In Honor of Charlton, What Guns do you own (don't get political!!)

[fallensaviour]

I think it's not so much of a politcal issue ... more of where a person was brought up.

Most us country guys like our guys
City guys usually don't

You sure about that statement????

I used to own a couple;

six inch S & W 357 magnum chrome plated walnut grip it was a beauty.
30/30 marlin lever action
a couple of pellet guns

I no longer have them,I had to give them up.Used to hunt every year,now I just fish.Once the kids are moved out I may get another one but I will have to see what my wife says first...

[Mikey]

I remember years ago making a few bucks on the side by trapping Muskrats in my local ditches around the farm.

Sold them for the pelts to a local dude who then resold them.

I never made a lot, but a few bucks...

Today, that's a big no no here.

[misterdroid]

I bought a Hi-Point 9mm a couple years ago. In my state you can carry a gun in your vehicle (or on your person if it is not concealed). When I drove I originally kept it under my seat, then in my glove box. It then moved to my passenger seat. Then my lap. Then I sold it.
Not cool at all. I know now I can't be a gun guy.

[jds1911a1]

Class 3 Full auto M1918a1 BAR (insured as fine art by the way and worth more than both my cars combined)

2 M1 garands (use these for reenacting and to shoot NRA service rifle matches)
1 ww2 vintage M1911a1 (aka colt .45 auto)
1 modern Colt Government model (aka Colt .45) my personal sidearm
Colt King Cobra from my days as an armored truck driver
2 m1 carbines (vintage m1a1 and a beater for reenacting)
1 M1903 Springfield
1 M1917 Enfield
2 AR-15's (1 set in the CAR-15 configuration on 1 in trad a2 in honor of my days in the army)
1 12GA Mossberg model 500 (for hunting)
1 12ga dble barrel Charles daly for skeet shooting

[Gorn Captain]

In my state you can carry a gun in your vehicle (or on your person if it is not concealed).

If you can carry it on your person when it's not concealed, do you then, I don't know, walk around gunslinger style? Ready to draw?

On this side of the pond, guns are quite the exception. British police officers still don't carry guns, right?
They just say " 'ello, 'ello, 'ello, wots all this then?"
Impressive...

Anyway, I just own a baseball club (which you can't even keep in the trunk of your car here). I sleepwalk, so guns in the house are not a smart move, I think.

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nuff said!

[Adam West]

Like I said, I'm not a resident of West Virginia and I don't know the exact laws.

I have seen signs in State Parks that say all firearms must be out of its casing and not concealed.

I see a lot of what I think are hunters driving around with pickup trucks and a gun rack mounted to the inside rear window and their hunting rifle sitting right up on the rack. I guess that's an example of having a firearm that isn't concealed.

I have never been to a state and have seen anyone other than police officers and what appear to be non uniformed police officers carry guns in the open. They are always pisols and carried in some type of should harness with the gun resting on their right hip (if they are right handed). The holsters are somehow designed so that you would be able to remove the gun fairly quickly if necessary but not gun slinging style like in the Wild West and they are somehow designed (not exactly sure how) to prevent someone from walking up from behind you and removing the pistol from the holster easily (I think it has something to do with the way the holster is angled)?

[misterdroid]

If you can carry it on your person when it's not concealed, do you then, I don't know, walk around gunslinger style? Ready to draw?

On this side of the pond, guns are quite the exception. British police officers still don't carry guns, right?
They just say " 'ello, 'ello, 'ello, wots all this then?"
Impressive...

Anyway, I just own a baseball club (which you can't even keep in the trunk of your car here). I sleepwalk, so guns in the house are not a smart move, I think.

Yes. Exactly. In North Carolina you can legally walk around with an exposed gun on your hip. You cannot carry it in schools, places that serve alcohol or anywhere that posts a "no handguns" sign (there may be other exceptions).
In my personal opinion I found that owning a gun fosters both a false sense of of power AND a creeping paranoia. Not a good combo.

[johnmiic]

If owning any type of gun is cool I would love to own old west type guns. Just to have them for show. I can't believe the sheer scarcity of these items. Nearly every person who lived in the old west and the south owned guns. Where have all these guns gone? I would even have thought the manufacturers would still have some molds to re-issue these old west guns.

I have to put my 2 cents in tho:

Charlton helped keep the guns in the hands of law abiding citizens of the US (and Canada, I think).

I think this is far afield from the truth and sometimes the NRA and it's spokes-people are their own worst enemies. I'll just leave it at that.

[Mikey]

I think caring a gun in public for no other reason than to show off is very weird.
Perhaps a person who would do that should be the first person to be denied a gun

Hunters, now that's a different story......
Hunting is an American past-time that should go on forever (as long as there's game)

Some people really do shoot game with a hand gun.
Weird, but I have met a few.
To each his own I guess...

[Joe90]

Okay... Here is a history of firearms I've owned...


Belgian Browning 308 A 1960's plainer version of this...


Ruger Old Army Percussion Black Powder 45 FUN!

Enfield 1853 Percussion (Italian made reproduction -- FUN!)


Ruger Mark I Target (I had the 7" Barrel)


Winchester Defender 20 gauge (This is the 12G)


Enfield #1 MkIII*


Enfield P-14


I must admit that the Black Powder Musket and Revolver were the most fun to shoot. They're all gone now. I wish I still had the Black Powder guns.

[johnmiic]

Joe90, I'm loving that Enfield 1853 Percussion. That is damn cool!

[Joe90]

Joe90, I'm loving that Enfield 1853 Percussion. That is damn cool!

It was well made, too. And accurate: it had a rifled barrel and fired minie balls. BP shooting is a lot of fun. It doesn't kick like a modern rifle, and the report is nowhere near as loud. When you fire, there's a snap - boom report from the percussion cap firing the powder. The best part of the whole experience is the cloud of white smoke, and the smell of black powder in the air.

[jds1911a1]

I think caring a gun in public for no other reason than to show off is very weird.
Perhaps a person who would do that should be the first person to be denied a gun

Hunters, now that's a different story......
Hunting is an American past-time that should go on forever (as long as there's game)

Some people really do shoot game with a hand gun.
Weird, but I have met a few.
To each his own I guess...

an exposed firearm (where legal) is best for deterence (if a bad person knows you are armed they will pick an easier target to mug)

Hand gun hunting is really a high skill but it's much easier to move through thick brush if you don't have to manuver the rifle. I tried it once but I am lasy enough now I would rather be in a stand and wait than beat the bushes.