Do you own a gun?

[username]

how does not owning a gun make you smart? when you touch a gun do you automatically lose 50 I.Q. points or something?

i'm not trying to be picky, but i'm just a big fan of gun education. i think if we had more gun education (not necessarily more guns, but more gun education) a lot of the fear and rumors and myths about guns could be resolved for the general public

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" fear and rumors and myths about guns"..., i know how to read statistics about people who have guns in their houses, thats enough for me

[pacifica]

I don't own a gun, I never will own a gun.

Since I don't break laws then I don't need one.

I don't know anybody in jail, anybody who's been to jail or anybody that's been arrested.

I have never had my house, my car, my parents house or my parents car ever broken in to.

The only house that I have ever heard of being burglarized was somebody who bragged at the office and their co-worker's teenage son attempted to break in.  He was arrested at the scene.

I have confidence that the cops would arrive within a few minutes of dialing 911 and I don't fear for my own personal protection nor my family's.

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but there's nothing like going through a gross of clay pigeons on a summer day on the ranch. lots of fun...

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[vincent]

just like a mouse - point and click.

for home defense you'd probably never have to fire one of these.? simply chamber a round (or no round) for maximum intimidating effect.? the sound of a shotgun is unmistakeable.

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just for a bunch of crackheads that was always on my block, so i'd scare them away alot. They'd come to my house asking for my brother at tweaker hours( 4am,2am,3am) so id answer the door with my trusty trimmed friend and tell em to go away. My brother would get mad at me but wtf can he do, he was older and used to whoop my ass alot but after awhile i used to bang him up. mom would always call the cops on us, and id get tossed in the back seat for talking **** to em. but after awhile it was all good. sorry for going off topic, but taht was Cali for ya in 95-98

Edited January 26, 2005 by ripgut

[DigitalSnow]

Yes I do.

2 rifles in fact.

I shoot em it for sport at ranges and for hunting.

If you have never been hunting than your missing out on a great experience. Also deers meat it really good.

[Hurmoth]

I am a proud owner of a gun :D

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Edited January 26, 2005 by Hurmoth

[Fedorpheux]

" fear and rumors and myths about guns"..., i know how to read statistics about people who have guns in their houses, thats enough for me

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and what statistics are those? you kinda make it sound like everybody who has a gun in their house goes out and runs around shooting people or something....

:wacko:

[edgarf28]

I am a proud owner of a gun :D

I've killed three people with it too

:devil:

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:huh: :blink: :no:

[vincent]

I am a proud owner of a gun :D

I've killed three people with it too

:devil:

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*cough* BS*cough*

[sjiggag23]

dont own one. dont plan to. it might be fun to go to a firing range sometime though

[shockz]

I am a proud owner of a gun :D

I've killed three people with it too

:devil:

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And if your serious... your proud of that???

[phunny_pharmer]

hey, i own this gun gun 1

and gun 2

those ones :p sorry if this is not humourous haHA

i don't have a real one, but does a copper pellet sniper count? if so, then yes =)

[cvcduty]

Sure do... a few...

.22 cal rifle

15 guage Mossburg shotgun - Pistol grip

AR15 - Colt

AR15 - Bushmaster

AK47 - Bulgarian - Carbon Stalk

Killed numerous rodents by my house with the .22 rifle... It's a dirty job... but someone (me... :whistle: )'s gotta to do it... :cool:

[Hurmoth]

And if your serious... your proud of that???

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It was a joke :wacko:

[Fedorpheux]

Sure do... a few...

.22 cal rifle

15 guage Mossburg shotgun - Pistol grip

AR15 - Colt

AR15 - Bushmaster

AK47 - Bulgarian - Carbon Stalk

Killed numerous rodents by my house with the .22 rifle... It's a dirty job... but someone (me...  :whistle: )'s gotta to do it...  :cool:

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they have a 15 gauge mossberg? didnt know that....but i guess i havent really looked into it or anything...where do you get 15 guage ammo? :blink:

my dad has a Colt AR15...it's fun. once when we took it out to the range and were having some fun, we fired it very quickly (it's semi-auto, but we were firing it really fast) and the range care-taker guy came over because he thought it was a full auto and we were firing it after the time when you were allowed to use full auto guns.....but we explained it to him and no hard feelings. it was funny :happy:

[Blackima]

I don't own a gun (well of course not, I'm a 17 year old Brit), but I also dont inted to ever get one.

I'm ok with people having rifles on display or soemthing to use for clay pidgeon shooting, I can imagine that to be quite fun.

But if someone owns a handgun then the only use it can have is to kill someone. And by buying a handgun you're pretty much saying that if I feel threatened I am willing to kill someone.

