Have you bought guns for the rev?

[cardgame]

There's an internal logic to every activity. What if you said, "I already have a car but no gas, because..." Well, in an emergency, would you plan to just push your car to the gas station to fill it up? Emergencies are by their very nature unexpected. What if someone breaks into your home or apartment and threatens you or your loved-ones? Will you call a time-out while you go down to the gunshop and get ammo?

If you have a car, you must buy gas.

What, do I gotta fill it up every time it dips below 3/4 of a tank?

If you have a gun, you must have ammunition.
(...and a safety class, gunlock, training, etc.)

Nah, defeats the purpose, and nah. What if you said, "I have a gun for home defense, but it's locked up in a safe, because..." Well, in a home invasion, would you plan to just call a time out while you find your key and then go across your house to get your ammo? If your purpose for gun ownership is home defense, your gun needs to have ammo within arm's reach and the gun itself must be accessible.

I'll get some ammo in the spring when I'll go out and use my gun for the purpose I have it for: target shooting.

 

[Glassfan]

Well, you said you had no ammo. That would be like a car with no gas. Useless. Also, you should get some training so you know how to use your weapon, otherwise, you're more of a danger to yourself or your family. I have a touch safe - it takes 10 seconds to arm myself in an emergency.

I happen to be going to the range this morning. I do enjoy target shooting and I hope you do too. What king of weapon do you own?

 

[cardgame]

It's a 12 gauge Remington 870 Wingmaster. Lovely trap shooter. Point holey-end at target, squeeze trigger. Know how the tube mag and safety works. All the know-how takes about 10 seconds. Certainly you shouldn't go out and buy a gun with no prior information, but that concept wasn't really in my head because it's cultural fiat here that a family member will provide you with said training.

It's also got a 32" or 36" barrel so a safe isn't exactly practical, good to know yours is though

 

[Glassfan]

I've a Colt Commander for range, CCW and home defense. I carried the 1911 for six years in the Marines and it's nostalgic. Colt makes the best. I also bought the AR a few months ago and it's a real pleasure on the range. I've mounted a 10x scope and I'm getting nice tight groups at the 200.

The Remington Wingmaster is just the opposite, yes? No tight groups... But then, with that beast, it's hard to miss... Well, enjoy.

 

[Bugfatty300]

It's a 12 gauge Remington 870 Wingmaster. Lovely trap shooter. Point holey-end at target, squeeze trigger. Know how the tube mag and safety works. All the know-how takes about 10 seconds.

Safety wise, trap shooting is a lot more trickier than shooting at static targets. Definitely not for beginners, unless you're being closely supervised.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Nah, defeats the purpose, and nah. What if you said, "I have a gun for home defense, but it's locked up in a safe, because..." Well, in a home invasion, would you plan to just call a time out while you find your key and then go across your house to get your ammo? If your purpose for gun ownership is home defense, your gun needs to have ammo within arm's reach and the gun itself must be accessible.

Which is exactly why having a gun for home defense is counter-productive. Keeping a readily accessible gun in the home gets a lot of people killed, and very few of them are home invaders.

 

[cardgame]

>Keeping a readily accessible gun in the home gets a lot of people killed, and very few of them are home invaders.

You're not wrong.

>Safety wise, trap shooting is a lot more trickier than shooting at static targets. Definitely not for beginners, unless you're being closely supervised.

Well the targets are over there... up, down, makes no difference, a human being is a full 80-90 degrees left or right, you'd have to be a real fool of a took to mess that up.

>The Remington Wingmaster is just the opposite, yes? No tight groups

Well, in the sense that it's a shotgun, sure

But thanks to my barrel length I can reach out and destroy targets significantly farther than my peers.

 

[trader/warrior]

I'd like much more to be the drone guy chilling behind the lines. So if preparing for an uprising I'd buy and familiarise myself with that stuff and bring that to the table rather than just having a personal firearm which, let's face it, a revolution which has any chance of success shouldn't be that desperate for. Unless it's a literal Nazis on the doorstep scenario.

 

[Glassfan]

But thanks to my barrel length I can reach out and destroy targets significantly farther than my peers.

Though, again, not if you lack ammunition.

 

[metatron]

I respect that.

Here's a picture from October;

No cute meteor?

 

[Glassfan]

I did have that sticker - "Giant Meteor 2016". But at the time I focused on bashing the two scoundrels.

 

[AlpsStranger]

What happened to moving to Canada?

I'm not going to ever leave this country to the retrograde. I will be here to annoy them until the day I croak.

 

[Glassfan]

Apparently, the only ones escaping to Canada are undocumented refugees, tragically freezing in the snow and cold. George Clooney would probably fly First Class.

 

[caketastydelish]

 

[Hygro]

the muscles will be gone if you dont eat!

 

[caketastydelish]

I will trade them in for a different set of guns, then

 

[Glassfan]

That gentleman, Casey Viator, died several years ago. I fail to understand...

 

[danjuno]

The only recent precedent I can see for a guerilla war in a developed Western country would be the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Due to a lack of gun culture there relative to the US, most of the PIRA's heavy fire power came from homemade explosives and later on the improvised "Barrack buster" mortars hidden & transported in vans.