Favorite guns

[Tenfooter]

Sadly , this is our youth today
Not all
Almost all

 

[West81]

My gun is my favorite gun

 

[Outside]

Yeah ok
Those guns
Not the 9 ft pointy 3 fin set up for Mavericks

I’m talking about other pleasures

What you carry ?
Or you’d love to carry
Or just love to try at the range ?

CCW- Sig 365.

 

[Tenfooter]

CCW- Sig 365.

yep, I heard so many good things and reviews about it!!. I was seriously thinking of getting one, the Macro model.
. But then the new remake of the FN 9 HP is so tempting.
so many good pistols around

 

[kookninja]

yep, I heard so many good things and reviews about it!!. I was seriously thinking of getting one, the Macro model.
. But then the new remake of the FN 9 HP is so tempting.
so many good pistols around

Unfortunately... we can't get this one in Cali...

Mildly addicted to 1911's of late...

 

[walkingtheplank]

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have this exact shirt - purchased it @ Goodwill in Viera like 2 months ago

 

[dingpatch]

This is my Weapon. This is my Gun. My Weapon is for killing. My Gun is for fun.

 

[dingpatch]

I don't carry but, I otherwise have everything I'd need, right where it needs to be, , , , , , and my neighborhood is decently armed too.

Had to empty the safe some years ago, , , , my late wife had some PTSD issues. She had a terrible TBI in June 2012 and was not home for 4 months; 1 month coma, 3 months rehab, and almost a year more of recovery at home. She had been having "issues" before the head injury but, afterwards, the locks were broken off of the "baggage" in her head!!! To begin with; at Sea Pines Rehab the head doctor and shrink asked me to come out into the hall?! They asked me if she had always had "these fantasies and hallucinations"? Crap!!! After everything else, what know? "Well, she says she is "this", and did "that", and has been "there", and etc." I'm like "Whew, I thought you were telling me she had lost her mind, , , , those are not fantasies or hallucinations. While she was in the AF, before we met, she was a Field Operative for The Agency!" Granted that what she did and saw at places that do not exist are perhaps, "far fetched". Anyway, she was on the verge of being "off the chain" and I had to de-weaponize the house. When you call 911 to have her sent to the drunk tank or otherwise to have her Baker Acted and when the Paramedics and LEO get to the door and ask you how you have been, , , , , , , and then they say hello to the dog, , , , , , , by NAME !!!!! After she passed I had a conversation with her first husband. He started with all the usual, short, condolences and such, but then said "I don't need to tell you this because you already know, she was a very strong and powerful woman." When we first met she was still shooting match with a 1911. At the range she was ambidextrous and generally shot with only one hand: "you will usually have something in the other hand, , , ," !! She liked to carry a 380 Walther. On the other side of her coin, she had been trained to protect Critical National Security with deadly force at hand !

Anyway, back on topic, , , , , I'd like to get a nice pump.

 

[dingpatch]

Then again to be more in line with the "carry" side of the conversation. A very good friend's good friend is kinda sorta into weapons. Went to a local gun show with both of them. My friend's friend went from table-to-table looking at pistols pointing out the ones he had and his most favorites to carry. That night at cocktail hour I asked his wife about his carries. She laughed and told me that he keeps a small safe in the bedroom just for "carries", she said she thinks he keeps 23 to 25 in the bedroom. "He changes carries like a woman changes purses, , , ,". LOL. And his wife? She likes her KAC SR-15, , , , , in all pink!! She loves hog hunting from choppers.

 

[Outside]

Few topics seem as polarizing as firearms. Too many, too few, or none, seems to depend on one's back round, location and experience. I feel for you trying to help your wife cope with the lingering trauma of serving. Sounds like you were the right person to be there for her support when everything was unraveling. In the Seventies, I had a friend who had served in Viet Nam, and we were walking along a street and talking about some nonsense (girls, cars..) when someone lit off a firecracker a short distance away. All I noticed was that he disappeared. He had dove to the ground and crawled under a nearby car. He emerged shaking after a time, and in a little while was back to being himself. I grew up in a family where all uncles on either parent's side had served in one branch of the military or another, and it seemed expected that I would learn how to handle a firearm. I was eight when our family was upstate New York and was taught how to safely shoot an old single shot .22 rifle under the supervision of my dad and his oldest brother. Hitting an empty soup can on a stump at the base of a hill was a right of passage for me and each of my cousins. It used to be that talking about guns at work in N.Y. was as unthinkable as discussing religion or abortion. I've been somewhat surprised lately, that many patients have brought up the topic of firearm ownership for self protection. One older widow was concerned when her neighbors home (another older woman) had been the target of a home invasion. With rising crime and unprovoked violence displayed nightly on the local news, she opted for a 20 gauge shotgun and some training. She practices regularly and refuses to be a helpless victim. I have a 9mm Sig Sauer 365 for carry at work, still have the old model #68 .22 that I learned to shoot with, and not too many others. I believe that what these things come down to, are tools for a job. Is it for self defense? Or someone like the fellow from rural Pennsylvania I was talking with yesterday, telling me about hunting deer in his state? Is it for the widow looking for security in her home? The older southern fellows that I was skeet shooting with on Sunday who can turn an orange clay bird to dust on every shot; with ornate shotguns that cost as much as one of my cars? (mine was $184 in college) Is it people going to the range to clear out their mind from daily distractions, and focus on -one bullet, one target, one moment, like I did shooting on my schools rifle team? Maybe a kid learning to hit a soup can with his dad. New York is essentially a gun-free zone and if that was a effective strategy should be a murder-free zone. The topic of an outright ban on guns and bullets is patently absurd. If that were such an effective solution then maybe we should outlaw illegal narcotics. How about outlawing impaired operation of a motor vehicle? Too obtuse? Lets make murder a crime and then no one will do it. Without being able to look inside the hearts and minds of other people, this is a fool's errand. Criminals, by definition, do not obey the law, are not affected by bans or restrictions, and like the drugs that they seem to have no trouble getting and supplying to others, will always be able to arm themselves. Punish the operator committing a crime with the gun. This thread is certainly off topic to surfing, but since it seems that considered , respected, and serious communication about difficult topics can be tolerated and discussed here, I thought I'd post my $.02 opinion, although my wife says this was $.20