People who say they use it for self defense...surely that means that if someone draws a knife on you, and then you draw a gun, and you shoot the guy, then it'll probably be you who ends up in prison. And if someone draws a gun on you and you draw yours, then you'd be dead.

There's also the kinda people who buy handguns, but not for self defense and are the reasons why people feel the need for a means of self defence, but they wont be on a cool site like this so no point in talkin' bout them

[LOC Veteran]

OK, here goes nothing, I'm trying to remember here:

Glock 20 (10mm auto pistol) (with silencer and laser mount)

Glock 45mm

Glock 33 (357)

SIG P220

SIG P245

S&W .38 Midnight Special

S&W .22 Magnum

S&W .45 Colt

S&W 9mm

There's about 10 others, mostly variants of other 9 and 12 mm pistols, I have two rifles, and two shotguns, all four are collectors items, one is a M1 Garand.

[cvcduty]

Sorry... meant to say... 12... Oops... :blush: :D

Shooting ranges by me will not even let me have the mag clip on when you shoot... Each round has to be loaded one at a time... pain in the butt and takes some of the fun out. :angry:

[cmove]

No.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

interesting points i guess....the only reason i ever learned about guns was because my dad. the only reason my dad ever got into guns was because his life was threatened. it was about 5 years or so before he ever owned anything other than a crappy handgun, but since then he has obviously branched out because it is a fun sport. still, you make good points. but i support my dad with his choice. if my life was threatened like his was, i would have done the same thing (although i guess my view is a little bit biased, but there's not really much of anything that i can do about that)

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It's not that I've never had my life threatened. When I was single I used to go clubbing to nightclubs three or four times a week so hanging out at a downtown pizza parlour at 3am was not out of the question.

Now it might be because I'm loud, I'm obnoxious or that I was drunk but I did run into my fair share of trouble. It never seemed to happen to any of my friends. :whistle:

I've had knives pulled on me on several occasions including a knife being held to my throat and waved in front of my face.

Still, I'm not about to go to a night club or a pizza parlour wearing a gun. If I did, I'd probably be dead or in jail by now. I never even carried a knife.

[filetofish]

no

[mendivil]

Yes, I have several:

Sawed off 12 Gauge

SKS Paratrooper (7.62)

M1 Carbine (.30 cal)

M-11 (9mm)

I'd hate to be the poor @#$% who broke into my house! :pinch:

Home defense is just one aspect, but mostly they're used for target practice out in the desert, it's a blast! (no pun intended) :woot:

[Southern Patriot]

I own two. One is a .22 caliber bolt action rifle and the other is a 410 gague single shot shotgun. They are mainly used for hunting (although I haven't been in a while) and for target practice. I keep both on a gun rack on the wall in my bedroom, and the 410 is loaded with a slug for use in case someone was to break in to our house (we do live in a city that has a high crime rate, mostly burglry). It would almost be the equivalant of a .45 caliber bullet, which should know just about anyone on their butts if they made the mistake of coming in here. I've trained my wife to use it as well, since she is often home alone at nights when I'm working.

Both of these guns were given to me by my father when I was young, the 410 is nearly 100 years old and is in nearly perfect condition (other than a few chips and knicks on the stock).

[Bawx]

I don't own a gun, I never will own a gun.

Since I don't break laws then I don't need one.

I don't know anybody in jail, anybody who's been to jail or anybody that's been arrested.

I have never had my house, my car, my parents house or my parents car ever broken in to.

The only house that I have ever heard of being burglarized was somebody who bragged at the office and their co-worker's teenage son attempted to break in.  He was arrested at the scene.

I have confidence that the cops would arrive within a few minutes of dialing 911 and I don't fear for my own personal protection nor my family's.

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Jesus Christmas, man up.

[randy_tho]

I have a few. Nothing military crazy outside of a British Lee Enfield 4MK2. Its chambered in a British .303.

Also a 10/22 that is the funnest gun because its not so dangerous as, well accidently shooting someone 300 yards away.

http://s93160239.onlinehome.us/ruger1.htm

Remington 870 pump 12ga.

And some older 12ga's including an antique side by side.

Here's a pic.

From left to right: Old breakdown 12ga, Enfield, Remington 870, Topper Junior model 4-10, Ruger 10/22 LR, Winchester .22 LR, and the side by side.

[russ0943]

I own a small pistol for protection when backpacking out in the woods. Otherwise, I love to shoot clay in large fields. I don't do much hunting though.

IMO. guns are safe if you know how to use them. When guns become dangerous most of the time is when they are in the hands of someone who is terrified of them or not taught proper gun safety....or an idiot.

I shot my friends 10ga and it about took off my shoulder, when i was 15. I'm 21 now.