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

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My homicide professor :rolleyes: :barf: said that shotgun shot spreads out and kill everyone in the room.

Thats like from Nintendo, where you press the 'special attack' button and it kills everyone on the screen, and shoot the 'one up' for an extra life or the heart for more health.
 
From my cousin's husband who is a Marine:

The SKS is a piece of junk, its always been one.

The M-16 is more battle-hardened and durable than the AK-47, but the AK-47 is always more accurate.

You can shoot a M-16/AR-15 underwater, just like on land. (Now, I haven't exactly tried this, but it my understanding that the gases could not go through the piston while filled with water)

My Father:

The .40 Magnum is the best handgun cartridge ever made

The 9mm has never been a good bullet for anything, but the .38 Special is a good bullet for defense.

You don't need an SKS, its too powerful than you need, plus it will go through 10 feet of cement. (Yet he tells me less than 10 minutes later that he wants a .50 BMG Rifle)

And lastly, a guy at a gun shop sold my step father some "Perfect" defense bullets for his .357 snub-nose.... Winchester Big Game Hunting Cartriges
 
How about "Cop Killer" bullets? Like they were specially built for the sole purpose of killing police officers.
How about this guy who was trying to tell me that they play war games with Airsoft rifles and ammo (presumably), and have a 50 BMG sniper Airsoft that will shoot a paint pellet 2000 yards....:rolleyes:
Some dude over at the Accurate Reloading forums talking about a groundhog kill shot with a 308 at around 2700 yards.....
 
Then there is always the general plethora of .44 Mag "knocked me on my butt" stories (usually to include being hit between the eyes by the recoiling gun).
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Well, I've seen someone hit themself between the eyes with a .44 mag. It takes an idiot to do it, but it CAN be done! :scrutiny:


Joe, your 1 mile sniper shots in Viet Nam can't be true, because I talked to the guy who held the distance record for sniper kills in Nam, and it was only 1500 yards! It was a Colonel in the NVA that he was sent to kill. Got him AND his aides!


I never did find out who measured the distance and who was keeping track, though. :rolleyes:


Then there was the guy who thought he'd have some fun with some newbies (in the Army). Told us about the incredible Stoner system. So powerful that if a guy is sitting leaning against a tree, and you shoot the tree above his head a few feet, the shockwave will kill him! :what:

Oh, but one of those newbies knew all about Stoner and his various designs, and was quite familiar with the .223 round and its terminal ballistics. And basic physics, too. :neener:
 
While I don't know of any such thing as a federal CCW, there are in fact folks walking around with "Special" (not "Honorary") Deputy U.S. Marshal badges. There is specific statutory authority for this appointment. There are some Oklahoma City police officers appointed as such so they can do fugitive apprehension work across state lines. In the old days they gave them to political cronies and thugs. If you check the U.S. Marshal web site and look at the list of dead U.S. Marshals you will find some specials listed, so they must occasionally have done some real work.
 
What irks me is when you're looking at something at the gunshop and another customer gives unsolicited and unwanted advice.
"You don't really want a brand-X/brand-Y you should buy a brand-Y/brand-X"
When I was ordering a new Kimber, another customer piped up "Why don't ya get a real gun, get a Glock!"
I just told him that some people like Harleys, some like Hondas. I want a Harley this time around.
 
I heard this one - "Glocks aren't that bad looking" :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :barf:
 
Actually that is a line I often use. That most people are killed by accident with UNLOADED guns. I.E you NEVER treat a gun as if it is unloaded. Treat it as if loaded 24/7/365.25!!!
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Quit using that line. It's about the dumbest damn thing I've ever heard in my life. The only way you can kill somebody with an unloaded gun is to pistol-whip them with it. For that, I'd be more comfortable with a baseball bat. OF COURSE you treat every firearm as if it were loaded, especially around jackasses that handle firearms as if "they didn't know it was loaded." But how do you look up your bore with a bore-light? I guess you can't because it's always loaded, and you would never look into the bore of a loaded gun. How safely can you do maintenance on your LOADED guns?

