Anyone here own or have fired an actual gun irl?

Voltaire wrote:Yeah but you don't buy an AK because you care about how it looks. You buy it because you can leave it out in the rain for a decade and then pick it up and it will fire on the first try.

He's keeping it in great shape for when the social order finally breaks down he'll have a backup weapon for when he must abandon his home and live in the woods!

I know where to go if shit hits the fan here in the states that's for sure.. Besides up here in the sticks of NH there are more gun owners than some third world country militaries...

AR-15s are a lot of fun to shoot especially when the have a site assist like an Eotech or something like that because the recoil is so minimal.

Also, I hope that AK owner actually has some ammo to go along with the rifle otherwise he is going to be in trouble. And by ammo I mean a few thousand rounds.

Does anyone else find firing automatic rifles without hearing protection just painful or am I just a pussy?

hmmmm a Retired marine without ammo....

he's got boxes upon boxes for mostly every weapon he has. Mostly the highest counts are in ar15/ak47 and sigsig226 ammo last i heard and saw.

Never fire a gun at a range or for fun without hear protection.

Good, cause what is the point of a gun if you don't have a few thousand rounds to use it with.

Just thought of this and it made me lol a little bit.

A marine without ammo, is like a man without pants. Although it'd be funny to see, no one wants to be caught with their pants down!

I fired a hand gun once at a range. Had hearing protectio0n from the range. My feet however where another story. I wasn;t expecting to go but my Step Dad grabbed me one day and I was like whatever I have nothing else going on. I had sandals on as I wasn;t expecting to end up at a firing range. Empty casing falls between my toes....... twas a wee bit o the hot!

Yeah that's why it is always a good idea to wear tight fitting shirts when shooting. It doesn't take too many of those going down your shirt before you start regretting your wardrobe choice.


That also reminds me, I went to the range about two weeks ago with my dad and shot a bunch of our guns and when we came back I had an empty 9mm shell casing in my pocket.

Shit Nero, I didn't know you were a marine. *Salutes* you boys go through all the crap, I have major respect for the foot sloggers. Me personally, I'm trying to get my fixed wing and rotar wing degree's so I can become a pilot. Not sure if I'll fly combat choppers, but I wouldn't mind flying transports, can't say it doesn't scare the hell out of me though.

How long have you been in the service anyway?

Hotdamnitssam wrote:

Leeroy_Jenkins!!!!11 wrote:I've fired a .22.

I've also wondered: Assuming you don't hit vital organs, how do guns kill people so quickly (assuming video games are slightly realistic)? Needless to say, you wouldn't be in a very good condition to fight, but it seems like blood loss would take a few minutes.

Yeah ive always wondered this. because when you get shot in the stomach or even in your lungs, there would still be a lot of bloodflow through your brain so you would likely stay conscience for 20-30 seconds.

Several things. A bullet doesn't slice a hole through you. It crushes tissue and all the surrounding tissue it passes basically blasting a crater inside of you.

It's also not exactly a matter of blood loss. What matters more is the immediate, massive drop in blood pressure from the internal wound a bullet causes.

When a bullet hits you it also creates a high-pressure shockwave that travels through your body causing indirect damage to organs, bones, brain etc... The shockwave from a shot to the chest could potentially hemmorage(sp?) your brain or snap your spinal cord (even if the bullet doesn't actually hit it).

Put all this together and you don't want to be shot. Think of it this way: A single 9mm bullet to the chest can cause all of the above and very likely be fatal, even past 100 yards...

I fired a Glock .45 once. The noise scared the shit out of me, and made me want to cry for some reason. My vagina was visible from orbit that day.

I'd like to go shooting again, my step-dad has a decent collection. SIG 556 and a Mossberg 500 just to name couple.

Voltaire wrote:Never fire a gun at a range or for fun without hear protection.

Very true, but whenever I went shooting I looked at it as practice for actually getting in a shoot out so I never wore ear protection (except my XD I mentioned earlier).

I wanted to make sure I was conditioned to the sound to avoid flinching. I also practiced a ton with dummy rounds to get rid of trigger flinch.

I don't shoot much anymore though so I've probably lost the tolerance I built up. Lame...

I own a Mosin M91/30 and a Saiga 12 gauge shotgun. Probably going to get a pistol grip conversion for the Saiga some time this winter.

Metalzoic wrote:

Voltaire wrote:Never fire a gun at a range or for fun without hear protection.

Very true, but whenever I went shooting I looked at it as practice for actually getting in a shoot out so I never wore ear protection (except my XD I mentioned earlier).

I wanted to make sure I was conditioned to the sound to avoid flinching. I also practiced a ton with dummy rounds to get rid of trigger flinch.

I don't shoot much anymore though so I've probably lost the tolerance I built up. Lame...

As long as you practice your technique and can hit the target, in an actual shoot out instinct will take over and you won't hear the gun shots or care about the recoil. Also I would say if you have trigger flinch then you are shooting too heavy a round too much during practice.