Things that a lot of people say about guns that ticks you off

Not something that ticked me off, but a comment that was really amusing from that somewhat goofy TV show "The Mentalist"....
He was at this fancy mansion, talking to this rich, prissy, woman/suspect (her husband was dead in the next room) and asked "Do you keep any guns in the house?" She replied "Oh we don't believe in guns!". He leaned toward her and said quietly "They DO exist". ......I nearly fell out of the recliner laughing.
 
I have a Marlin Model 70 .22 that uses "clips". It says so right on the packaging. Later packaging used clip magazine. Bullets vs rounds nada. Etc.

About the only thing that bugs me is the news insistence on using the term "assault rifle" for semi-auto rifles. And their insistence that anyone possessing more than a couple boxes of ammo or more than a couple of rifles is either a "gun nut" or in a militia. Stamp and coin collectors aren't "nuts" and they can not play with their toys.
 
"High-Powered Assault Rifles"
Any student of the history of assault rifles knows that they were/are designed to be used with lower power cartridges, as the .30-06, .303, 7.92x57, and 7.62x54R were considered to be too high powered for accurate automatic use in an assault rifle.

And I'm sorry, but I would have no respect for a gun guy that calls all pistols a Glock any more than a car guy who calls every car a Ford.
 
I personally find it odd when some gun owners refer to their guns as family members or give them a name.My guns already have names,Colt,S&W,Ruger etc.
 
The fact that the Dictionary defines " Accident" as
"lack of intention or necessity"
"an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance"
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I see, the nature of the word "accident has been revised since I was in school. It was always understood to mean an unavoidable event that happens with no particular human causation.

When you were referring to someone doing something stupid, well, it was called doing something stupid.

This almost sounds like a liberal conspiracy to allow anyone in the world to do even the stupidest, most careless things, and sing out "it was an accident" and thus absolve themselves of fault.

i'm apparently going to have to revise my vocabulary now, and come up with some other way of showing my contempt for the word accident, since it apparently means exactly what people want it to mean. Bummer.
 
I personally find it odd when some gun owners refer to their guns as family members or give them a name.My guns already have names,Colt,S&W,Ruger etc.
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Little OT.

In the Norwegian defense force we were told to give our G3 names. Preferably female names. As a joke i gave mine the name Ærling. My name being Bernt, it was a hillerious joke. I,E there comes Bernt and Ærling.
(Bernt and Ærling is the Norwegian equivalent of Bert and Ernie from seamstress) :D
 
Met a little goober who named everything he owned. He bought a .308 that he named the "devastator." most of his stuff he named after comic book/video games. the funniest thing, though, was finding out that he had a narrow bladed english sword, not one of the enormous broadswords, just a standard little thing. He used the name of thor's hammer, whatever that was, I can't remember. (tiamat?)

He named another rifle after a tolkien sword.

None of it made sense, and all it did was make him look utterly ridiculous.

The only thing I have with a name, my wife named for me. I split an enormous spider right down the middle once in fierce combat when I ran into the web, and from that time on, she referred to that knife as "sting."
 
What ticks me off is when there's a discussion about lower-cost guns and someone will often end up saying "You mean your life is only worth X amount of dollars?"

Frankly, it's a cruel lie to suggest something need be expensive to be dependable. Now sure, the ridiculously cheap guns shouldn't really be trusted (I am talking like the $50 Rohm revolvers), but it's actually fairly easy to find excellent firearms for around $350 or even under $300, which is still far from expensive as far as guns go.
 
I grew up saying "clip" not knowing the difference, and now that I've learned differently I still use "clip". Mainly because it's easier to say and conveys the same message to 99% of people. Harworker--You took the words right out of my mouth:D. I would go so far as to say 99.9% of the people. I have been shooting for over 35 years now and (sorry to say) i still don't know all the differents parts to a pistol or rifle,:eek:
 
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I'm just obsessive compulsive with clip and magazine. I don't correct people unless I'm teaching them to shoot, and even then I don't do it much.

