Harper’s Magazine Cover Story on Liberal Gun Owners. Go Figure.

The Truth About Guns ^ | 26 July, 2010 | Robert Farago

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"She wanted something with POWER, not a mouse gun!"

Au contraire my friend. M-4's can do a lot of damage to a human being. It has a longer max effective range, holds more rounds and has a 3 round burst. The only advantage I can see for the M-1 is more knockdown power, but the M-4 has plenty enough.

[kbennkc]

Now, if you like those grips, take them off and hang them on your wall. Then REPLACE them with a pair of Pacmayer rubber grips.

I say almost the same thing to people except, I say "here are some Goodyears so you won't have to wrap your purse around your gun when you shoot it, and you might as well give those made out of wood things to me."

[kbennkc]

Okay, I have one question. Why is that woman carrying an M-1 Garand when a perfectly good M-4 carbine with scope is lying on the ground and available?

She probably had the little ones stack arms to run the camera. The stack collapsed. Darn kids.

[arthurus]

I prefer the Garand.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nice wood. I have several gathering dust around the house. All replaced with Pacmayer grips. When I pull the trigger on the old .44 mag my hand doesn’t vibrate afterward and I don’t loose any skin with the checkering acting like sandpaper on my palms.

[kbennkc]

You got that right, Some are like a rasp when new. The packies also make for a better concealed carry when you have to partially sit on it.lol. I am glad you, like most Freepers, are a shooter and not just a safe keeper.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Slim got a nice piece of stick on this one. Very partial to "cokes" on my N-frames too. Love to get a pair of Keith Brown's Ropers.

[kbennkc]

Serious Wood.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The pic doesn’t do it justice, it’s got orange tiger stripe highlights.

The other side is identical in pattern.

[sig226]

E ahu la ula.

Wider is better.

[sig226]

This is the part that doesn't even make any sense.
"Shooters see their guns as emblems of a whole spectrum of virtuous lifestyle choices— rural over urban, self-reliance over dependence on the collective, vigorous outdoorsiness over pallid intellectualism..."

There is no logic in this belief. It has no basis in reality. I lived in West Milford, New Jersey, an exurb of New York City. It was densely wooded and had plenty of bears, coyotes, and coy-dogs. They didn't bother me at all.

I now live in a South Florida city of over 100,000 people. Those urbane, collective, pallid intellectuals tend to murder people at astonishing rates. I don't leave my apartment without my gun. I'd really rather not carry it. It's heavy and bulky and sometimes it's a pain in the ass to conceal it. But the Broward County Sheriff's helicopter keeps coming back every week, looking for those pallid intellectuals who get into philosophical debates over ownership and property rights with employees at convenience stores and gas stations. Inevitably, the debating team resorts to knives and guns to carry the side.

Cities I do not find to be especially pleasant or communal. I find myself having to go armed amidst the pallid intellectuals. I didn't have to do that in the rural parts of this country.