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Worst Gun Myths Ever

Civil RightsCivil Rights Member Posts: 440 ✭✭✭
edited January 2008 in General Discussion
and by "worst" i mean how does anyone actually believe them. the best one ever....and i have heard it alot.....is "an unloaded gun can still fire a bullet". this belief has also extended to toy guns. i always wonder how these things get started and how people continue to perpetuate them
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  • SuburbanNoizeSuburbanNoize Member Posts: 10,142
    edited November -1
    An unloaded AK lying on the floor of your closet is the most dangerous weapon in the world.
  • SteyrAUGSteyrAUG Member Posts: 23 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A bayonet lug, pistol grip, folding stock and flash hider make bullets far more dangerous than those fired from hunting rifles.
  • Civil RightsCivil Rights Member Posts: 440 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by SteyrAUG
    A bayonet lug, pistol grip, folding stock and flash hider make bullets far more dangerous than those fired from hunting rifles.


    good one.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    GUNS KILL PEOPLE!![:0]
  • River RatRiver Rat Member Posts: 9,022
    edited November -1
    Let's just post photos of Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and use 'em for dart boards. After all, they are the gun experts who generated most of these myths.

    Here's another one: exposing young boys to guns will make them violent.
  • SteyrAUGSteyrAUG Member Posts: 23 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Criminals, who are by definition "law breakers", will make an exception when it comes to gun control laws.
  • Warpig883Warpig883 Member Posts: 6,459
    edited November -1
    WD40 will ruin a gun
  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this one nerd was convinced that "M16's are the most powerful rifle there is! ...because the Marines use them!"

    (...idiot...)
  • SuburbanNoizeSuburbanNoize Member Posts: 10,142
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
    this one nerd was convinced that "M16's are the most powerful rifle there is! ...because the Marines use them!"

    (...idiot...)


    However a marine and his rifle, is the most dangerous weapon in the world!
  • Dakota308Dakota308 Member Posts: 4,162
    edited November -1
    i agree with "guns kill people" beacuase with out guns we would use knives, clubs, cars, bare fists if necessary
  • fishermanbenfishermanben Member Posts: 15,370
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Civil Rights
    ..."worst" ....is "an unloaded gun can still fire a bullet".

    I don't see that as a myth, I see that as a perpetuation of the rule that you should always treat every gun as though it is loaded.

    Ben
  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,560 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guns aren't dangerous Liberals are[:D][}:)]
  • slipgateslipgate Member Posts: 12,741
    edited November -1
    "If all the guns were gone, this world would be a much better place!"
  • Dakota308Dakota308 Member Posts: 4,162
    edited November -1
    the color black makes it "evil"
  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    worst myth ?
    ..gun control means less crime
    ...registration of guns means people wont use guns for crime
    ...if you have a system where you have to have a gun licence to have guns it stops people with a criminal history or people with mental ilness from getting guns
    ...if all guns are banned there will be no more robberies or murders or domestic violence
    ...if you have guns you are a potential mass murderer...
    ...the list goes on and on and on...
    ...and every gun owner in my country hears things like this every day from ignorant people and worst of all from ignorant stinking politicians!...
  • LesWVaLesWVa Member Posts: 10,490 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fshfndr
    Guns aren't dangerous Liberals are[:D][}:)]



    The post was Worst Gun Myths Ever
    Maybe your reply should have read..

    Guns are dangerous Liberals are our friends..
  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Glocks can go through a metal detector undetected.[^]
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If people don't have guns then they will be incapable of committing murder.
  • SuburbanNoizeSuburbanNoize Member Posts: 10,142
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cubslover
    Glocks can go through a metal detector undetected.[^]


    That would be the Glock 2!
  • beantownshootahbeantownshootah Member Posts: 12,776 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So many bad gun myths:

    1. Hollowpoint ammunition has magical stopping power.

    2. Any handgun has magical stopping power.

    3. .44 magnum is most powerful handgun in world (wasn't even true when Dirty Harry said it).

    4. Glock (or any common polymer gun) defeats metal detector.

    5. Semi-automatic military-APPEARING rifles are
    a. commonly used in crimes.
    b. have no use in civilian hands

    6. Anything to do with "cop-killer" bullets. (IE to my knowledge there has never been a documented case of an American police officer being killed with armor piercing bullets).

    7. Anything to do with .50 cal rifles. (IE there has never been a documented case of any violent crime being committed with one in the USA. . .who the heck is going to rob a bank with a four foot long 30 pound $3000 rifle?)

    8. Guns are a common cause of accidental deaths in children (as one of many examples, far more kids down in swimming pools every year in the USA).

