I held a gun for the first time!

4/4/2012 | POWERSBOOTHEFAN

[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.

[Darren McCarty]

What is the proper stance when firing a gun? I know how to hold one correctly.

You extend your arm, turn the gun sideways, and fire....... Or watch Tombstone, Powers Boothe's best movie. (/joking)

Seriously, I recommend taking a concealed carry class, even if you don't plan to carry. There's a couple of different stances. I usually use something similar to a Weaver stance, although my dominate arm isn't as extended.

[crazydad]

“Welcome to the Party Pal”!

[Paladin2]

Be careful that you don’t end up like A. Weiner.

[crazydad]

Hey there I gots me one of them....

[mylife]

Its a fine design.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Doesn’t matter where you are. The first rule of gun safety is to ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS treat a gun like it is loaded even if it clearly isn’t.

That means you don’t wave the gun around as you are talking or point it anybody in general. Point it away, up or down from everyone else. Even when cleaning it!

You always keep your finger off the trigger until you are committed to firing it. And before you fire it you should have a good idea of where it will go if you miss or it over-penetrates.

Once you get that rule down and in your head and practice it consciously all of the other gun safety rules will be a piece of cake!

Have fun and stay safe!

[Darren McCarty]

I love the first half of that movie.

"This is my rifle, this is my gun....."

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

I know to be extremely careful. There is no way I would ever take a chance.

[TigersEye]

That's a great scene. I had never even heard of that movie but now I want to see it. Here's a vid of Cruise training for it.

Collateral Tom Cruise training 4:26

[Adams]

Please go take a series of classes and learn from an NRA-Certified Instructor, BEFORE you hurt anyone including yourself.

[IYellAtMyTV]

"I was visiting a friend who owns two guns and I held his Baretta. I thought I'd be nervous but I wasn't."

"I didn’t fire it. It wasn’t loaded. I just held it to see what it would be like."

I would really like to help out, really I would, but your posts were so 'loaded' I'm afraid it would only get me banned. ;-)

[SERE_DOC]

Take a class, become familiar with what you have.....

And when your ready....

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

It’s gonna be a while before I’m ready for that! A LONG while!

[Celtic Conservative]

Taurus 92's are almost as good as Berettas, and are more reasonably priced. Beretta made handguns for the Brazilian army in Brazil. After the contract was done, Beretta sold the factory to Taurus. Same tooling and everything.

CC

[deks]

That’s JPFO... Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership

http://jpfo.org/

[JDoutrider]

for later...

[outofsalt]

The Baretta is a, "gateway" gun. Soon you'll be wanting to hold a Barrett!

[Jack Hammer]

All right, all right - you may hold my gun. Just be sure to squeeze it, don’t yank it.

[bramps]

It’s a great movie. Very under appreciated, including the performance by Tom Cruise. He’s quite an interesting, very lethal character. Vincent.

[Future Snake Eater]

lol...I see someone’s been watching “Sons of Guns”...