What's your favorite gunboard whopper?

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A guy comes into the office last week and wants to "wax eloquent" with his knowledge of the JFK assignation. He proceeded to tell me about the entrance wound to the front of the head and exit wound in the back….I kept a strait face, and didn't miss a beat when I said " ah but most folks don’t know that the CIA loaded the bullet backwards, in the casing, to create confusion" a guy that works with me piped in and said "it’s true, I seen it on the internet"….the guy bought it, hook line and sinker!
 
I was out deer hunting this fall and had a guy tell me that a .44 mag will "glance" right off the skull of a grizzly bear. :banghead:
Said he was out hunting in Colorado in bear country and decided the .44 wasn't enough and bought the .454 Cassull. Must have been hunting in country with the new genetic strain of super bears that have ceramic plating for a skull. :evil:
 
it wasn't on a message board but this guy told me he owns a suppressed HK-Mk23, which isn't illegal but it's quite expensive, the thing that made me laugh at him though was that he claimed he was a government contractor and that it was issued to him and that he had a special government permit to carry a suppressor.
 
How about:

"Gun crime in Britain would be reduced if more people over there had guns".

That always gets me rolling.
 
Britain 68 firearm related deaths per year.

USA just under 12,000.


You're trying to tell me that flooding Britain with legally owned firearms would REDUCE their total to what, say 67 :rolleyes:

Come on, I like guns as much as the next Montana compound dweller, but we have to show that we are capable of rational thought.
 
Not from a gunboard...

I find that gunboards may have some doozies on them but when you get people together in person the whoppers come out just as they always have...

I had a guy at a Dunhams insist that his dad and uncle were taking out VC with headshots at a mile using their M16s... and that they were WAY more powerful than the rifles the Cong were using. And when I kind of laughed him off (and his coworker told me he'd been trying to talk the guy out of it for a while) he got more insistent that his dad and uncle were right. He even grabbed a loaded .223 round and put it on the counter with this smug expression as if I would be completely convinced just by this action...

I had to laugh.

-M
 
Britain 68 firearm related deaths per year.

USA just under 12,000.
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The USA has over 30,000 per year, and I'd bet a million to one that Britain has WAY more than 68.

Britain's violent crime has been going straight through the roof ever since they enacted their gun bans. Now they are even banning toy guns trying to stop their surge of violence. The only question in Britain now is, what are they going to ban next?

Britain stands as a perfect example of exactly what would happen in this country if the Dems get their way.
 
Elkhunter,

I don't know specifically about grizzly skulls, but bullets will glance off an (African) lion skull because of the shape of the skull. I would be willing to bet that a .44 mag shot that hits any part of the zygomatic, maxilla, or frontal bone from directly in front would hit at a pretty obtuse angle and bounce off. In the snout, mouth, or eye socket or something, the round would plow right in, but much of the skulls of big carnivores are angled steeply back, and the bone is pretty thick to resist the strain on the teeth while chewing through the bones of prey:

http://www.sculpturegallery.com/sculpture/grizzly_bear_skull.html

I wouldn't aim at a grizzly's head, anyway. The wound might kill the bear eventually, but I probably wouldn't be around to derive any satisfaction from it.
 
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Looks like it's been pulled.
It was on the S&W forum. Some guy had a S&W model 61 Escort pistol for sale. He was saying it belonged to David Klorish, he even called him the Wacko from Waco, and was purchased from David Klorish Sr. :rolleyes: Even came with a business card from Mr. Klorish Sr's gospel music store in California.
He was asking WAYYyyyy too much money for this littlepiece of history.

He seemed to be unaware of the fact that the real wacko, David Koresh, was born with a different name and never knew his father.

Now the ad has disappeared but he has a new ad posted selling all of the accesories from the gun, but not the gun itself.

I guess I threw a little Seattle rain on his Tennessee parade? :neener:

I wish I has saved his ad.
 
The USA has over 30,000 per year, and I'd bet a million to one that Britain has WAY more than 68.
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the cdc figures from 2000 are 28,663 firearms deaths in the U.S. (10,801 assault/homicides, the rest are accidents, suicides, etc)

I've seen the figure quoted of 97 firearms deaths in England for 2001. I don't know if I'd say 97 is WAY more than 68, but anyhow...

