Gun Etiquette

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?

I was afraid because I've never been around guns and suddenly I had to think of them, also because of how surprising the situation was to me, like someone said the word gun and all of a sudden there's a gun in front of me that I never realized was there

I don't understand the pool comment, is that guy posting in the wrong thread.

this guy was super nice not scary at all, it was the first time I met him, but he was like one of those kinds of people I got on with immediately

were you at the house of a gun magician

wow did they work for state farm?

Shaking my head at the USA right now. And you guys lol at us Brits.

you gave us benny hill. i thought we were supposed to lol at you brits.

FWIW, I'm really comfortable around guns but I'm pretty nervous around guns that I haven't checked to be unloaded myself. People are stupid, shit happens. I strongly dislike people handing me guns without dropping the magazine and clearing the chamber (or similar action for non-semiautos).

I'm single and the only things I own of value are guns and cameras, so I don't keep a loaded gun in my house, ever.

HAY GUYZ, I went round to my friend's house and he had his bottle of arsenic out on the table - would you be comfortable with that?

HAY GUYZ, I went round to my friend's house and he had a rabid dog chained to his sofa - would you be comfortable with that?

HEY GUYZ, I went round to my friend's house and he tied me to an altar while a sharpened pendulum descended towards my body - would you be comfortable with that?

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people who are like this about inanimate objects are weirder to me than gun nuts.

I don't understand the pool comment, is that guy posting in the wrong thread.

I think he's being existential about guns as objects and pointing out that, if you can't swim, pools might freak you out, which is frankly, why so many pools have protective gates or pool covers these days.

I have a question, could you use a gun to crack a nut open

I mean, by like shooting it

not using the butt of the gun

Milo, would you really be comfortable with a guy who had a table full of poisons in his living room? They're just inanimate objects, you know.

someone should make "gun nuts", like truck nuts

and this "loaded" thread goes off in 3, 2

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