Gun Etiquette

I probably would have asked to look at one of them, the rifle most likely. Ppl that far along the gun nut spectrum always like it when you admire their firearms.

it's pretty antisocial to carry a gun around as it is so i'd say staring at it would be the lesser of evils in that case xxp

it's pretty antisocial to carry a gun around as it is

I'm pretty sure some ppl in Arizona might disagree

it's pretty antisocial to live in arizona

yeah m white otm the guy who shot that congresswoman was definitely a crazy person

p much if you are a concealedcarrier = you are a crazy person

I didn't ask this fella if I could look at his gun up close.

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I probably would have asked to look at one of them, the rifle most likely. Ppl that far along the gun nut spectrum always like it when you admire their firearms.

uh. this situation doesnt sound like its really anywhere on the gun nut spectrum to me, dude happened to have guns out when someone stopped by unexpectedly, its not like he was brandishing them at the mailman or something.

Fair enough, but I wouldn't have asked, I would have put my guns away. Guns go in safes or lockers or drawers or racks at the very least. Leaving guns strewn about is nagl imho and indicates a certain amount of gun nuttery.

so he was like, just admiring them for his own pleasure? Xp

I think it's pretty cool to leave guns out in the open, it should be done in more places, like on people's lawns, at the starbucks, at the post office, in the courthouse... a person should never go wanting for a gun when he needs one

this is the shotgun room, i mean the living room

personally I always make sure there is a gun out on every table or bed in my house, just in case somebody drops by unexpectedly and wants to admire one of my guns

if any of you guys want to admire my guns right now please come on by, you'll find some guns in the mailbox, in the flower pot, the oven

"I just like the feel of my guns when I pull them out of the freezer."

All end tables should have one of these:

http://www.carryconcealed.net/Websites/carryconcealed/Images/Reviews/fastholsterc.jpg

I've been known to have a gun or two out on my desk on occasion - if I've been to the range and haven't been back to my parents' house to put them in the safe or w/e.

I sent a friend a picture of my desk once - Tom Waits CDs, some depressing book and a .44 Magnum revolver. His response was "suicide starter kit?"

Do you clean every time you shoot?

You know, the more that I think about this the more I realize that my gun nut friends in high school all had various guns around and they assumed that they were all cool with it so everybody else should be too. I never really said anything about it but it was foreign to my family. All my grandparents had guns but they were never, ever on display. I guess it's a regional/generational thing.

Pretty much never. Cleaning guns is generally unnecessary, especially if it's a Glock/M&P/etc.

back when i shot competetively i cleaned the guns after every match/practice session, but that was long distance rifle so accuracy is kinda super key.

what if you get saliva in the barrel

wha?

he said "what if you get salvia in the barrel"

He is trying to imply he makes out with his rifle but no pic no cred.

what would happen if you took two guns and put the barrles end-to-end and shot them at the same time

why do that when you can just suppress a sneeze and a fart at the same time

man iatee, for a guy who doesnt know anybody who knows anything about guns, you sure do seem to know a lot about people who know a lot about guns.

tbh I kind of want to learn about guns now, I am fascinated by them as real things rather than kind of knee-jerkedly disgusted by the concept of them

who is proven by booze science

what would happen if you shot a gun at somebody and they shot a gun at you at the same time but their gun was bigger and the bullets were on the same trajectory but heading towards each other

would the bullet from their gun hit the bullet from your gun

would the two bullets form a super bullet

how many people would die

I was saving up my pennies to buy a gun, but I accidentally bought a guitar instead. Need more pennies.

i don't think there's anything especially wrong with the situation in the o.p.

but if there was a scheduled thing where people were coming over to a house, yeah, put the guns away.

forget about the penis build your own gun!

could you make a gun out of pennies

or a gun that shoots pennies

what happens if you threw a gun that shot pennies off the empire state building and then in midair the gun shot a penny at the ground

would anybody die

yeah, did he say why he was in the guy's house?

"oh shit my guitar's out hope that's ok"

this was an unscheduled thing

ok I broke into his house

if you just show up to a guy's house, it's his house, so what.

if he's having people over it's a little odd. there's gradations obv. "sure stop by, i'm just doing some stuff around the house (incl. cleaning my guns)"

if this person is the type to sit around watching tv with a pistol in his hand, that's a little tony montana/john milius i guess, but it doesn't sound like that.

xps

I'm related to a lot of enthusiastic gun owners and outside of hunting season when there are bound to be rifles propped up around the house (assuming no kids around - I am also related to staunch gun safety advocates), I would find it surprising if my relatives had their guns out laying around in the living room.

^^ yeah. My parents babysit my niece now, and Dad has gotten (rightly) paranoid about a newly mobile two-year-old poking under beds and in closets, so every gun is locked in a cabinet and each gun has a trigger lock.

