The firearm thread

[Swoop]

Quite a few years ago now.

There was a similar (same?) scenario.
Homeowner at the door with a .22 in one hand and a .357(?) in the other.
Shoots the person being a threat, with the .22.

States in court that he used the minimum force available to him at the time.

[ManDownUnder]

There was a similar (same?) scenario.
Homeowner at the door with a .22 in one hand and a .357(?) in the other.
Shoots the person being a threat, with the .22.

States in court that he used the minimum force available to him at the time.

Unless there's more to it than that... I'm guess he tried shouting, and had considered a kick in the balls first?

Were the guns "ready to use" - i.e. a round chambered, cocked etc? That sounds remarkably premeditated to me if so. "I happened to have two cocked guns in my hand m'lud and the bloke shows up at the door mouthing off at me". Sounds like a tui ad to me...

[pritch]

Unless there's more to it than that... I'm guess he tried shouting, and had considered a kick in the balls first?

As a former soldier I'm very impressed by your attitude.
You're prepared to shout at numerous assembled members of the Mongrel Mob intent on trouble, and singlehandedly attempt to kick them in their collective gonads. I'm sure the Army could use talent like that. You'd be a certainty to get decorated. Posthumously of course...

Were the guns "ready to use" - i.e. a round chambered, cocked etc? That sounds remarkably premeditated to me if so.

Threatening the Mob with an unloaded gun would definitely be the wrong side of the line dividing brave and stupid. Swoop's case sounds similar enough to be the same one. The reports said although he had more powerful weapons (non-specific), he used a 22. He shot the guy in the leg. In the circumstances that all comes under the heading "reasonable force". It's a number of years ago but I'm pretty sure it never went to court. Why would it?

With his single bullet he brought (quite lengthy) proceedings to a close. Had the single bullet not done the job we may just have found out what else he had to hand. Then it still would have, in all liklihood, been reasonable force.

[scumdog]

Unless there's more to it than that... I'm guess he tried shouting, and had considered a kick in the balls first?

Were the guns "ready to use" - i.e. a round chambered, cocked etc? That sounds remarkably premeditated to me if so. "I happened to have two cocked guns in my hand m'lud and the bloke shows up at the door mouthing off at me". Sounds like a tui ad to me...

Fuck the shouting, just shoot, sheesh, guns weigh a lot....

[doc]

Unless there's more to it than that... I'm guess he tried shouting, and had considered a kick in the balls first?

Were the guns "ready to use" - i.e. a round chambered, cocked etc? That sounds remarkably premeditated to me if so. "I happened to have two cocked guns in my hand m'lud and the bloke shows up at the door mouthing off at me". Sounds like a tui ad to me...

If you are prepared to bring a gun into a situation. You do it with the intention of using it, so it had better be loaded. You must also be prepared to pull the trigger. Or it will be used on you .

Playstation has a lot to answer for.

[ManDownUnder]

Unless there's more to it than that...

ok - so from your post (below) I now see there was more to it... Not having a go - just fully qualifying my position.

You're prepared to shout at numerous assembled members of the Mongrel Mob intent on trouble, and singlehandedly attempt to kick them in their collective gonads. I'm sure the Army could use talent like that. You'd be a certainty to get decorated. Posthumously of course...

Umm - do you know me at all? Me...? Tough guy? ...

... no!

[chrisso]

Go Dog!!................................

[Wolf]

Go Dog!!................................

Proof - as though it were needed - that when you're down there's always someone trying to screw ya!

[Mr Merde]

Talking to a collegue at the place of my new employment.

Mentioned that I was very interseted in old rifles.

This elderly woman then asked me if I would be interested in a 1878 Snider Carbine with the side bar on it.

She and her husband found it many years ago bricked into the space between the fireplace and the wall of a house.

Kept dry so there is no rust. Woodwork is in good condition.

Apparently the old man that lived there all his life was unaware of it and he was 70 years old when he went to a nursing home.

Offerred to me for a very reasonable price.

She is going to talk to me later when we have more time.


For anyone who needs to know what I am talking about here are a couple of pictures of a Snider I found on the interweb

Apprently this elderly ladies father took the rifle apart and greased all the mechanism and wrapped it in protective cloth where it has remained for the last 20 years.

[ManDownUnder]

Talking to a collegue at the place of my new employment.

Mentioned that I was very interseted in old rifles.

Fooken brilliant mate! There's a lot of worse hands it could have fallen into (and I'm excluding nefarious ones from that statement too).

Classic!

[Indiana_Jones]

Sweet as Chris.

Sometimes you find all sorts of stuff like that through work mates etc.

Post pics if/when you get her

-Indy

[Wolf]

Talking to a collegue at the place of my new employment.

Mentioned that I was very interseted in old rifles.

This elderly woman then asked me if I would be interested in a 1878 Snider Carbine with the side bar on it.

She and her husband found it many years ago bricked into the space between the fireplace and the wall of a house.

Kept dry so there is no rust. Woodwork is in good condition.

Apparently the old man that lived there all his life was unaware of it and he was 70 years old when he went to a nursing home.

Offerred to me for a very reasonable price.

She is going to talk to me later when we have more time.


For anyone who needs to know what I am talking about here are a couple of pictures of a Snider I found on the interweb

Apprently this elderly ladies father took the rifle apart and greased all the mechanism and wrapped it in protective cloth where it has remained for the last 20 years.

I'm going down to file a Prospecting Licence... for the tin deposits in your arse - there's bound to be a fortune's worth in there!

Edit: BTW, congrats.

[Indiana_Jones]

Guns = $$$



-Indy

[Wolf]

Was drooling over some pics of Brown Bess rifles and carbines on-line last night. Saw one that went for $700 on Tardme - though I'm pretty sure it was a firing replica - it had "Made in Italy" and "BLACK POWDER ONLY" on the receiver (and I doubt they felt the need to warn people to only use black powder back when it was the standard propellant, smacks of modern post nitro-propellant manufacture.)

Wound up having a wicked dream that a bunch of us from this thread were all ogling over some really rare and unusual firearm - dunno what most of you look like but you were in the dream.

Would seriously love to get into firing old flinters. Found a thing on youtube that looked good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJMbx...eature=related

Love the last shot! Advert for firearms safety.

[jrandom]

Brown Bess rifles and carbines

Rifles and carbines?