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40 years ago or more, comments like these two women made would have been met with a storm of derision. WWII, Korean war, and Vietnam veterans were so numerous that the larger portion of our citizenry had at least a passing familiarity with weapons or had close contact with someone who did. Less and less of our population has any experience with firearms aside from the magic hollywood weapon that never hits the good guy (seriously), and never misses the bad guy, and seldom needs to be reloaded. The ignorance displayed by these political fugures would be comical if not for the fact that many people depend upon them to fill a leadership role. We need a way to educate these kind of people, even if they are anti-gun. At least they would have an educated opinion to form their anti-gun platform with. In a way I like having ill-informed opponents. But then again an opponent is an opponent regardless of where they get their beliefs. I wish the answer was as easy to identify as the problem is.......

bilgerat57

I sympathize, even while I'm rolling on the floor holding my side from laughing so hard. The wife ran for the bathroom, almost breaking her neck tripping over the dogs........ That kind of event is why I have 1. A glass door over the front of the fireplace, 2. a Boston terrier to send in first, and 3. A sheridan .20 caliber pump up pellet rifle.

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Dave2 wrote:
bilgerat57 wrote:Much as I hate to admit it, I have to agree with them on one point ONLY. I can't think of anything (organic) I would legally hunt with a .50 cal.
Squirrels... I hate those things. There're all cute and fluffy outside, but let one accidentally fall down your chimney & get trapped in your house while you're out of town for two weeks, and then see how you feel about them...
I know I shouldn't laugh at this, but I have this mental pic of a deranged rambo-type conducting a world-wide campaign of slaughter of all the squirrels of the world....
Also,
Thomas wrote: Source: XKCD by Randall Munroe
XKCD is possibly the best website on the entire Internet. I think Randall Munroe has managed to surpass even Bill Watterson.

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Dragonfighter wrote:
bilgerat57 wrote:
Can't remember the name of it.
I remember a Tom Selleck movie where he is a cop charged with handling robots gone haywire. The bad guy (Gene Simmons, I think) has special ammo for his gun which is not only heat seeking, but fire and forget capable. The bullets would whiz around 90 degree corners and explode like a mini grenade.......interesting special effects though....
Runaway. And it wasn't heat seeking but a DNA "Radar" so it would seek out your intended target. Those spidery robots were reeeeeaaaaaallllly creepy.

bilgerat57 wrote: Much as I hate to admit it, I have to agree with them on one point ONLY. I can't think of anything (organic) I would legally hunt with a .50 cal. <SNIP>
How about invading armies foreign and domestic.

You have the right of it. It's been so long since I saw the movie I had forgotten that.

Tongue-in-cheek question......How would a "domestic" army invade? *grin* I take your point, but I consider war to be a in a vastly differnt category from hunting. Hunting provides food and/or trophies (for those so inclined), war provides carrion, carnage, and destruction. Hopefully, in the end something good is attained, but not always.

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MeMelYup wrote:
bilgerat57 wrote:
VoiceofReason wrote:I am fascinated by this and can’t seem to let it go.

Do you think that someone gave her this information or do you think she just made it up? If anyone watches the informational channels on TV they should know that a “heat seeking bullet” does not exist. I don’t even remember seeing this in a movie, and Hollywood is notorious for taking liberties with physics and the properties of weapons.

Do you think she realizes how ignorant she appears to anyone that has ever served in the military and/or knows anything at all about firearms? Do you think she even cares?

Ignorance is not knowing about something. Stupid is not being aware you don’t know.

I just realized, we need a stupid smiley on here to use for politicians.
Nose pick.jpg

Can't remember the name of it.
I remember a Tom Selleck movie where he is a cop charged with handling robots gone haywire. The bad guy (Gene Simmons, I think) has special ammo for his gun which is not only heat seeking, but fire and forget capable. The bullets would whiz around 90 degree corners and explode like a mini grenade.......interesting special effects though....
Much as I hate to admit it, I have to agree with them on one point ONLY. I can't think of anything (organic) I would legally hunt with a .50 cal. So what? If I have a firearm does that mean I MUST hunt? I have to say that I am grateful for these women speaking out like they do....it makes it easier to spot idiocy when there is an audible alarm......kind of like the back-up alarm on garbage trucks....... BTW Love the smiley!
I'm sorry but I think you are way wrong. You are thinking about the 50 machinegun round which is used in """sniper rifles""". 50 cal and above is used in black powder rifles all the time. It was even used in some of the larger hunting rifles, ie. 500 nitro express. That statement makes it sound like the hunter that stated we don't need anything larger than a 5 round magazine. Never used more than 2 shots to kill a deer. I am not cutting you down, just statements like that in an unguarded minute are what the anti's tend to use as fact.

I was being a bit facetious there. I had a brief mental image of somebody taking a shot with a macmillan (sp?) or barrett at a squirrel from 900+ yards.... And yes I was referring to the .50 cal machine gun round. In the video they had the "sniper" rifle on the table and that was the cartridge on display. I do know and/or have heard of some who have hunted bear and elk with larger black powder calibers. My point about the .50 cal BMG round is that long distance target shooting is every bit as much of a valid reason to own and use a weapon as hunting is. So in a constructive direction, maybe some of their constituents should invite them to a match sometime and let them learn first-hand what they are talking about. They wouldn't dare turn down a "challenge" that could certainly be publicized to discredit them. Who knows, they might even convert (I'm not holding my breath on that one). At the very least they would see that we aren't a bunch of wild-eyed fanatics bent on anarchy and destruction......

bilgerat57

VoiceofReason wrote:I am fascinated by this and can’t seem to let it go.

Do you think that someone gave her this information or do you think she just made it up? If anyone watches the informational channels on TV they should know that a “heat seeking bullet” does not exist. I don’t even remember seeing this in a movie, and Hollywood is notorious for taking liberties with physics and the properties of weapons.

Do you think she realizes how ignorant she appears to anyone that has ever served in the military and/or knows anything at all about firearms? Do you think she even cares?

Ignorance is not knowing about something. Stupid is not being aware you don’t know.

I just realized, we need a stupid smiley on here to use for politicians.
Nose pick.jpg

Can't remember the name of it.
I remember a Tom Selleck movie where he is a cop charged with handling robots gone haywire. The bad guy (Gene Simmons, I think) has special ammo for his gun which is not only heat seeking, but fire and forget capable. The bullets would whiz around 90 degree corners and explode like a mini grenade.......interesting special effects though....
Much as I hate to admit it, I have to agree with them on one point ONLY. I can't think of anything (organic) I would legally hunt with a .50 cal. So what? If I have a firearm does that mean I MUST hunt? I have to say that I am grateful for these women speaking out like they do....it makes it easier to spot idiocy when there is an audible alarm......kind of like the back-up alarm on garbage trucks....... BTW Love the smiley!

bilgerat57

Somebody please tell me we did not allow these two women to reproduce?

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