I'm 21 (ITT: Guns)

High Voltage wrote: impulse!! wrote: High Voltage wrote: God I hated the five seven in CS. SIG P228 headshots ftw. Have you shot it in real life? Obviously not, else I wouldn't have made the CS reference.

Touche'

I have never met more a liberal from Tenesse in my life.

Haven't shot the Five-Seven, but the P-90 is sweet IRL. 

5.7mm?  That's about the last round I've heard of people picking up.

5.45 for cheap shooting, and 4.6mm pops up occasionally, but I'm assuming you'll be paying an arm and a leg for the upper and ammo if you go 5.7.

impulse!! wrote: High Voltage wrote: impulse!! wrote: High Voltage wrote: God I hated the five seven in CS. SIG P228 headshots ftw. Have you shot it in real life? Obviously not, else I wouldn't have made the CS reference. Touche' I have never met more a liberal from Tenesse in my life.

Welcome to Memphis?

ParielIsBack wrote: brihard wrote: Pariel, 5.7mm isn't an AR round. It's proprietary to FN, used in the Five seveN pistol and the P-90 SMG. It's a pistol round, that happens to be shaped like a rifle round. Generally deemed effective out to about 200yds, and better than most at penetrating armour. Talon arms does make a 5.7mm upper, but it doesn't take normal AR mags, isntead the upper is set up to feed from the horizontal P90 mags. Pretty cool actually. http://www.talonarms.com/talonarms/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=490&products_id=1427&zenid=4b605a356bd42d82724c6c48fd439ce3 I fully understand that. Those are all reasons I was wondering why Merc wanted an upper in that caliber.

merc wrote: im thinking about getting a 5.7mm upper for my AR... but thats another topic... sweet deal on getting a pistol... DA only or DA/SA? FN makes some nice firearms. 9mm is for girls and all but im sure you will have fun with it non the less ;)

DA/SA. A few of the reasons I chose this one over the XD was that it has an external hammer and a decocker. Overall, I just like it so much better. Good size too. Also, I can change the size of the back strap to fit my hand. :D

I was originally going to get a Springfield 1911, but that gun is just not practical. But oh my God are 1911's sweet...

The FNP 9 is a good gun.

Don't listen to the people moan about 9x19mm. It is only really sucky in FMJ configuration. And just about any round, including the kill everything it sees .45ACP, sucks in terms of terminal ballistics with FMj ammo.

Modern hollowpoint ammo means the 9x19mm is up there kicking ass with the others, and you get to carry more of them, and they recoil less.

Gratz on the gats. Happy Birthday for the big day, when was it?

KBK

I will never understand Americans and guns, but I got a few questions.

FROG MAN wrote: I will never understand Americans and guns, but I got a few questions.

This is why you live in a communist country.

FROG MAN wrote: I will never understand Americans and guns, but I got a few questions. Do you buy hand guns as a sport/hobby to take to the range? or do you buy them for protection? If you buy it for the range, what makes a gun good? Consistency? accuracy? But then why would it matter if the gun was light or small? Do you feel guns are a good idea to carry for protection? I am sure everyone has different opinions, but I seriously dont have a clue, I am 22 and I have seen maybe 2 hunting rifles and a shotgun once in my life, thats it.

I buy guns (this may be my first handgun, but far from my first gun) as a hobby primarily. I see shooting much like I see archery. I enjoy competing against my friends and getting better.

But I also purchased this handgun with the idea of protection. I do intend on acquiring my CHL, and I'd like to carry. It's just another tool.

As for America's gun policy, I don't know. I feel because people that can hurt me and my family have easy access to weapons, I probably should as well. What does that mean? It means that if weapons were extremely controlled, both legal and not, I wouldn't feel the necessity to arm. As a firearm enthusiast, I wouldn't like that, but it's the way it is. But guns and weaponry have become so ingrained into America, for better or worse, that it is more beneficial for me to own and be trained in using firearms than it would be if I didn't. In places like Canada and the UK, where guns are extremely controlled, the necessity to arm just isn't there. However, I live in America, and, as sad as it may be, I feel it is a necessity. I figured I'd act on it while that necessity is still a right. It's just a difference of culture. It's how we are, and that's not going to change for a long while.

That being said, there are situations where having a gun just makes things worse. It's up to me to decide when and where to use it, if it ever should come to that. I believe I'm responsible enough to judge properly. Especially after CHL classes.


Edited by DeTrevni - 11 December 2009 at 1:38am