Is there a DU Gun Club? If not, let's start one!

[alwynsw]

There's only one restriction. You must be a gun owner/user and/or agree with the idea that gun ownership is a good thing that should never be disallowed to those who wish to own and use them legally.

(Did I dodge saying that RKBA is a good thing well enough?)

[Purveyor]

1. I'm in...

I'm in... I don't need a tank nor a surface to air missile, but I will never ever surrender my "38" in case someone kicks down my front door...

[alwynsw]

2. Since you're in first

you get to be Sergeant at Arms! lol

[MrSandman]

3. I'm game

[alwynsw]

4. If you're game - HIDE!

ya might get shot!

[MrSandman]

5. Here?

[alwynsw]

7. I can still see you

[Superfly]

6. I'm in....

Here's my list of evil guns:

- Husqvarna 30-06 carbine (with mannlicher stock and a Leupod 3x9 Vari-x III)
- Winchester Model 101 pigeon grade 12 guage
- Winchester Model 101 pigeon grade 20 guage
- Winchester Model 101 pigeon grade 16 guage
- WInchester Model 101 pigeon grade 28 guage
- WInchester Model 101 pigeon grade .410 guage
- Winchester Model 1 Super-X 12 guage (I hate this gun...anybody interested?)
- Browning Gold Classic 12 guage
- Browning Auto-5 Light 12
- Smith and Wesson Model 27 .357 Mag

Brian

[alwynsw]

8. Fair enough - and it's an impressive list!

Let's just say that I recently bought a thrid safe for long guns. I'm currently in legal possession of over 4 dozen long guns and 9 handguns. I am in possession of no illegal firearms.

My bragging irons are Weatherby triplets - 30.06, .300 WBY Mag., .375 WBY Mag. and my Ruger semi-matched set of Blackhawk revolvers in .22/.22mag., .32 H&R mag, .357, .41 mag., .44 mag., and .45 long Colt. There is, of course, my standby: Colt 1911 with a few refinements.

All are shooters except for a couple I've inherited that were either bought as collectibles (limited run special editions) or that have become collectible because of age.

I prefer my 1100's for hunting, but the Benelli goes to the trap range with me.

[Superfly]

9. I REALLY want a Benelli

I was shooting my A-5 for ducks for the longest time, but I had to retire it. So...I thought I would stick with Browning and bought the Gold. I come to find out that I absolutely hate gas operated shotguns because 2 reasons:

1) They're a pain in the ass to clean.
2) The more you shoot them in a day, the harder the recoil becomes as the gas system loses its efficiency due to buildup.

So, I think I am going to get my hands on a Super Black Eagle when I can afford it.

[alwynsw]

10. Good choice.

I love mine. I grew up hunting with the 1100, so it's just habit. No flies on the 1100, mind you, it's a wonderful semi-auto, but I agree with the cleaning part for any semi-auto.

But then, extra cleaning time gives us asswipe lunatics more time to fondle our iron.

[Romulus]

11. I'll start the MD/DC Chapter

Not saying that I own any, of course. :evilgrin:

I am saving up for:

1) Benelli Nova SP (ghost ring version)
2) Remi 700 VS .308, with some sort of Leupold or Nikon glass

[Superfly]

12. Check out the new short magnum offerings

from Browning, Remington, and Winchester. Short action with long action power.

[tx801]

13. I'll join

although I own a lot of the dreaded assault weapons, with the dangerous flash hiders and bayonnet lugs

[DoNotRefill]

14. The VA chapter has already met....

but there was only one machinegun present.

[DonP]

15. Membership card and secret handshake?

OK, count me in too.

When do I get my T-shirt and learn the secret handshake?

The collection currently includes:

My personal tribute to WWII
M-1 Garand (2) one from Nov 1942 and one from March 1944
Mosin Nagant 91-30 (2)
Mosin Nagant M-44
Enfield Model 4 Mk II
Enfield Model 5 Jungle Carbine
K98 Mauser

Bushmaster AR-15 A2
Bushmaster M4gery
Winchester '92 in .45 Colt

Browning 12 guage Fieldmaster

1911 .45 ACP
.45 Colt SAA
Browning Buckmaster Camper .22
Colt .380 Govt. Pocketlite

Now I'm sure someone will report us all to Ashcroft.

Don P.

