Why don't people take staple guns seriously?

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So I'm at a Home Depot (or the Taiwan version anyways called B&Q) and I'm trying out the stable gun... the sales guy comes up and tries to show the features.. He then SWEEPS MY FACE with FINGER ON THE TRIGGER :cuss: :fire:

I ducked, and he thought I was crazy. at the speed these things shoot at, I could lose an eye!!

He said "I would have taken full responsibility had I shot in you the eye".. Who cares!! I would have been blind!!!

So I gave him the "Twoblink's 5 minute lecture on accidents waiting to happen because your finger was on the trigger" speech..

He's like, well, it's not like it's a real gun!! :cuss: :banghead: Why is it that I think had it been a "real" gun, he would have still swept the room with his finger on the trigger??

I don't know why people don't take staple guns seriously though; buddy of my (construction worker) got shot in the knee accidentally.. Has a limp for the rest of his life...
 
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Well since you mention it. Australia does want to license Nail Gun owners.

NAIL guns are as lethal as firearms in inexperienced hands and consideration should be given to licensing operators, the Master Builders Association of Tasmania says.
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"Giving a nail gun to an inexperienced operator is like giving a machinegun to a baby."
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Nail Gun Owners need to be licensed.
 
Is a "stable" gun one that can only be used in stables?

I've heard of not wanting "to scare the horses", but I always thought it was just an expression.

Well, you learn something new everyday! ;)
 
You do need to be careful with the stable guns. With that 2" diameter bore it can really fling those round pieces of ammo that are all over the floor near the center aisle. Also it takes a long time to clean up after getting hit with one - especially if it isn't completely dried out at the time :uhoh: .

:D
 
I worked on a construction crew for 6 years, and most people on the crew had been shot in the hand at one time or another. One day, a guy who'd been using nail guns for 10 years accidentally put a 16 penny nail into the boss's brother's lung. The guy who got shot was back to work within two weeks, but people got a lot more safety conscious after that.
 
The industrial nail and staple guns I have used had a safety interlock so that the gun had to be pressed against the material in order to "fire". This was the case with both air guns and explosive driven guns. And IIRC, the spring was strong enough that it would have been difficult to press it against something yielding, like flesh, and get it to fire.

Of course, even normal spring staple guns will project a staple some distance and could be dangerous, but they are too hard to operate for any child to use one. Office staplers won't project a staple more than a few inches and the power is so low that they pose little danger except to the operator who puts his finger in the wrong place. Anyone who would do that would have to be really stupid so I won't tell you how much it hurts.

Jim
 
Didn't one Home Alone movie feature the kid shooting at the bandits with a staplegun? (Probably with hilarious results? I don't recall.)
 
contrary to the title...

Folks, contrary to the title, this thread is about STAPLE guns. You know those things that building contractors use to hang things up temporarily before they nail it permanently.

Stable gun...staple gun... must be a Taiwanese thing. :D :D
 
Some years ago, a woman in an apartment adjacent to one in which work was being done was killed when a nail gun was used to drive a nail into plywood. It was big news and an infobabe had a interview with a representative of the union for people who used these things to shoot nails into concrete.

The whole while they were talking about how dangerous these were, he was standing with the nail gun pointed at her with his finger on the trigger. At the end of the discussion, she asked him to demonstrate it and he fired it into a block of cement that was on the floor, which he did.

So, here's this infobabe, doing her segment about the dangers of nail guns as part of the story about the woman being killed and she's not bothered in the least by having a loaded one pointed at her. Talk about being in condition white! (I wonder what her thoughts on 2A would be.)
 
Anything that fires a projectile needs to be treated with the 4 rules.

I have used a garden hose to illustrate the shotgun to folks and how to hit targets, patterns, leads...etc. I also found another use in regard to 4 rules.

Assisting a new neighbor using a nail gun, kept getting swept. I gave the 4 rules speech. Get the garden hose to hose off the carport and I swept him and got him wet.

Sounds pretty simple and stupid, but using a garden hose to show the lessons worked. Especially when HE sprayed the wifey when she rounded the corner. Rule 4 broken and she let him know what whe thought about it too. :)

Especially great visual aid using the garden hose with kids.

Jim - that was bad...go take a bike ride, you need some fresh air . :)
 
NAIL guns are as lethal as firearms in inexperienced hands and consideration should be given to licensing operators, the Master Builders Association of Tasmania says.
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And only union members should be licensed? I can't imagine what their agenda might be... :rolleyes:
 
I've seen alot more ND's and injuries case by staple guns than with real guns.

Staple guns:>than a dozen
Real guns: 0 (knock on wood)

At a factory where I used to work, people used to screw around and shoot at eachother with nailers.:uhoh:
 
I remember about fifteen years ago my dad had a friend over at the house. My dad was doing some work with a staple gun. This guy picks it up points it at his own palm, says, " I wonder if this would hurt?" . Then touches one off, staple lodges about 1/2" into his palm. Pliers were required. From his dance around the yard I assumed it did hurt. It was one of the stupidest (funniest, and kind of sad) things I've ever seen anyone do.
 
I shot a half inch staple through the last joint of my middle finger...edgeways, with a phnumatic stapeler. That was about 2 years ago and it still hurts sometimes. I was stapeling carpet to a piece of plywood. I had the corners folded over nice and neat and was stapeling very close to my finger. The gun bounced with the first shot, landed on my finger and fired again. The staple went all the way in and I had to pull it out with a pair of needle nose plyers.
I can't even look at a staple gun without getting a little puckered:)
 
You know you've been doing this too long when you pick up a spray bottle and realize that you are following the 4 rules even with a simple spray water bottle. I have done this...I get a lot of funny looks walking around with my finger off the trigger of the window cleaner and holding it at low ready. :D
 
Do nail guns count?

I was shot in the butt with one when I worked construction.
I was nailing one end of a wall and the guy with the nail gun on the other end of the wall missed the edge of the 2x4 with the nail but just depressed the safety trigger and fired.

8' of air doesn't slow a 3.5" nail down much.
 
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