Shooting at Las Vegas casino

I supppse. I have zero interest. They do nothing for me.

 

I've got her book, The Frugal Gambler!

 

Nope. Single shot with a slide action like a pump shotgun.

I wouldn't want to be inaccurate.

 

Cilizza makes a good point here. The NRA today called on the ATF to take bump stops off the market. If the ATF does it, Congress does not get involved.

The NRA's strategic ploy on bump stocks - CNNPolitics

 

Dude, I'm sorry to hear that. I dealt with that with my grandpa. He started calling the cops every day claiming somebody stole something. I'm talking like a rake - which was leaning against a tree where he left it, instead of in the rack where he normally put it.

 

I grew up around a lot of people who were hunters, but my father, he wasn't much into it. Most of my friends, well before high school they'd had a lot of experience with guns. I really envied them for that.

When I was in the 9th grade, my father bought a Remington 870 20-gauge pump and made some noise about going dove-hunting. To show him just how responsible I could be, I bought him a gun-cleaning kit for Christmas. But ... we never went hunting with it. He just wasn't into it and, truth be known, I'm sure he fretted about my goofus self being within a zip code of a firearm.

Now that he's long in his grave, I'll admit that, on occasion when I was in high school and college, if no one was around I'd slip a shell in the 870, step out on the back porch and fire off a round. Just one. Then I'd put the gun back in its appointed closet. It was quite the charge, hearing and feeling that.

All of this is to say that while I don't see firearms as particularly alluring, to this day I find their ... power, I guess ... oddly intriguing. I can see why people would want to own (and shoot) them, even though I'm not all that inclined to.

 

BTW ... I get credit for "strategic" vis-a-vis the NRA and the bump stock ...

 

Oh, I’d be interested in firing a shotgun or a handgun. Or, hell, a crossbow. But those big black semi-automatics? They just don’t do anything for me.

 

I'm with Lynyrd Skynyrd about throwing all handguns to the sea.

All I need are:
Shotgun
.22 semi rifle
Hi powered rifle (bolt)

Have no desire to buy anything else but perhaps one thing: an over/under double barreled shotgun for skeet and sporting clays.

 

The grenade launcher might be sexy, but apparently it's impractical: