Do you have any guns?

[The New Blood]

Here are mine:

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t294/DriveV8Faster/mesexy.jpg

Aren't they lovely?

Post what you have!

[Jason's Storm]

Firearms, no. Muscles, yes. ;)

~JS

[Uncle Hugo]

No guns, plenty of knives and a couple of machetes though.

[Nancy Thompson]

Use to but not anymore

[Rich]

I don't own any guns. I am not against them, I just don't have a use for one. I have enough useless shit laying around. I do own a machete and a few cool knives.

[The Dark Vampire]

No
Not allowed them in the UK but wouldn't own one if it was legal

[Titan]

Not at the current moment I don't.

[BlakeTyner]

Well, you can look at my location and tell that I've probably got a few. I don't have many pics handy, primarily my pride and joy - my Walther P99AS in .40 S&W. I have a Concealed Handgun License, so I carry it everywhere.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/BlakeTyner/BlakePics005-1.jpg


http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/BlakeTyner/gun.jpg


http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/BlakeTyner/gunknife1.jpg


Brother's M4 with C-mag:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b156/BlakeTyner/CMAG3.jpg


Others include:

Handguns -
Colt .38 Police Special
Ruger .357 Magnum Speed Six
Taurus 24/7 9mm SemiAuto
Cap and ball replica .50 caliber

Rifles-
Marlin 30-30 (scoped)
Marlin .22 breakaway SemiAuto
Higgins model 31 .22 (scoped) SemiAuto
Remington .243 Win. (scoped) SemiAuto
Sportmaster model 512 .22 Bolt Action

Shotguns-
Browning Citori Plus Over/Under 12 Gauge Breakopen
Mossberg 500 12 gauge Pump Action
Browning Magnum 12 gauge SemiAuto
Eastern Arms 20 gauge Breakopen

[The New Blood]

Those are really nice Blake! How much did you pay for that P99AS? I would like to get a semi-automatic handgun in the near future. Its hard to choose one though.

[BlakeTyner]

Thanks, TNB. I like that revolver in your pic...is it a cap and ball, too? I can kind of make out a pushrod, but I can't tell if it's decorative or not - and I can't tell whether or not those are nipples on the cylinder. It looks a little shorter than mine (mine's the Navy model.)

I've actually had 2 P99's. Both had to be ordered, as no gun shop stocks them around here. The first one got here and it turned out to be a QA model - QuickAction - essentially a Glock-style half-cocked striker. I carried it for about a year, then sold it and bought my AS. Going through a local mom-and-pop gun shop, you're probably looking at about $650. I sold the QA for $515, barely used, and it went very fast.

If you go through the internet, I'd say a decent price for a P99 would be in the 450-500 range, used. Probably about 550-600 new, for an AS (AntiStress) system. If you're not familiar with it, the AS is like the traditional Single Action/Double Action. When you press the decocker button up top, the striker decocks and the trigger pull is long and heavy. If you cock it (pull the slide back about 1/4 inch) it's in Single Action and the trigger pull is short and light. If you start in Double Action, all your subsequent shots will be in Single Action. The QA model is always half-cocked, so you get the exact same trigger pull each time. There is also a P99DAO or P990 (same thing) which is Double Action Only. They're even less popular than the QA.

I absolutely recommend the Walther, either in 9mm or .40, as it is an outstanding combat weapon. They're a little more expensive than Glock, but the ergonomics are much, much better. The ability to change out backstraps on the grip allows you to fit the gun to your hand. I'd go so far as to say that the P99 is superior to the H&K USP.

Smith and Wesson also has a version, the SW99. The frames are made by Walther in Germany, but the slide and barrel are made here by S&W. Functionally, it's the same gun. The SW99 is less expensive, and there's no real quality difference between them, so that may be something to look into.

~Blake

[The New Blood]

yeah, my revolver uses nipples and a pushrod. Its .44 caliber. Not sure what its actually called, my dad gave it to me. Its actually considered a replica, and does not require a handgun permit to own, but it shoots just like any other.

I'll definetly look into the Walther and the S&W one you mentioned. Man, I really gotta save some money. All this partying lately has been totally killing my checking account.

[On a Pale Horse]

This should actually be in the SPORT DEN like the old thread...

Ive got a Beretta M9.

[Lammert]

Guns are banned here in Holland, and I'm glad they don't sell them here...

I think owning a gun makes no sence, like you're ever going to use them... This is one of my problems with the US.

No offence.

[The New Blood]

Guns are banned here in Holland, and I'm glad they don't sell them here...

I think owning a gun makes no sence, like you're ever going to use them... This is one of my problems with the US.

No offence.

hey, to each his own.;)

I like them because they are cool to look at, fun to shoot, and I know if anyone breaks into my apartment they will regret it right away.

[BlakeTyner]

Mine get plenty of use: trap/skeet shooting, competitive target matches with both long guns and handguns, hunting, and just plinking in the back yard. I hope I never have to use one in defense, but if I must...

But above and beyond that, it's a right guaranteed me, right alongside free speech. In fact, the 2nd Amendment is the only one that guarantees our ability to practice the other freedoms. It's difficult to explain, particularly to an outsider, and I could never do it as well as the framers, so I'll let them speak for me.

