What gun myths did you first believe before you started military service / used a firearm in combat? I'll start.
>using silencers for home defense because they're cool
>.22lr will bounce around in skull
What gun myths did you first believe before you started military service / used a firearm in combat? I'll start.
>using silencers for home defense because they're cool
>.22lr will bounce around in skull
The biggest gun myth is that guns exist.
bullshit my uncle works for remington and has seen so many guns, they definitely exist.
Your uncle is lying to you.
How's weather in the UK?
I live in bulgaria
>What gun myths did you first believe before you started military service / used a firearm in combat? I'll start.
you just alienated 99.9% of /k/ all the hasserved left years ago.
Where did they go?
Somewhere better.
afghanistan, mostly, some of them are stationed in Europe tho
College, personally.
That people in the military know how to use guns
once saw someone who served in the army shoot at a ~2 x ~2 ft paper target from like 10 ft away with a pistol. maybe even closer than that
shots ALL over the target kek. like edge to edge. was ridic
Well most units only go to the range once a year, and MPs are the only units that regularly practice pistol Marksmanship. Being in the military just means have at least shot a gun before, not that you're good at it. Don't know why that's so ridiculous to you.
He probably never pistol qualed, many don't.
A Cpl i used to work with during summer told me that 9mm was more powerful than 5.56 because it was bigger
And you think he's wrong? Hah, silly child.
Facts
That being good with a gun is enough to succeed in combat.
Comms, command and control, tactics, and good SOP's that people actually know and adhere to are far more important than marginal differences in the size of groups you print when you zero
Luck too. A lot of luck. It's unbelievable how easy it is to die to bullshit you never saw coming.
PDWs are useful against armor.
Also this
that guns don't kill people, people kill people. but as it turns out, it's the guns. the guns are the thing that kill people.
The military and police are where I hear the most fuddlore at this point.
Actually it's not, it's the bullet.
Unless of course you're clubbing the victim with the gun when it's then definitely the gun.
no really its air support that kills people
American has the most powerful military in the world.
I don't want them to hear a RaGiNg DrAgOn, I want them to die. Turns out bullets are a lot faster than sound so I'll keep the can thanks.
That guns are loud
guns get quieter the more you use them, takes a little break in period
>What gun myths did you first believe before you started military service / used a firearm in combat?
that getting shot hurts
That they would fill the sadness in my heart.
I thought most dedicated shooters were into reloading since dad and grandpa did it. Turns out, it's relatively uncommon. Anyway, I still enjoy it.
>I thought you could reload a machinegun while just holding it standing like in the vidya games.
>I've done it with a 249, it's not impossible, you're just juggling a lot of shit.
>With a 240B it's damn near impossible.
>I also thought a 40mm grenade had a much bigger boom.
Did 6 years in the Mreens and I've been in the Guard for 5. All as a POG. Aircrew in the Mreens and 88M in the Guard.
>Aircrew in the Mreens
is that like a crewchief? What'd you do?
Crew chief is in change of the Aircrewman. Usually a SSGT. I was part of a CH-53E crew. Mostly I worked the left gun or unloaded and loaded troops and cargo. Pumped fuel. Stood watch when we landed somewhere weird. Made altitude call outs when we were sling loading something. Helped with the hoist. I'm sure there's more but that's what I remember off the top of my head.
I remember the first time I used a pump shotgun ejecting an unspent shell because I thought you needed to fully pump it before firing.
Well you do to load a round and wiener the hammer.
Why would you not use a silencer for home defense?
I've actually heard guns go off inside a house before, right fricking next to me, and I can't imagine trying to keep it together while firing at a home invader.
A silencer might not make it Hollywood quiet, but at least it would do something to improve your odds of functioning in a life or death scenario.
I mean wouldn't it be true for any round to "bounce"? Many combat medics or emt talk about treating rounds from 556 to 9mm impacting the chest and coming out the armpit or neck
>What gun myths did you first believe before you started military service / used a firearm in combat? I'll start.
a .50 bullet bzooiiiing 30cm away from your body make you explod because of the blast
The classic Hollywood "shot in the shoulder, still perfectly fine" trope. Turns out that damage to the subclavian artery isn't a wound that can be shrugged off.
haha nice
>Grenades are really powerful, clearing out rooms and blowing limbs off
Grenade shrapnel is tiny, it'll hit and pepper you but unless it's within a few yards it won't kill somebody wearing any kind of armor. 40mm is even worse - even if it lands within arm's reach it's a tossup whether it actually deals a mortal blow or if it just rings your bell in armor.
I beg to differ on the 40mm. I put a few through windows in my time and can say they are most certainly very lethal. I also captured hajis who had been freddy mike-miked and, yeah, they survived, but they were writhing around in the dirt full of holes and leaking like a sieve. If they hadn't been given our level of medical attention upon capture they woulda either bled out or died to sepsis.
CQC isn't cool. It's incredibly dangerous and something that must be avoided at all costs. If you have to enter a building to clear it you fricked up. A problem can and should be solved from outside, before you're forced to go in.
I thought you needed to be smart and it turned out that everyone im "gun culture" is basically a high school D student
When I was a kid, I thought the forward assist was a port for 40mm grenades. I also thought serrations the slide represent how many rounds it can hold.
Was a muhrheen. I thought missiles made this big whooshing noise and sailed leisurely to the target. Turns out they make a bigass blast and just frick off outta that tube fast as hell.