What if he builds his own guns with precious metals and he's polishing them while watching the Planet Earth series.

what if your neighbor has a pool and you can't swim.

ok so after he said that he would put the guns away if I was uncomfortable around them, and after I just was kind of like "give me a minute to think about the concept of guns" we both just kind of sat there quietly, watching king of queens, and he looked at me after a minute and was like, "this is something people with guns should do right, offer to put them away? I dont really know how this all is supposed to work, I grew up around guns, but I would assume that someone might this this was weird" and, because I was really stoned and kind of afraid and wanted to stop talking about the guns, to stoned to talk even really, I was like oh no it's ok I still have to think, and then he turned back to king of queens and after a minute he was like "man I don't even know what's going on in this episode" and I was like "yeah I know right"

and someone else in the room was like "yeah me too, and I've been paying attention"

sounds like you lived a chapter in a DeLillo novel.

why were you afraid?

that's kind of why i wanted to know about etiquette from people around the us, because the whole situation was kind of up in the air for both of us

i think i object more to the nexus of thc, kevin james and leah rimini than to unsafe firearms

is this guy scary?

yes i have heard of these parents who do not allow toys with anything weapon-y at all. don't know what to say about that other than i am glad my parents were not like that.

I was not allowed to have toy guns. But when I was in second or third grade, my dad taught me how to shoot an actual rifle. Also he used to stand on our back porch and shoot squirrels for dinner.

See, I think that's the ideal, correct attitude to teach your kids about guns. By the time I came into my son's life, he had already amassed a little arsenal of toys, so trying to start over again toy gun-less wasn't really in the cards.

how suburban was your home back when your dad used to shoot squirrels from the porch? My personal perceptions of how suburban/rural our neighborhood is factor into why I think it's sort of hilarious. : )

maybe you should start a thread about your perceptions of your neighborhood

ahhhhh, that came out all wrong. my point being that my town feels pretty suburban to me now. And I'm not at all bothered by the hunting of squirrels for meat. I think it's probably at least reasonable meat and I'd love to try it. But we all live on pretty small plots of land in our neighborhood, such that the discharging of a weapon in your backyard seems weird to me, is all.

entirely not meaning to stir up shit in the way that iatee implies, and if so. I'm sorry.

cool thread, toys shaped like weapons are the best but irl guns should be banned forever, even so, if a guy wants to chill with his guns out nbd it's just hat you have a substantially higher chance of dying in that house than in most houses

maybe you should start a thread about your perceptions of your neighborhood

― iatee, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 04:56 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

we should do this!, i have such a ridiculous ad-hom view of my neighbourhood (/town), i feel like the way you feel about a place exemplifies the kind of difficulty of separating your empirical experiences w/the fact that you still can't generalise about a place because you know like 0.001% of it & its inhabitants, and are usually judging it on the basis of very personal experiences

i.... don't think you can really kill a squirrel with a BB gun? sort of have to think he was using a .22

squirrels are fucking hard to shoot, btw, props to gun dad

although negative props for maiming squirrels with an underpowered firearm

how suburban was your home back when your dad used to shoot squirrels from the porch? My personal perceptions of how suburban/rural our neighborhood is factor into why I think it's sort of hilarious. : )

We lived in a housing development with tree-named lanes and a pool and a community center but plopped in the middle of rural swampland in southern Delaware (I had a loooong bus ride to school and it was a 15-20 minute drive to the grocery store). So not suburbs, since there was no urban area, but not really rural, either, since if my father aimed low, he would have taken out a neighbor's back window/cat/child. So yes, it was actually very hilarious (in hindsight. At the time it was awful because I hated squirrel and the whole endeavor drove my mom crazy).

xxp: Naw, you can kill small animals (maybe up to a squirrel?) with a bb gun. I think I would have heard a .22; this was right down the street.

xp: Okay, so that sounds like a similar dynamic as I've got here (just south of Annapolis, MD).

although negative props for maiming squirrels with an underpowered firearm

― his venerable escutcheon, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:22 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

great sentence

xp probably very similar, especially given the proximity and shared swampiness!

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^^^^ best concealed weapons

it's p disturbing seeing that because when i saw the one about the cats - http://dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=95 - i was hoping that the pics had just been sourced from some astute google image searches. but like i guess he actually has a bunch of guns around. and cages.

The cage is a humane animal trap - v common.

ah okay. still though. the covering it in red sauce &c, & the having a bunch of guns. idk. maybe i should just be saluting the effort.

you should be saluting the stars and bars itt imo

My elementary school didn't care that I brought my pellet rifle to school for a 4th grade Thanksgiving play, circa 1990, along with one of my grandfather's pipes - kind of mind-boggling now, since either would probably get a kid in serious shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWzgzby_hM