Stupidest things you've ever heard about guns?

[Deanimator]

"I shot an elk at 973 yards with my 8MM Mauser. Didn't even have to hold over."

Not likely, but certainly not impossible, with target iron sights or a scope with either enough elevation adjustment or an inclined base.

Properly loaded 7.92x57mm Mauser is a very powerful and accurate round, especially with the Sierra 200gr. Match Kings. It's a more than adequate 1,000 yard target round.

 

[Sniper X]

The entire thing about a bullet rising came from the difference between line of sight as opposed to the bullets path. If a scope is sighted in at say 300 yards, the line of sight being straight, and the bullet being shot at an angle then the bullets path compared to the line of sight goes above at shorter range than the line of sights path, then below the line of sights path at longer ranges. That is where the bullet path being up then down or that it "rises from the muzzle" then drops below the muzzle. Kinda the oppisite of saying a certain rifle is a "real flat shooter" since no rifle shoots flat.

 

[walksbyhimself]

I didn't hear it, but my school paper just published a picture depicting a semiautomatic pistol, smoking of course, and several cases nearby that were clearly .38 specials. Had something to do with a shooting in New Mexico.

 

[jakeiscrazy]

".22s are the most deadly"

"When you shoot .22 you have to aim way lower than the target"

(same guy)".22 have a max range of 25 yards"

"I saw a Barret on sale at Dick's the other day for $150"

And my favorite:"Name on instance were a gun has EVERY been used for self defense!"
So I whipped out American Rifleman and she said "These are just fictional stories I can tell." Some people ya know.

 

[DeepSouth]

I live in AL so other than the occasional, "Glocks can go through a metal detector" I don't hear stuff like that.

But I do read this from time to time just for a laugh.

 

[KodiakBeer]

".22s are the most deadly"

Of course they are! They bounce around inside like a pinball for up to an hour after you shoot somebody!

 

[sig220mw]

I have a friend that used to alway say " 90 percent of the people that own handguns want to shoot some one".

After hearing this from her for years, one day I asked her " Jenny how many people in the USA own handguns".

Her reply was "How should I know".

My reply was "well you ought to since you know how many want to shoot some one".

She never made that statement again around me.

Probably still used it on others though.

 

[RS14]

I didn't hear it, but my school paper just published a picture depicting a semiautomatic pistol, smoking of course, and several cases nearby that were clearly .38 specials. Had something to do with a shooting in New Mexico.

Oddly enough, there are several semi-automatic pistols in .38 special, notably the S&W Model 52.

Probably not the pistol they were using, as it's a rather obscure target gun, but it's not unheard of.

 

[Manco]

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.

I've heard this one before, and as "stupid" as it may sound, there's usually no reason to believe that either side is being insincere. Some people just shouldn't have access to guns--certainly those who can't even trust themselves--and it should be up to the individual to decide for themselves on a personal basis because there's no way the law can tell.

And while a trip to the range and a hands-on introduction to shooting is often enough to convert some anti-gunners, there are always some who will have a blast and then feel uncomfortable and conflicted with the feeling of "power" that it gave them. Funny, I think that target shooting is fun and can build confidence, but it doesn't give me an inflated feeling of power. Maybe that's because I'm aware that I could kill a person with a humble pen almost as easily, under the right circumstances, if I had the mind to, while some of these other people aren't accustomed to being empowered and having all of the personal responsibility that comes along with it. To them a gun is highly symbolic of power and responsibility, and it freaks them out even if they had fun shooting at first. In addition, some of those who still think that guns are inherently evil may come to the rationalization, usually false but maybe not always , that it brought out some of their own inner evil, and they don't like that feeling. Yeah, it's kind of stupid, but the main problem is how they were raised and the way society is today. Great, now I sound like a liberal blaming society , but why else would so many people nowadays lack the ability to take and handle responsibility when they apparently did not before? These people won't fight for freedom because they are afraid of it and don't want it.

 

[EddieNFL]

Not likely, but certainly not impossible, with target iron sights or a scope with either enough elevation adjustment or an inclined base.

I saw the rifle and ammo. A 200 grain round nose fired from a K98 wouldn't be my first choice for a 1,000 yard rifle.

If he hit anything other than the side of a mountain from 1K, it was sheer luck. After watching him shoot a handgun, I doubt there is that much luck in the western hemisphere.

 

[SpamHandler]

.....It's the shoulder thing that goes up!

 

[devildog32713]

Not likely, but certainly not impossible, with target iron sights or a scope with either enough elevation adjustment or an inclined base.

