Les Jones: Weekly Gun Nuttery

May 30, 2006

Guns > Weekly Gun Nuttery

Gullyborg has this week's Carnival of Cordite.

Jay has a new Marlin .22 I really like. Stainless steel mixed with a grey laminate stock is a combination that's pretty and weatherproof.

Via Kim Du Toit comes this LiveJournal entry of a guy who almost got killed when his neighbor discharged a gun inside their apartment building. Here's the picture from the neighbor's side:

The neighbor claims he forgot he had the .44 Magnum in his pants when he sat on the toilet, and it just went off. Me, I'm not buying it. Modern DA revolvers don't just go off, and neither do modern SA pistols. They have transfer bars or hammer blocks to prevent accidental firing when the gun is dropped or the hammer is struck. The only way to fire them is to pull the trigger. Considering the rest of the arsenal laid out on the vanity, I'm pretty sure the neighbor was practicing looking badass in the mirror with his heaters when he had a negligent discharge. Dumb.

Incidentally, some people are piling on the blogger, accusing him of setting up the whole thing, faking it, being an anti-gun shill, etc. I don't get that impression at all. If anything, the guy is being incredibly cool-headed.

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I don't buy it either. I saw it a few weeks ago but he said his neighbor owned an Mp5? Yeah, right.

Posted by: SayUncle at May 30, 2006

Well, I bought AK47 for $300 bucks at a gunshow, is that incredible to you as well? It's probably a semi-automatic look-alike.

Posted by: djack at May 30, 2006

Forgot he had a .44 in his pants?

I saw the guy's thread on GlockTalk. You're right, I bet the neighbor was practicing his "make my day" poses with his finger on the trigger.

What kind of a guy owns thousands of dollars in "pimp" guns and lives in a crummy apartment?

I *did* like the poster's solution of a flak jacket on the desk, though. :)

Posted by: Paul Simer at May 30, 2006

Uncle, I just went through some back posts on the guy's blog. He's in the military and seems legit. I don't think many anti-gun types would saysomething like "I found out you get mad poon if you sing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" at karaoke." :-)

Posted by: Les Jones at May 30, 2006