:D
 
the cdc figures from 2000 are 28,663 firearms deaths in the U.S. (10,801 assault/homicides, the rest are accidents, suicides, etc) I've seen the figure quoted of 97 firearms deaths in England for 2001. I don't know if I'd say 97 is WAY more than 68, but anyhow...
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I'd bet those numbers wouldn't be nearly as dramatic if looked at on a per-capita basis. There's a lot more people here than there.

Dave
 
There's a lot more people here than there.
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Actually Dave ... in approx terms .... that tiny lil island is crowded up with about 1/5 of our figure. Call it 60 mil ..... and ours 300 mil!

I seriously think tho their methods of recording and displaying stats is most unreliable ..... there are maybe many gun related deaths within the ''gangsta'' community that prolly never hit the record books. Other thing too ..... I think there is a sorta ''Russian'' factor too ... whereby in the absence of gun's availability - homicides with ''other'' weapons are way up .. knives, blunt objects etc ..... so in fact actual homicide figures, across the board, would probably mean more. I mean .. a death is a death is a death!

That tho is somewhat academic when considering those poor serf's inability to do much at all to defend themselves, without gettin arrested!:(
 
I guess in terms of rate, the U.S. figure would have been 281,421,906/28,663 or 10.185 per 100,000.

If you say there are 59,000,000 people in Great Britain, you get a rate of .164 per 100,000.

Crazy, huh?

In 2000, the overall murder rate in the U.S. was about 5.5 per 100,000 and in Great Britain it's around 1.0 (this is from memory, so feel free to correct me if I'm off here).
 
Bill - I have no figures to hand .. and am too damn lazy right now to go look ............. but it would be of interest to factor in the Russian figures .... cos altho for most part ''gun-free'' homicides, I do believe the figures are higher than here ... sure I saw that somewhere. (I know the ubiquitous somewhere!! :rolleyes: )

Right now .. I do NOT find the UK figure holds much truth in fact ... can't prove that tho .... just the ''ole phart cynic'' thang!!:p
 
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Actually, the death rate of people who were shot by someone holding a firearm is not a gun board whopper since that tired old "argument" was not something created by someone in la-la land on a firearms forum.

Instead it's something created by someone in la-la land in the real world with a political aganda.

There's a BIIIGG difference between a gun-board whopper and an anti-gun whopper.
 
yeah, I've read that the GB figures might be somewhat skewed because of how homicides are reported there, but I've never seen it presented as anything other than just an anecdotal observation. so who knows...
 
but it would be of interest to factor in the Russian figures .... cos altho for most part ''gun-free'' homicides, I do believe the figures are higher than here
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yeah, I can't find them handy either, but I think you're right. The Russian homicide rate is just insanely high, even comparing it to ours.

it still seems odd to me that our homicide rate would be so high compared to otherwise very similar places like canada, germany, great britain, italy, etc. maybe it is the video games??
 
First liar doesn't have a chance....

Not from a board, but from the campfire when the guns are put away and the whiskey comes out: "Had a .292 Zingthingy I built up oncet, never did know how fast she went, but she'd shoot plumm flat fer 6-700 yards, then she clumb a little...."
 
Not from a gun board but:

Just before we went to Afghanistan, this guy posted that he was worried about what would happen to our soldiers. He said that, because they'll burn tires when we come, the smoke will cause our helicopters to crash. Also, our Abrams tanks will be very vulnerable as our enemies drop grenades on top of them from windows above. That was a just the tip of the iceberg but I can't remember much else.

Turns out a lot of his opinions came from seeing Black Hawk Down one time and misinterpreting just about everything. :rolleyes:
 
I've read that the GB figures might be somewhat skewed because of how homicides are reported there, but I've never seen it presented as anything other than just an anecdotal observation.
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Seem to recall reading that at one time in the not too distant past, a homicide in GB wasn't counted until there was an actual conviction. They may have changed that by now.
 
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