Posted on 07/22/2016 6:37:43 PM PDT by xzins
What's it like to fire a Daisy BB gun? It's an experience I'll never forget. Everybody knows BB guns are scary looking and ought to be banned, but I thought I would try to shoot one without any preconceived notions. What I encountered changed me forever.
I took a deep breath and determined to enter a Wal-Mart. A "greeter" met me with, "Howdy, welcome to Wal-Mart." I'm from the north. We don't say "Howdy". I sneer back at the microaggression and strain to hold back tears of rage. Barely controlling myself, I asked where I could find a BB gun. He directed me to "sporting goods," still smiling and gloating over his slyly delivered offense.
I go to the "sporting goods" section, a perfect charnel house where implements of sulfur, death, and destruction are openly and brazenly sold. I notice a BB gun just lying on a shelf. I reach for it as if it was a poisonous snake, wondering if it will go off when I pull it off the shelf. That's right, a shelf. Where anybody could get it.
I go to the counter and the death merchant asks me if I wanted BBs to go with it. He even had the audacity to offer me "Copperhead" brand BBs! How could this inbred hick not know that I see a therapist twice a week to treat my herpephobia?
I buy the gun and the recommended BBs. I'm dizzy going out to the parking lot. A passing stranger, attired in a camouflage assault t-shirt, asks, "Sir, you okay?" "How dare you assume my gender!" I shout back. "Sorry, just checkin'," he said as if my health was any of his business. But the worst was yet to come.
I went to a wooded area to fire the BB gun, a Daisy 509 Buck, probably made by Bushmaster. I bruised my knuckles operating the cocking lever. Taking aim, I closed my eyes, gritted my teeth, and pulled the trigger. The sound of the spring loaded plunger going "boing" startled me. I became disoriented watching the BB arc towards its target. The "dink!" sound it made bouncing off a coke can was horribly loud. The recoil was horrendous, like a bazooka or some other recoilless weapon, and it dislocated my shoulder. I vomited and cried. I still have PTSD. Anxiety. Irritability. Nightmares. I may never again be the same.
But enough about me, at least for now. Worst of all, these weapons of mass destruction are available to the general public. It's time we stopped listening to the paid lobbyists of the National BB Gun Association who assure us that BB guns are hardly ever used in the commission of a crime. They scare me, they should scare you, and they ought to be banned.
You get punched in the eye hard enough you can go blind.
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I won’t name it on this family friendly forum but there’s a sexual practice that can cause blindness too.
I once heard that there are two classes of liars in the world:
Those who say they have never done it and those who say, I used to do it but I quit.
A punch in the eye can kill you faster than a poisonous fish!
No it’s an “AiR .177” pump action rifle that holds over 100 rounds! Yikes!
If it wasn’t, it would cost $200. Then how many kids would own one?
The Yin and Yang of life is not always as clearcut as one thinks.
BS. It would cst the same. Daisy is pocketing the difference in wages between Mexico and the USA. That is the whole point. More Free trade lies. Lies. Lies lies. We are still waiting for Nabisco to drop the price of Oreo cookies. LOL.
Lucky you! Wish I still had my old .410. I do still have my Browning A5 I got for Christmas when I was 12 and my .22 a boyfriend gave me. I have a few rifles, but mostly have shotguns. Used to shoot a lot of trap, but only occasionally now. Father Time catching up with me, I guess. Get out my fishing rod more often now.
“IT IS SATIRE!!!!! “
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Considering all of the the non-satirical articles about “safe spaces”,”white guilt”, and “trigger warnings” who can tell these days?
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First clue?
SWEET! And not even a bit more sissy than the original story!
I have never been much of a shotgun shooter. But I do have a Remington 12-gauge turkey gun that I have killed many deer with.
Shotguns were more popular in my part of the country. The land is flat and a bullet can carry a long way. Shotguns were always more popular for their safety and since it is also great ducking country, shotguns were favored and used for all game.
I have an old Winchester Model 12 I dearly love. She’s a sweet shootin’ thing. Also love my Browning over/unders for Trap.
Ask a few boxers who have had their careers ended because of retina damage and risk of blindness.
BB guns?
Scary!
And don’t they look a lot like the rifles soldiers carry into combat to kill people?
Of course they do.
I learned to shoot when I was 5, a 22 single shot Remington and the target was a 22 cartridge box. Couldn’t go into the woods to hunt till I could hit the cartridge box every shot at about 30 yards. Started hunting with a .410 single shot when I was 8.
Had a Daisy BB gun when I was around 7 or 8 I guess, forgot it at a roadside rest area one day and my father refused to go back and get it. He was a bastard like that a lot...Let’s see, that would be around 1962 or 1963 or so...
What I’ve always wanted is a Benjamin pump pellet rifle. Shot one a friend had in the late 60’s, loved it. Quiet, accurate, almost as much power as a .22, dependable as they get. Can’t find them any more. A friend in the mid 80’s had a Benjamin pistol, only one I ever saw. That was one little gem of a pistol. We used it for snakes when we went fishing, not illegal to carry in a boat.
Back in the late 1970’s I had a C02 Pistol that fired both BB’s and Pellets.
IIRC, it could fire five rounds on full auto but tended to jam when using that feature.
I was surprised to discover that you can still buy co2 pistols.
My buddy and I would literally chase Squirrels from tree to tree while running through the woods. They were to far away to kill but we would fire off a dozen or more rounds into their nests and that would get them moving again.
Too much fun.
I have two CO2 pistols which I never use, mainly because it is fairly expensive to buy the cylinders.
One is a Walther P-88 which looks almost just like the real deal and is accurate but is a pain to use. The other is a Crosman copy of the Smith & Wesson model 59. If it did not have such an awful trigger the Crosman would be fun to use with BBs.
Hahahahahaha...how times have changed indeed!
I can just see you guys saying “Yes, we made a cannon and shot it!”
Back then, the cop might well do just as you said. Today, you would be in some kind of child counseling, or worse!
I am glad you liked it...we can all relate to those types of things!
That is what makes it such a good story...we can all relate to it.....that is, with the exception of today’s wimps who are frightened of the own shadows.
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