[falsedan]

So there has been some gun talk in the Vanity Photo thread.

In Australia we had a bad shooting incident, so there are substantial restrictions on types of guns available & licensing compared to the USA.

I am jonesing for an FN Five-seveN (man those capitals look stupid), but importing one anywhere could be a struggle.

Post images of your favourite firearms designer.
I saw him first.
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[Brooks]

I own one o'these silly objects:



Fuck Knows who cooked it up, but I'd shake his/her/its paw.

[falsedan]

I would like to draw attention to the serendipitous alignment of your avatar & the firearm!
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[Broco]

Let's get this out of the way:

[insert rabid gun control troll post here]

[falsedan]

Oh man Sam Fisher's sidearm is a FN Five-seveN. :frothing demand down:

Broco you make some good points I guess we can all agree to disagree and post more Smith/Wesson slash.
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[km]

I want a P90C. That rifle is just basically awesome in every way. I imagine going to the range with it would be very satisfying (though expensive :/)

If I can remember which was the right model, I want a Beretta Xtrema2 for trap & skeet.
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[Adilegian]

I love bolt action rifles. The Mosin Nagant is my favorite.
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[Toups]

[EmX]

What exactly is gun control's agenda anyways?

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[psiga]

[Mr. Business]

[falsedan]

[Ashura]

I think Richard Dean Anderson is one of those dudes who loves guns but believes in gun control. He said in some interview that he absolutely detests real guns with live fire, but loved any of the scenes where he'd run around in Stargate shooting blanks at things.

Something like that. If I'm miss-quoting The MacGyver, please correct me.

[CubaLibre]

[SplashBeats]

[Toptube]

I want a 9mm beretta.

they look cool

have a reputation of being a dependable gun.

and they hold a lot of bullets.

but it probably won't happen for awhile as owning a gun is not even close to a priority, and I'd have to keep in stored and registered in the armory anyways.

[CubaLibre]

Beretta 92's are actually notoriously unreliable. Weak springs. Everyone in the military complained when we switched out from the 1911A to comply with NATO standards.

They do look very cool though and have a classic cache attached to their use in every John Woo movie ever.

But, if you want a "home defense" gun you're better off going for a .40 or a .45.

ALSO, the assault weapons ban mandates a maximum of a 10+1 clip size, so the advantage of the smaller 9mm round (more bullets) is completely negated. You'd have to get a pre-ban Beretta, which is admittedly not very hard at all (there are like bazillions of them) but is somewhat of a pain in the ass. More importantly, the assault weapons ban has expired recently so that restriction is temporarily lifted. I wouldn't expect it to last, though.
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[internisus]

[CubaLibre]

[Krabjuice Gaiden]

Unless you live in america, I'm rather sure that the FN 57 is a rather prohibited firearm. Regardless, no variant of the P90 falls under any currently easily obtainable category. At least in Canada.
They'd make terrible match guns, anyways. Puny bullet = puny hole. Can't sneak 10's with .224 caliber holes.
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[CubaLibre]

But since mine says, Desert Eagle,

point-five-oh,

that should precipitate your balls into shrinkin.
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[internisus]

Great flick.

[CubaLibre]

For the curious: caliber is the circumference of the round, how big around it is if you're looking at it from the front. In other words, how big a hole it will make. If something is described as "x caliber," it is in inches. Hence, .50 caliber is a half-inch in circumference. Millimeters are the same thing. Therefore, you might say, "The caliber of this pistol is 9mm," but you would never say, "This pistol is 9mm caliber."

The word "magnum" refers to extra-large powder loads in the round, to give the bullet more velocity. Hence magnum rounds go through things easier. From a law enforcement (and home defense) perspective, this is actually bad, because your rounds have a much higher chance of going through your target and causing collateral damage. They're great for hunting though.

Of course, not all rounds are created equal. They may have slightly different shapes, firing pins, flanges, lengths, etc. If you walk into a gun store and want .45 caliber ammo, you're going to have probably six or seven standard kinds to choose from. What you want will depend on the weapon you're using and personal preference.
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[km]

Just for the record, the M1911 is sort of the father of all automatic pistols. All of them.
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[CubaLibre]

indeed

guess I killed this thread by being overtechnical

whoops

guys the FN-FAL is my favorite assault rifle
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[psiga]

One of my people told me to post this:


He also said:

"John Browning.
If you look at a chronological series of almost any type of gun
you'll see that the very instant a design changed from one doens't-work-all-that-well design to a much better looks-just-like-what-we-have-today design
Guess whose name is on it.

almost every gun Browning designed contains the phrase "the first successful <whatever>"
sometimes "commercially successful"

I'm serious. Watch this.

"The Colt-Browning M1895 was one of the first 'successful' gas operated machine guns designed by John Moses Browning."

"The Winchester Model 1887 and Winchester Model 1901 were lever-action shotguns originally designed by famed American gun designer John Browning and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Considered the first truly successful repeating shotgun, the lever-action design was chosen at the behest of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, best known at the time as manufacturers of lever-action firearms such as the Winchester Rifle."

"The Model 1897 was an evolution of the Winchester Model 1893 designed by John Browning. It was the first truly successful pump-action shotgun produced. "

"The Browning Auto-5 was a recoil-operated autoloading shotgun designed by John Browning. It was the first successful autoloading shotgun ever produced."

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[psiga]

I am a shallow whore for the Strayer Voight Infinity.


(photo of airsoft version, if only because not enough awesome pictures of the real thing exist on the internets right now)
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[psiga]

[CubaLibre]

[falsedan]

CubaLibre I am appreciating your technical knowledge ITT.

[CubaLibre]

God I love Thompsons.

Making me want to play CoD2 for serious
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[Krabjuice Gaiden]

[haircute]

I own a 12 gauge pump action Mossberg:


And I HAD a 9mm Smith & Wesson Model 59 but I sold it. It looked almost exactly like this one and I called it "The Sarge":


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[Krazii Bakon Lypes]

I want a gun that shoots out a flag with the word "bang" written on it. But the flag actually fires out of the barrel, so it is still lethal, thereby making irony the deadliest weapon of them all.

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