Stupidest things you've ever heard about guns?

[effengee]

My favorites include, but are certainly not limited to:

The guy who tried to tell me he was a sniper in Iraq and he ripped the faces off two Iraqi soldiers by passing a .50 BMG round right between their heads as they leaned in to light their cigarettes. He didn't hit either one, it was the "sonic concussion that ripped their faces clean off as the bullet whizzed between them."

"Point three five seven is smaller than point three eight which any idiot with a third grade education knows. That's why you can't put thirty eights into three fifty sevens and vice versa."
I literally almost wet myself when I heard these words uttered by a self-declared-weapons-expert who was arguing gun stuff with me...

"I bought one of those 75 round drums, but it was junk. I put 100 rounds into that POS and it jammed up and wouldn't feed properly"
Found on a major firearms supply website under their customer reviews for the 75-round drum magazine for the AK-47. When asked if he meant that he shot less than 100 rounds through it and it jammed he replied;
"No, I filled it up with 100 rounds and it just jammed!"

But the winner is and always will be:
"The second amendment only protects flintlock muskets, not assault weapons"
To which I replied:
"Then by that same token, the first amendment only protects people who use quill pens or hand-powered printing presses."

 

[TexasBill]

"I don't believe in guns." To which I always reply, "I assure you, they exist."

 

[eight433]

I love how people say they "don't believe in something" like that makes that item stop existing, like not believing in ghosts or something haha.

I haven't heard too many memorable gun related idiocies. I guess I don't hang around with the right crowd...

 

[aka108]

I've had someone say no guns because they were afraid they might get mad and missuse it against someone. Then you tell them you are really glad they don't have one and are smart enough to recognize it.

 

[zombienerd]

I love meeting people from NYC who magically think that the rest of the USA has to follow their understanding of NYC laws. Some of the Brits I work with are just as bad. (I'm a merchant sailor)

Looking at pictures of my "arsenal" (as they called it)

NYC'er = "Wow, didn't it cost you a lot to register all of those?"
Me = "Uhh, dude, you don't have to register guns where I live"
NYC'er = "Yes you do, you're going to go to prison if you don't register those"

about 10 minutes of explanation later:

NYC'er = "There's no way I believe you don't need to register those, I should turn you in or something"
Me = "Yeah, I could try to explain this further, but somehow I think it's lost... You can leave now.. Please do "turn me in", record it with a video camera if possible... Youtube would love it."

 

[Deanimator]

There used to be a guy in FidoNet (he later moved on to usenet) who was a "fathers' rights advocate" who passed himself off as having been in "Air Force Special Forces in Vietnam, when all of the Special Forces were together". He was a racist, a rampant misogynist, a pathological liar, and a bully of those he thought couldn't stand up to him, women in particular. He got temporarily barred from the FidoNet POLITICS echo by a friend of mine for threatening to sue somebody. His mythical military adventures got him dubbed commander of the "Parachute Ski Marines".

In addition to his various other idiocies, he was a "script" anti-gunner of the most pig-ignorant sort. His ignorance and dishonesty extended to firearms as well, and he would just pull "facts" out of his colon to embellish his lies. Once he declared that nobody needed "AK47s and their 500 round magazines". I went for his throat, demanding an example of a "500 round magazine" for a Kalashnikov that both had enough spring power to feed a round, and didn't require its own form of wheeled transport. He tried to run from it and I hounded him mercilessly until he had to concede that he'd made the whole thing up.

After I defended a woman in usenet from his bullying, he resorted to anonymous email death threats. Strangely, I'm still around and he isn't.

Funny how anti-gunners tend to run to "type"...

 

[DWFan]

I was asked once if it was legal for me to have a 10" barrel and scope on my Dan Wesson SuperMag because it made it "look an awful lot like a rifle".

 

[Hatterasguy]

Mmmmm ok guns are bad.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Stupidest things you've ever heard about guns???

That a rifle with a 16 inch barrel is fine, but a rifle with a 15 inch barrel will turn me into a mass murdering criminal gangster

That a shotgun with an 18 inch barrel is great for dove hunting, but a shotgun with a 16 inch barrel can only be used to rob a liquor store so I need to have a background check and pay a $200 tax to own one

That a pistol with a stock on it all of a sudden becomes more concealable and deadly than a pistol without a stock on it

That a firearm that goes "bang bang bang" when you pull the trigger is more deadly and dangerous than a firearm that goes "bang" when you pull the trigger. :banghead:

In other words, the entire National Firearms Act.

 

[CoRoMo]

That there is no practical use for full auto. No, it's always too useless, callow, and dangerous.

