hankdatank1362
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Never thought I'd hear you say bust a cap, Tuner. Fo Shizzle.
Unless it was a true cap-n-ball revolver. Then, I guess you're being literal.
Unless it was a true cap-n-ball revolver. Then, I guess you're being literal.
I don't know for certain, but I don't think that Stephen King is anti gun.
FWIW, Stephen King lives nearby, and from the outside looking in, access to his place would appear to be a bit too easy for someone of his celebrity status.
It was in an editorial he wrote in Entertainment Weekly....America's almost pathological love of guns. It was too easy for critics to claim — falsely, it turned out — that Cho Seung-Hui (the Virginia Tech killer) was a fan of Counter-Strike; I just wish to God that legislators were as eager to point out that this nutball had no problem obtaining a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Cho used it in a rampage that resulted in the murder of 32 people. If he'd been stuck with nothing but a plastic videogame gun, he wouldn't even have been able to kill himself.
Case closed
"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that."
I've seen some Italian-made 1873 SAA clones with that setup. I've also seen a Uberti SAA clone with a funky sort of hammer block thing built into the hammer. Recollection is very fuzzy on this, but wasn't there some sort of law or regulation that required any imported handgun to have some kind of safety? This were just some of the gizmos that creative minds ... created.1911Tuner said:Don't know if it was intentional, but the Virginian Dragoon single-action revolver that I had a few years back had a hammer block safety that was pretty neat. With the hammer at half-cock...push the spring-loaded takedown plunger beside the cylinder pin...push the cylinder pin to the rear and release the plunger. It locked in place and positively blocked the hammer.
Stephen King has more screws loose than a '66 Corvair driven by Ralph Nader and gassed up by Al Gore.
.I've got a bunch of shoot em up paperbacks where the characters are always checking the safeties on their revolvers, releasing the revolver safety, setting the revolver safety, etc. In one book the action hero checks the safety on his revolver before going out, and minutes later during an ambush he's firing back with an extremely deadly .380 automatic that sends bad guys flying.
King is not as anti as people think. Not where it counts, anyway, when you read his books and see what's really going on in his head.
Elephant Two is America's almost pathological love of guns.