Quote:okay my final words to you are words of peace and contentment
Well, that is very good, and
reciprocated by me,
but strangely, u have chosen to contradict yourself below.
Let me note that I 'd like to
supplement my last post to u,
in the following respect: I have
NO WISH to hurl an
empty threat (mt threat) at u by saying anything like
"if I had my way, I 'd have u put on a lethal hit list."
The actual honest truth is that if I
actually HAD my way,
and I coud get away with anything, fully devoid of any inconvenience, no matter what:
I 'd leave u intact and undisturbed, by me or anyone else,
recognizing in u the same right to an opinion as anyone else.
Quote:here's hoping on some beautiful day you're cleaning a gold plated revolver,
when you accidentally shoot yourself, your last thoughts,
as excrement rolls down your leg will be
oh ****, i've shot and **** myself
beautiful and golden enough for you
No; it seems an
odd thing to post--
a confused mixture of good wishes and curses.
Most of my guns r revolvers. Its impossible to clean them
without unloading them because u can 't run the bore snake
or the brush thru the chambers in the cylinder without removing
any obstructive cartridges or empty shells.
U don t even have access to the base (the receiver end) of the
barrel unless u swing out the cylinder (on the crane) of a double action revolver
or remove the cylinder entirely by extraction of its retention pin (its axis),
in a single action revolver. Therefore, either way, even if the hammer were to fall,
any cartridges that had not yet been unloaded from the cylinder,
woud be very far from accessible to the firing pin.
When cleaning an automatic, the first and easiest step is to remove
the magazine, which drops out with the push of a spring-loaded button.
When one does so, there is obviously a point of curiousity
as to whether or not there is a live round in the chamber.
Hence, one satisfies this curiousity by opening the breech.
If the chamber is loaded, then it is to be expected that the round
will be ejected by opening the breech, and come flying out.
Unless that happens, one 's gaze falls upon the chamber
to see whether the base of a cartridge is visible (very distinctive)
or whether u see the back end of an mt pipe.
One then proceeds to disassemble the pistol, to clean its working parts.
The cleaning process for either a revolver or an automatic
is not complicated. The only open question (applicable just to automatics)
is whether there is a round in the chamber, after dropping the mag.
Accordingly, whether or not a gun is plated with gold,
u have to be pretty stupid to discharge it accidentally during cleaning,
and as to revolvers: that is impossible.
Altho ******* is usually a very fine idea, much to be recommended,
if indeed, I had accidentally shot myself,
I 'd be very interested in visiting the E.R. of a hospital
ex post haste.
That is not the optimal time to be concerned with *******.
If that is one 's concern, one can inquire into it after being patched-up.
Note also that if I had accidentally shot myself with a revolver,
statistically my chances of survival woud be around 80%.
That is the approximate percentage of people who survive a gunshot wound.
I hope that I have addressed all of your posted concerns.
David
