post pictures of your firearms!!

[SeekGod1st]

I love it, love the fact that they pay you to shoot, pay you to clean it, and love the rifle.

I had a Springfield Armory 1911 .45 Loaded Model that I really liked but sold to help me buy my FZ6.

I also have to sell my SeaDoo, sometimes you have to sacrafice to make room for new toys.

 

[C-bus Biker]

I love it, love the fact that they pay you to shoot, pay you to clean it, and love the rifle.

I had a Springfield Armory 1911 .45 Loaded Model that I really liked but sold to help me buy my FZ6.

I also have to sell my SeaDoo, sometimes you have to sacrafice to make room for new toys.

That's the arrangement at my house. If I want toys, I have to sell toys. My last bike cost me a Bushmaster AR 15, Ruger Super Blackhawk, Ruger P345, and beautiful Browning Hi-Power (deap blue with walnut stocks). But it lead me to the FZ6, so well worth it.

 

[Speedygonzales]

Will someone please invite me to your place and let me shoot your gun's ...

Here in Belgium its a PAIN to even get a licence for a semi-handgun.
Maybe I'll get one some day, but everybody is so anti-gun over here. Including my GF.

So ... i'll come to the us with belgian beer and give kneedown lessons in exchange for some gun-fun ... :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

If I lived in the us, I would have a shack like arnold in Commando :rockon:

 

[C-bus Biker]

Will someone please invite me to your place and let me shoot your gun's ...

Here in Belgium its a PAIN to even get a licence for a semi-handgun.
Maybe I'll get one some day, but everybody is so anti-gun over here. Including my GF.

So ... i'll come to the us with belgian beer and give kneedown lessons in exchange for some gun-fun ... :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

If I lived in the us, I would have a shack like arnold in Commando :rockon:

Any time my friend. I spent some time in Belgium several years ago. Actually studied in Luxemburg for a summer. I spent a month in Amsterdam one weekend as well :spank:

 

[stryken]

Steve,

Unfortunately and regretfully it seems not!!?? :scared:

Another potential victim :surrender:

But to each his own I guess. But this ... :scared: is exactly what you will be doing when someone comes in to take or hurt what is yours unless you change you views on self & family defense.

 

[Wavex]

But this ... :scared: is exactly what you will be doing when someone comes in to take or hurt what is yours unless you change you views on self & family defense.

Does anyone in here EVER had to pull a shot gun in their house to protect themselves or their family (or anyone you directly know that had to do it)? And if you did, where the hell do you live and what happened?

In 30 years of existence, I have never heard anything like that happen to anyone I know... Sure I heard stories like that on the news, but every time they
stated that they either did not have time to get to their guns, or if they did, it turned out much worse than if they had not...

My theory? too many cowboy movies

Now if you own guns because you love them, that's different, but telling me I should own a gun in a safe in my garage to protect my family against zombies is a bit much :BLAA:

 

[westgoingzax]

The joys of working for a city

It a rock river with eotech sights (they are like cheating) 11" barrel and a silencer. the two cards are the atf cards to show you its all legal

oh and the best part

it has the correct 3 position selector switch

oh and they pay for my ammo and pay me to shoot it and clean it. makes me a happy boy :rockon:

What do you do for the city? Are you part of the local SWAT team?

 

[stryken]

Does anyone in here EVER had to pull a shot gun in their house to protect themselves or their family (or anyone you directly know that had to do it)? And if you did, where the hell do you live and what happened?

In 30 years of existence, I have never heard anything like that happen to anyone I know... Sure I heard stories like that on the news, but every time they
stated that they either did not have time to get to their guns, or if they did, it turned out much worse than if they had not...

