Wikipedia tells us that ZZ Ward first performed Put The Gun Down on VH1 Big Morning Buzz Live with Carrie Keagen. And now, more than a year-and-a-half later, we know the appropriate line dance for the song. In Taiwan. If you’re line dancing alone. Anyway, American music travels well. There are more than a few gun-related songs out there, somewhere, inculcating the world to our pro-gun POV. What’s you favorite gun song? No points for Ted Nugent’s classic Kiss My Glock.
That commentator has clearly never seen before/after hunting photographs.
Um…. No offense to the TTAG staff, but who is Michael Holderer and when did he start, what’s his background, etc.?
In other words, a little background about the article’s author would be nice.
Lynyrd Skynyrd – God & Guns
Crossfire, by Jethro Tull
“Somewhere there are Brownings in a two-hand holds
Cocked and locked, one up the spout
There’s nothing for it but to sit and wait
For the hard men to get me out”
Big Iron, Marty Robbins
“Hey Joe” by Jimi Hendrix!!
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“Hey Joe where you goin with that gun in your hand?”
“Going to shoot my old lady, she’s been messin around with another man”
Hank Williams Jr a country boy can survive
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Since everyone’s linking to videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg
On that note, I love Aaron Lewis’s country boy and grandpa’s gun.
“I don’t (choose to) because the data shows that a gun in your house is more likely to be used against you or by one of your family members to commit suicide. I have five children that I don’t want to run that risk with.”
Read: I don’t because I’m to irresponsible to own one. Fin.
I have to pick just one? How about everything done by Fx Hummel1? http://www.youtube.com/user/fxhummel1/videos
+1 for FX_Hummel songs.
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, as performed by Kay Kyser. Good old times fun.
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
OK, everyone can stop now.
+1. First song that came to mind.
+1 What he said.
I Like Guns – Steve Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU
+1 from the DJ! 😀
This one is it.
Gimme back my bullets.
Skynyrd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8egE4x9Djo
Powderfinger Neil Young:
Look out, Mama,
there’s a white boat
comin’ up the river
With a big red beacon,
and a flag,
and a man on the rail
I think you’d better call John,
‘Cause it don’t
look like they’re here
to deliver the mail
And it’s less than a mile away
I hope they didn’t come to stay
It’s got numbers on the side
and a gun
And it’s makin’ big waves.
Daddy’s gone,
my brother’s out hunting
in the mountains
Big John’s been drinking
since the river took Emmy-Lou
So the powers that be
left me here
to do the thinkin’
And I just turned twenty-two
I was wonderin’ what to do
And the closer they got,
The more those feelings grew.
Daddy’s rifle in my hand
felt reassurin’
He told me,
Red means run, son,
numbers add up to nothin’
But when the first shot
hit the docks I saw it comin’
Raised my rifle to my eye
Never stopped to wonder why.
Then I saw black,
And my face splashed in the sky.
Shelter me from the powder
and the finger
Cover me with the thought
that pulled the trigger
Think of me
as one you’d never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone
Remember me to my love,
I know I’ll miss her.
Machinehead-Davidian
”LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!”
Weird Al- Triggerhappy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN6avab0fIY
Guns of Brixton – The Clash (London Calling, 1979)
http://youtu.be/wqcizZebcaU
This, ever since I lived there in the 80’s for awhile.
A couple of years ago at the LGS I dry fired the Mil-spec and the Range Officer back to back and the trigger on the Mil-spec was awful in comparison. The Range Officer was like breaking glass, the Mil-spec was like dragging the trigger across broken glass. I take it Springfield has massaged the trigger a bit since then.
The Mil-spec does have about the most attractive grips you’ll find on any gun.
Boom by POD
Ready or not!
Kicker Boys – Handgun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l015foc_Eg
I have a Mil-Spec and absolutely love it. Ditto on the accuracy.
