What Are Your Pet Peeves RE:Guns???

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VictorLouis

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Magazine base plates that make them MUCH wider than necessary(unlike 1911 style).
Huge, ugly "blocks"of plastic to restrict a former hi-cap to 10 rounds.
Big "cuts" around the box for same!
Staked on, or integral front sights!
The expense of most modern firearms. :(
The cost of factory practice ammo????
"Parts must be fitted by the manufacturer on an exchange-basis only".
Novices w/finger on the trigger w/o muzzle downrange! :(
 
Being "swept" by someone's muzzle absolutely drives me crazy! I'm going to a gun show today, and am dreading the thought of how many times this is going to happen. I estimate I'll push away about a dozen barrels today; and then when you do this, they always get mad and say "It ain't loaded!". My usual reply is "Famous last words." Maybe I won't go to that show! Take Care- Dakotan
 
$1000+ guns with CHEAP mags! $1500+ "custom" guns that only give you ONE mag. On the other hand, if you're paying that much for a gun, you can afford to buy more mags. Still, if I'm not b*tching, I'm not happy :D :D

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Svt
1911 Addiction
"Rangers Lead the Way!"
 
$1000+ rifles that don't come with a case from the factory.
People who buy $600-1000 defense handguns but then won't spend $50-100 on a good holster to carry it or $30 a piece on quality magazines.
People who buy a >20 ounce gun in a serious caliber and then wonder why they can't shoot it accurately.
Crappy, creepy, loooong, hard DA trigger pulls on defense handguns.
 
Minimum wage hired help paid to answer the phone at the manufacturers and after market parts suppliers that know nohing about guns or gun laws. Their desire to agrue about availablity and laws governing parts seems to be in direct perportion to their lack of knowledge on the subject at hand. I wasn't calling to ask their advice I was calling for parts.
As the saying goes, "Don't worry about the mule, just load the &^#%^ wagon.'

Ordering a barrel for an 1894 Marlin and receiving imitation pearl grips for a High Standard Natchez. "Sure we'll take the part back. All you have to do is pay the shipping both ways and a small restocking fee."


And as an after thought that I am sure is shared by everyone here: My biggest firearm pet peeve is: Smith & $%*&^ Wesson
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Gunslinger

We live in a time in which attitudes and deeds once respected as courageous and honorable are now scorned as being antiquated and subversive.

[This message has been edited by Gunslinger (edited April 09, 2000).]
 
People who, having discovered I've studied weapons for years with hundreds of hours of training from top instructors, start telling me all about guns when they've never (or barely) even touched one, as if I'm the idiot and they're the expert.

Worst case of this are those trying to make stupid anti-gun laws.
 
A subsection of Carl's comment.

Tell someone you are a shooter and two have told me (to chest pound) that they once shot
a 1911 and it DAMNED NEAR tore their arm off.

I'm just an average guy of middle age and
physique. I still got two arms. Even after
a 44 magnum.

I also wish someone else would make a 223 semi-auto of reasonable price besides Ruger.

Also I wonder why a tiny P32 costs $230 and
a big fat Winchester 1300 costs the same.

I want a reasonable $100 mouse gun (yes I did
take economics but why deal with that).
 
1) What Dakotan already mentioned about muzzle sweep... worse, muzzle stare. This happened to me a couple of weeks ago at a gun shop. A guy was inspecting his handgun, and the muzzle was pointing right at my gut from about 3 feet away. Turns out he was a detective with the local sheriff's dept.

2) Uncased weapons at the range stowed behind the yellow line with actions closed. Also, people who get belligerent when confronted with the unsafe aspects of same.

3) The relatively poor quality of manufacture of modern firearms compared to those made even 30 years ago. These are for factory standard models.