My theory? too many cowboy movies

Now if you own guns because you love them, that's different, but telling me I should own a gun in a safe in my garage to protect my family against zombies is a bit much :BLAA:

I own for both reasons, I enjoy the few times I have had the opportunity to shoot them for pleasure but I also use self defense as a valid reason to own some of them. My Daewoo (the mean looking one for you antigun people) is not for self defense obviously , I bough it for the "be cool to have that factor" and my black powder is a Christmas gift and is also not a self defense weapon. I do consider the pistol and shotgun as defense weapons.
Look at it like frame sliders, you don't buy them with plans on using them for anything more than looks but if necessary they also function as protection.

The point is not have you ever had to, but could you if necessary. I don't walk around with one strapped to my hip but if I ever have an intruder in my home even though I know it might be difficult I would try my best to pull the trigger on them. More than likely all one would need to do if they hear an intruder is rack the shotgun and that sound would make most people walk right back out of the house.

Here ya go Lone here is my arsenal of racist redneck republican hate and rage. :rof: At least that is what the media has taught me it is even though I don't consider myself as a member of any party anymore.

 

[RJ2112]

Does anyone in here EVER had to pull a shot gun in their house to protect themselves or their family (or anyone you directly know that had to do it)? And if you did, where the hell do you live and what happened?.....................

Maybe it is 'cowboy' stuff.

I live ~30 miles North of Portland, OR. About 10 miles from a bridge over the Columbia river, 600 feet above the river, 3 miles from a 2 lane highway. Lots and lots of woodland surround me.... I am adjacent to 200+ acres of tree farm. I share over 3000' of fencline with those tree farms.

Nearest neighbor is a Buddhist Monk, 1/10th of a mile away. The two nearest population centers each have less than 5,000 people in them, and are 10 miles in opposite directions from where I live.

People have poached deer on my land, 100 yards from my house.

Unemployment is high, education is low, and the law is more of an abstraction than physical fact. The 2 county sherrifs partol from 8 AM to 5 PM, and there is only state patrol after that...... covering a county, as big as L.A. Nowhere near the people, but less roads and lots more privacy.

That state border 10 miles away is an ideal place to distribute. Almost halfway between Seattle and Portland. Lots of clandestine 'manufacturing' goes on in these parts.

The first week I moved in, my neighbors started showing up to say hello..... when they got around to asking what kind of security systems I had installed, they started hearing me practicing with the rifles and shot gun. they never got an answer, or a tour of my house.

It was told to me that putting up a fence and gates on my land, invited people to break in, because that meant I had something worth stealing. They know my wife is home FT, and is a better shot than I am.

They seem to have reached the conclusion that me being a retired military guy who is not afraid to shoot weapons on my land...... maybe it's not so wise give me reason to aim in their direction.

5 years, and I haven't had a break in yet. A neighbor 1/2 mile away was beaten to death with a claw hammer. The felon who was out on parole who they brought in as principal suspect? Next door neighbor's kid to the guy. With a meth problem.

 

[Wavex]

OK, I take back what I said, some places indeed warrant to have a couple of shot guns loaded at all times I guess.....

For me it's quite simple: if someone ever breaks in my house it means they want to steal something from me, in which case I believe that giving them what they want is the safest bet... especially that it'll most likely be in the middle of the night, with my guns locked in a safe and unreachable in the available time frame anyway... but let's imagine I have a shotgun under my bed.... I still think that trying to threaten that person with my shotgun would yield 1 of 2 outcomes: I kill the person over some materialistic crap (I don't think I'd have the balls to do that anyway, unless my wife/daughters are directly in danger), or I unintentionally escalate the situation into a carnage involving my family, which is the last thing I'd want (or I kill the guy, and 3 other guys comes out from no-where with AK47s lol...) conclusion: my safest bet is to let that person take everything they want and hope they leave...

Now, if you have professional training and think you can be Bruce Willis, then all the power to you

 

[Goop]

Gun rights, usage and control can be a nasty argument to get into. I'll abstain courteously.

I like to go target shooting, I like the intricate mechanics of firearms and it's fun to take a pistol apart and keep it maintained. That's the extent of my gun fanaticism. They're loud too. :thumbup:

 

[RJ2112]

I've shot a number of coyotes that were trying to go after my livestock..... I have missed the bobcat that has stolen 9 of my 12 hens -- had a shot at him in my field with the .30-30...... shot went wide, and he turned around and stared at me.

