Utah official state firearm

[FBM]

I just think that there seems to be a somewhat excessive number of handguns floating around in the US, with too many in the hands of people whose mental stability may be questionable...

haha, including a couple on this forum...not naming names.

Whew, I know it can't be me.

Me, either. Must be 'zilla.

[Gallstones]

I just think that there seems to be a somewhat excessive number of handguns floating around in the US, with too many in the hands of people whose mental stability may be questionable...

haha, including a couple on this forum...not naming names.

Whew, I know it can't be me.

Me, either. Must be 'zilla.

I think it's




Seth.

[FBM]

[JimC]

Massachusetts state firearm:

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

I don't understand why Montana doesn't have one. Must be an oversight. I'll have to write my Congressmen with suggestions.

How about one of those old lever action Winchesters? Always liked the look of those...

[laklak]

Don't look at me. I've got guns but don't know a thing about them. The bullets are in different sizes, FFS. The big ones won't fit in the small guns and the little ones rattle around inght big guns. Whats up with that? You think they'd come up with some sort of system so you'd know what kind of bullets to use.

[FBM]

Don't look at me. I've got guns but don't know a thing about them. The bullets are in different sizes, FFS. The big ones won't fit in the small guns and the little ones rattle around inght big guns. Whats up with that? You think they'd come up with some sort of system so you'd know what kind of bullets to use.

Try buying all your guns pre-loaded, maybe. Also, if the round doesn't fit the chamber, take it back and demand either repair or refund. Can't let them get away with shoddy workmanship.

[Wumbologist]

J.M.B. would be turning in his grave if he knew that all the work he did on improving the 1911 to create the Browning Hi-Power went to waste when the 1911 became the more popular of the two anyway.

Massachusetts state firearm:

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

It's funny because it's true.

all good points

BUT

it's too heavy for me

and can't fit one easily in my handbag or on my hip or would need a bigger holster

So get a J-frame S&W revolver in .38 special. Best compromise between effectiveness and concealability, IMO.

[Coito ergo sum]

Would we expect the M1911 to be up to par with 21st century firearms? I thought that was WW1 weapon.

[Wumbologist]

Would we expect the M1911 to be up to par with 21st century firearms? I thought that was WW1 weapon.

It was a WWI, WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War weapon, with additional non-standard use in Afghanistan and both Iraq wars.

[Coito ergo sum]

Would we expect the M1911 to be up to par with 21st century firearms? I thought that was WW1 weapon.

It was a WWI, WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War weapon, with additional non-standard use in Afghanistan and both Iraq wars.

That must be why it's being honored. Sounds like one of the best guns ever made.

Now, I wonder if Russia will honor the Kalashnikov AK-47, which has the honor of being the gun which has killed more people than any other in world history.

[Wumbologist]

Would we expect the M1911 to be up to par with 21st century firearms? I thought that was WW1 weapon.

It was a WWI, WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War weapon, with additional non-standard use in Afghanistan and both Iraq wars.

That must be why it's being honored. Sounds like one of the best guns ever made.

Not as good as the Hi-Power.

[Seth]

Gun love is a red flag. If you meet someone who actually knows the name of a gun, its calibre, its range, tiptoe slowly away so as not to startle them and once out of sight, flee.

If one should encounter a gun owner who does not know the most basic information about his/her firearms, such as make, manufacturer and type of ammo, that is reason to be concerned. It is not the informed person that one should be afraid of.

So your logic is skewed Clinton.

Indeed. They should also know the ballistic characteristics of the precise brand of ammunition they use, including the terminal ballistics performance like penetration, expansion and wound-channel, sight picture and point of aim, bullet drop at different ranges, magazine/cylinder capacity, detailed operating characteristics and law regarding the legal use of deadly force and carrying of firearms.

People who don't know all that information have no business carrying a gun.

But I'm down with Clinton's sentiment, cowards and hoplophobes should flee responsible, well-armed citizens because anti-gun nitwits are pesilential insects who deserve whatever happens to them and those of us who are prepared and able to provide for our own safety and the safety of others shouldn't ever be placed in the position of risking our lives to defend them.

Robert Heinlein wrote in several of his stories about hoplophobes and anti-gun loons being required to wear "Peace Brassards" which were brightly colored sashes that identified them as being unarmed. That way, in the event of emergency, the police and any armed citizen would be able to tell whom they had an obligation to protect and whom they didn't. Hoplophobes and gun-banners were entirely on their own, and even the police wouldn't risk their lives to protect them.

That's why Obama's and Hillary's Secret Service details should be pulled, and they should be required to do completely without armed protection, since they wish to disarm others.

So, Clinton, when do you plan to post the big sign on your front lawn saying "This home does NOT contain any firearms" and slip on that hot-pink brassard saying "I don't carry a gun?"

Care to walk the walk, or do you just talk the talk and depend on your neighbors or the police to protect you?

[Seth]

Would we expect the M1911 to be up to par with 21st century firearms? I thought that was WW1 weapon.

It was a WWI, WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War weapon, with additional non-standard use in Afghanistan and both Iraq wars.

That must be why it's being honored. Sounds like one of the best guns ever made.

Now, I wonder if Russia will honor the Kalashnikov AK-47, which has the honor of being the gun which has killed more people than any other in world history.

They already honored Kalashnikov himself as a Hero of the Soviet Union.

[Clinton Huxley]

Ah, Seth, you walkin', talkin', rootin', tootin', shootin' caricature.

I stand by my observation that a morbid interest in guns is a marker of mental illness.

[Svartalf]

Gun love is a red flag. If you meet someone who actually knows the name of a gun, its calibre, its range, tiptoe slowly away so as not to startle them and once out of sight, flee.

Does it count if they have to look the gun up in a book? I have such books, fear me...