[alwynsw]

36. The handshake has to be with your asswipe hand

[juancarlos]

16. I would be happy to join

and share my "asswipe lunatic techniques" (who do you think said that?) I own:

Bushmaster XM15A2 (AR type)
Rock River M4gery (AR type)
Romanian WASR (AK type)
Chinese MAK-91 (AK type)
Springfield XD
Kimber 1911 A1 Custom II
Iver Johnson Supershot sealed 8 (1929)
KAHR PM9
Kel Tec P32
S&W 66
Taurus 85
Kel Tec Sub 9
Remington 11-87
Winchester Model 12 (1918)
Lefever SxS 12ga
Remington Rand WWII issue 1911 A-1 (unfired)
Ruger 10-22
Sears Roebuck .22 rifle (1929)

[Township75]

17. I'm In!

I don't bring much firepower relative to some of you...

1. 9 mm Walther P99 (Hey, just like James Bond)
2. Ruger Mark II .270

but, I should graduate in the summer, then comes the real money, then comes the REAL FIREPOWER!!!!

[Superfly]

18. Wait until autumn 2004....when the AWB goes Bye-bye

...

[Township75]

19. EXACTLY, BRO!!!

The timing will be great! I will have saved a few paychecks, and shortly there after the AWB withers into nothing and the prices become considerably more affordable.

WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!:party:

[Superfly]

21. I'm not buying my AR until that thing goes away.

I really want an M-4 with all the AW features this stupid law banned.

[Withergyld]

27. "wither"

You called???

I say go for it!!!

I'm in
:kick:

[Stilgar]

20. me too

I can bring my arsonal of .22's

[Superfly]

22. Many a person learned to shoot on a .22

until they became grown-ups. :evilgrin:

Welcome to the club!

[beevul]

23. I'm in.

I bring less firepower than most of you though.


Sears "ted williams" .22 semi-auto. Beautiful woodwork on that one and a decent shooter.

Winchester model 90 .22 pump. Needs restoring, and a few new parts, but IS a great little target gun.

Beretta model 96. (and 3000 once fired brass for cheap target practice)

Thats all. To me, its not important how many you have, just that you can have them and enjoy shooting them or defend yourself with them-without being a criminal.

Love to hook up with anyone in the southwest AZ area for some range time. We have a dandy outdoor range called Adair park near Yuma, has seperate skeet,hi-cal long distance rifle, handgun, small cal rifle, archery, black powder, cowboy action, and radio controlled aircraft (and a few others too).

More and better info here:
http://www.webcom.com/gun_guy/rangesaz.htm

[alwynsw]

30. I get to Yuma several times a year

and I'd love to hit the range with a transplanted urbanite that has become a Yuman being.

[beevul]

40. Sounds like good fun.

Let me know...PM me or something, and we'll make a day out of it when your in town.:)

[alwynsw]

42. You got it!

[DonP]

24. Need a better name d'ya think?

Here's a start:

"Asswipe, lunatic, penis & Nazi fixated, Charlton Heston admiring, Assault Weapon Jean Creaming, 'all racist all the time' Gun Lovers"?

Of course I'm open to other suggestions, as long as it fits on the club jerseys and still leaves room for a profile of a 1911.

Don P.

[beevul]

25. ROFL Don!!!

"Asswipe, lunatic, penis & Nazi fixated, Charlton Heston admiring, Assault Weapon Jean Creaming, 'all racist all the time' Gun Lovers"?


I like that, but if you leave out the word "fetishist" , and the phrase "bullets for brains", someones gonna be mad!!

On edit:

How about this:

The Penis & Nazi fixated, Moses admiring, Assault Weapon Jean Creaming, racist Gun Loveing bullets for brains fetishists club of DU.

LOL

[iverglas]

26. yup

'Cause Democratic Underground (DU) is a limited liability company, and I don't think anybody can just go appropriating its trade name for their own purposes w/o permission.

Anybody up for a Democratic Underground George W. Bush Fan Club?

Just to illustrate the point.

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[beevul]

31. Is your

humor detector shut off iverglas?


It was just a joke, as was the post before it.

[iverglas]

34. it's just too difficult

"Is your humor detector shut off iverglas?
It was just a joke, as was the post before it."

Sigh.

The cultural divide is just too great.

Of course it was a joke. Wtf did you think my post was?

It's called DRY HUMOUR. It's the brand most popular where I'm at. I know perfectly well that it is seldom understood to the south of where I'm at, so I should stop practising it with a southern exposure, I know, but sometimes I forget myself.

