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Just came back from the Phoenix gun show. It was PACKED! Guess people have been listening to the politics, and are rushing to stock up while they can. Alas, my First Arsenal kit didn't sell. So I shouldn't have bought that Enfield - but the rifle, 3 boxes of ammo and a carry case for just $100? You're just not gonna find a better deal than that. I love the Old Empire british stuff. Got 3 Enfields back in Iceland. A proper rifle should be heavy and solid enough to club someone with, if needed! All I need now is a Webley and a pith helmet...
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Fantastic deal for an excellent rifle! Seriously, get a matching bayonet - it is much scarier to opponents. My first centerfire handgun was a .455 Webley converted to .45ACP through the use of half-moon clips. That, too, is a very reliable and well made gun, and a lot of fun to shoot. You look great! Now buy a bayo that fits and take an even more intimidating picture.
Pretty strict. Iceland's gun culture is almost entirely based on hunting, as that's all we've used guns for. No army, and little crime. You can have all the long guns you want, except semiauto rifles. You can still get semiauto shotguns, though, strangely enough. You can get licensed for handguns, if you're in a gun club - but I never really had the time and money for that. Ammo is eyebleeding-inducing expensive in Iceland. There's a whole bunch of unlicensed handguns floating around, I'm told, but since they're not used in crime, nobody knows how many. Or cares, really.
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but isn't the point of a rifle to make sure the target never lives to get within clubbing range?
If I use up all my ammo on somebody and it dosen't stop them, I doubt something like a club will do anything beyond pissing them off more.
Then again, it might just be my German heritage wanting to get the job done efficiently, i.e. without having to use a projectile weapon as a melee weapon.
(Although, when the early firearms, or 'hand gonnes' took several minutes to reload, the German 'axe gonne,' is a logical improvement; when you CAN'T prevent them from getting into melee range, at least let the rifleman have a double-headed axe to protect himself with. Not to mention the intimidation effect, in its day, the axe gonne must have scored an 8 out of 10 on the badassometer, if not higher.)
If I use up all my ammo on somebody and it dosen't stop them, I doubt something like a club will do anything beyond pissing them off more.
Then again, it might just be my German heritage wanting to get the job done efficiently, i.e. without having to use a projectile weapon as a melee weapon.
(Although, when the early firearms, or 'hand gonnes' took several minutes to reload, the German 'axe gonne,' is a logical improvement; when you CAN'T prevent them from getting into melee range, at least let the rifleman have a double-headed axe to protect himself with. Not to mention the intimidation effect, in its day, the axe gonne must have scored an 8 out of 10 on the badassometer, if not higher.)
You can keep the Enfield. I'll settle for a whistle, so I can blow it and watch you guys go over the top and get mowed down...
Curiously, I just came back from a collector's show myself, only it was coins not guns. I bought 9 or 10 things for more money that I like to admit, though no one item ran over $75 I think, and most were quite a bit less.
Ah, the poetry of 3rd. century siliqua, Elizabethan silver, sceants from the viking kings of pre-Norman England, reform nummi from Byzantium, and 1953 issue Canadian paper bills! Bliss, bliss, bliss. I get to spend the rest of the night cleaning, cataloging, and putting away.
Curiously, I just came back from a collector's show myself, only it was coins not guns. I bought 9 or 10 things for more money that I like to admit, though no one item ran over $75 I think, and most were quite a bit less.
Ah, the poetry of 3rd. century siliqua, Elizabethan silver, sceants from the viking kings of pre-Norman England, reform nummi from Byzantium, and 1953 issue Canadian paper bills! Bliss, bliss, bliss. I get to spend the rest of the night cleaning, cataloging, and putting away.
Careful, man! Swing a gun like that and it's likely to go off and put lead in your belly. ;)
Seriously though, I suddenly got the image of Savage Squirrel fighting a big brawler type who was given an assault rifle by his boss and told to kill SS when he shows up. Said goon blows half a clip into the landscape unsuccessfully before deciding to say to hell with it and swing the damned thing at him like a club. The attack misses and the strike sets the gun off, shooting the thug.
Heh.
Seriously though, I suddenly got the image of Savage Squirrel fighting a big brawler type who was given an assault rifle by his boss and told to kill SS when he shows up. Said goon blows half a clip into the landscape unsuccessfully before deciding to say to hell with it and swing the damned thing at him like a club. The attack misses and the strike sets the gun off, shooting the thug.
Heh.
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