since kids aren’t usually allowed to train with guns… were they all training with their parents before? or is it not that hard, so can any person with no expirience technically just pick up a gun and start shooting people?

(asking not 4 myself obvs, just out of curiosity)

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thank you for your take! American gun nuts tend to think Europeans can’t own a weapon, at all. Funny enough, what you’ve described is most of my gun collection. A dozen shotguns, mostly single shots and vintage/antiques. Loads of .22s, but my wife’s Walther .22 is a total POS! How funny is that? And yes, American hunting rifles are typically bolt-action. I think there are a couple of states where it’s illegal to hunt with an AR platform? The rounds are too wimpy for clean kills. (That’s a joke meme.)

    • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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      1 day ago

      I can’t say I have any experience with Walther’s PDWs, but their sporting pistols are - while expensive - beautifully machined and crafted devices. Completely impractical for anything else obviously, but then, .22LR wouldn’t exactly be the caliber of choice for self-defense anyway - nor would pistols with very inconvenient shapes, no safety, deliberately added weight for recoil compensation and very, very sensitive triggers, e.g. 1000g or 1360g. I certainly wouldn’t want to walk around with one strapped to me in a holster.

      Most people here tend to shoot only unjacketed .22 for sports in any case - much less barrel wear, less cost and it’s not like anything more is needed to penetrate a paper target anyway.

      There’s a number of stringent requirements for secure storage that makes most people just lease room for storing privately owned weapons at the range, and would, even if they did bother obtaining a certified gun safe, make it completely impractical to actually use the weapon for self-defense. I believe privately held weapons are supposed to be stored with the firing pin removed and stored separately, if possible. The same goes for transport.

      Frankly, even if a person owns a gun, they’re much better off just getting a metal baseball bat if they’re concerned about home invaders.