Properly loaded 7.92x57mm Mauser is a very powerful and accurate round, especially with the Sierra 200gr. Match Kings. It's a more than adequate 1,000 yard target round.

ok? so? you'd still have to hold over, I could hit an elk with a .22LR at a thousand yards, just put the thing at a 45 degree angle and with a spotter I couuld wipe that elk off the side of the mountian, hahaha, just joking,

"There are semi-auto military guns (was an AR-15) that are going to mexico, and if you drop a new chamber in it it becomes full auto", hahah, well Miss's I tried that, and it still shot semi-auto, hahaha

 

[EddieNFL]

But I do read this from time to time just for a laugh.

I'm having a difficult time believing that wasn't a joke. Can anyone really be that stupid?

 

[KodiakBeer]

The entire thing about a bullet rising came from the difference between line of sight as opposed to the bullets path. If a scope is sighted in at say 300 yards, the line of sight being straight, and the bullet being shot at an angle then the bullets path compared to the line of sight goes above at shorter range than the line of sights path, then below the line of sights path at longer ranges. That is where the bullet path being up then down or that it "rises from the muzzle" then drops below the muzzle. Kinda the oppisite of saying a certain rifle is a "real flat shooter" since no rifle shoots flat.

Easier to say: if the muzzle is pointed up, the bullet will go up.

Still, it begins falling off that rising trajectory the moment it leaves the muzzle

 

[swiftak]

Yea, but we knew what his point was about a semiauto and .38 special cases.

 

[Hold My Own]

"Dood! Silencers are illegal!!1shiftshift!!! And so are explosives, and full auto!!"

Uh huh... Right.. SMH. (shaking my head.)

 

[Manco]

An even more common myth is that the bullet rises at all. I've had people who were otherwise quite knowledgeable about guns tell me that a bullet rises as it leaves the muzzle.

Physics are not some people's strong points.

Definitely, and there are also those who believe that bullets still accelerate for a good while after leaving the barrel. :banghead:

"guns kill people"... no, people kill people, guns are there to protect you against people with smaller guns.

I thought it was bullets that killed people.

 

[RyanM]

I thought it was bullets that killed people.

It's actually oxygen starvation of the brain, caused by blood loss.

 

[Deanimator]

ok? so? you'd still have to hold over

No, you wouldn't have to "hold over" at all.

I never had to hold over at 1,000 yards with my M1917. The Marble and Redfield International rear sights had more than enough elevation for a normal sight picture. Of course in the 30+ mph winds the last time I shot it at 1,000 yards, I didn't have enough windage. I ended up backing off the windage and shooting at the next target upwind of mine. I managed to get a few hits. A Mauser 98 with the same sights would have done as well or better.

 

[devildog32713]

I thought it was bullets that killed people.

(playing voice of a really stupid person)

Well yeaahhh, sstuuuupiiid, ever heard of pistol whipping??

 

[Artiz]

^^ lmao.

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

Gun owners are all rednecks.

 

[Echo9]

That a Glock frame would melt after five or six rounds.

That a .380 is a "cannon"

That a Browning BDA is based on the 1911.

That thousands and thousands of children in the US die each year as a result of gun accidents.

The best one:

I had a customer not long ago that brought his gun to the counter (checked, cleared, and trigger locked, of course) with a "problem." It was an old Hi Power. The problem was that when he pulled the "top thingy" back with an empty "clip" in the gun, the "top thingy went back and just stayed there." Similarly, at the range, when he fired off an entire magazine, the "top thing just got stuck back and wouldn't move."

So basically, the slide was locking back exactly as it was supposed to, and he thought that this meant it was broken. This did not occur to me immediately, because I would never have imagined that someone would consider this a problem. It's like someone saying, "When I put the gearshift on 'P' the damned thing won't move." It takes a moment to click that he's saying the car doesn't move when it's in park.

And of course, this guy's method for dropping the slide was to slam the rear onto a wooden table at the range. That made me wince.

So when I realized what he was telling me, I got five or six random guns out -- Sigs, Bersas, Rugers, whatever. I racked every slide and put them all on the counter so he could see that guns are meant to do that. He looked at all these guns with the actions open, and said, "Oh my God, they're all broken!!!"

:banghead:

 

[slabuda]

"Guns cause crime"

 

[bobelk99]

Newsperson on San Diego TV last week wound up a gun bashing by saying that it was easy to convert 'them' to full auto. All you have to do was drop in the new chamber, she said.