Posted on 09/02/2015 5:30:29 AM PDT by marktwain
Good gun to start with. Only problem is that firearms can be addicting, you always want to try the another one.
“Yep! Bought my first gun two weeks ago... Ruger 38 Special Revolver”
I have that weapon and bunches of hollow points for it. I also put a red laser light on it to be sure I hit the target.
A warning to bad guys, break into my house and the red light hits you and you are gone. My front door and the one window on the front of townhouse, are rigged with motion sensors and if they move, a loud alarm goes off so at first sight of someone setting off one of those alarms, the red light goes on bad guy(s).
Upstairs, on the front of my bedroom door there is a practice target with bullet holes in it in center mass of man and one low on the target man outline in the crotch area. Bad guy is dead if that door opens. Have a Colt 38 revolver on my bedside table. First shot is bird shot to hit bad guy, then hollow points after that. Will have to clean carpet of blood if bad guy enters. :o)
I see that a lot, I mean a lot. I have many friends that have bought several guns, almost like each time they’re in the gun shop they buy. Then comes the purchase of vault. My friend’s latest buy was a bazooka.
Our family did our bit - added four new firearms.
“Would those purchases be outside of the numbers above?”
The answer is in the article.
this is the same as in IA.
I acquired six firearms in the last two years...four of them are handguns.....only one NICS check, because of CCW.
that is...before the tragic boating accident.
I think there is a great opportunity for some entrepreneur in making “family friendly” gun ranges. In cities, the best locations would be underground facilities in industrial parks, which would avoid a ton of zoning and NIMBY problems.
The ranges would be built beneath warehouses that are normally very expensive to operate, so they could split the expense. Most of the cost would be in having high quality air filtration, a/c and heating. Add-ons would be a packaged food and drink lounge that could double as a briefing room; a young children’s play area, and game room. Local gun stores could even have their catalogs in a kiosk there.
This would save a lot of travel time for police departments and others who need to do periodic pistol qualifications, who normally have to travel far to find a range.
Sorry. I missed that.
There is a reason Obama was voted number one gun salesman. :-)
I wouldn’t shoot .38 birdshot at anyone, and in your position I would change it.
1) You have a Crimson Trace or something similar, plus you undoubtedly practice. You ARE going to hit the center-of-mass target on the first shot.
2) Birdshot can kill or blind someone (though not the latter with a COM shot), but it is more likely to just wound them...and piss them off. Especially if the person is on some serious drugs, that won’t come close to stopping them, but will actually cause you more danger.
Re-evaluate. If you come to the same conclusion, fine. But at least consider the above facts first...we want you around for a long while.
I agree, there are probably more.
These figures not only include very spotty numbers (or non-existent ones) from the 100 or so years before 1968, but they also don’t include:
1) War trophies from the Spanish-American War through Korea (and even some in Vietnam, though the Feds were already tightening up things by then);
2) Guns smuggled in throughout our history;
3) Guns manufactured by individuals; and
4) 80% receivers - even now, you can buy an AR-15 paperweight for about $40-$50, and if you have a jig (maybe $75-$100, sold by the same people that sell you the paperweight - and good pretty much forever) and a drill press (under $200 at Harbor Freight, or free by using a friend’s). I suspect that there are several hundred thousand of these out there, mostly bought during the last 7 years or so, and their production and sales are continuing to rise.
Yeah, there are more than 400 million - and if the Russians and we thought that taking control of shitholeistan, err, excuse me, Afghanistan, was tough, then let the statists consider what 400 million+ guns in the hands of pretty well educated First Worlders could do. My advice to them, same as that of the Founders, is to leave us alone.
Indeed, before my TBA, the Gun of the Moth Club threatened to drive me out of my house.
“In the future, due to all of the horrible TBS that occurred under Obola, whole lakes will be known as Gun Bottom Lake.”
Yeah, well, there might be something else at the bottom of a lot of lakes...or in pig feces, or remote holes in the ground in the middle of nowhere. Just sayin’
Before the TBA, my protection system was a 115 lb. Great Dane sleeping on the living room couch and an 85 lb. Pitador on the bed, backed up by a Beretta .40.
You just laid out the map so I know how to effectively attack.
Gotta love Texas!
I think that there are 400 million that they can’t deny. I suspect this is just like 99% of statistics that are 100% made up on the spot 93% of the time.
I don’t trust any information what so ever that comes in any way shape or form through any government agency. I don’t have time to imagine every angle that they “might” be trying to take when playing “fun with numbers”.
Here is an example;
A very close friend of mine was a missionary to Brazil for 35 years. When the CDC and the World Health Organization needed to show how much good there “work” was doing they would wait until the time of year they knew certain diseases where suppressed and take surveys to show they had “conquered” these diseases knowing full well that it was not the season that said diseases were prevalent. Case in point was Dengue fever. They specifically checked number of cases when mosquito’s were not in season.
We know our politicians lie to us everyday. Why would anyone believe agency’s headed by politicians have any credibility at all.
I trust nothing what so ever the government reports, nothing!! Anyone that does is naive.
Just like the statistics about vaccines on the .gov site that disappeared. I am not taking a side on that here just pointing out they did pull the information down because it was not going along with their narrative.
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