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Rumours, half-truths and nonsense surrounding weapons / ordnance

Falcon

Falcon

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A friend of mine asked me the other day "So, if I wanted a gun, could I just walk into a gun shop, buy it and walk out with it?"

This once again rememided me that 99% of the public know absolutely nothing about this sort of thing, other than what they see on TV and in films.

So, what other rumours, half-truths and nonsense surrounding weapons / ordnance have you heard? The more ridiculous the better.
 
A shell found on a WW I battlefield is no more dangerous,.... it's old and rusted !


Yoda
 
Somebody is knocking on a projectile and said by the sound of it it must be empty.
 
@ Falcon, Did you see the good bit of over reaction in The Sun. .22 semi auto replicas of AR15`s being sold in the UK!! shock horror!! Now just open season for a massacre over here apparently!!?? Bloody press don`t have clue they just pander to the publics ignorance & what they percieve as what the public `need to know` on the back of freedom of speech & information. I`m all for freedom - both of speech & information (on most things) but only if the information is correct & the speech is not deliberately offensive with the aim of causing unrest or distress.
@ Ben - I had a 105mm BAT TP that I used as a doorstop - old party trick of mine was if someone came to one of my parties that didn`t know me asked what it was & if it was live I`d say `lets see` & start to bang it nose first on the concrete patio!! Poor sods used to pee their pants!! I know - with hindsight probably not clever - but at the time bloody funny for the spectators that knew me!
 
again one from work... "what sort of grenade is that ??"
reply " thats a no36 grenade"..
response "best look for the other 35 then" :banghead:
 
hicky1300 said:
@ Falcon, Did you see the good bit of over reaction in The Sun. .22 semi auto replicas of AR15`s being sold in the UK!! shock horror!! Now just open season for a massacre over here apparently!!?? Bloody press don`t have clue they just pander to the publics ignorance & what they percieve as what the public `need to know` on the back of freedom of speech & information. I`m all for freedom - both of speech & information (on most things) but only if the information is correct & the speech is not deliberately offensive with the aim of causing unrest or distress.



i had a rant on facebook about the same thing. .
Darrol.
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@Darroll - I decided to just be quiet when I read it. A case of `if I had to explain you wouldn`t understand` for me!
 
hicky1300 said:
@Darroll - I decided to just be quiet when I read it. A case of `if I had to explain you wouldn`t understand` for me!
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I know what you mean . .i normaly do same . .but i think im getting to that age were i just tell it how it is :)
 
Heard frequently during my Army/Police EOD callouts -
" The guy that found it says he was in the Army/Navy/Airforce and knows all about these things"
" We have put it in a bucket of water so its safe now"
" Its been sat beside the fire for years, dont know what all the fuss is about"

and after the item has been disposed of -

"bloody hell - I thought it was a dud"

" was it meant to do that?"

" the ones we had in the Army/Navy/Airforce never went bang like that - it must have been something different"
 
you can see why the public should be scared of 'semi automatic guns that look like those used to kill children' when we live in a country where it is ilegal to sell a plastic toy gun if its not bright red and you can buy a car before you can buy an air pistol.
 
@ 2pounder. Exactly. It`s all out of context. How many people know what semi-automatic actually means in the UK, against fully auto at the same time?
Guns are scary - that`s good that`s what makes you handle them responsibly & treat them with the respect deserved. It`s also why only the right people should have access to them. That`s why you have gun laws.
My sister in law is a headmistress, but she knows the wrong person with an implement that can be used as a weapon can do harm, the gun is an implement - it happens to be one that has been honed to do maximum harm with minimum effort. It doesn`t do it on it`s own, it is inanimate - it needs the idiot at the other end!
 
The less people know about a subject the more they feel like commenting on it...
 
heres a pic i took not long back . .34665_140062579354029_5982634_n.jpg this is how far its getting in the UK.
 
One day in the mid 1990s, in someone's house while on official business, one of our number found a 36 M grenade. It was handed to me when I asked to see it. There was a pin with attached ring in the top. To check safety I removed the base plug to see if there was a detonator assembly fitted. As I did so all of my colleagues bar one made a shouty, hasty exit of the room. The other chap looked at what I was doing with interest - there was no detonator assembly fitted and I screwed the base plug back on. I asked the other man why he had not run out of the room like the others and he replied that he knew what I was doing. One of those who had made off was a soldier during the first Gulf war but I guess he must have joined up after the 36 M was declared obsolete. The L2 grenade had replaced the 36 M by the time he had joined. I remember destroying some of the last remaining 36 Ms in 1983, as part of instruction on demolitions.
 
Weren't the 36 Ms designed for the detonators to be routinely removed before they went back into storage?
 
Our home secretary last year who stated that "weapons that are designed to shoot at moving targets are to be banned"
 
It would appear then that if you ask them to stand still in Holland you can then shoot them - works for me!! Very economical to as it will save on ammo!
 
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