I have only ever run into two issues. The magazines Springfield
sends are little better than surplus WWI/WWII mags. I was
getting a lot of FTF and stoppages, switched to some Ed
Brown’s and problem solved. Second, if you reload I found that
mine was a bit finicky with bullet type and seating depth. It took
a while to get everything just right, but once I did, again no more
problem. I’ve also noticed that mine tends to like heavier
bullets. It’ll shoot 185gr XTPs semi-wads etc without issue but it
does even better with 230gr bullets.
As far as the grip safety goes I think it’s more of a training and
experience problem. I have very large hands and have never
been bitten. Just remember you can’t brace up on the grip,
cramming your hand towards the slide and you’ll be fine.
My Little Armalite
http://youtu.be/nHY14OVk7r0
Oh man, the memories….
If movie themes count, then mine is Tombstone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=6Yh7Cdm2GgY
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner, Warren Zevon
Ding Ding Ding!!!
Hey Joe by Hendrix was my first choice!
Roland would be my second choice!!
Homeland security is buying it up and destroying it is the word I got from the last gun show. Why you ask, they lost on gun control so destroy ammo thus destroying the interest in shooting. The 22 LR is what every kid cuts his teeth on and if you ween the kid from shooting the interest down the road is lost. Give it some thought because the info came from a sheriff who seen the paperwork for the destruction of said ammo.
I really enjoy shooting my Springer and it’s never had a single bobble through thousands of rounds.
However, I don’t carry it concealed because I think it’s way too heavy for that.
I am looking for a Glock 30S to carry, though.
“Shotgun”
Junior Walker & the All Stars.
I just got done creating a “Gunny” playlist, although most of it is just general high-energy songs for when I’m about to murder some clay pigeons or something.
Gunpowder and Lead by Miranda Lambert is nice though.
1- The Highwaymen – The Devil’s Right Hand
2 – I always like the line the Robert Earl Keene song ‘The Road Goes On FOrever’ that the girl stepped into the alley with a single shot .410. I inherited a single shot .410 from my grandfather.
The Who, My Wife.
For our host:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLODU4d8vgE
How about most things by FXHummel?
One of my favorites is his Joe Biden parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4MZy2RMQQY
Two favorites would have to be “A country boy can survive” and “Bubba shot the jukebox”
The caseons go rolling along….. Go big or go home.
AC/DC – For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
Huh?
Third verse:
We’re just a battery for hire with a guitar fire
Ready and aimed at you
Pick up your balls and load up your cannon
For a twenty-one gun salute
For those about to rock – fire!
We salute you
OK it’s not the greatest but all the other good ones were already mentioned.
the problem with Metcalf is that he was 1. wrong. And 2. A statement(s) like that by a prominent member of the community just gives anti’s and opportunity to quote you out of context and misconstrue your meaning to achieve their own ends.
Compare “reasonable restrictions” of a specifically enumerated right with any discussion of “reasonable restrictions” on abortion….which is a totally fabricated right.
Gunz, by Dos Gringos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C5EsK1cpiw
A gun none of us will get to fire, and pray never gets fired at us. 😀
I SHOT THE SHERIFF… Bob Marley.
…but I didn’t shoot the deputy.
Non-point
bullet with a name on it
I am by no means a 1911 fanboy, but I do feel that everyone needs a 1911 for the collection.
It really is a timeless piece that is all too functional.
Machine Head, “Davidian”
“LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mWPPBW4DU8
Gunpowder and Lead – Miranda Lambert
With the hope that if my little girls ever have to do this, they will!
With that Disney-esque doe-eyed look, she’d better stay out of the forest during hunting season. Someone might mistake her for Bambi.
Stick some horns on her because she’s the Devil:
http://youtu.be/62Qfbrc1jdo
Can’t go wrong with bobaflex, between their single “bury me with my guns on” and thier leaser known “guns a blazing” they’ve got you covered
The same model has been for sale for the past few months at the Cabela’s in Lehi, UT as well. It doesn’t look any less terrible in person.
