"There are no stupid questions..." - like he11!

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David Scott

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Another thread mentioned a gun shop's sign about stupid questions. I just thought I'd ask what's the funniest/dumbest question a non-gunny has asked you about guns?

Mine: While in the Army I was Payroll Officer for my unit. I had to take cash payroll (about $20K) around to the troops. I carried a 1911, and had two M-16 toting escorts. When I went to the hospital to pay an injured soldier, a nurse stopped me to ask "Do those guns have real bullets in them?" I explained, yes they did, because I was toting a whole Company Payroll in my satchel. She said she thought blanks would be enough to scare robbers off, and much safer. :) I referred her to the post Suggestion Program, I figured the guys at the head shed could use a laugh.
 
Back when I was still a one-gun man with only a .22 , my cousin came out to our farm to spend a night. He saw my bolt action rifle and said, "Is that a semi-automatic?" I swear it must have been the only gun related phrase he knew. I was genuinely scared that people could be that ignorant.
 
At a party one time, someone asked me what kind of bullets I used in my carry gun. I answered "Hydra-Shoks." The person looked baffled, so I drew a pic of the bullet. He looked horrified and said, "Hollowpoints are illegal!"


"Only in New Jersey," I answered. :rolleyes:
 
My mother-in-law, when I was looking for a Glock before we got married, asked me to promise I would never shoot her daughter. She meant it. :mad:
 
asked by range officer in Colorado "what the hell you gonna shoot with the 12 guage slug gun?"

An elk If i have to. ;) or a bear.. or an Impala (as in Chevy)

(no one shoots slug guns in colorado.. it ALWAYS gets attention at the range when you touch off a 3 inch 1 ounce slug loaded to max dram)

Asked by wide eyed wal-mart clerk while dad was buying buckshot post LA Riots:

"Ge we sell a lot of that stuff what do people use it for?"

Dad turns and says "bad guys"
 
Loading some 44 mag rounds at my parents' work bench...Mom drives into garage...on her way into the house she stopped, looked, and said, "Hollow points? Aren't those dangerous?"

Me at gun store, early on in my "career"...never had anyone to teach me anything about guns/shooting...clerk offered me "9mm ball" as an inexpensive option...a modern cartridge loaded with a ball didn't make sense, but not being sure, I had to ask.
 
When I lived in Studio City, Kalif., my next door neighbor, a tree hugging, crystal gazing lady, once asked me, "Why don't the police just shoot the guns out of the hands of the bad guys, instead of killing them??"

J.B.
 
My wifes sister used to ask us EVERY time we came back from hunting: "Well, did you catch anything?" I almost did't have it in me to explain it to her.
 
Off-topic:

I'm a LEO and I am either hanging out with LEOs or with college grad students (my wife is the single conservative grad student in the nation, I think), and when the grad stus find out I'm a LEO they often make some statement like "oh, I guess you have a gun then." Its kinda a question and a segue into a discussion of the merits of gun control (as they see it).

My new response is to look at them in a startled fashion, lower my voice as if not wanting to embarrass them and say, "Huh? And you don't? Do you, like, watch the news or anything?"

Mike

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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Robert Heinlein
 
I was asked a stupid question a few months ago for which I had been saving my snappy answer for close to twenty years.
Q: That gun is just a p***s substitute. Isn’t it?
A: If it were, it would have more than a two inch barrel.
 
Back in my teen years, I was in the BSA Police Explorer program. My father was a sergeant in the same town. I was on a ride-a-long one Saturday evening with him. Another LEO was in a local hospital when we went to visit him. The lady at the reception desk asked, "Do you have a gun with you?" Now, he was a uniformed LEO with a clearly visible Glock on his pistol belt. He replied, "Yes." She told us that she would have to notify security. To this, my father's reply was, "Knock yourself out!"
 
While I was in my favorite gun store, a young (19-20 maybe) hispanic girl (with no visible tatoos) and a mid-twenties hispanic male (head-to-toe gang and prison tatoos) walk in. The girl asks Marilyn if the store had somebody that fixes guns. Marilyn said no and asked what was wrong with the gun. The girl says, with a straight face and a finger pointing in the air, that the "shooting pin" is broken or missing and "the gun doesn't bang anymore." I almost fell out laughing.