I'm pretty sure I took a shot at a wolf, as well.... easily 3 times the size of the coyotes I have seen in these parts. Too close, I put that round over his head.

Birds of prey like my chickens, as well.....

A gun in these parts is almost as much of a tool as a tractor. There's an honest reason to own one, or two.

It's when you get to the other folks who have night scopes, and know they need to be gone in under 5 minutes if they poach something.... those are the ones I am concerned with.

 

[SeekGod1st]

OK, I take back what I said, some places indeed warrant to have a couple of shot guns loaded at all times I guess.....

For me it's quite simple: if someone ever breaks in my house it means they want to steal something from me, in which case I believe that giving them what they want is the safest bet... especially that it'll most likely be in the middle of the night, with my guns locked in a safe and unreachable in the available time frame anyway... but let's imagine I have a shotgun under my bed.... I still think that trying to threaten that person with my shotgun would yield 1 of 2 outcomes: I kill the person over some materialistic crap (I don't think I'd have the balls to do that anyway, unless my wife/daughters are directly in danger), or I unintentionally escalate the situation into a carnage involving my family, which is the last thing I'd want (or I kill the guy, and 3 other guys comes out from no-where with AK47s lol...) conclusion: my safest bet is to let that person take everything they want and hope they leave...

Now, if you have professional training and think you can be Bruce Willis, then all the power to you

Wave,

I own guns and this would more likely be my scenario if anyone ever broke into my home.

1. Get a gun
2. Lock myself and my children in one room.
3. Call the police and stay on the phone with the dispatcher.
4. Protect my family and myself from any danger that may enter that room.
5. If it takes killing someone searching to harm my family, I won't second guess myself to do that.
6. Under these circumstances you are well within the law to defend and protect yourself.

The main reason that I got a gun was when we had the Natural Disaster Katrina. The law enforcement were some of the first to leave and everyone knows that if we ever had a natural disaster around us in LA we have 20,000 officers and about 10 million residents.

Do you think there would be law and order then? How many women residents and nurses were raped trying to help out during Katrina. It's VERY SAD but if you don't watch out and protect your family who will. I wish that I didn't have to prepare and even think this way but unfortunately, I have to.

 

[SeekGod1st]

On the lighter side, I do enjoy shooting, cleaning, and firing different types and calibers.

I never would of thought that I would enjoy shooting as much as I do but it's true. I just recently told my Father that I own some firearms, which I thought might be a big deal to him but it was fine.

I grew up in a very sterile household, no drinking, cussing, guns, cheating, etc....

I really do enjoy it though, I would never want to use it for Lethal Force. I think that would be an experience I hope I never have.

 

[Wavex]

Gun rights, usage and control can be a nasty argument to get into. I'll abstain courteously.

I like to go target shooting, I like the intricate mechanics of firearms and it's fun to take a pistol apart and keep it maintained. That's the extent of my gun fanaticism. They're loud too. :thumbup:

Don't take me wrong, I think guns are cool as hell... I have an air gun and I love to play with it... I've never shot a real firearm in my life, but would love to do so as well... I just don't believe in the "you're stupid if you don't own a gun under your pillow" arguments

 

[SeekGod1st]

Don't take me wrong, I think guns are cool as hell... I have an air gun and I love to play with it... I've never shot a real firearm in my life, but would love to do so as well... I just don't believe in the "you're stupid if you don't own a gun under your pillow" arguments

Don't shoot a real firearm, it can get really expensive, if you get hooked because it is fun.

I have 3 hobbies, riding (modding), shooting, and golfing!

These hobbies keep me plenty happy and busy.

 

[Wavex]

Wave,

I own guns and this would more likely be my scenario if anyone ever broke into my home.

