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Offline AKS\/\/ulfe

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« Reply #120 on: October 27, 2003, 01:52:09 PM »
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Originally posted by beet1e
But AKS, how do you know you're going to get your first choice - #1? How can you know that you won't get #2? When I was out with Lazs last week, we had two gun problems. One might have been my fault - a round chambered incorrectly in the .45 semi auto. The other problem occurred with the .44 magnum. When trying to fire it using the double action method (hammer not cocked) the gun simply failed to go off. We had to pull the hammer back first on every round after that. Could happen to anyone, especially if you've been stirred out of your sleep by a burglar coming through your window. In that case you would get #2, not #1. Like you said, "Sometimes you just don't have a choice."


Because a shotgun is different than a pistol, a bum round can be ejected.

Either way, I'd rather have the gun to defend myself than know for certain option #2 is all I have.
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« Reply #121 on: October 27, 2003, 02:23:57 PM »
Hmm.. worrying about a gun maybe not functioning is silly... 1911's are notorious for sometimes jamming if the shooter is not gripping the gun properly (firmly)  the failure to feed was the only one I have ever had with that pistol and was on the 8th (last round) hardly catastrophic...  the revolver was the new dan wesson I had purchased used recently...  As some may recall.... I asked if anyone familiar with that firearm knew how to adjust mainspring tension because I thought it was light on this gun.... As it turns out there is an adjustment of sorts and ater the beetle misfire I checked it out a little better... the mainspring screws into the frame and was backed out a little... 1/8"  I used a locknut to adjust it back in.  it was factory staked in but apparently recoil had defeated the factory staking.   The gun functions flawlessly on double action as of Friday.   100 rounds.

even so... the vast majority of crimes prevented by firearms are prevented without a shot being fired.

scia... is ashamed to state his country because if is a dung hole of socialism with no opportunity and high taxes and an oppressive government..  There is no freedom in his country and he wants the same for everyone else.

Australia?   they registered their guns in australia and when the goverment banned em they knew right where to go to round em all up and destroy em.... no thanks.... besides.... what is the good of registration?   What good thing is accomplished by it?
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« Reply #122 on: October 27, 2003, 03:06:11 PM »
The only benefit I can see for registering handguns is to help keep them out of the hands of criminals. Doubt this would be effective but I don't mind registering anyhow. I register my car as well as myself.

If our government ever becomes so oppresive as to decide to take away my firearms I'd be more than willing to participate in establishing a new one.
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« Reply #123 on: October 27, 2003, 04:49:57 PM »
HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN:aok