What is the most intimidating firearm you have ever seen?

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Most intimidating? Without a doubt it was the Beretta that was pointed at me by some idiot when I was in high school.

As far as just plain tacticool type intimidation factor? I'd probably say something like the Barrett M82A1... It is sexy, big, expensive, and powerful :)
 
An old antique 38 special I had found and some guy grabbed it from me, loaded it and aimed it at my stomach and told me to give him my guns I had found in an old building my father had purchased.

Fortunately, there was a huge guy there working as well, who talked this guy down and finally got the gun from him.

Looking back on it, I should have filed a police report. I was about 17 at the time. What did I know?

I do know that my life flashed before my eyes as I thought I was a gonner.:eek:
 
It was a .22 cal and the bullets coming out of it were being aimed at me and a friend. And no, we were not hit, but the guy was certainly trying. Who and why we never discovered.
 
An M203 grenade launcher that was negligently discharged while pointing straight out from behind me. Was doing a squad movement exercise at the Udari range in Kuwait and all of a sudden I heard right behind me a "poont!" and then see a hole the size of a small kiddie pool blown out of a wooden shed about 30 yards ahead of us. Needless to say that Marine had quite a few people upset with him that day.
 
Watching the 16" rounds from the battleship U.S.S. New Jersey impact within +/- 500 meters of our position in Vietnam while engaged in combat operations just south of the DMZ. You could actually see the rounds as they passed over head.
 
The one pointed at my face by a Nassau Co. NY police officer in 1970.

I was young, 22, but already working as a state peace officer. He saw my gun when my shirt pulled up while I was bent over a car engine trying to diagnose a problem on my new 340 Duster.

He assumed because I looked young I had no right to carry a gun. He quietly came up behind me, and I heard a revolver being cocked. No request to ID myself.

When I turned slowly around, he had the cocked gun pointed at my face. The hole at the end of the barrel looked very big and was all I could focus on. That's when he finally asked why I had a gun.

I was furious, but too young and stupid to file a complaint. I was not from that jurisdiction and was told not to by older brother officers who believed a LEO could do no wrong.

I do not subscribe to that belief.
 
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Dang it ccsniper you beat me to it. I'd have to say the .30-30 that was pointed at my back when coming out of a dear stand when I was 14. Guy thought I was a dear 'till he saw my face. Or the 20ga youth shotgun in the hands of a not so responsible friend, that *%*&^ barrel probably passed my mid section 5 times before I royal chewed him out.
 
got swept by a thug-wannabe with his M70AB underfolder AK. On the range. I was right next to them; my gun was on the table, but the shooter was standing far out of the booth with the gun in his arms as I cleaned up brass. He had no awareness; when I went to put the broom back, he was there as his other friend was talking to him, with the barrel pointing down to knee-level on me. The RO saw it and kicked them out.

so, so far: I'd say "M70AB2 underfolder"
 
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Being swept 2 times by some fool who had loaded a SKS behind the firing line at a state range. I was firing a CETME at the time and asked him if he intended to shoot me. He said "no". I told him if he swept me with a loaded weapon one more time I was going to start shooting back in self defense. He packed up and left. I 'm 69 been shot once and that is enough to last me for what is left of my life without some idiot cutting it off short.
 
scary boom boom

My American Derringer Corp. 44 magnum two shooter. it's for sale--like new.
 
Hell, 1911 has always been an intimidator :fire:! I always like Magnum PI when I was a kid & he'd pull that 45 out and you knew someone's ass was going to get shot :scrutiny:. I am almost 52 and finally got my 1911 a year ago :D. But I never understood :confused:, being in Hawaii and wearing shorts or swin trunks, WHERE IN THE HELL DID HE HOLSTER THE GUN WHEN HE CARRIED????? Now that's SCARY!!!!!! :what:
 
The guns on the U.S.S. North Carolina.I have no concept what being on the receiving end would be like. Probably scary but not for long. Also, the 20mm mini-guns mounted on the centerline on F-4C Phantoms. They looked like they could ruin someboby's whole day.
 
10ga Dickson-Falcon SxS

Standing in front of my Brother while sharing a end lane in an indoor range. He had a 10ga Dickson-Falcon SxS that he'd never fired before & after loading it w/ 3.5in shells, stood there grinning while closing the action &
BOOM!!!! :what::what::what: :mad:

2 mellon size holes in the ceiling above where I'd been standing. I'd guess that the shot from both bbls missed me by about a foot! It's kind of hard to explain, but when he closed the action, he swept me w/ the bbls as he came up & across in an arc.

My guess: there was something wrong w/ the sear, as he didn't have his hand anywhere near the bang switch. He's never loaded it [or fixed it] since. I just hope he lets the new owner know there's a problem w/ it as it's up for sale.

SR
 
Clifford, I don't care what caliber but a full size 1911 loaded with swim trunks or shorts? You see him in the shows pulling the gun from the swell of the back area. A 2 lb.+ gun with elastic waistband trunks or shorts and he'd show MORE than just his 1911 as a WEAPON when he ran or walked fast! :what: Guess that why the ladies loved him! :D I still loved the show but from experience I can tell you even when I had a S&W mdl 60 stainless I had problems walking in shorts! :rolleyes:
 
the business end of a .50 bmg. I could see the marine behind it wink through the scope. I was entering camp in an LMTV, I was first in line, and that barrel looks like a cave when you look down it. At the time, I could have sworn I could see the rifling from 30 ft away.
 
Probably the time I was hunting out on public land and had some kind of rifle (only saw the muzzle and the scope) pointed directly at me by some kid with his dad. We saw about twenty hunters in a kilometer square. You can bet I won't be hunting there anymore!
 
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