1. Get a gun
2. Lock myself and my children in one room.
3. Call the police and stay on the phone with the dispatcher.
4. Protect my family and myself from any danger that may enter that room.
5. If it takes killing someone searching to harm my family, I won't second guess myself to do that.
6. Under these circumstances you are well within the law to defend and protect yourself.

The main reason that I got a gun was when we had the Natural Disaster Katrina. The law enforcement were some of the first to leave and everyone knows that if we ever had a natural disaster around us in LA we have 20,000 officers and about 10 million residents.

Do you think there would be law and order then? How many women residents and nurses were raped trying to help out during Katrina. It's VERY SAD but if you don't watch out and protect your family who will. I wish that I didn't have to prepare and even think this way but unfortunately, I have to.

Makes total sense! It just depends on how you look at it... for some reason, in the situation you describe (me in a room with my family), I would feel even more scared if I had a shot gun in my hands... to me it sounds like a recipe for disaster, but I can understand you would think the exact opposite... I've heard more stories about kids being shot accidentally while playing with their parent's guns, or kids taking their parent's guns to school and take down 50 other kids, than ppl successfully saving their family using these same guns, but don't mind me, I am French... and we French ppl don't know anything about guns and think that "no guns" is actually safer than "guns everywhere", but we LOVE a good old American Cowboy movie though

 

[C-bus Biker]

Don't take me wrong, I think guns are cool as hell... I have an air gun and I love to play with it... I've never shot a real firearm in my life, but would love to do so as well... I just don't believe in the "you're stupid if you don't own a gun under your pillow" arguments

I can respect that statement. It's a choice that you have made, and it's a choice that doesn't interfere with my life whatsoever. Growing up in the midwest, we had guns in the house. At a young age, I was tought how to use them and how to respect what they can do. There wasn't any curiosity about what they could do, hence there wasn't any reason to sneak around dad's closet. I acknowledge that I live in a different world now and have chosen to lock up every single firearm I own. Not so much so my kids don't get into them, but so their friends who don't understand what a gun can do won't pick one up. As a parent, I'd rather my children play at the house where the parent openly owns firearms and keeps them locked up instead of playing at the house where everyone claims they don't have a firearm but dad secretely keeps one under the mattress. Firearms can be a tool, a hobby, a weapon, or even a piece of artwork. I respect your choice not to own one. I also encourage you to go to a range and give it a try. It's a great sport.

If we are suddenly invaded by zombies, I've got your back!

 

[SeekGod1st]

I can respect that statement. It's a choice that you have made, and it's a choice that doesn't interfere with my life whatsoever. Growing up in the midwest, we had guns in the house. At a young age, I was tought how to use them and how to respect what they can do. There wasn't any curiosity about what they could do, hence there wasn't any reason to sneak around dad's closet. I acknowledge that I live in a different world now and have chosen to lock up every single firearm I own. Not so much so my kids don't get into them, but so their friends who don't understand what a gun can do won't pick one up. As a parent, I'd rather my children play at the house where the parent openly owns firearms and keeps them locked up instead of playing at the house where everyone claims they don't have a firearm but dad secretely keeps one under the mattress. Firearms can be a tool, a hobby, a weapon, or even a piece of artwork. I respect your choice not to own one. I also encourage you to go to a range and give it a try. It's a great sport.

If we are suddenly invaded by zombies, I've got your back!

+1 Here, you put it so eloquently.

 

[Cuba]

Does anyone in here EVER had to pull a shot gun in their house to protect themselves or their family (or anyone you directly know that had to do it)? And if you did, where the hell do you live and what happened?

Yes. Well not a shot gun but a firearm. Pennsylvania, attempted home invasion around 5:30 am. The person was most likely a former employee and a heroin addict that was arrested on multiple other charges but never proven to be the guy in this case. I had my guns locked up except for the RPK I had in the closet unloaded. I rolled out of bed, loaded a clip as fast as possible, made sure he wasn't trying to break in another door, and called the cops. My family was asleep for the whole incident. Here's a pic of Amanda looking very excited to be holding the RPK.