My earliest lesson in gun safety was related to this topic, tangentially. (Reply #39)

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Tue Dec 2, 2014, 12:28 PM

NYC_SKP (68,644 posts)

39. My earliest lesson in gun safety was related to this topic, tangentially.

My first rifle was passed down from before my grandfather, an 1890 .22 that uses a special cartridge, the box warns that the range is greater than one mile.

Out on the ranch, where I grew up with these things, and chickens and dogs and tractors and such, I set up a target, fired, then looked for the spent bullet.

It went through the target, then through several chunks of 2x4 wood scraps, through the wood box that held these and a 1x12 wall board, and ended up in the opposite wall.

That's a significant amount of material for a little .22 to penetrate and I've never forgotten it.

Thus, if I wanted a home defense firearm I'd have a reliable 12ga and not a rifle or even a pistol, unless these used some type of fragmenting round.

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64 replies	Author	Time	Post
Ammunition is not covered by the 2A [View all]	hack89	Dec 2014	OP
Why should they? n/t	oneshooter	Dec 2014	#1
Color me befuddled - What the heck are you talking about? nt	Xipe Totec	Dec 2014	#2
In a reply to a post in GD:	NYC_SKP	Dec 2014	#9
I tend to think this is why Skinner, et al, banished Gun issues to the Gungeon.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#26
Indeed, same with religion and all matters Israel/Palestine.	NYC_SKP	Dec 2014	#29
Happy Tuesday to you as well.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#32
All guns under the NFA that weren't manufactured & registered by 1986 are banned.	kioa	Dec 2014	#35
The registry can be re-opened.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#36
And it could be re-closed. Or used to confiscate, as it has so often.	kioa	Dec 2014	#41
The NFA registry was not used to confiscate.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#43
The NFA registry was used to ban every gun not made & registered by 1986.	kioa	Dec 2014	#44
Other countries are uninteresting to this question.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#45
In the interest of not splitting hairs...	kioa	Dec 2014	#46
By your logic, the democratic party should already be trounced by the hughes amendment.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#47
There's a very big difference between a nearly 80	kioa	Dec 2014	#48
The Hughes Amendment isn't 80 years old.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#49
Gun Control was the only issue that led to recalls prior to 2014.	kioa	Dec 2014	#50
Nationally, 2014 was neutral about gun control.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#53
I594 had a 7-to-1 spending advantage & only passed 60-40	kioa	Dec 2014	#55
Yet, 60% approved that horrible implementation of background checks.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#56
i594 is horrible. It is going to be openly violated on the steps of the Statehouse.	kioa	Dec 2014	#59
It's not difficult to make ammo. ...	spin	Dec 2014	#51
you mean like this?	Warren Stupidity	Dec 2014	#3
Did you read the part where it said the bullets were protected by the 2A?	hack89	Dec 2014	#10
SF? They don't allow sales of Hollow Points but they do allow butt-naked dining outdoors.	NYC_SKP	Dec 2014	#20
The next time somebody gets killed by a dining naked butt you let me know, 'kay?	Warren Stupidity	Dec 2014	#24
Banning hollow point rounds is a danger to bystanders.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#27
My earliest lesson in gun safety was related to this topic, tangentially.	NYC_SKP	Dec 2014	#39
What's surprising is...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Dec 2014	#37
Hey why don't you understand railroad law?	upaloopa	Dec 2014	#4
Opinions.	Straw Man	Dec 2014	#5
You gunners need new material.	upaloopa	Dec 2014	#11
Ignorant and proud.	Straw Man	Dec 2014	#21
You don't know what I know so you too are ignorant.	upaloopa	Dec 2014	#38
"Waste of time" but here you are back again and again, like yesterday's cabbage	DonP	Dec 2014	#40
I don't opine on things about which I know nothing.	Straw Man	Dec 2014	#42
Do you want laws or do you want effective laws?	Nuclear Unicorn	Dec 2014	#25
Your ignorance suits me fine	hack89	Dec 2014	#7
Yes, you are entitled to your opinion, just as we are entitled to ignore your opinion	Lurks Often	Dec 2014	#8
U.S. Code: Title 45-RAILROADS	sarisataka	Dec 2014	#17
What do you mean, "none of us are lawyers?"	branford	Dec 2014	#22
My right wing relatives say almost the same exact thing when I try and educate	kelly1mm	Dec 2014	#58
Ah, How I love when people violate the SOP of the General Discussion Forum. But what a GENIUS!	NYC_SKP	Dec 2014	#6
neither are tanks and nuclear bombs but both are somewhat restricted nt	msongs	Dec 2014	#12
Actually ammunition is covered by the 2A	hack89	Dec 2014	#13
You can buy a tank on the open market. All it takes is $. n/t	oneshooter	Dec 2014	#23
Paul Allan	sarisataka	Dec 2014	#31
"Where there's a will, there's a weapon."	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Dec 2014	#57
Herrington v. United States (2010) seems to provide some guidance here:	petronius	Dec 2014	#14
Thank you. Nt	hack89	Dec 2014	#15
Aw, you RUINED IT.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#28
All they know is bullets explode, and explosives kill people just like guns.	ileus	Dec 2014	#16
Oh you naughty, naughty boy.	pablo_marmol	Dec 2014	#19
They don't just explode, they highly explode!	NYC_SKP	Dec 2014	#30
Well, when you're so warm from the explosion, it makes sense to take off your jacket.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#33
One relevant Supreme Court ruling, in addition to D.C. v. Heller and McDonald v Chicago...	benEzra	Dec 2014	#18
Yes, this was well-trodden legal ground, regardless of the topic here being guns.	AtheistCrusader	Dec 2014	#34
Gun control "Scholars" tend to be a little short sighted	DonP	Dec 2014	#52
"It never ceases to amaze me"...	NaturalHigh	Dec 2014	#54
What cracks me up is that the poster is exercising first amendment rights on a computer.	badtoworse	Dec 2014	#60
Well, that poster is entitled to express their opinion on the internet --	Nuclear Unicorn	Dec 2014	#61
Anyway you look at it, it's a bullshit argument.	badtoworse	Dec 2014	#62
I am confused as to which poster you are referring to	hack89	Dec 2014	#63
The poster commenting on the 2A and ammo.	badtoworse	Dec 2014	#64

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