"I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people, except for a few public officials." -George Mason, 1788

"Whereas civil-rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as military forces, which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." -Tench Coxe, commenting on the Bill of Rights

"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -Samuel Adams

"[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." -James Madison, The Federalist Papers

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive." -Noah Webster

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." -Thomas Jefferson

"The right of the people to keep and bear ... arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country ..." -James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress ... to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.... " -Samuel Adams

[On a Pale Horse]

hey, to each his own.;)

I like them because they are cool to look at, fun to shoot, and I know if anyone breaks into my apartment they will regret it right away.

Yeah, whenever I see on the news about a burglarly turned murder, home invasion, rape etc.... I am glad to know my Berreta is nearby.

[Lammert]

Thats the bad thing about the US, everybody can buy a gun... So its no wonder that you guys have all those shootings happening at schools.

[Kat]

Used to have a couple. Sold them though.

I do enjoy skeet shooting and target shooting.

[A. Remin' D.]

No way.

Guns are only trouble.

[NETRA]

Blake, isn't that similar to the gun 007 used? I know his was a PPK in the Fleming novels.

Thats the bad thing about the US, everybody can buy a gun...

Based on what I've seen on ESPN, even Europeans use guns in certain sports. They seem to know there are uses for them which don't involve cold-blooded murder.

As for me, I bought a tiny 38 and I admit it's not for sport. In my case it's for protection . My apartment was broken into in the middle of the night and then I began to get calls from someone claiming he was "keeping his eye on me." (The police traced the calls to various pay phones.)

That experience was a few years ago and I've moved since then but it created a phobia in me. I'd awake screaming. Call me irrational if you wish (most phobias are irrational) but a cop friend of mine suggested that I buy a 38 and take a course on how to use it . . . so I did. The course was therapeutic in an empowering sort of way and I discovered I'm not such a bad shot. :) Now I sleep better.

[BlakeTyner]

Blake, isn't that similar to the gun 007 used? I know his was a PPK in the Fleming novels.


A girl who knows not only the Bond novel gun, but also identified the P99 as his current weapon?

Flat out, let's get married.

Bond started out with a Beretta 418 in Casino Royale (the novel) and in From Russia, With Love (novel) it gets caught in his holster, nearly costing him his life. From then on, starting with Dr. No, bond carries the Walther PPK.

The PPK remained until 1997, when it was replaced with the Walther P99, in Tomorrow Never Dies (film). Pierce Brosnan carried it throughout the rest of his tenure, and it was worked into the novels as well. When the new Casino Royale was filmed, Bond kept his P99.

In my avatar it's actually the silenced gun that Daniel Craig is holding, though the image is too small to actually see any detail.

The only difference between Bond's and mine is that he carries a 9mm, which has machined scallops on the barrel hood, and mine is .40 S&W, which doesn't (since the .40 is a zippier round, the slide needed to have more mass.) Both of them are the AS action.

~Blake

[Speck]

I have a few rifles & shotguns at my parents house. I'm planning to buy a handgun in the near future, but haven't decided on what kind yet.

[Psychoticninja]

No guns owned ...

[Kat]

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/seanhughes2k3/BenelliShotgun.gif
I have always wanted a Benelli shotgun or a Tec-9 http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Auto-Pistols/Intratec_TEC9.jpg

Tec-9's are banned in Canada though.

Heckler and Koch also have some awesome guns!

[zach82]

I currently have 15 guns; I've bought, sold, and traded a lot over the years. I imagine if I still had every gun I'd ever picked up I'd have about 30 or 40 right now.

Here's a picture of some of them I took like a year ago, there's only 13 of 15 in the pic.

http://www.zcm82.net/2006moving1.JPG

[NETRA]

A girl who knows not only the Bond novel gun, but also identified the P99 as his current weapon?

LOL. Honestly I didn't know his current weapon. That's why I asked. I know he used a Walther PPK in the novels because it's mentioned over and over. I wanted to read CASINO ROYALE before the movie came out so that, just for once, I could be that annoying person in the theater who says, "The book was better." Then I got hooked and started scouring used bookstores for the rest. I read them out of order :confused: which was an odd experience but still fun. My favorite Fleming is "You Only Live Twice" and the short story "A Quantum of Solace" (which actually disturbed me.)

Anyway, yeah, judging by your avatar, I suppose it's no surprise that you own his gun of choice.

[NETRA]

LOL Zach82 . . . With the bare walls and the stripped down bed covered in guns, your photo has a rather "cult leader" quality to it. ;)

[zach82]

Well, I was in the process of moving when I took the picture. That's why the walls and bed are bare. I had just pulled them out of the safes to move them; I don't normally just keep them on a bed ;)

[Shoesalesman]

Other than firing some in Air Cadets as a teenager, I've never put my hands on a gun.

[NETRA]

What is Air Cadets? Is that like an ROTC thing?

[Kat]

What is Air Cadets? Is that like an ROTC thing?

http://www.cadets.ca/intro_e.asp
Here is your answer.... :D

[Shoesalesman]

What is Air Cadets? Is that like an ROTC thing?

Yeah, it's like that, kind of. Kept me from trouble and I learned alot of self discipline and citizenship.