Don't use that tired old idiotic saying, it's the darling of Sarah Brady's camp followers.
 
fyi...

ol' mm3 here would LOVE to try to drop a round in on a target 2000 yds away, just to answer the question for himself. i've seen plenty of documentation on this from at least ww1 and up to and including vn and we're talking .30 cal here not .50 bmg, my choice .308 boattail.

question is, where the h*** ya gonna try?
 
I heard a really good one from a friend of mine a couple days ago, he claims that the army has a vest that with stop a .50BMG using some sort of composite, he says it's true because some friend of his who is suposedly some kind of sniper in the military says he's seen it in action. I tried to explain to him why even the best police and military vests won't stop a 7mm mag let a lone a BMG but he wouldn't listen.

he's one of those type of people who won't back down from an argument until you prove it and shove his face in the proof. a while back he tried telling me that a T3 internet connection was just 3 T1s and an OC-3 is just a T3 running over fiber, he knows full well that I've been a data and telecom engineer for almost 7 years but he wouldn't concede that maybe I know what I'm talking about until I looked it up on the web and made him look at it.
 
Once you take up the slack in a Glock's trigger, you've "started the process" (couldn't get any more about what that means), and the only way the gun can be made safe again is to eject the round and chamber another.
 
he tried telling me that a T3 internet connection was just 3 T1s and an OC-3 is just a T3 running over fiber,
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:D Now THAT'S funny! Can I get one of those OC-3's at my house? I can't get DSL because my neighborhood is fiber, but an OC-3 ought to beat DSL, even if it IS only 3 T-1s! :D


(Hey, if it works in HIS world, maybe it can work in mine!)
 
A family member of mine, who knows I carry once told me:

"That thing will get you killed."

I also dislike it when someone gives unsolicited and unwanted advice, as if they know more than you. Although, it is also funny at the same time, because they usually don't know what they're talking about.

TD
 
When I see someone getting horrrid gun advice I'll try to chime in and offer a different viewpoint.

At the gunshow, "oh yeah these Tec 9's are 100% reliable and built like tanks


" jennings is an industry leader in innovation and quality control"

You need to trade me that old colt for this new AMT longslide, the metallurgy is much better on them"
 
".22 long rifle CAN be reloaded, my uncle does it all the time."

"My Argentine Mauser is accurate out to 1000 yards, but it kicks so hard nobody can shoot it."

An auctioneer friend of mine on a percussion revolver; "That's an EMF, made in Italy by Rossi".
 
Now THAT'S funny! Can I get one of those OC-3's at my house? I can't get DSL because my neighborhood is fiber, but an OC-3 ought to beat DSL, even if it IS only 3 T-1s!


(Hey, if it works in HIS world, maybe it can work in mine!)
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the really sad part is that he should know better, he's a DSL installer and has to deal with T1s on a daily basis.

what's I'd really like is the full 130MBps speed of an OC-3 at the price of 3 T1s
 
It was over at Sig Forums. A guy posted something about a Glock falling into a metal melting pot errr something to that affect. The pistol was recovered and fired 100 rounds after the fact with no problems.
 
CZ sez
The hard part would be getting close enough to shoot him through the eye, in the ear, or the mouth.
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Nah, it's real easy. The problem is explaining to the guy at the zoo why you shot his elephant while you were riding him.


I99 sez
I heard a really good one from a friend of mine a couple days ago, he claims that the army has a vest that with stop a .50BMG using some sort of composite,
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Actually that is true, it's called an M1 Abrams. Think of it like the powered suits in Heinlein's Starship Troopers. :D

Greg
 
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The hard part would be getting close enough to shoot him through the eye, in the ear, or the mouth.
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Karamojo Bell did it with a .410 once.:what: AND using shot loads!!
 
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