What is the silliest thing you've heard in a gun discussion?

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What is the silliest thing you've ever heard in a discussion about guns? Mine is:

The 9mm was designed to wound, not kill. :D :barf:

Then I guess 8mm was designed to give the enemy a playful pat on the butt? :)
 
"I used to get 6" groups at 100 yards from my M14 on full auto" :rolleyes:

This from a vet who couldnt seem to hit the whole target at 10 yards with my MP5.

That Agent Orange must be powerful stuff, huh? :)
 
I had someone tell me that he has a suppressed HK mark 23 (illegal in WA), said he's a "government contractor" and it was issued to him but they let him keep it at home. he also claimed to have once owned an HK .50BMG.........suuuuuuuure......

he also said he gets paid a boatload of money from the gov, you'd think he would own a car and not live in an apartment in the low rent patr of town.....................

I've also known a few people that claim to own legal full-autos in WA in spite of the fact that they are banned. they always get mad when I tell them that they're either a future felon or full of it.
 
Some people at work were talking about the new S&W .500 caliber...

#1 "That's not really a fifty caliber."

#2 "Is so!"

#1 "I fired a real fifty in the army"

#3 "I have a fifty caliber here in my purse" as she pulls out a .50 AE live round

#1 "That's too small"

#2 "Yeah, too small"

I'm glad I was on overtime and I don't hear these people all the time... I might go crazy.
 
Snipers in vietnam could hit targets from a mile away, they used a .50 machine gun caseing necked down to a 7mm(prolly a special one). My dad talked to two snipers at Doung Wan with this set up and said the best shoot was almost 2 miles (clean head shot), the thing they were worried about was someone walking in front of the target because it takes so long to get there.
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Maybe it's just because it is recent, but that one really frosts it for me. Brought to us by our very own rifle forum in a discussion on .50BMG rifles.
 
My favorite was the kid over at another board (which shall remain nameless) who swore up and down that his gunsmith buddy had a Glock 21 he'd converted to .454 Casull. With a titanium barrel, no less.

The "Raging Glock" thread was right up there with the original Mall Ninja thread for sheer fun.
 
The ceramic/plastic Glock is a favorite bedtime story of mine. I knew a guy who swore up and down that his brother had one. "Nothing's metal except the firing pin.":rolleyes:
 
I bought a Ruger Blackhawk in .45 Colt from a fella a few years back. He was explaining to me just how powerful this "magnum" firearm was. If the bullet were to graze someone on the upper arm, it would tear the arm clean off. Even more impressive, I learned that it was so powerful that if one missed someone but the bullet whizzed past their ear, the shock-wave would suck the poor guys brain right out through the ear! He had never fired it himself and I feel I did a public-service by getting a firearm out of this idiots hands.
 
Last week I attended the Illinois Senate hearings on the proposed "assault weapons" ban in Illinois. The following were said by Illinois Senators and other elected officials:

  • "This is only intended to replace the Federal ban, because when it sunsets our streets could fill with Uzis and AK47s again." (The IL bill features full confiscation)
  • "These weapons are designed to be concealed--they all have folding stocks and when you fold it the gun is only about a foot--maybe a foot and a half--long. It fits under your shirt!"
  • "In 1993, the Bushmaster Assault Carbine was BANNED by federal law, but they looked and looked and they found a way around it--they took off the clip for a bayonet and now they're legal again!"
  • Senator: "Be honest, Todd, nobody uses these things for hunting. They're just not hunting guns!"
    NRA Rep: "Actually, Senator, I was hunting Coyotes with an AR15 not long ago. A whole lot of people hunt with these."
    Senator: "Now, Todd, we both know that's not true."
  • "This bill is intended to ban submachine guns like Uzis and AK47s in Illinois." (All full-auto is already illegal here, even with Fed permission.)
  • "This bill would not affect honest collectors--honest people don't collect these things anyway."

No, I didn't make any up. Those are the ones I can remember.
 
Concerning the ceramic glocks undetectable by metal detectors... I've had this several times and I always them what they intend to do with an unloaded Glock once they get it past security. I mean, surely 16 or 19 rounds of ammo will be detected by security and if they have someone on the inside to supply them with ammo, why can't they just give them a gun?

The old myth about how a 1911 kicks so bad it might knock the shooter down is pretty good. I actually keep an issue of American Handgunner in my car with a picture/story of Ayoobs younger 11 year old (at the time) daughter holding a 1911 that she placed with shooting against adults. Not to be sexist, but if an 11 year old girl can shoot it, a 30 year old guy afraid to shoot it is going to get some serious ridicule.
 
"If you shoot an intruder and he gets out of the house before he dies, drag him back inside!"
Like a first year rookie cop wouldn't be able to figure that one out.
 
1. Anything from my friends that play Counter-Strike. :barf: :barf:

2. DOn't get a 9mm...if you shoot someone they won't even feel it. Get a .45ACP you only need one shot :barf:
 
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