Mark
Posted on 04/04/2012 8:46:47 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN
I was visiting a friend who owns two guns and I held his Baretta. I thought I'd be nervous but I wasn't.
What is the proper stance when firing a gun? I know how to hold one correctly.
I’m not sure what type it was.
Mark
What? Do you think I’m gonna shoot someone,LOL?
Trust me. I’ll be extremely careful.
My friend’s idiot friend was baked on some of that synthetic pot and was messing around with his loaded gun. he shot a hole through the TV and the wall.
I wasn’t there,thank the L-rd.
I know that guns aren’t toys and that you can’t wave ‘em around.
Don't ever hold it sideways like the hoodlums you see in the movies. That may be their way of displaying how casual they are with a firearm (and, by extension, how little they value life), but it is appallingly stupid way to control where you shoot.
Accuracy is far more important than looks. There's nothing wrong with holding your wrist with your free hand to steady your aim. An inaccurate shot could not only mean missing the perp, but hitting someone innocent.
Don't ever hold it sideways like the hoodlums you see in the movies. That may be their way of displaying how casual they are with a firearm (and, by extension, how little they value life), but it is appallingly stupid way to control where you shoot.
Accuracy is far more important than looks. There's nothing wrong with holding your wrist with your free hand to steady your aim. An inaccurate shot could not only mean missing the perp, but hitting someone innocent.
For you I think you should use the Han Solo stance. Stand in a semi-crouch with your pistol thrust forward in one hand and your opposite hand stuck high up in the air and behind you.
Such a belief should never affect how you treat the gun. There are many sad stories which contain the statement, "I didn't know the gun was loaded".
Were you told to assume it was loaded until you cleared it yourself? That’s rule #0. See a few comments up for rules #1 to 4.
Stance? Personal preference matters. I use a modified Weaver. (Just Google it for details.)
Go take a hunter education class, take a ccw class, take a defensive training class, join the NRA, read articles, read more articles, read even more articles, visit gunshops, visit gunshows, ask lots of questions.
Oh,I know that!
Yep.
There’s a gun club for patriotic conservative Jews who want to defend themselves. I can’t recall what its name is, but you might think about googling it and joining them. Freepers are not victims.
Shooting is a LOT of fun, highly addictive. It puts you in a sort of pleasurable alert trance of concentration and focus. When you leave the range, you have the good feeling of knowing that you can protect yourself. Go for it.
Yes.
I checked it out and it wasn’t loaded. He was showing me so I saw it for myself.
I wouldn’t just take someone’s word for it.
hoping this is the mentality of ALL libs...bwahaha!
Whilst duck hunting I like to use the isosceles stance with my Bofors 40 mm, because it has a little recoil.
But it blows the mallards right out of the trees!
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