    9. Guns holding 10 rounds are good. . .guns holding 11 or more rounds are bad.

    etc. . .
  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "The Japs can use our ammunition but we can't use theirs."
    "The Germans can use our ammunition but we can't use theirs."
    "Only load five chambers in a single action revolver."
    "The Japanese service rifle is not a piece of junk."
    "The AR is a great service rifle."
    "The P08 Luger was a great service pistol."
    "A heavy caliber revolver is sufficient for a charging Grizzly or western Black Bear."
    "Keep an empty chamber in a carry automatic and on a defensive slide action shotgun."
  • elkoholicelkoholic Member Posts: 5,130
    edited November -1
    Hunters don't need to worry about the 2nd amendment.
  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,278 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A .50 cal will take down a jetliner 4 miles away


    Photo removed due to size.
  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 18,801
    edited November -1
    "Glock Perfection"
  • FatstratFatstrat Member Posts: 9,147
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by v35
    "The Japs can use our ammunition but we can't use theirs."
    "The Germans can use our ammunition but we can't use theirs."
    "Only load five chambers in a single action revolver."
    "The Japanese service rifle is not a piece of junk."
    "The AR is a great service rifle."
    "The P08 Luger was a great service pistol."
    "A heavy caliber revolver is sufficient for a charging Grizzly or western Black Bear."
    "Keep an empty chamber in a carry automatic and on a defensive slide action shotgun."



    Have to disagree w/you on a couple here.
    Only 5 rounds in a classic Colt style SA revolver was and is a good safety practice IF you carry it in a holster while riding horseback..
    And not all Japanese Arisaka's were junk. In fact MOST of them aren't. While the Arisaka is of plain jane utiltarian design, at the time of WW-2 it was the strongest bolt action rifle action in the world.
    The myth was largely started by U.S. troops picking up Japanese trainer rifles from Arsenal stock piles (not battlefield pickup) after the war. Rifles that were intended to be used w/BLANKS ONLY, and clearly marked as such IN JAPANESE. And then attempting to fire live rounds in them w/predictable results.
    And to a lessor degree by the "Last Ditch" T-99 Arisaka's that were produced by Japanese cottage industry after the U.S. had bombed Japanese arsenals/Mfg centers. While these late war rifles are obviously of much less quality MFG than the earlier produced rifles and there have been reported failures. It is a very low percentage.
    Your statement is akin to saying that ALL 1903 Springfields are junk because some have brittle receivers.
  • CHEVELLE427CHEVELLE427 Member Posts: 6,750
    edited November -1
  • fastcarsgofastfastcarsgofast Member Posts: 7,179
    edited November -1
    Only law enforcement and govt. officials should have guns.
  • SteyrAUGSteyrAUG Member Posts: 23 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cubslover
    Glocks can go through a metal detector undetected.[^]


    Only a Glock 7 but they cost more than you make in a month.

    [:D]
  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by SteyrAUG
    quote:Originally posted by cubslover
    Glocks can go through a metal detector undetected.[^]


    Only a Glock 7 but they cost more than you make in a month.

    [:D]


    yippie-kai-yay
  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As someone who plays WWII shooter games, I choose that a scoped Springfield or Mauser can kill a soldier in one shot, whereas you need 2-3 shots to kill same soldier with a Garand of unscoped Mauser [xx(]
    Have that BS is just about every computer game I've played, annoying as hell.


    side note: I think that the "even an unloaded gun can shoot" phrase is a saying to make rookies treat all firearms as if they were loaded, lest they decide to dryfire an "empty" gun that actually has one in the chamber [V]
  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've always liked "Putting your finger in the barrel of a gun pointed at you will cause the gun to explode in the shooters face and save you from being shot"

    There are a probably a lot of other theories seen in cartoons that will work though if someones just willing to give them a try.
  • charliemeyer007charliemeyer007 Member Posts: 6,579 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's a blank right?! Brandon Lee
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 31,616 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Assault" rifle
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,143 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Someone on these forums owes me a new laptop screen because this thread stretched the hell out of it.[:(!]
  • FatstratFatstrat Member Posts: 9,147
    edited November -1
    How about the "A-team" type movie stuff where bullets bounce harmlessly off nearly anything you might hide behind.[:D]
  • KSUmarksmanKSUmarksman Member Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Locust Fork
    "Assault" rifle



    I WISH that the MP-44 Sturmgewehr was a myth,
    then all of those nazi-loving kiddies who play "Call of Duty" multiplayer would have to use a Mauser or MP-40 instead of their cheater gun and I would kill more of them with my trusty Garand [:D]
  • jtmarine0831jtmarine0831 Member Posts: 908 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by SuburbanNoize
    quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
    this one nerd was convinced that "M16's are the most powerful rifle there is! ...because the Marines use them!"

    (...idiot...)


    However a marine and his rifle, is the most dangerous weapon in the world!


    You got that right![;)]
  • ZebraZebra Member Posts: 5,762
    edited November -1
    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,682 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Zebra

    A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone

    Thats not a myth but the truth
  • v35v35 Member Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Some urban legends die hard.
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