#shooting'

[dvckaroo]

[impactevent]

has anyone seen the natural selection movie on netflix? what a tremendous waste of time. idk how you can make a school shooting movie boring of all things but they managed admirably

[captnwildchild]

Prayers to the orlando shooting ;___;

[zedonist]

 THERE'S A REASON THAT THEY'RE CALLED ASSAULT WEAPONS, YOU MOTHERFUCKING REPUBLICAN ASSHOLES. THEY ARE 

MEANT TO

DESIGNED TO

MADE TO 

INVENTED FOR

BORN TO

CREATED TO

MOTHER FUCKING

ASSAULT.

There is no defense on earth or in heaven or in any goodly landscape that can plead that assault weapons are allowable to the general public on the ground of protection when their sole purpose is to assault. 

I am sickened. 

[spidersvise]

Why I like guns and shooting so much, a discussion I just had with my SO

God dangitt, I really want to fire an automatic weapon.

"Why?"

Because why not? Spraying a bunch of metal at a target. Obliterating it in seconds. Feeling the repeated punch on your shoulder. And the usual stuff I talk about, like the brass singing while it flies through the air and clinks when it hits the ground.

And the sound, the roar of gunfire echoing across the landscape. That biting staccato.

"You word things so artfully."

Shooting is an art to me. So that figures. It's a skillful execution, firing. It's not as simple as putting a hole in a paper target. That's like saying drawing is as simple as putting granite on paper. It takes skill, effort, a sincere understanding of what you're holding in your hands. Not just a weapon, but a tool. Something very carefully engineered and assembled.

"I never thought of it like that."

This is an MG-42 Maschinengewehr. http://www.gunco.net/gallery/data/500/mg42-3.jpg German for "machine gun". The 42 stands for the year it was designed, 1942. To this day it's still a weapon with one of the fastest fire rates in existence, firing as many as 1,500 rounds per minute. That's 25 bullets per second. It has to pull a bullet into itself, just one at a time, hit the primer with a pin, eject the casing with each shot.

It fires so fast that the barrel needs to be replaced after every few firing cycles or else it will melt. http://www.precise3d.com/warehouse/images/images_big/MG3-02i.jpg

"That's all it's made out of?" Yes.

"How does it shoot so fast?"

Isn't that a good question? How does it do that? How is anyone able to figure out how to fit all these little pieces together in such a manner that they all mesh in a small package, and work in concert to spit out 20+ bullets per second without exploding?

How does a watchmaker make a device that counts seconds, minutes, that only has to be recalibrated every ten years? This is just one gun. I've only shared one example. When I see a gun, I don't see a killing machine. I see this magnificently engineered piece of working art.

So you ask me "why do you want to shoot?" Why does a guitarist covet the chance to play an original '50s Fender Stratocaster? Why does a driver want to drive a 1960 Ford Mustang? Why does a violinist desire to play a Stradivarius violin? Why do you as an artist want to use a certain brand of pen or marker? It's the chance to do something with a tool that can do brilliant things.

Please note I was not talking about killing. I was talking about target shooting. Bottles, paper targets, skeets, etc.