 

[jnyork]

"He was cleaning his gun and it accidentally went off"

 

[Gouranga]

Mine is the notion I get from anti's about how anyone with a gun:

1. Wants to shoot someone
2. Is a Rambo/cop wanna be who could not hack the psych eval.
3. Is an idiot who juggles loaded firearms, and cans of gunpowder over an open fire, while smoking.

 

[Nate1778]

 

[Schofield3]

It still bugs me when someone refuses to admit there is a difference between .223 rem and 5.56 NATO and thinks it's fine it shoot either one no matter what the chambering on the rifle is.

 

[Gouranga]

Lol Nice sign. I guess I will have to leave my arms and legs at the door too then.

 

[oneounceload]

Stupidest?

"Guns cause crime rates to rise"

 

[KodiakBeer]

"Cop Killer" handgun bullets like the "Black Talon". They're black, so they penetrate armor. This has penetrated hollywood to the core - "Damn them! They sprayed the tips with teflon so they'll zip right through body armor..."

 

[Wishoot]

"Chicago Mayor Daley Wants US Gun Makers Sued in World Court"

http://biggovernment.com/publius/20...aley-wants-us-gun-makers-sued-in-world-court/

What a ding-bat.

 

[Sniper X]

I always have loved and hated the ones here:

A 9mm won't stop a charging enemy, but a .45 will blow his arm off if you hit him in the finger.

A .44 mag bullet, no matter where you hit him will blow off his arm, leg whatever.

.357 mag is not as powerful as a 9mm or .40S&W...

I also had a guy at work who claimed to be an Army Sniper in VN. I, actually being a former Army Sniper had to ask him a few questions...
What weapon did you use then?

A Winchester 30-30....modifyed.

Oh, what was modified on it?

The trigger.

What scope was on it?

None, the real snipers in Viet Nam didn't need scopes and they didn't work anyway because the jungle was too thick.

Oh, what ranges did you make shots out to?

I made shots to 1000 yards all the time....all of them were head shots too.

At this point I HAD to tell him I was a former Sniper and he got all wiggley and red in the face and quickly changed the subject after saying something like well, you got in in 1978, which was after VN so you don't know what we used or did.

Well, I did know because I know Sniper history and he was a liar.

 

[Sniper X]

I remembered a coupe more.

A lady talking head on TV news showing a .223 ball round and calling it an EXPLODING bullet, and saying it can go thru an armoured car...this was durring the coverage of the DC Sniper.

A local news talking head talking about the rounds used to kill some teenagers up in the east mountains which turned out to be a drug murder, she called the AR15 used an AK48, yes fourty eight, and it was a AR15, she said it had a "clip containing 100 bullets or more" and also said the "bullets explode on impact, and are for military use only".....And went on to suppose they had been sold to the murderer by some "soldier who sold stolen military weapons".....

 

[rmfnla]

How about Viet Nam era M-16s were designed to make the bullets tumble because of the devastating effect it had?

 

[Sniper X]

I hear that to this day! I asked a guy who told that myth around our campfire once hwo he thought the bullet was accurate if it tumbled. He said it was designed to be that way. I pressed on but got no where with a guy like that. Everyone else around the campfire got it though. They knew he was full of it and I was right.

 

[wvshootist]

I roll my eyes when I am told a 22-250 does not drop as fast as say a 45-70.

There are also a lot of people that believe a 45 auto or even a shotgun can blast a person through a glass window or off of their feet.

 

[natman]

"A shotgun is better for HD because you don't have to aim it"
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From an actual THR post:

"The Winchester '94 has also seen more combat than the Marlin 336 why do you all think that is? Was the Marlin 336 issued in WWII? Nope, but the Winchester '94 was."
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But the all time best thing I've ever heard was when I answered the phone at the gunshop and had the following dialog:

Cust: "I have some questions about scopes. What does it mean when a scope is a 4x32?"

Me: "That means the scope is a 4 power with a 32mm objective lens."

Cust: "What does 4 power mean?"

Me: "That means if your target is 100 yards away, the target will appear to be 25 yards away."

Cust:"Does the bullet still have to go the entire 100 yards?"

Long silence.

Me: "No, sir, the scope does not warp the space-time continuum. It merely makes the target appear to be 25 yards away."

 

[SwordRapier]

"Cop Killer" handgun bullets like the "Black Talon". They're black, so they penetrate armor. This has penetrated hollywood to the core - "Damn them! They sprayed the tips with teflon so they'll zip right through body armor..."

Oh, is that where that garbage information comes from, it comes from a movie.

I just love it when people get their "facts" from a fictional source.