Posted on 12/17/2010 8:25:06 AM PST by Islander7
Quick thinking and a cool head!
Alyssa Gutierrez bravely defended her home and her life with her Mom's rifle. She was not going to end up, if she could help it, another victim of criminal violence. She first tried to hide from the criminal intruders, but when they discovered her, she ran quickly to a bedroom and retrieved her Mom's little pink single shot bolt action 22 caliber rifle to defend her home and life.
No. Unfortunately.
Which, though, does make it safer for training.
Get an air rifle. I'm not fond of toy guns, and I really want people to know that real guns cause damage, destruction, and death. Air rifles are good for killing the four-legged variety of rat, cans, and targets. Kids can understand how hard a metal can is, and how much softer their own skin is. It makes the point that the weapon in NOT a toy.
They work fine in basements and longish living rooms or hallways, too.
That’s another reason I like the Colibri ammo.
They get to feel/see/handle real live ammo.
Physical size is an issue for the solution to the training problem.
I’m with you on the “toy gun” issue.
However, we solve it in a different way in our house.
There are no toy guns in our house. Every one of them is [treated like it is] real and loaded. We treat nothing “gun shaped” as if it is a toy.
BTW, a good airsoft gun WILL kill a bird, and should be treated just like you’d treat a pellet gun.
I think someone can look forward to something extra in her allowance this week.
If you get captured by a 11 year old with a pink rifle it means you get raped extra times in prison.
“Last year, I bought my daughter (now 10 y.o.) a .22 bolt action with a pink stock. It is child-sized and made by Crickett Firearms”
If you can still find a Wally World that sells rifles, they used to go for $99.00. (I wanted to get my nephew one)
Oh, no! It CAN'T be true! They wouldn't sell them at KB toys if they could REALLY kill! /S
I think you have to be a little closer, for the Airsoft, and they probably* won't kill a human.
*IF you aren't too close, and also DON'T hit a critical spot...
Putting out eyes and such isn't all that good, either. My little brother missed the lesson of air guns doing real damage until he put the muzzle of the air pistol I gave him for his 10th birthday to the palm of his hand and pulled the trigger because he couldn't see the dust spouts where he was missing the target. He hasn't forgotten THAT lesson. X-cut on the back of his hand to remove the BB from just under the skin, tetanus & antibiotic shots, and bandages on both sides of his hand. He knew better than to do something like that with a “real” gun. Then he learned the hard way that air guns are real guns.
I'm going to have to track some down. I used to use BB & CB caps in my dad's old Stevens Favorite, but it's too worn for even that, now. Even if we have to load them one at a time, they could be useful in the 10/22 here.
That’s about what I paid for mine, but I got it through a local gun shop/shooting range.
I THINK my local (eastern NC) Wally World sells rifles still, but I haven’t been there in a while.
I knew I had this somewhere:
Type: .22 Colibri
Bullet Weight
Grains: 20
Grams: 1.3
Bullet Type: Lead
Velocity (in Fps)
Muzzle: 375 fps
100 yd: 183 fps
Energy (in Ft. Lbs.)
Muzzle: 6 ft lbs
100 yd: 1 ft lbs
Cabela’s has a brick of 500 for $40.
Funny that ammo with no powder costs twice as much as ammo with powder.
I picked up my last brick at a gunshow for $25.00.
(Well, $24.99 + tax)
With a single shot .22 you can use subsonic rounds and they will probably be just fine to use in your basement.
There are a number of very low noise and penetration .22 specialty loads that could work very well in a basement. I would still have them wear hearing protection, so they get used to the idea.
The Aguila Colibri is the quietest and least penetrative, about like a medium to high powered pellet rifle.
http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=638772
http://www.natchezss.com/product.cfm?contentID=productDetail&prodID=AU1B222337
Tell her you feel she deserves pretty tools. She’ll be charging down to the range with you. :)
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