4) The ever increasing use of plastic. Call me hidebound, but I like metal and wood. I do admit there are some advantages to synthetic stocks. :)

Cliff
 
Cliff:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Uncased weapons at the range stowed behind the yellow line with actions closed. Also, people who get belligerent when confronted with the unsafe aspects of same.[/quote]
Make that people who want to argue or get belligerent about ANY Range Safety violation. And act like they've never been briefed!

Whoo! 'Gets my panties bunched up!
 
People who carry and think they need to let the world know.

People who carry and brag about the stupid (and illegal) things they have done with their carry gun.
 
Muzzle sweep is a big one for me. For station #8 in skeet, this guy I no longer shoot with always turned around for the low house in a counter-clockwise direction, with the MUZZLE sweeping at waist level, LOADED! :mad: The same guy did the same thing with me at in indoor range w/ a .357Mag. I guess the key words are "guy I no longer shoot with".

Hungry firearms. They keep digesting all my ammo and I have to spend more money on their 'food'.
 
1. Forward slide serations on 1911's.
They are ugly and to me - useless.

2. Poor Triggers in Factory guns.
There is NO REASON for a gun company to be putting out these nasty triggers we are seeing. Heavy - Gritty and just plain sloppy. I dont care if its a DAO Pocket Rocket with no sights... whatever it is - it needs a good trigger.

3. Poor frame to slide fits... Many guns out there have nasty fits and slide rails only slighty worse than BLM managed roads. Gritty, binding, poorly fitted, sloppy sloppy sloppy.

4. @*#$*!#*!!~@!*!@#$*@#$

5. Same as 4.
 
1) Magazine disconectors

2) 10 round mags in a 16 round weapon

3) Plastic / Tactical Tupperware

4) Next Day Air that isn't :(

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Tom Whitman
SSgt, USAF
 
cleaning
cleaning the chamber of the AR 15
people who read a couple gun articles and know more than you do, even though they have not shot any
people who have not shot and can tell you how your tactics don't work (the last two directed at an in law)
stories of bravado that are actually confessions of the stupid (and probably did not happen, as an LEO I have heard my fair share)
Improper handling and care of firearms
The list is too long, I will hop off the soap box for the next in line.
 
Couple more....

Pinned sights

People who bash certain type/manufacturers of firearms and NEVER EVEN shot them.

People that buy guns that cost several hundred dollars to several thousand dollars and then go buy cheap ammo for it.

A person that buys expensive guns and gets a cheap holster for it.

People that buy expensive guns and get a cheap belt for their cheap holster... and on and on and on...

PLASTIC TRIGGERS on Colt 1991's

OVER EXAGGERATION of MIM parts

Gun magazines embellishing articles on firearms.

Gun magazines that have the same articles every other month.
 
1. Firearms laws that make the Internal Revenue Code look like fair and logical legislation.

2. Politicians who want a new law, without having a clue about existing laws.

3. Police chiefs who are willing to sacrifice me and my family to their illogical, politically-motivated arguments to disarm civilians.

4. People who don't appreciate that most folks involved with firearms are the salt of the earth. Including most firearms companys, who actually provide free owners manuals to people who didn't even buy their product new.

5. Firearms owners that don't give a rat's a** about the other person's freedoms, including their desire to own a shotgun / rifle / handgun, etc.

6. People who believe that 'semi-automatics' are automatic weapons.

7. People who believe that AK-47's and AR-15's are machine guns.

and, last but not least,

8. The fortunately rare bozo who flies in to TFL, wastes our time with his / her rudeness, and then flies away ... never realizing they have found the apparent epicenter of knowledgeable RKBA discussion on the 'net.
 
How about stopping power 'stories'. I was at an Airshow last weekend and the Army National Guard was there with an M2 .50, an M249 SAW and an M16.

The camo-clad warrior was telling me that the 5.56 round was so powerful that if it hit you in the pinky bone, it would reverberate up your arm through the bone structure, damaging everything along the way to scrambling your brain - killing you instantly.

Damn. That is one powerful cartridge.

Oh, and did I mention Marshall and Sanow?
 
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