User:Sniperginger

I am a firearms enthusiast. Unfortunately I don't live in a country which openly distributes a variety of firearms so my only firing experience is with air rifles for which I have won a medal for being the top of my age range. However, I can identify firearms with much more ease than kids my age can identify phones although I tend to focus on the make rather than the model except in cases where the weapon design has been replicated many times like the 1911. My favourite weapon types are small arms, specifically automatic handguns. Although I affectionately call myself a gun geek (and I can bore my friends for days on weapon facts) my knowledge is very basic but I'm willing to learn. My view on firearms are that they aren't bad and they don't cause or drive people to crime rather that the people who use them illegally are bad and that firearms are simply weapons of opportunity that can kill or wound easily, much like how phones allow faster contact than letters, guns are just easier to kill someone with than a knife. One thing that ticks me off is when fims have unlikely placed firearms (like a cop with a .50) or a lack of knowledge which causes obvious goofs like my (least) favourite one in the British crime film snatch where someone with a Desert Eagle.50 fires seven rounds but the slide doesn't lock back. He reloads and racks the slide and then fires eight rounds. The Desert Eagle.50 only holds seven, eight when topped off but the character didn't and when he loaded a round no round was expended. The character's .50 still doesn't have a locked back slide but reloads again.