What's the oddest thing you've heard someone say in regards to firearms, ammunition, etc.?

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KNO3 said:
After someone stood right next to me as I made sure my rifle was clear, empty magazine back in the ammo can, I placed it in a soft rifle case and was carrying it to the car. The same person, walking in front of me, asked me to make sure the rifle was not pointing toward them. "Why not? I asked." Their answer, "Because you always assume it's loaded." "But you just saw me clear it" says I. "That doesn't matter", says they, "you should always assume a gun is loaded."
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Everyone seems to only be partially reading your post and ignoring that you were not carrying a firearm you were carrying a case that just happened to contain a firearm.

bangswitch said:
What part of his concern do you consider "odd"? (as stated in the title of the thread) What would you do, FIRST THING, if you watched someone clear a firearm and then hand it to you?
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lightman said:
I consider the post that you quoted to be a case of bad gun handling. I don't point guns at others and I don't want them pointed at me. No matter what!

If I'm showing someone a gun I check it empty before handing it to them. I don't say much if they don't check theirselves but I consider it good gun handling when they do. If they are a youngster or a rookie I'll say something. I personally will check for myself even after seeing it done. To me, its just good gun handling!
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Swampman said:
This has to be one of the "oddest" statements/complaints I've seen in a while.

YOU violate Rule One AND Rule Two of basic firearms safety, get called on it, then complain about HIS BEHAVIOR (on a firearms site called "The High Road")!

Since you've apparently never heard of 'em...

Jeff Cooper's four basic rules of gun safety:
  1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
  2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)
  3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.
  4. Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.
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I would also consider that odd as he was not in any way pointing a rifle at him but I guess I'm the odd man out here as I have absolutely no issue with a properly cased firearm pointing in my direction. Especially if I watched the person unload it. It actually happens to me every time I walk into my primary LGS and every day when I walk into the back door of my house, and I know that one is loaded.

Now if the person was carrying it, the rifle not the case, in their hands or decided to mess with the rifle in the case then yes I would have an issue.
 
GEM said:
Guy told me he a 50 caliber magnum revolver that would shoot through a 6 foot in diameter tree trunk. Yes, there are such caliber guns but I don't think so.
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Like THESE?
16 inch 50 Caliber Broadside USS_Iowa.jpg
They're 50 caliber.
And they revolve.
I'm pretty sure they'd go through a six foot tree too, even though there's no "Magnum" in their name.

About the guy actually HAVING one?
:rofl:
 
40 years go I had a Ithica 12ga with pistol grip no stock and 18 in. barrel. At a friends place and there were six of us shooting various firearms. Three of the guys I knew but didn't know the other two. One of the guys I didn't know (UG) asked to shoot my Ithica.
Me - Sure it's hot ready to go
UG - picks it up and works the action ejecting a good shell. Puts it about an two inches from his face and begins to sight it like a pistol
Me - Uh.., I wouldn't do that it's meant to be shot from the hip
UG - Man, I was in the Air Force and know how to BANG
Friend - If you tilt your head back and pinch just above the bridge you might get the blood to stop.
 
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Alte Schule said:
40 years go I had a Ithica 12ga with pistol grip no stock and 18 in. barrel. At a friends place and there were six of us shooting various firearms. Three of the guys I knew but didn't know the other two. One of the guys I didn't know (UG) asked to shoot my Ithica.
Me - Sure it's hot ready to go
UG - picks it up and works the action ejecting a good shell. Puts it about an two inches from his face and begins to sight it like a pistol
Me - Uh.., I wouldn't do that it's meant to be shot from the hip
UG - Man, I was in the Air Force and know how to BANG
Friend - If you tilt your head back and pinch just above the bridge you might get the blood to stop.
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Big bass ass young me decided I would shoot one w/00 like a pistol outstretched. Yeah once and only once. No blood just thought I broke my wrist.
 
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GEM said:
Guy told me he a 50 caliber magnum revolver that would shoot through a 6 foot in diameter tree trunk. Yes, there are such caliber guns but I don't think so.

I've mentioned this before. Guy at Cabela's wants a pump shotgun as he tells the clerk because the rack will scare the BG away. He also wants blanks in case that doesn't work. The clerk also tells him to get rubber buckshot.
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When i worked at a gun shop we HAD rubber buckshot on the shelf at one time, no idea why the boss ordered it. It sat for a very long time...
 
I had a guy tell me that a DA/SA S&W automatically chambered a round without you pulling back the slide.

I was a LEO at the time. I'd carried 659s and 6906s for 13 years, and was a LE Firearms for that entire time and informed him of all this and a round doesn't get chambered until you rack the slide.