We, of course, don't make a habit of patronizing foreigners by explaining our damned jokes to them. If they don't get it, that's a joke in itself, and one we're actually quite fond of. Ask google for "Rick Mercer".

*We* are also fond of laughing at ourselves. *We* thought "Blame Canada" was hilarious. (Although yes, at least partly because *you* didn't get the joke, and no, I really can't explain it.) I thought that "Soviet Canuckistan" was the funniest quip of the decade.

It must be time for me to offer up that supply of stupidfaces

;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^) ;^)

for anyone who's confused to add to my prose when the confusion strikes. If you're not quite sure, think "tongue in cheek", and maybe it will all come clear.

.

[alwynsw]

35. I consider myself to be a southerner

even though I live in KY, my roots are in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.

I like dry. I even understand dry. Dry is good. Dry goods are good. Dry martinis bite - if you're gonna drink perfume, lose the gin and buy Chanel.

On edit"there's no "s" in Georgia.

[iverglas]

38. and the best dry

is of course Canada Dry.

Actually, I prefer Vernor's myself. I think it's a sort of northern US thing that had seeped over the border and as far as my southwestern Ontario home town, and that I missed terribly when I moved away, and just discovered in my local Loblaws Superstore last week! I'm happy.

Ah, a kindred non-dry martini drinker. Give me the vermouth on ice any day. Just don't try to pass off California white as "dry" around me ("dry Riesling", yeah right). I'll stick to Italian; keeps the tongue stuck to the cheek.

.

[beevul]

41. Fair enough.

Fair enough, MY dry humor detector was off.



"I thought that "Soviet Canuckistan" was the funniest quip of the decade."

That IS funny!!!!

[iverglas]

46. you didn't hear that one??

That was Pat Buchanan. I found a little gem; can't reproduce it all, of course, but do click:

http://www.thestranger.com/2003-07-03/ex7.html

Buchanan probably thought he was lobbing the ultimate dis, but there is something Americans need to know about Canada: Hardly anyone here was offended, and many Canadians took it as a supreme compliment. ...

The United States is a one-myth culture. The Federalist Papers read like John Locke having a conversation with himself, and your history is just an extended working out of the philosopher's ideas about individualism, private property, and the state. In the United States, the capitalists have acquired a monopoly on patriotism, and your response to other ideologies alternates between xenophobic isolationism and messianic internationalism. In the United States, the capitalists have acquired a monopoly on patriotism, and your response to other ideologies alternates between xenophobic isolationism and messianic internationalism. ... You might say that Canadians are progressive conservatives by inclination; we try to keep what's valuable from the past, while remaining open to the new.
... <Pollster Michael Adams says> that since 1992, social values between our two countries have diverged in significant ways, and that the long-term trend points to increasing divergence. Both countries are trending away from traditional values, are becoming less deferential to authority and more individualistic. But while Canadians are moving toward values associated with idealism and personal self-fulfillment (e.g., creativity, tolerance, and cultural sampling), Americans are moving away en masse from the trends associated with civic engagement and social and ecological concern. You are becoming paranoid and isolated, more likely to see society as a war of all against all. America is becoming a nation of survivalists.

... But when you consider American values in light of the determined openness and internationalism emerging in Canada, Europe, and elsewhere, this "exception" is starting to look more like an aberration. Take a look around, America. Soviet Canuckistan is the new world order.

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[alwynsw]

28. You owe me a keyboard, you lunatic asswipe!

Get yer ass over here and clean up this coffee NOW!

(Get yer asswipe lunatic ass just sounded redundant sonehow.)

on edit: there are two "e's" in coffEE

[DonP]

32. Get your new keyboard ...

... and put it on my tab with the usual gratuity of 25%. I am not cheap, (but I am easy under the proper conditions.)

Has anyone else noticed a distinct lack of a sense of humor (or perspective) of any kind among self-important, overly verbose, condescending anti-types? Or is that just my perception?

Now I'm going to work on that secret handshake some more.

[Stilgar]

33. Missed a couple

we need scum or scummy
gun nuts, instead of lovers

[Wcross]

37. A civil rights club? I'm in!

Self defense is a god given right. Count me in!

[alwynsw]

39. Well said!

[alwynsw]

29. To all who have posted thus far:

My sincere apologies for starting the thread, then disappearing. I'm not usually a hit and run type.