Problem being that if you tell someone that it's a magazine, they don't often know what an actual clip is. So when you use clip correctly, they might tell you it's magazine. If I corrected them in the first place, shame on me for not explaining it well enough though.
 
"its so inaccurate"

I erks me a little when I hear people talking about how "inaccurate" certain weapons are - specifically the AK-47. A small portion of shooters out there have enough skill to actually see the difference between a AR15 platform's accuracy and an AK-47's accuracy, but most do not. For the most part, if you miss, you missed, not the weapon. 9 times out of 10 - the shooter is the most inaccurate part of the equation.
 
It doesn't always tick me off, but some Saiga-12 fans really like to make a big deal about their "magazine fed" shotguns and pondering why "magazine fed" shotguns aren't more prevalent. Most repeating shotguns are magazine fed, but from a tube magazine.

Also, breech loading doesn't mean a break action single shot.

People who make it a point to tell me that it's "magazine" and not "clip", or "rounds" and not "bullets".
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Yeah, this bugs me a lot as well.

Yeah, fine, it's technically correct. But it seems like everyone who makes a big deal about it has to be a jerk about it.

As often as not, it seems like a new poster makes an innocent thread in which they mention the dreaded "C Word". And then, it deflagrates to two pages of bickering about it until a lock without the original poster even getting a real answer.

Bugs the hell out of me. What a great way to welcome a new shooter to the firearm community.
 
I really dislike it when people refer to there firearms as a TOY. There are many aspects and personifications a firearm can take on, but the moment you call it a toy, even in jest, I think you are in danger.

My 2 cents.
 
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I dunno but everytime I hear about AR accessories, upper this lower that. I know I shouldn't but I can't help getting annoyed

Also at the range when someone downtalks another persons firearm. Do it in private! Not everyone can afford to spend a good chunk just for paper killing

This also applies to reverse situation, dont make fun of expensive guns and say how something cheaper can have same result. Its not your money. Be happy for everyone that shares a common interest!
 
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I used to be a real purist. I used quality equipment, had MOA capable weapons, trained obsessively, and looked down on the people who didn't have as much enthusiasm as I did.

"you need to get rid of that 30-30. Hunting squirrels/rabbits with a shotgun is for dorks..." and so forth. There I am, going into the field with a rifle capable of blowing a tick off of a deers butt at normal distances, and gee, distances were in the 200-300 feet range. the lethal kill zone is the size of a plate. Was the guy with the winchester really wrong after all?

I grew up. I'm at least a little more tolerant now. Sometimes.
 
I erks me a little when I hear people talking about how "inaccurate" certain weapons are - specifically the AK-47. A small portion of shooters out there have enough skill to actually see the difference between a AR15 platform's accuracy and an AK-47's accuracy, but most do not. For the most part, if you miss, you missed, not the weapon. 9 times out of 10 - the shooter is the most inaccurate part of the equation.
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I've always thought this too. It's amusing though, when novice shooters ask for advice on semi-autos and say something like "I've thought about an AK but hear they're very inaccurate."

But the same kind of people exist in every field, you've got people who will pride themselves in the fact their DSLR can shoot at 8FPS in drive mode which is sooooo much better than the 5FPS their buddy's camera is capable of, and yet the former never even shoots in drive mode.
 
A few things bug me, though I usually let them slide:

1. Hearing some schmoe babbling to a gun-store sales guy about how much he prefers the .45 over the 9mm or the .308 over the .223 when he doesn't have a penny to his name and isn't going to buy anything.

2. When people who are new to guns suddenly become experts on all things gun-related and start talking like they just separated from Delta Force.

3. My goofy brother-in-law who has "shot a lot of guns" but it still "uncomfortable having one in the house".
 
Someone who calls a magazine a "clip" or a round of ammunition a "bullet" around me gets a gentle correction and explanation of terms, not because I don't understand the speaker's intent, but because there are other folks who will judge them on their misuse of such terms.

The phrase I hate, and which provokes a bit of a lecture from me, is "The gun went off." I know I would be preaching to the choir here on TFL, so I will bring this post to a close.
 
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