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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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20. When I was a kid, hanging around in the woods with my friends ...

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Thu May 18, 2023, 02:22 AM

May 2023

... a careless hunter lobbed a rifle shot over our heads. He must have been pretty far away because we actually heard the bullet whipping through the branches before we heard the sound of the shot. We took cover behind trees and started shouting. We never found out who it was.

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Do you have any scary experience with guns? [View all] Not Heidi May 2023 OP

Yup. I was trying to talk a young woman out of shooting herself in the head one day. brewens May 2023 #1

Your heart was in the right place Not Heidi May 2023 #7

I was terrified. Her and her husband were good friends. Things have turned out well for both brewens May 2023 #13

Well now that you asked . . . AndyS May 2023 #2

I don't like that moral Not Heidi May 2023 #8

Several. orthoclad May 2023 #3

Damn, orthoclad Not Heidi May 2023 #9

A type of bullet. orthoclad May 2023 #15

Low velocity target rounds oneshooter May 2023 #16

Yep Faux pas May 2023 #4

Jesus. Not Heidi May 2023 #10

Yes Faux pas May 2023 #17

Working late alone in the office, came out of a room and face to face with a pistol pointed at me sanatanadharma May 2023 #5

Yipes. Not Heidi May 2023 #11

Only in combat zones. nt MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #6

Had to be scary. n/t Not Heidi May 2023 #12

It was, MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #14

Ha. Had a SSgt at the range screwing around with his hand placement on his .45. yagotme May 2023 #18

Yikes!!!! MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #19

Nope. yagotme May 2023 #23

I was never an RO, but, as a senior NCO, I did carefully watch the RO's MarineCombatEngineer May 2023 #24

When I was a kid, hanging around in the woods with my friends ... Straw Man May 2023 #20

Damn, that's scary. n/t Not Heidi May 2023 #21

Yeah, it was. Straw Man May 2023 #22

When I was a kid we were fishing and some hill billies not much older that us were skipping .22 captain queeg Jun 2023 #25

I think I did, Maybe jimmy the one Jun 2023 #26

Very smart move giving up your wallet, MarineCombatEngineer Jun 2023 #27