“Lawyers, Guns and Money” – Warren Zevon
Not necessarily my favorites but good/obscure ones that have been missed so far…
Banditos – The Refreshments
16 Shells From A .30-06 – Tom Waits
The Gunner’s Dream – Pink Floyd
Tommy Gun – Clash
Janie’s Got A Gun – Aerosmith
Could You Please Oblige Us With A Bren Gun – Noel Coward
Edit: Angry Johnny – Poe kinda fits too…
So he’s not a LEO-I wonder if he even has a CPL from NY State. The Times Union article quotes one of his underlings as saying this guy is allowed to carry his pistol in Albany and New York City. Allowed by whom I don’t know as Albany does not have city-specific licensure. I’m not sure what in the world this guy is talking about, but having lived in New York State years ago I know that its senior appointees and elected officials can be masters of obfuscation
Sometimes there are just no words.
Finland Red, Egypt White by the Sisterhood. (Sisters Of Mercy)
http://youtu.be/YqUYqcm173U
Well, I waited and waited for someone to note this one. The resonant voice of Johnny Western…Ballad of Paladin ….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgvxu8QY01s
Displaying a weapon in such a way as to cause alarm…he didn’t inadvertently display a holstered pistol, this guy lased his audience in a business meeting. And using a Glock as a laser pointer is not the action of a rational person. I mean this sincerely, I wonder if his stroke has affected his reason and decision making.
I feel like a bullet (in the gun of Robert Ford) – Elton John
ZZ Ward – Put the Gun Down
http://youtu.be/5chkHjTNFgk
Scooter and rip already mentioned Miranda Lambert. I saw her concert last June, and she opened it with a wonderful video montage of women wielding guns, mostly women in movies an tv. Post-Newtown, it seemed very transgressive, in a good way.
I’m bettering that shes one of those that doesn’t know anything factual about the use of firearms but claims to be an expert and highly knowledgeable.
Robert Johnson – 32-20 Blues –
She got a 38 special, and it do very well
Yes a 38 special, it do very well
But my 32-20 , it’s a burnin’ hell
Well, if she get’s unruly, says she won’t do
Well, she get’s unruly, says she won’t do
Get my 32-20, cut her half in two
Doc Boggs – Wild Bill Jones –
He said, my age it is just twenty-one
Too old for to be controlled
So I drew my revolver
Up from my side
I destroyed that poor boy’s soul
Mississippi John Hurt – Stagolee
Boom-boom, boom-boom, Went the forty-four
Next thing, ol’ Billy DeLyons was lyin’ dead on the floor
Oh, that bad man, cruel Stagolee
Clarence Ashley – Little Sadie –
Went out one night just to make a little round
Met little Sadie and I shot her down
Went back home, got in to bed
With a forty-four smokeless under my head
Memphis Jug Band – Good Time Charlie –
Got a thirty-eight special
On a forty-four frame
How can I miss when I got dead aim
Good time Charlie’s back in town
Bully Of The Town – Leadbelly (the original one) –
Got me my razor
Got me my gun
Gonna’ cut him if he stand here,
Shoot him if he run
Lookin’ for that bully of the town
That Crazy War – Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers –
McKinley called for volunteers
Then I got my gun
First Spaniard I saw comin’
Dropped my gun and run
From that war, that crazy war
Why are you runnin’?
Are you afraid to die?
The reason why I’m runnin’
Is because I cannot fly
From that war, that crazy war
I could keep this up all day. I have a couple of centuries worth of folk songs to call on, here, but I’m getting tired of typing.
Hey ‘Belly, you is the hippest dude here! +1000 each for Gid Tanner and Clarence “Tom” Ashley!
I mean, DAMN!!!
“Bang! Bang!” by Sammy Davis, Jr.
When LeBron hits the perp he wants nothin’ (left) but net.
Can we have and RKBA win of the day? Or RKBAWOD maybe RKBA WOD?
