding citizens "why do you have a gun" or fudge up how guns work (my favorite example is a scene on lost where a guy pulls the hammer back on a Glock twice for emphasis).

Category #3: Stupid things stupid people say. Aside from our VP, who has given people a great defense to use in court (has that defense actually worked? anyway...), you have any of the following buzz words:

Gun Control
Common Sense Restrictions
But (after "I support the second amendment")
Gun Crime
Gun Show Loophole
Universal Background Checks
Lack of trust in the American people
Keep guns out of the hands of kids
...you get the picture

 

[FROGO207]

^^^ You forgot the biggest one on #3.

IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!:banghead:

 

[AntiSpin]

I Just Ran Across This One

on another site, and thought you all would find it hilarious, as I did.

"As to the gun nuts and their misinterpreted reverence for the Second Amendment, I have been a French and Indian War re-enactor for over a decade and as part of that have been involved in Revolutionary War re-enacting as well, and I can say with certainty that I have a MUCH better understanding of what a militia is and is not than most of the Second Amendment fetishists do."

 

[Bruno2]

"My Dad has a 537 magnum" said a girl I used to know.

 

[Bruno2]

Weldoya said:

Several years ago I wanted my young son to take a hunter safety course so I took it with him.
It was a couple of hours each night over the course of a week. As I remember, the guy in charge was some kind of auxilliary game warden and he brought his friends and acquaintences in each night to teach a different aspect of hunting and hunter safety.
It was all I could do to keep silent on some nights. One night a particularly uninformed clown was "teaching" about shotguns.
A kid in the class asked "what's the difference between high brass and low brass shells ?". The "expert" replied "not a thing, it's all just marketing."
I had to bite my lip on that one.

There is no difference between low brass and high brass shotgun shells. Other than one has taller brass up the hull. This made a difference when shotgun shells were loaded with black powder. That's where the "dram equivalency" came from as well. Now that smokeless powder is used there is no need for high brass hulls. Now you can load any weight of shot and as high of velocity as you want in the standard brass it makes no difference now. This is just a marketing ploy to humor the old timers that think they need "tall brass" shells to hunt pheasant or ducks.

Sorry dude, but the guy teaching the hunter safety course was right.

 

[Bruno2]

Many of the customers I hear at the gunshops are "SEALS", "snipers" and "special operators", so I don't hear any sort of lies or tall tales or anything....

A guy I used to know (Carl a friend of a friend) would go to clubs with us and lie through his teeth to people after he had a couple of beers. One night I remember him telling a bunch of guys sitting at the bar that he was a Marine Corps sniper. Carl had never been in the military period. One of the guys listening pulled out a National Match coin and flipped up on the bar. When Carl read it he quietly slithered away. I thought it was hilarious.

 

[Bruno2]

Some guy at a gun show was giving me the run down on how the 1911 45ACP came about:

"In WWII they were having problems with Germans running up on foxholes and when the US soldiers would shoot them with the 30-06 they would fall in. The bodies would pile up and fill in the foxholes. So they came up with the 45 ACP and that would knock them backwards therefore not falling in the foxhole with dead bodies"

Somewhere years ago there is post here where I actually asked if this was true. In the post I was reminded that the gun was patented in 1911 (face palm). I knew better too. The story was told rather well and made me ask a stupid question.

 

[Bruno2]

Obama saying: " Nobody is trying to take your guns!" This has been said multiple times.

Anybody saying: " You don't need an AR15 for deer hunting."

Our biggest population of deer is the Whitetail. A big one field dressed is like 120-130 lbs. I see them killed frequently at less than 90 lbs. They really are like as big as German Shepherd. I encounter this almost daily here in Oklahoma:

"You need a 270 or 30-06 to hunt deer with"

I always recommend 223 to people who want to deer hunt here.

Then people reply " 223 wont kill a deer!"

Then I reply with "Oh yeah, they kill people with it all the time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why do you think a whitetail Deer is tougher than a person?"

 

[twofifty]

quote: "Why do you think a whitetail Deer is tougher than a person?"

Depends where you are. The deer around here don't drive everywhere they go. As a result, they end up much fitter than hunters are.

 

[armedwalleye]

Don't know if they're tougher up here, but I do know they're bigger. 90 lb might not be a quarter, but it's a lot less than the front half.

 

[Bbear]

Overheard in a big box store: "Clerk - You don't want to use a bronze brush in your barrel, it will score and scratch up the barrel and ruin it. Let me go find you a different brush."

 

[Resto Guy]

"Concealed means concealed."

"I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six."

When I see those statements I figure the poster really had nothing substantial to add to the topic, but could not resist spouting one of those gems to increase the personal post count.