[Kyryllo]

And the Colt 1911 and it's look alikes are nice opticaly.

[Tim Chan]

Originally Posted by GCSD Fighter

I took these on my phone...

My Katanas...


Close up of hilt...


The hilts are cobra heads and the scabbards are snakeskin.

I have a lot more, but they are in a safe place. Not good to keep easily accessible.

sure look cool. are they functional though?

[GCSD Fighter]

Originally Posted by Liquid Snake

sure look cool. are they functional though?

They are actually. The weight of the hilt adds good stability for me. If don't wanna chop a mofo, you can always smash an opponent in the face with it. But serious, I have other shit for more practical purposes.

[King Kabuki]

Baah
Get a real gun

Glock

Dude I've shot a version of the Blue Steel Ruger 9mm. They're smooth enough for me.

But I do like Glocks as well.

Then again I've also done black-powder hunting and even like muzzle-loaders.

[Gregster]

Originally Posted by Vilo Magee

Baah
Get a real gun

Glock

Ruger is a top-drawer gunmaker, their stuff ain't overpriced, and they turn out a solid product. And the Ruger P85 auto was a serious contender with Baretta for the US Army 9mm pistol contract. And I personally prefer them to Glocks, which do not sit well in my hand and possess a passive trigger safety that I dislike.

Preferences vary, bro.

Originally Posted by owai

LAst year when i was in Florida i went to the shooting wrange with my brother and my dad , awesome experience , and they should make it a law if your in the uk to go to a shooting range if you visit the us ,

I agree. Then maybe messageboards would have fewer Europeans talking about how they can't understand us Yanks and our damnable obsession with guns.

I've personally won a few converts; fear and loathing of firearms is rooted in the same thing as fear and loathing of many other things: fear and ignorance. Take someone to the range, demistify the weapon, help them experience the joy of putting lead of on target and controlling a lethal weapon, and you frequently have as a result a FORMER anti-gunner.

Glad you had the experience, mate. Reminds me not to take the fact that I can drive down the round and bust caps whenever I want for granted.

[King Kabuki]

Hey Greg, check this out:

My ex-fiance's Uncle is a blacksmith, and was in the Military forever. He works now as an Airline mechanic, but makes ****lwork in his off-time. For Christmas three years ago he made his mom (who is German) a miniature replica of a WWI (I think) Canon. Crazy part is this thing actually fired with the power of a 44 Magnum.

I told him he should start a website and sell that stuff, he said it's something he's always wanted to do. I'd sure as shit buy one, and sit it pointing right at my front door. lol

[>>jonutarr>]

Originally Posted by GCSD Fighter

I took these on my phone...

My Katanas...

Nice,
dont mean to be a knowitall but your big one is the katana, middle is a wakizashi, and small is a tanto,

i had a look on " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katana " and found some good info and was surprised to find my chopper there opposite the "Polishing" subtitle

(btw if theres any Ozzie's here, Lone Wolf and Cub 6 is on tonight on sbs! havent seen 6 !!!)

[>>jonutarr>]

also... i purchased my first gun today! Rem .22 572



its gona be my fun plinker/wabit gun and practise till i get a Rem 7600 .308

not as wicked as your guys guns but were very limeted in what we can own here in OZ

[Gregster]

Originally Posted by King Kabuki

Hey Greg, check this out:

My ex-fiance's Uncle is a blacksmith, and was in the Military forever. He works now as an Airline mechanic, but makes ****lwork in his off-time. For Christmas three years ago he made his mom (who is German) a miniature replica of a WWI (I think) Canon. Crazy part is this thing actually fired with the power of a 44 Magnum.

I told him he should start a website and sell that stuff, he said it's something he's always wanted to do. I'd sure as shit buy one, and sit it pointing right at my front door. lol

I think there may already be craftsmen who make something like that, at least that fire powder but no shot. Might be an interesting idea, though he'll need to peruse gun legislation and, quite frankly, it may be worth hiring a lawyer to look his idea over.

American gun laws, in their attempt to be clear and unambiguous, are often irritatingly so. Example: federal firearms legislation defines a "sawed-off rifle" as a firearm with a shoulder stock with a barrel shorter than a certain length (I wanna say 18"). That's it, pretty much end of story, not much in the way of loopholes to wiggle through. This is, of course, intended to crimminalize the act of chopping down a rifle barrel to make the weapon more easy to conceal for crime.

However, because of this, the Thompson firearms company wound up in court battling over the legality of its popular Contender single-shot pistols (which have an optional shoulder stock upgrade) which are highly popular with game hunters and competitive marksmen and not, to my knowledge, ever used in the commission of any crime as a single-shot pistol makes a shitty weapon to use for drive-bys or holding up a mini-mart (plus, they cost a lot). I think they won, after making some concessions.

I know this because an idea a friend and I (like me, also an enthusiastic marksman with the funds to amass a collection that punks my modest one) to create a carbine-style upgrade for handguns that the same law rendered not do-able. Before we could think around the restriction, someone came up with a better idea.

Conversely, the Assault Weapons Ban-- a piece of legislation whose very name is a fucking joke since it bans under its expansive umbrella a profusion of weapons that nobody knowledgable about firearms would ever call an "assault weapon"-- crimminalized military-style weapons by legislating against flash suppressors, bayonet lugs, high-capacity magazines, and pistol grips. Arms manufacturers removed the bayonet lug and the flash suppressor, replaced the pistol grip with a thumbhole stock, and shipped them with low-capacity magazines...*voila*, the evil military assault death weapon is now a "sporter" rifle. Crimminals remain unaffected, while law-abiding shooters put up with louder reports during firing, dust anoyingly kicked up while firing prone, and reloading more often. In exchange for this, the likelihood of an innocent American dying in a senseless gang-related bayonetting was seriously reduced.

I'd almost bet there's a law stating that "A _____ -sized device firing a ________ or larger projectile with a muzzle velocity equal to or greater than _______ feet per second" is a deadly, and illegal, weapon even though common sense dictates that nobody is going to walk into the Circle K at one o'clock in the morning and knock it over using a tiny replica connonade for a weapon.

[aries]

Heres my collection, the gloves are steel shot filled sap gloves.
I need to get a nice Katana next.