Why do Gun Nuts always look like this?

[Jack_Dawson]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/234225p-201129c.html

[MrBenchley]

1. The trigger happy, both left and right

seem to spend long hours daydreaming about using thier lethal toys in some glorious revolution....

and every once in a while some charmer like this takes that horseshit seriously and kills a postman, or worse...

[Redneck Socialist]

2. Like a bottle of beer?

Sorry, couldn't resist. :evilgrin:

Guy strikes me as more of a plain old nut than a gun nut. A true gun nut would have been better armed than this guy was.

[slackmaster]

3. Only gun nuts who aren't hippies look like that

This is me doing a little long-range target shooting in the Nevada desert:

http://members.cox.net/slack/images/AR-50_+_slack.jpg

[Jack_Dawson]

4. U R Frightening

[slackmaster]

18. Most people who know me like me

Some are scared of the goatee, some of the ponytail, others of the gun collection, but once they talk to me they come to the conclusion that I'm a nice person.

[Jack_Dawson]

I think it's cool to have armed Dems, actually

It's just that whole...setup was a little Ramboish.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

36. I like him..he's a hell of a lot of fun :)

[TX-RAT]

5. That is scary.

Why don't you shoot that from the shoulder?
Whats that in the back ground?

[slackmaster]

9. I have shot a Serbu BFG-50 from the shoulder - not too bad

Why don't you shoot that from the shoulder?

Because I had the option of shooting the AR-50 from a tripod. Much less stress on my 46-year-old frame.

Whats that in the back ground?

M249 Squad Automatic Weapon.

[jayfish]

11. How Did You Get Your Hands On A SAW?

Is it decommissioned? Is it full-auto? Oh tell me, tell me.

Jay

[slackmaster]

15. It belongs to a machinegun dealer I know in Nevada

He's in the business of selling automatic weapons to police departments and National Guard units.

The SAW is real, just like the ones the Army and Marines use. I've fired it. It's a blast.

[Jack_Dawson]

12. Are you sure you're on DU?

This is very Freep-like.

Not to generalize or anything. :toast:

[Terran]

24. Liking guns isn't inherently freepish

Slackmaster's been here a loooong time. Credentials. Me, I kind of like the idea that some liberals are armed. And I myself would never own one (well, not until the collapse of western civ because of oil peak, that is...)

[TX-RAT]

17. "I have shot a Serbu BFG-50

Whats it weigh?
Several years ago i fired a single shot 50 at Camp Pendleton, it weighed 22lbs. Put nine rounds through it. It didn't recoil near as bad as i expected it to.

[slackmaster]

40. The BFG-50 weighs about 22 lbs. unloaded

Recoil was IMO similar to a 3-inch magnum 12-gauge shotgun, but less sharp.

[zbdent]

6. Did you hit the bunny?

Bambi's pal Thumper?

[slackmaster]

10. I was aiming at a piece of paper about 500 yards away

Hit it with no difficulty.

[BiggJawn]

20. How tight of a group?

That does look more like a very small piece of field artillery, though...Impressive mount! :-)

[slackmaster]

35. I was pretty consistently in the black at 500 yds.

I believe that's an 8- or 9-inch circle. I'm sure that with good hand-loaded ammo and some practice a good shot could do much better.

[BiggJawn]

37. Oh, yeah!

That's a good group, I'd be happy with it at that range.

I used to practice on a MUCH smaller scale....

.177 air rifle on a 10-meter indoor range. Got to where I could put 9 more pellets in the hole the first one made.

Those were fun days. Wish I still had that rifle, it was a very good one.

[zbdent]

31. Sorry, couldn't resist

;)

[Renew Deal]

25. Submit that to the gallery.

That's a cool pic.

[George_S]

29. Looks like a fun toy.

What's the range?

[slackmaster]

34. I've heard the .50 BMG round travels forever

Crazy rednecks get drunk and try to shoot down satellites with them.

:argh:

[northernsoul]

39. slack, what the hell is that thing?

It looks like a small cannon with a pistol grip and scope
I'm not judging, I'm just curious

[slackmaster]

41. Rifle is an ArmaLite AR-50 with the buttstock removed

Single-shot bolt-action 50-caliber target rifle with a nice scope.

It's mounted on an old German machinegun tripod. The tripod has a spring recoil-absorbing system. The buttstock is not needed, and I believe there's no way to mount the rifle on that tripod with the buttstock installed. It's a great setup, almost a bench-rest configuration, but it's certainly not very portable or concealable. :D

On edit: Looks like DUers may have put me over my monthly bandwidth allocation for that image. Sorry.

[Algorem]

7. Doesn't he look like Jeff Skunk Baxter,also a gun nut?

[DarkPhenyx]

8. They don't.

Nicely bigoted and biased post though.

[Jack_Dawson]

14. Serial killers ALWAYS have those Dahmer-frames, too

come to think of it.

[slackmaster]

16. Except Muhammad and Malvo

Neither of them wore glasses IIRC.

Ted Kaczynski wore Aviator-style shades.

Your generalization doesn't hold water.

[kayell]

13. Grainy and gray? Too much time spent in their bunker.

[sybylla]

19. What, no plaid hat and Ed Gein grin?

If you're going to slander "gun nuts" why don't you go full bore.

[BiggJawn]

21. Heinrich Himmler was a gun nut?

I look NOTHING like either of these guys.
Think a "slender" John Goodman...

[Cat Atomic]

22. Like what?

Bald, with glasses? I don't know what you mean.

[gpandas]

23. another amazingly stupid du post n/t

[Jack_Dawson]

30. Another hypersensitive DU'er

:eyes:

[gpandas]

38. how do you get hypersensitive...

from my post? my barb was intended for the logic displayed. you took a statement that isn't true, and then asked why it was true. or do you really think all gun nuts look like this guy?

[Renew Deal]

26. The gun nuts are going to come pouring out of the gungeon.

:hi:

[Algorem]

27. Justice/Public Safety?

[Renew Deal]

28. yep

[Jack_DeLeon]

32. I dont look anything like that....

[Serenades]

33. . . .

I do. ;)