I think the separate WOD might get you some cross traffic from cross fitters, eh, eh, whaddayathink?
Machine Gun
by Jimi Hendrix
Gotta’ love Glocks. Now I’m waiting for the practical/tactical 10MM. C’mon, Glock. Hope to it.
I’d go with DA Thirty Point Buck by Bananas at Large. http://youtu.be/DZOC1QXTQLk
Glocks better be perfection, because in a sense they only make one gun. Sure they come in different calibers, and various length barrels and hand grip lengths, but they’re all basically the same gun. When compared to “real” gun manufacturers that makes different types of firearms of various designs, Glock looks like a one trick pony.
When demand fades for polymer framed striker-fired pistols, and it likely will at some point, Glock too will fade.
Somehow the fact that a super-rich guy can afford to rent some time with a full-auto rifle at an expensive urban firing range doesn’t feel like a win to me.
On the other hand it is fairly pleasant, picturing various smarmy prohibitionists squirming with discomfort caused by LeBron-and-wife’s ballistic fun. Oh, dear. What if the proles start thinking guns are…gasp…okay?
By that sense we should have politicians answer questions about firearms before they are allowed to enact any new laws.
Don’t sell to them. Actually hand them a box of straws and napkins. See if they can figure that out.
Job well done. Another Hero. Why isn’t this on CNN?
Did we all miss this part; “Police believe the four men knew each other, which makes it a good bet that the armed robbers knew exactly what they were looking for”?
So, our DGUser is probably not the most upstanding citizen. Not to say he doesn’t deserve the right to defend himself. But I don’t put near as much stock in DGU by a possibly less than upstanding citizen as I do Joe Suburbanite doing it.
I though that no-knock raids were designed to give the advantage of surprise to officers who are raiding criminals who are known to fight back, reducing the chance of police injury/death. From the presented information, I don’t think a no-knock raid was a valid approach. It does not however in any way mean that Magee would have reacted any different, nor that all the officers would have survived/avoided injury.
I want to sit on this jury.
Going to shoot tomorrow morning, and have been trying for the past 2 weeks without success (when the weather wasnt THAT shitty ha). Either way, nice to get some pistol and rifle shooting in, even if it is on a private OFWG square range 😀
Hey guys, my finger wasn’t on the bang-bang button thingy so lighten up.
Sadly, since that collection is larger than mine, Ill categorize it as a “small arsenal”. and the Tavor makes me very jealous as well ha.
All arsenals need at least 1 belt fed happy time maker to be classified as an arsenal imo 😀
or you can arm your own militia, thatd probably be an arsenal also.
I have one of the double blast spinners, and regularly shoot everything at it from .22lr to 7.65X54r. The thing has held up pretty well, and is a blast to shoot with .40 S&W or 9mm at close range. Two drawbacks, however: The first is that it is an absolute PITA to get anchored well enough in rocky soil that it doesn’t fall over, which I solved by welding it to two big commercial rough mower blades at the shot. And the second issue I’ve had with it is that even at 200 yards, a .300 Win Mag blasted a 1/2″ hole right through the center of it. Also welded the hole back up. So if you have access to a welder and a little bit of creativity, the Double Blast is a worthy adversary.
Majority of states seem to be saying F* the overreaching federal government, but those states that are going dark are freaking going pitch black.
I’ve seen pics of bulged cases from the bullet being inserted crooked in the case. The first pic was from over pressure, or brass with the hole too big….
IMHO it is the hurry to crank out ammo that has many companies missing obvious defects in manufacturing not to mention the proliferation of internet use by gun owners.
Another fact is that in our mass produced world folks are hired because they can take instructions and produce profit. It’s about cheap and fast not about craftsmanship, quality and PRIDE! Welcome to the ‘Global Marketplace!’
With the name “ShootingTheBull410” I would have thought the Taurus Judge was the first review. Anyone else?