I have too much of this and I am a deadly weapon.
Posted on 09/10/2009 8:28:29 AM PDT by KeyLargo
My SIL is of the don’t let kids play with toy guns variety and says “zionist” like it’s a bad word.
My parents were that way raising my sister and I. They didn't even let us have cap guns or water guns, nevermind something that shoots something solid.
Whenever I have kids, they'll have pellet rifles then firearms.
Among several others, I have an AirForce Condor in .25 caliber. Close to the power of a .22LR and a lot of fun to shoot.
I have too much of this and I am a deadly weapon.
Those were a part of my childhood that provided a great many hours of fun...
I play airsoft every other weekend. My M4 shoots at 370FPS. I’ve taken shots in the head on bare skin. While it can cause bleeding at a close range (less than 15 feet), it isn’t enough to embed the pellet.
We’ve got several people with sniper rifles that fire over 500FPS and we’ve never had more then welts.
The plastic pellets (biodegradable btw) that fire from airsoft guns don’t have the durability to withstand the impact. They crack/split on impact and that’s it. Unless you are firing copper or metallic pellets (which are too small for an airsoft gun, less than 6mm), you simply can’t kill with these things unless it is an absolute freak accident.
The idiots in the San Marcos break in that wound up dead were carrying pellet guns. Home owner had a REAL gun - two dead.
hehehehe Just bought my nephew (12 yo) a Baretta NEOS .22 semiauto and a Mossberg .410 shotgun.
There was much gnashing of teeth! However, when we came back from a day of punching holes in targets and trap shooting she seemed okay that the boy had found something which he liked so much! He keeps them at my house (my concession in the matter).
Good for you. I remember as a child taking a rifle to school for target practice and to scouting meetings for the same.
It isn’t all about muzzle velocity though. It depends on the amount of joules behind the pellet, pushing it through the air.
There aren’t enough joules of energy behind a plastic pellet to embed it more than 1cm in skin.
4 people per year are killed by air guns, bb guns or paint ball guns. The bulk of these are Darwin Award type adults.
39 kids have been killed by soccer goals in the last 20 years while not even playing soccer. Ban Soccer.
It'll break the skin!
My wife keeps telling me longer hair is coming back into style.
Fortunately my son is in football and the teams keep hair short - but at 13 years old, 6’0” and 200 pounds he is taller/bigger then almost everyone we know except his uncle that is at 6’3”
"You'll shoot......well, you know the rest."
We don't have them here. Maybe I should look back in the box and see if it came with one, like a Cracker Jack prize.
Its the scope that makes it go faster...
Shooting guns ping
I’ve got a couple of Air Arms rifles - these are my “classy” air guns. The Condor has Tony’s moderator and it’s real quiet.
I’ve still got a Big Bang cannon I bring out for the 4th and other holidays.
Definately a toy. The thing cannot be made to fire a projectile. The only possible harm is to one’s hearing
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