Smoke_Jaguar said:
I love guns just as much as you guys, but, my views are pretty strict.
I respect my country's decision as far as I can remember, much before I was born, since now and what looks like the next 5 to 10 years to restrict guns to military and police personell.
I live in a country with a high rate of theft, crime, and prostitutuion, corruption, but, only 5 or 6 crimes were commited last year with the use of a gun.
With guns going to civies, I would expect much more of this, and every rich guy can do anything to you, but if the all have guns, they can shoot you from they're godamn cars.
Crimes are pretty funny and sad to report on news here, since most are done with hatchets, axes, garden tools and stuff like that.
Since I can remember I was always wary about suspect activity, people and all that, watching my back and always ready to throw a punch. My 4 years spent at the gym discurages some, but not all.
Romania btw.
Wow. Your post pretty much summed up everything I believe about gun laws. The fact that the highest crime rate states in the US have the strictest gun laws helped too, but your post was really the nail in the coffin.
The #1 thing criminals fear is running into a civilian with a gun. We, as a general rule, are less predictable and more prone to panic than an officer. We also blend in a lot before for obvious reasons.
If no one can get guns criminals will just find something else to attack you with and you will have less options to defend yourself and when you are only 130 pounds like me, a gun is the only real option.
But I digress; this thread is about gun ownership not gun laws! So here is what I have.
Remington 870 Tactical magnum. Standard home defense shotgun.
My girlfriend just got a 410 shotty with the same 870 receiver as mine. I don’t know very much about her gun.
Her dad also just got a 410 to add to his colletion and I must say, it is the coolest gun I have probably ever seen. It is a doubled barreled 410 with a fold up stock that is only about a foot and a half long with the stock extended. The rumor is that it was a paratrooper weapon in WWII but I couldn’t find any information on it. If anyone has any ideas let me know.
I also bought an M1928 aka a Tommy Gun. Specifically the one in the middle with the extended barrel and forward pistol grip.
Let me just say this… the Thompson is the LEAST effective, hardest to use, heaviest gun I have ever dealt with. Mine is probably 3 feet long (I am bad at judging length) and ways 15 pounds unloaded. Add 50 rounds of .45 pistol ammo and you tire out before your drum comes up empty.
Accuracy is pretty low with the weapon too. I am sure it got the job done as a fully automatic personal machine gun, but as a rifle or carbine it is mostly useless, the only real redeeming factor is that because the gun is so heavy it has almost no recoil.
The funny thing is I knew all of this going into the purchase and I bought the weapon anyway. I figured after serving in two wars and being one of the major icons of the 1930s in America, I couldn’t pass up the piece of firearm heritage.