We had a death in the family that required my absence for most of yesterday. Had I used a little foresight, I would have waited for the post until I could tend to it properly.

[Wickerman]

43. sorry to hear of your loss

we can keep the thread kicked while you tend to your family.

peace,

Lunabush

[alwynsw]

44. Many thanks, but I'm back already

It was a one day trip. Alzheimers is an ugly thing. I honestly believe that she's better off now.

Thanks for your expression of sympathy.

[sasquatch]

45. Sounds like a good idea

:think:

[Valarauko]

47. I'm the Israeli chapter

A chapter of one.

[alwynsw]

48. I'll wager we get more in your area

[solinvictus]

49. Curio and Relic

I'm not starting a major buying spree until my curio and relic is approved so I can purchase Yugoslav SKS rifles at wholesale. My current list is a CZ-70, a Tokarev pistol, and a bolt action 12 gauge. My list includes a Yugo SKS, a M44 carbine (or 2 or 3 since they're less than $40), a good .38 revolver, a pump 12 gauge, and a Marlin Model 60 .22. That should cover it all for my needs.

[Withergyld]

51. you had better hope your C&R comes soon

Many of the good deals on the SKS rifle may not last too much longer.

[GregW]

50. Sign me up!

Love Sigs, hate 1911's (but shoot one anyway in competition).

[1a2b3c]

52. Why do you hate 1911's?

I wish i had mine back.

[GregW]

53. Takedown and cleaning is incredibly primitive ...

- Problem with the slide stop causing it to lock open with rounds still in the gun on certain models
- Low capacity
- Plunger tube problems (can come loose affecting the safety)
- Funky curved extractor resulting in FTF/FTE
- Barrel bushing/recoil spring plug issues
- SAO design requiring you to carry cocked and locked

On the plus side, the 1911 has the cleanest trigger pull of any gun I have fired, and is incredibly accurate. It's enforced standards also allow you to do liberal mix-n-match of parts.

[alwynsw]

54. But if you truly love your baby

it's worth the effort to keep her shiny.

Someday I hope to have one by each manufacturer that produced them in WWII. Thus far, I've got the Colt, Smith-Corona, Springfield, Remington, etc. someday....

[slackmaster]

55. Are you going for a full set of M1 Carbines as well?

I've always wanted a Rockola or an IBM.

[alwynsw]

57. I'm considering it - seriously

Had a Sten once - near mint and in full working order. I still regret giving up that little piece of history. damn, let my Thompson go, too. At least I know it's in the hands of a solid collector.

[slackmaster]

56. Not to infringe on Skinner's trade name but please count me in

Mainly a collector of C&Rs. I go for certain themes, for example:

Swedish Mauser rifles
German handguns 1920 - 1944
Firearms designed by John Moses Browning (my favorite)
US weapons of World War II

My interest is mainly mechanical, technical, and historical. Firearms provide examples of the best manufacturing techniques and materials available at whatever time they were made. That's been true throughout their history and remains so today.

I also have for sporting use a couple of AR-15s (legally registered California AWs in case anyone cares), a long-range target rifle, various 22s, and some random other old military goodies.

[alwynsw]

58. Sweet!

and well stated, esp. the tech and maufacturing part.

[Don_G]

59. I Don't Have A List Of "Evil" Weapons

But I do currently own and operate a shotgun, rifle and pistol.

Pistol: .45 ACP Colt Combat Commander

Rifle: 7mm Remington Magnum

Shotgun: 12-Gauge "Le Fever" Nitro-Express Double-Barrelled Shotgun built back in the '30's.

If I've "evil" having any one of those three weapons, then feel free to flame me for I am a "hunter", live in a "City" and grew up with the weapos over a period of forty years.

[SmokingLoon]

60. I'm new

Can I join too?

[alwynsw]

61. You're welcome to both!

DU and the LAGC (Lunatic Asswipe Gun Club).

Sorry guys, LAGC was all I could remember.

[SmokingLoon]

62. That is a great name...where did it come from?

Lunatic Asswipe Gun Club?

[DonP]

63. See Post # 24

You'll quickly find out that, according to some posters here, "all" gun owners are that and more.

Oh, and according to the same folks if you own guns, especially evil black rifles, or believe in the second amendment you aren't a "real" democrat. So there !

Welcome.

Don P.

[alwynsw]

64. Sorry, Don - I had to shorten the name

I kept spitting coffee every time I tried to type your noble selection.