The Weapons Stereotype Thread

[Dusty12]

A #4:

Yeah, I love how Riot Cops in L4D2 stop any form of projectile.


And I incredibly hate any automatic shotguns because they're so spammable.

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[Rekuddo]

Like your classic revolver

Or at least for some of the older ones

Classic revolver from the old western films would classify as Single-Action. Although Double action was around just not widely produced. Colt Single Action Army .45 long colt was the most and still is the classic western revolver nicknamed the "Peace Maker".

[Solid]

What about a semi-automatic shotgun? Are those hard to fire?

[chaseyqurt]

M1014 is a semiautomatic shotgun and it's being fielded in the USMC, not sure about army.

[Solid]

What's the best weapon for civilian home security, a shotgun or a pistol?

[Qwepir]

A civil-war era gatling gun in your living room.

[Tom Gunn]

Machine guns are legal as long as they are hand cranked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4i9_kkg30o
wat
Actually it probably doesn't even classify as a machine gun

[Block Buster]

What's the best weapon for civilian home security, a shotgun or a pistol?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3197/is_n2_v38/ai_13995784/
I'm reading it right now, so far pretty informative, but, I'm still on the first of three pages.

Edit: finished reading it, for those who TL;DR get a medium powered revolver and go from there

[Joekirk]

Well, that was an informative wall ol' text.

Someone make a tl:dr version for people, that are to lazy to read that much.

[Harm94]

Well, that was an informative wall ol' text.

Someone make a tl:dr version for people, that are to lazy to read that much.

Stop wasting your time posting if you don't want to read. Its quicker to read then say "tl;dr".

[Joekirk]

Stop wasting your time posting if you don't want to read. Its quicker to read then say "tl;dr".

What?  I read it, I was just saying you should make a tl:dr version for people who don't like reading lots of text.

I'm guessing you just saw "Tl:dr" In my reply and then you hit quote.

If I had worded it like so, "That was very informative, but some people may not want to read all of that.  You should make a tl:dr version for them." would that be better?

[MeltyGoblin]

What's the best weapon for civilian home security, a shotgun or a pistol?

While most people will say a pistol because you can hide them and they are compact, I personally would say a shotgun and here are my reasons

1. if you have a family the shot will not go through the insulation in your walls, so you would not have to worry about anyone on the other side of the wall, where as a .45 pistol would go through your wall with little problem

2. anyone can fire a shotgun. Let's say your on vacation, and your wife finds an intruder in the house, she can pick up the shotgun, and just fire from the hip in his general direction, it's going to hit him.

[Joekirk]

While most people will say a pistol because you can hide them and they are compact, I personally would say a shotgun and here are my reasons

1. if you have a family the shot will not go through the insulation in your walls, so you would not have to worry about anyone on the other side of the wall, where as a .45 pistol would go through your wall with little problem

2. anyone can fire a shotgun. Let's say your on vacation, and your wife finds an intruder in the house, she can pick up the shotgun, and just fire from the hip in his general direction, it's going to hit him.

Is it just me or do you have this backwards?

[Saber15]

While most people will say a pistol because you can hide them and they are compact, I personally would say a shotgun and here are my reasons

1. if you have a family the shot will not go through the insulation in your walls, so you would not have to worry about anyone on the other side of the wall, where as a .45 pistol would go through your wall with little problem

2. anyone can fire a shotgun. Let's say your on vacation, and your wife finds an intruder in the house, she can pick up the shotgun, and just fire from the hip in his general direction, it's going to hit him.

You have that the wrong way around.

[Wedge]

What's the best weapon for civilian home security, a shotgun or a pistol?

Typically a deadbolt on the front door and an alarm. If you're in a really bad part of town get a solid wood or metal door for your bedroom (interior doors are typically hollow-core) and get a deadbolt lock for it too. Don't get a lock too complicated that you would fumble around with it in a burning smoke filled room though :)

Shooting people for any reason is generally a stuffty idea even when it's legal, and should be saved if you don't have another option. If you manage to kill someone in self defense there's a good chance that you will still get in trouble. Even if you're legally absolved you're not necessarily going be forgiven by your assailant's family. There's been instances where some rowdy teenagers broke into a house (teenagers with nothing to do on a Saturday break into homes all the time) and were shot and killed. Their families would probably make your life so miserable you'd shoot yourself eventually.

From another angle, you should keep weapons unloaded and the guns and ammo locked up whenever you're not using them. If your gun is in a place where you can reach and fire it in 10 seconds, it's also in a place where your nephew can accidentally blow his head off on Christmas while everyone else is unwrapping presents. Or hell, take this very unlikely case: your next door neighbor's 4 year old kid wanders into your house through a dog door, gets into your bedroom, finds your gun, and shoots himself. Guess what, you'd still be liable for the injury! Keep a wood bat around instead.

That being said, and this is coming from someone who knows very little about guns, I would say a handgun, because it's probably more convenient for storage. Things like accuracy, range, and stopping power shouldn't even factor into a residential setting unless you're being robbed by a trained SWAT team or something.

Finally, interior walls should stop bullets if you bought a small handgun anyway, bedrooms are typically laid out in a pattern that would make it near impossible to accidentally shoot your sleeping family (bedroom doors open into halls, not other bedrooms. because of this someone coming into your bedroom would be coming through a door or a window, not the next bedroom's wall, so you wouldn't be shooting towards nearby sleeping people anyway), and accidentally shooting your family is all the more reason NOT to use a gun for self defense in your house. Save it for sport. Don't try to defend your house, just leave it, it's not worth putting yourself in danger (or a lifetime of litigation and court fees).