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user-inactivated  ·  2682 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FiveSplaining: Firearms (Interest Measuring)

Back a million years ago in the days when I hung out with, um, "interesting" people I was given the opportunity to fire a shotgun with a 12" barrel. Absolutely not legal, not at all. Here is the thing about that gun: with its home made pistol grip it fit perfectly under a coat and was not that much bigger than one of the stupidly large bore handguns that were popular a while back.

Put slugs in that gun and they went through walls. It also recoiled like a mule. Fire buck shot in that gun and everything in a 90° arc in front of you got hit by something, which is good because your arm is now pointing up and I took a few seconds to get the thing back level again for the second round. My guess is that the wad pushes the pellets out in a wider cone with a shorter barrel, but it has been forever and I'd have to look up someone who has video comparing a longer barrel to a shorter one.

I've owned guns, am currently around army people who live guns, and went with a few friends to this exact shoot. I'm probably in some of the video from the early evening rounds where they were just firing machine guns; we stayed for the tracer and cannon fire because I like firearms, tangentially, but these nuts? Lots of GOA stickers. For the uninitiated, the GOA, Gun Owners of America, is an off shoot of the NRA who thought that the NRA was a bit too liberal and tolerant for their tastes.