Questions for gun owners

[Riddler]

my pistol is black powder, and I heard they can go off by themselves so i don't keep it loaded. anyone know if it is true?

No. You can even keep it capped if you have indents between the cylinder. Comon, people carried this shit loaded on horses, and you're worried about your nightstand?

a lotta guys kept 1 cylinder empty, for horseriding & jostling about, thereby, no misfires

[BonerJoe]

my pistol is black powder, and I heard they can go off by themselves so i don't keep it loaded. anyone know if it is true?

No. You can even keep it capped if you have indents between the cylinder. Comon, people carried this shit loaded on horses, and you're worried about your nightstand?

a lotta guys kept 1 cylinder empty, for horseriding & jostling about, thereby, no misfires

You had to do it on the old style Colts, but the New Army 1858 Remington has notches in the cylinder so you can keep all 6 loaded.

[fatcat]

I have no interest in forever hauling a couple pounds of steel around with me for protection.

This is my main reserve about getting a gun for defensive purposes should they be made legal/i move somewhere they are legal.

They make lightweight guns for women that I'm sure you'd be happy with.

its the bulk, not the weight.

If they make a gun that can fit in my wallet (and still be useful) I don't think it would be a problem.

[BonerJoe]

[Riddler]

If they make a gun that can fit in my wallet (and still be useful) I don't think it would be a problem.

that'd be a might fag of a gun, now, woodenit?

[BonerJoe]

You might as well carry a razor blade.

[Riddler]

mebbe fatcat  (being in brit-land, an all) knows some sort of desmond lewellan ''Q''-type character over there, who has developed a walther ppk wallet gun...
...''now pay attention, double-Oh-fatcat''
do try to return the aston martin in one piece

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

I have no interest in forever hauling a couple pounds of steel around with me for protection.

This is my main reserve about getting a gun for defensive purposes should they be made legal/i move somewhere they are legal.

They make lightweight guns for women that I'm sure you'd be happy with.

ZING

[mikehz]

If you're going to carry a gun for protection, I'd assume you want something that's actually going to do the job, not something so lightweight it'll only annoy the person you shoot.

In any case, I just don't want to shoot anyone. They can have the wallet, and what little is inside it. I'm not too worried at home. They won't get into the house.

[fatcat]

If you look how big mobile phones where 20 years ago, I don't think anyone would buy one that big nowadays because of the hassle it would involve. Would you rather have a "womans" cell phone? Or a manly one the size of a brick. I'm guessing with modern batteries, one of those old phones could probably go years without a recharge. Plus you could probably do some damage if you threw it at someone.

Its pretty short sighted to believe the only useful method of self protection there's ever gonna be is in the form of big lump of metal/polymer where lead comes out of the end.

Here's the kind of thing i would be interested in, except its not really that useful since when its folded up its bigger than alot of pistols already.

[youtube=425,350]D99NHb6B03s[/youtube]

[Riddler]

too right old boy

[John Shaw]

http://www.rohrbaughfirearms.com/

9mm

http://www.seecamp.com/products.htm

.380

http://www.kel-tec-cnc.com/p3at.htm

.380




Sheesh. And you can buy a variety of pocket holsters for them that look exactly like a wallet.

Here's one:

http://unclegeorgeswalletholster.com/default.aspx

[fatcat]

hey, I haven't even met a person who's seen a gun, im allowed to be broadly ignorant about guns.

thanks for the info John.

[John Shaw]

im allowed to be broadly ignorant about guns.

I said "sheesh" rather than "Google It!" so as to look like slightly less of a jerk about it.

The point is, is that there is a whole market for small carry guns. Look for "Carry" and "Subcompact"

Don't bother with anything smaller than .380 - And for me personally, .380 is still a little anemic.

[Rillion]

Don't bother with anything smaller than .380 - And for me personally, .380 is still a little anemic.

True....I can't wait to get a .45.  Although I do still want a Derringer, because they're cute-- maybe one of these.