He still insisted he was correct.
 
a fellow trap shooter once told me he had to buy a new shotgun because he "wore" the barrel out of his last one...
 
I don't need an assault rifle with a 30 round clip of cop killer bullets to go hunting with my son.

Joe (I am a 'conservative') Scarborough said something very close to this on the Mikka is my Goddess morning show on MSNBC.

BTW, I do know what caliber means in terms of naval guns. A friend tried to catch me on that. Haha - I know. the 50 cal 16 inch was a step up from the 45 cal on the previous classes of modern (at that time) WWII battleships. The Montanas were going to carry 54 caliber 5 inch guns, a step up from 38s. Hey, why weren't they called 357s (that's a joke friends - a play on caliber).
 
Arkansas Paul said:
Rugers won't fire with the clip removed.........................
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I've got to admit, until I saw the later reference to "Tiger King", paired it with the above quote and did a Google search, I had no idea what you were talking about (I'm one of the folks that refused to buy a Ruger LC9s until I could find a "Pro" model without a magazine safety).

So for the benefit of any other troglodyte types out there... :)

Link
 
a guy at a army navy surplus store told me his mags fit m16s, not ar15s.
a carters cuntry salesman told my mom to load her 5 shot airweight 38 on an empty chamber. cuz safety.
a former colleague said his new century ak can shoot 308 win :(
 
zdc1775 said:
Everyone seems to only be partially reading your post and ignoring that you were not carrying a firearm you were carrying a case that just happened to contain a firearm.

I would also consider that odd as he was not in any way pointing a rifle at him but I guess I'm the odd man out here as I have absolutely no issue with a properly cased firearm pointing in my direction. Especially if I watched the person unload it. It actually happens to me every time I walk into my primary LGS and every day when I walk into the back door of my house, and I know that one is loaded.

Now if the person was carrying it, the rifle not the case, in their hands or decided to mess with the rifle in the case then yes I would have an issue.
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I was going to say pretty much the same thing, but you beat me to it. I was taught that a properly CASED gun could be treated more-or-less as you'd treat a suitcase (containing things you don't want broken of course). I'd be very interested in hearing other opinions on this in case I've been doing it wrong, but my initial reaction was that they missed that bit about casing the gun?
 
jeepnik said:
Naval guns were, maybe still are, expressed in diameter then length of the shell
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Yes, still are, if fewer and fewer. It's bore diameter and barrel length in bore diameters. the current Mk45 is annotated as the 5"/54caliber Mark 45 Mod 4, which refers to a 5" bore rifle with a barrel 54 x 5" long (270" or 22.5').
There is a push on to upgrade to a 5"/62cal for better anti-ship performance. That new mount may not survive budget cutting.
A bunch of the Frigates and CG cutters have the OTO-Melara Mk 75 76mm mounts (which use a 76mm/62cal cannon).
 
zdc1775 said:
Everyone seems to only be partially reading your post and ignoring that you were not carrying a firearm you were carrying a case that just happened to contain a firearm.
I would also consider that odd as he was not in any way pointing a rifle at him but I guess I'm the odd man out here as I have absolutely no issue with a properly cased firearm pointing in my direction. Especially if I watched the person unload it. It actually happens to me every time I walk into my primary LGS and every day when I walk into the back door of my house, and I know that one is loaded.

Now if the person was carrying it, the rifle not the case, in their hands or decided to mess with the rifle in the case then yes I would have an issue.
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Thanks for your excellent reading comprehension. I guess people missed the part where the person stood there, watched me clear the gun, remove the (empty) magazine, and place the firearm in a gun case. As far as the Jeff Cooper's Firearm Safety Rule #1, there are a couple out there but in general the quote is "Always assume a firearm is loaded" or "All guns are always loaded". 100% correct. If you come across a firearm or are handed a firearm, you have not cleared you must assume it is loaded, until of course it is verified clear. Maybe I have a death wish, but If I am standing right next to someone I know and trust and observe them correctly clear a firearm, unless I have my doubts, I don't generally recheck. If they then place the firearm in a case, I'm 1000% okay with the situation. Some may call this bad gun safety, but I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
 
At my gun club the RO chastised me for having my cased rifle pointed at the parking lot. Only one firearm on the bench at a time so the other rifle was placed under the table. TheRO had me turn the bagged rifle around so the muzzle pointed down range. Now this meant the muzzle was pointing at the folks shooting at the firing line. How was that safer than having a bagged rifle pointing out toward the parking lot?
 
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