Do you know how to operate a firearm?

Do you know how to operate a firearm?

THREAD DISCLAIMER: This thread is designed as a discussion for GFF members who know how to operate a gun and their experiences with using a gun. This is not intended as a “review” thread for guns nor a comparison thread of one gun over another. With this in mind, I want to keep this thread as newbie-friendly as possible. Furthermore, if specific “gun-speak” jargon is required, please provide at least a simple definition.

***This thread is not intended to discuss the moral/ethical view of firearms and guns, and furthermore a debate of gun laws is not encouraged here.***
You may state what the guns laws are in your particular area of residence, but don't start bickering whether they're good, bad, or whatever the case maybe. I say again, this thread is designed as a discussion of GFF members who know how to operate a gun and their experiences with one.

With this stated, happy posting shooting.


With the media and entertainment today, television shows and movies are filled with situations and characters that use a firearm or handgun as their primary offensive weapon and in a way, guns have become a staple of any modern action thriller. Countless video games, especially those of the first-person-shooter, allow gamers to simulate an experience of firing a multitude of projectile weapons, some based off of real-life weapons while others are pure science fiction contraptions, such as the gravity gun care of the PC game, Half Life 2. I’m getting close to honing in thirty hours on Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and have killed more than three hundred police officers, and seven hundred civilians, yet have never fired a single round of live ammunition in my life.

I have just finished watching a television documentary of crime scene investigators, it featured a section of ballistics experts firing several different types of hand guns and taking notes of how the bullet impacted the surface of a target, such as concrete, glass, wood, and a variety of other mediums. After watching this, it gave me an "inspiration" if you will, to make this thread and perhaps get it "in the open", so to speak.

I myself am very new and “uninitiated” with this topic – in other words as stated above, I have never fired a live round of ammunition from a gun. I have held real guns at military shows and arms shows. The closest I’ve gotten to fire a projectile weapon was with a pellet gun, and this was quite a while ago as well. As I was in the Air Cadets, a short time mind you, part of the curriculum was to be trained how to clean and maintain a rifle-but I never fired a single round. Of course, since this is getting close to a decade, much of this is long forgotten.

In this thread, discuss if you know how to operate a firearm and what your experiences are with one. For those who of you who are experienced, describe how easy/complex it is to OPERATE and maintain a firearm. Don’t just say, “Duh, you just point at the thing you want to die and you pull the trigger” (This reminds me of that Simpson’s episode where Homer gets the revolver, LOL).

You know, this gives me an idea for my next birthday. I want to go to a firing range and just learn how to shoot for newbs.

EDIT: Why the hell doesn't it let me make a poll. It says I can only do it within the first two minutes of making the new thread, but only spent like 45 seconds on it. Seriously. >_>

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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I own a good number of guns, but I am proudest of my two M1911's, one of which has never been fired. I also have a Colt .45 Single-Action Revolver (Colt Peacemaker) which an ancestor of mine bought in the late 1800's.

::looksup what an M1911 is on image google::



Sorry, again, I'm not Mr. James Bond.

How is the feel for one of these guns. How much does it hurt your wrist from the recoil, and how much does it hurt your ears (I guess decibles) when a shot is fired? Do you keep it just for keepsake or do you actually place it in your house strategically "just in case". ::goes and tries to rob Gechmir's house::

Thinking about it now, I'm quite curious as to see what types of weapons are allowed and which ones are off limits in Canada. I don't mean to go against the grain of the rules I set for this thread, but as to Canada's gun law, it's gotten me to think what handguns and rifles are allowed.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Gechmir

Ocelot uses a .45 Single Action

This is the greatest handgun ever made: the Colt Single Action Army. Six bullets: more than enough to kill anything that moves.

-Revolver Ocelot

It's sorta funny how I'm busy reading up on Wiki right now to make sure I understand what you guys are talking about. Basically all these numbers you're spouting out are the caliber - diamter of the round -, and it's funny how an ignorant person would think, such a small piece of metal can bring down a 200 lbs person, but then they don't appreciate that it's moving at about 230 m/s.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah I pretty much learned about hollow point and FMJ from reading Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy (sorta strange way to start to learn about guns and such), then I picked some of the terminology from various Vietnam war movies and the like. God damn, now for some strange reason ( gosh darn it I can't detect what it might be triggering this, mind the pun) I want to play a FPS now, too bad I don't have any, and playing on Metal Gear Online is sucky.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

This brings me up to my next point. How "easy" is it to get a bulls eye from say, 30 feet away from your firing line to a target. Let's say the target is basically your typical circle target to test your marksmanship. It seems relatively simple to just align your handgun sights to the target and have a steady hand and pull the trigger. Does the recoil itself affect the accuracy of the very first round, as I'm guessing a millisecond later, the bullet would have reached past the muzzle and to the target. Is it true that the recoil would affect subsequent rounds if you were to disperse your rounds immediately right after the other- sequentially (ie, keep pulling on the trigger until the magazine is empty)?

What other factors make it difficult to shoot at an outdoor target?
For short distance targets, I wouldn't imagine wind would be a major factor, but perhaps how you grip your firearm and how much of a steady hand you have.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Some Malaysian dude

In Malaysia, every firearm owner has to go to the local police station/firearm depot and have the thing checked, and produce every and all bullets that were ever bought - if one is missing, there better be a proper explanation for that.

The very act of owning a firearm without a license, having possession of firearm accessories - even owning a used bullet case in Malaysia can easily lead to the death penalty (yet rapists and murderers get 20 years in prison.)

Unlimited bullets, ey...

That seems like serious business, but so is with any amount of drugs found on you, much like in Singapore. I like how Malaysia and Singapore takes the draconian approach to pretty much everything, but yet somehow I'm still quite surprised that the laws there allow citizens to get guns WITH licenses.

Originally Posted by myself, omg I broke the rules

and furthermore a debate of gun laws is not encouraged here.***

Okay, I'll stop!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?