Yeah, but legally...

[Graystar]

Invariably when non gun folk find out I own guns the first questions are either "Do you have a license?" and/or "Are they registered?"

It must be your shoot-to-kill look and bad-boy ways. Maybe if you went to church more often...

 

[TF_FH]

I ended up in a conversation with my supervisor at work about carrying and he gives me this gem, "But out here in New Mexico, you can bring guns into bars!"

This went back and forth for a minute with the, "No, you can't" and the "Yes, you can" fun stuff!

 

[choochboost]

This went back and forth for a minute with the, "No, you can't" and the "Yes, you can" fun stuff!

That's why I usually don't try to correct those types. It goes nowhere. Its incredibly frustrating but saying something is fruitless most of the time. There will always be those who believe everything they hear or don't even think something through. We'll just make fun of them here.

 

[dfaugh]

Somehow a gun that holds more than 10 rounds will kill someone "deader" than one that only holds 1 or 5 or 10 rounds.

 

[71Commander]

No disputes/disagreements yet?

 

[Deanimator]

1. THREE rounds from a semi-auto Kalashnikov could kill EVERYONE in the US Senate chambers. I believe this was from Barbara "I've got a piece of brain lodged in my head!" Boxer.

2. Police have a LEGAL DUTY to protect you if you call them. Somebody wrote an entire book ("Dial 911 and Die") to refute this.

3. Women who carry guns for self-defense will just have them "taken away" by an assailant. I've been asking for an example which didn't involve a police woman trying to make an arrest for something like 25 years. No takers yet. I then ask if this applies to policewomen and female members of the military. I then ask, if so, shouldn't we forbid policewomen and female soldiers from carrying weapons, since they'll just give them away at the first opportunity? I then say that I don't even want to THINK about what might happen if you put a woman in charge of a nuclear weapon. Things usually go downhill after that...

4. The 5.56x45mm and 7.62x39mm cartridges are somehow more powerful and deadly than the .30-06, .300 Winchester Magnum and .416 Rigby.

5. NOBODY hunts with a handgun... even though the Ohio deer hunting regulations SPECIFICALLY limit modern firearms hunting to shotguns and HANDGUNS.

6. Gun laws are so lax that anyone can buy "machineguns" through the mail from ads in "Soldier of Fortune" magazine. This claim was made by local Chicago "journalist" Walter Jacobsen. I believe his "proof" was an ad in SOF for PLASTIC PELLET GUNS.

The bottom line is that like the Holocaust denial movement, the gun control movement couldn't exist without equal parts dishonesty and collossal ignorance. Strangely, that seems to set anti-gunners off too...

 

[DKSuddeth]

Had someone try to tell me that the handgun ban in san francisco will actually work because they are on a peninsula and that will limit the entryways in to the city, all police have to do is roadblock every road and search all vehicles coming in to san francisco. viola, no more handguns.

 

[armoredman]

I had a gent in the gunshop I was working at who wanted to look at a rifle, and before I handed it to him, wanted to know,"Why is it that people with felony convictions like mine can't own handguns, but we can own shotguns and rifles?"
I queried him if he was in fact a convicted felon, and he nodded happily.
Rifle went back on the shelf, and I explained the facts of life to him, which made him one very unhappy felon, especially being told that touching a single round of ammunition is enough to get him five federal.

I dealt with all kinds of morons on the other side of the counter, the types who "confidentially" informed me that the shop had better get rid of our AKs before we got in trouble for selling assault rifles, (cop shop across the street, in all the time, use the range all the time, didn't faze knuckledhead a bit), to the gangbangers would walk into the range area smelling like "recreational substances" and alcohol, and demand to rent a firearm.

Yeah, the rental - one wanted to know when he had to bring it back, as if it were a library book....

 

[Carl N. Brown]

My favorites (and my reasons why)

you don't need to own a gun -- the police will protect you

You don't need to own a first aid kit (fire extinguisher, etc) -- the hospital
(fire department, etc) will handle it for you.
Forty years ago, I owned my guns solely for sporting purposes. The more
I thought through that argument--"you don't need to own a gun -- the
police will protect you"--the more I came to accept the idea that
self-defense is a valid reason to own a gun.

if you use force in self defense, you are taking the law into your own hands

Like, where does self-defense law put self-defense, but into the hands of the defender?
Yeah, and giving first aid is practicing medicine without a license. Ban those
white boxes with red crosses.

If you shoot someone in your yard, you should drag them into
the house and stick a knife in their hand to avoid indictment/prosecution.

That is always good: OK, where did the drag marks come from and go to?
How did the knife get from the butcher block in the kitchen to the
hands of the perp? Meet your new cellmate, Ben Dover (Bubba got paroled)..

Of course, the ever popular

Handloads, hollowpoints, military ammo, military firearms WILL
ALWAYS be used against you in court.

And the equally popular[

Handloads, hollowpoints, military ammo, military firearms WILL
NEVER be used against you in court.

Please....they CAN be used in court if the opposing attorney is a
real horse's dirigible and the judge or jury is clueless on self defense,
which rarely happens but happens often enough you should think
about it, and check precedent in your jurisdiction.