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Guns cause crime like spoons cause Rosie O'Donnell to be fat!

I hunt, therefore I am.
 
I belong to a Home Theater forum and talk often turns to action movies and guns...this guy posted tonight and I just had to clip and post it :) Obviously a gun expert :rolleyes:

"In that movie, and almost every other action movie I see, the guns don't recoil at all. It is nearly impossible for someone to fire a gun with one hand. The usual result the recoil knocking the weapon out of the user's hand. But John Woo movies (and all the action movies that copy his style) have guys twirling around firing two handguns. They never have to reload, and never get disarmed by the recoil."

I can't tell you how many times my HK flew out of my hand and bonked my girlfriend on the head behind the firing line at the range.



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Aloha!
John
 
My brother in law, as he aimed my Marlin Coboy II at my sister in law on Christmas day. "It's not loaded is it?" :( :( :(

*BIL is a strict anti and wanted to see how heavy it was. *sigh* I should have known better.
 
I think you missed it gang. The dumbest question I ever heard was:

"Is that thing [gun] loaded?"

Second thing to that would be listening to my girlfriend tell me why she should comply with the law and carry a firearm in the car unloaded. And then look at the expression on her face when I say, "Sweetheart, there isn't much use in carryin' a firearm if its unloaded" :rolleyes: She's such a sweet girl.

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!

oberkommando sez:
"We lost the first and third and now they are after the Second!(no pun intended)"

[This message has been edited by KaMaKaZe (edited September 08, 2000).]
 
This from an adult cousin of mine.....upon walking into my reloading room and seeing the dillon and all the quick change set up, wants to know what is all this--he's ex army mp so I tell him, its my reloading equip....he gets kinda quiet, opens the door to the safe looks at the guns,....and asks me if Im One of Those Survivalist types....its funny I had the same question from his brother when i sent him a mdl 14 randall to take with him to the middle east war games........and most recently from of all people my mother...lol....Ive been off this week working around the house and of course that means making a trip to the range once or twice, so in the course of the conversations I tell her ive been reloading and to the range, and she says "your not part of one of those militias or anything are you",....gotta love em...I dont think she has ever gotten over the quanity of brass and reloading stuff and general shooting stuff I put in 1/2 of my garage...lol....those were the days...fubsy.
 
How about the young kids behind the sporting goods counters at Wal Mart that ask if you will be shooting that box of 300 Win Mag you just bought through a handgun!
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by George Hill:
I always get asked "Why do you have guns?"

I hate that...[/quote]

My teenage babysitter asked me that the other day. Actually she phrased it: "Why do you carry a gun? Guys carry guns, girls don't!"

I smiled and replied, "Girls get raped, guys don't."

pax


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"Is there anything wrong with a woman preferring the dignity of an armed citizen? I don't like to be coddled and I don't like to be treated like a minor child. So I waive immunity and claim my right -- I go armed." -- Longcourt Phyllis in Beyond This Horizon by Robert Heinlein
 
Bmiracle, that's funny you mentioned that because that was gonna be one of my stories. At my Wal-Mart job in sporting goods, the other day the register popped up with that question after I just rang up some 30-06. I had to laugh and asked the guy just to be funny and I was grinning when I asked it, his reply "Oh no, I would hate to shoot one of those, who makes something like that anyways?" :rolleyes:

The other was last night when a girl from electronics came up and asked me what type of handgun her and her boyfriend, who live together, should get. I was telling her to get a revolver and that they should practice all the time. She said "Well, I wouldn't shoot it anyways, I'd just hit the bg over the head with it." :eek: I almost laughed but I kept it in. She is about 5'3" and 90 pounds. Just skin and bones. I explained to her the folly of her thinking. And went back to the practice speech. Oh well, I may at least have recruited 2 more fence sitters to our side, as they are young and watch CNN to keep up on the current events. I also explained to her the folly of that thinking.
 
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