This Is What a Gun Looks Like When It's Pointing Straight At You

The New Republic ^ | 4/2/14 | Maia Booker

[VanShuyten]

The brainchild of Canada-based photographer Peter Andrew and Creative Directors Simon Duffy and Derek Blais, The Point Blank project shoots handguns in close-up, portrait-style, and straight down the barrel. In doing so, the project creates large-scale, extremely detailed, and uncomfortably in-your-face frontal photographs. The images have a jarring beauty in the symmetry of design, the depth-of-field, and the level of detail—all the more powerful for their implicit violence. These subjects have, quite literally, the power to kill.

[W.Lee]

I’ve always thought that the S&W N frames, from the Triple Lock to the early post-war (WWII) guns were some the finest looking guns ever made.

[AlaskaErik]

That reminds me, I need to replace my Glock 23 with something a bit smaller, since I'm moving to a desert climate. Smaller than the Glock and easily concealed, .40, 10 round magazine and utterly reliable. I have my work cut out for me.

[MasterGunner01]

The one pistol that is the most intimidating, when seen from the muzzle, is the Colt Model 1917 in .45 ACP. I can't really explain it but that muzzle seems to grow — if you're on the wrong side — until it looks like the muzzle of a 16-inch naval rifle.

[Rodamala]

This is what a gun looks like when it is pointed at the American people:

[Georgia Girl 2]

I have had a gun pointed at me and the barrel looked like a howitzer. Its a strange kind of scary. LOL!

[HammerT]

Well, those of us who follow the basic runs of gun safety never have seen our weapon system this way.

[cynwoody]

John Wilkes Booth's Derringer

[logi_cal869]

Ok. I went to the link and wasted my time.

The picture, if 1:1 perspective, is of 2 things in my opinion:

1. Liberal's last vision (deer in the headlights)
2. A dead shooter (if it were pointed at me or anyone I know...and I mean from their own weapon)

The Point Blank project shoots handguns in close-up, portrait-style, and straight down the barrel.

What a horrible use of language and pathetic waste of time.

[vpintheak]

I’ve looked down the barrel of so many guns, I can’t even imagine where I would begin to count. In other words, big hairy deal!

[OneVike]

But have you looked down one when someone else is holding it and you know there are bullets in the gun?

[Oatka]

In my experience the muzzle looks exceedingly larger than that.

In 1950s Cuba, a bunch of us drunken swabbies were staggering back to out boat and took a wrong turn. Cuba then had what they called "Maritime Police" and this guy was armed with a 7MM Mauser. When he yelled "ALTO!" and pointed that thing at us, the bore looked like a garbage can. That and the "click" as the safety went off set us stone cold sober. We kept yelling "Americano! Americano!" and backed away immediately.

Those guys didn't mess around.

[Fledermaus]

I was born in the Ft. Benning hospital. Martin Army Hospital I think it was called.

[vpintheak]

Fortunately, no. But that’s not what this was about.

[central_va]

Like a frickin' sewer pipe!

This is true.

[central_va]

When there is a gun is pointed at you your eyes never leave the gun, making eye contact never comes to mind.

[Yorlik803]

Some said that being shot at by a 45 hollowpoint is like having a trash can fired at you.

[OneVike]

What year? I was stationed there from 74 to 76.

[Stevee]

The "business end" of what I keep under my pillow.

[Fledermaus]

1959!