Is it me or has Kyle slipped out of ironic self-parody into something roughly akin to real gun reviews? Gunblast without the beard, with a slow motion camera and some cheap targets. I thought the whole point of the FPS schtick was that the faux Russian wasn’t your average YouTube gun guy. That he was “reviewing” guns purely in terms of their ability to create ballistic mayhem. The destruction and explosions were the point of the exercise – not whether or not the guns were well-made or reliable. In Russia well-made gun shoots you. Like that. The fact that Kyle pulls a Wizard of Oz on the burning car in the background tells me he’s lost his lust for life. Hey FPS. Screw Twitter. Hit me up at [email protected] to produce your Elvis Comeback Special. I love you, bro.
Your car is potentially lethal. Your baseball bat is potentially lethal. Your scissors in your drawer are potentially lethal. You talk of “interpretation of human law, human rights, human dignity, the morality of, the sense of religious entitlement of, the ego of –– and numerous other sociological and psychological concerns about whoever picks that inanimate object up”, but you fail to acknowledge that anyone can pick up any potentially lethal object and use it. You also fail to recognize that my rights stop where your rights begin. There is a punitive system in place for when people in a civilized society fail to accept/follow that.
1) In order to drive a car, we need to pass a driver’s ed program, pass a licensing exam, follow a plethora of (because we share the road with so many other driver, pedestrians, driving safety hazards, and so on) It’s also required that we are insured.
2) Walking down the street with a baseball bat dressed in a three piece suit might draw some attention – and even make you the subject of a little questioning of an authority. Walking into a bar or party with a baseball bat will certainly get you some attention.
3) Scissors. Very likely the first really stern warning many of us received from our parents.
And John, the French came up with the one: my rights stop where your rights begin. One inherent problem with guns are, someone can aiming to violate your rights from a place so far away, the thought of defending yourself will have never even crossed your mind.
And Dear Mr. Mike – One paragraph at a time.
How can you insist that I have defined a side in this discussion –– are you saying a subject as complex as this has only two sides? I’d rather compare our discourse to a Rubik’s Cube, and plead for patience on everyone’s part while we work this very multi-sided puzzle out.
You say we already have 26,000 laws on guns, gun owners, and how we are allowed to handle guns. My numbers may be inaccurate in more ways than one –– but for the sake of making my point, I’ll risk inaccuracy: 26,000 laws divided into the three categories you mentioned = 8,666. If we divide those three categories by the 7 main gun categories (Hunting guns, Tank guns, Artillery guns, Auto-cannon guns, Handguns, Machine Guns, and Military Firearms), we get 1,238. Apparently, each of those seven main categories contain 17 types of guns (?) …… being lenient with you, I’ll divide 1,238 by seventeen once. That equals 72.8. …. I think you can see where I’m going with this. And, again, I know I am being lenient: http://goo.gl/UYdLpk.
I don’t know much about the confiscations. My guess it has to do with types of weapons, calibers and people’s backgrounds or present mental stability. I’ll have to take your word on that one.
And now your last paragraph. That one bugs me as well. Nobody is saying anything about taking away your guns. Look at the law which just passed in California –– and they are nothing but a bunch of Pinko Commies out there –– The right to arm ourselves is understood and generally respected. The caliber of which we arm ourselves is still debated. Shall we allow anti aircraft artillery to be planted in our front yards? Shall we begin walking down the streets shouldering M2s? Would you mind if law permitted your neighbor to build a silo for a nuclear missile, which, by the way is aimed at you……you do have guns, and he has the right to protect himself. What about our children. Should I pack a derringer in my nine year old’s lunch tomorrow?
From what I can determine the previous comment, according to everyone in this chat the answer is “yes”.
I’ve never really been impressed with him or his video’s. And this one is no let down.
There wasn’t much gun review from a technical point of view. He’s even having trouble doing the fake accent well. I don’t understand what people liked about the old FPS. I really don’t understand what’s to like with the current version.
Martin, Judging by your description of DAO and bobbed hammer, 4″ barrel and the photo (round cylinder stop, shape of thumb latch), there is a very good chance this was an NYPD service revolver “issued” in the late 1980’s, just before the switch to 9mm semi-autos.
NYPD mandated DAO for new recruits around 1987 or 1988 after a perpetrator under arrest was accidentally shot by an officer who had cocked his/her DA/SA revolver. The bobbed hammer prevented any attempt at cocking, and the action was changed internally so there was no cocked position on the sear, even if an enterprising officer managed to pull the hammer back.
It was also a departure from the blued-only policy.
“Issued” because NYPD did not provide guns to its officers. Officers bought their own guns from a limited list of authorized firearms.
Waste of IQ
Oh, Wait!
I want for M&P9c
Back when I was a kid we put on a pair of goggles and shot at each other with real BB guns.
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[I said “put on a pair of goggles” in case my mom is reading this.]
It is really simple to counter that argument. I have done so with local police in public forums only to have them STFU. I asked them plainly in simply, if I am in a situation where someone has drawn a gun on me and my life is in danger can you guarantee 100% of the time that police will show up before I am shot and killed? If a person is in my house with a gun and I call 911, will the police arrive and stop the intruder before my wife or daughter or myself are shot dead? How many rapes do the police stop every year before they occur? And finally, since this is CT, I ask — where were the police in the home invasion of the Petit Family in Cheshire (for those who don’t know, waiting outside watching the house burn). So far I am 3 for 3 in having in the Chief of PD STFU. I also come with print outs of every court case where it was upheld that the police have no duty to respond and ask them how to counter the fact that they have no duty to respond.
“I think concealed carry permits should be handed out subjectively with an objective standard. I would much rather they rely on us.”
Short version: If you’re not cop, you’re little people.
I have a (significant, to me at least) gap in my collection (we’ll call it that) for a 4″ Model 66. Looks like it might be time to fill that unsightly gap. I’m not a purist and would happily fill it with a re-released pistol. My 6″ 19-3 is without fail my favorite revolver and has a place in my heart next to my CZ 75s. It is that good.
I know Model 19/66s have a rep for stretching, though I’ve never encountered anyone who experienced it. But it is a testament to the K frames that people actually *do* wear them out from shooting them *that* much. Granted, I save really hot magnum rounds for my Ruger Blackhawk, which shoot less because at the end of the day, really hot magnum loads have so much more blast and noise. I probably shoot lighter loads in my Model 19 at a ratio of 30-1 to hot magnum loads in my Ruger. Hel, that Model 19 is why I started hand loading so I could afford to feed it.
Maybe it’s an age think, but a great semi-auto is a great tool, but a great revolver is more like a member of the family. That old Model 19 sits in a drawer next to me as I type this. It’s never far away and never will be.
Mice have ears and the walls have mice.