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BAVBMW · #16 12-10-2013, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by engatwork

How do y'all know that monkey wasn't a terrorist?

Hey, now. That's racist! You can't go profiling monkeys like that.

MV

MTUpower · #17 12-10-2013, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Skippy

Found an article about the tiny revolver. It's real. However, with a 2 gr bullet at 400 fps, I have doubts as to whether it could even break skin.

World's smallest revolver doesn't have the world's smallest price

I think U.S. aviation security went beyond ridiculous years ago and shows no signs of improving.

Velocity and grain weight are not the end all for wound severity and mortality calculations. I know I would not want something traveling four hundred feet a second hit my eye, temple or any other part of my body. Nor would I want it to hit anything else inside a airplane at 30,000 feet.

aklim · #18 12-10-2013, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Txjake

so, you are telling me that you would be scared by a plastic, obviously toy, gun attached to a sock monkey?

Good point. I mean, nobody has ever or will ever try to put a weapon into a harmless looking thing. Who would say, put explosives into shoes or underwear, for example. How about a belt buckle with a gun?

Further to that, YOU and I both know it is highly improbable that it is a gun. If I put that to your head, would you be willing to take that chance that it isn't real? I wouldn't want to bet my expertise on it unless I had to. Now lets put that on somebody that DOESN'T know about guns. Think they want to take the chance it isn't real?

Jim B. · #19 12-10-2013, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by elchivito

Monkeys, sock or otherwise, have notoriously bad trigger finger etiquette. Better safe than sorry.

Especially if the monkey's name was GEORGE.

Not "Curious" George.

but George "Zimmerman".

macdoe · #20 12-10-2013, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Skippy

Found an article about the tiny revolver. It's real. However, with a 2 gr bullet at 400 fps, I have doubts as to whether it could even break skin.

World's smallest revolver doesn't have the world's smallest price

I think U.S. aviation security went beyond ridiculous years ago and shows no signs of improving.

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Originally Posted by MTUpower

Velocity and grain weight are not the end all for wound severity and mortality calculations. I know I would not want something traveling four hundred feet a second hit my eye, temple or any other part of my body. Nor would I want it to hit anything else inside a airplane at 30,000 feet.

Kids can buy those airsoft rifles over the counter at wally mart that shoot up to 600 fps....so what. An airplane hitting a seagull could probably do more damage to an airplane. Lets get rid of all the birds. I let my son shoot me with his 420 fps airsoft gun...yea it hurts and left a welt but it did NOT break the skin. (certainly would'nt want one in the eye though)

Ridiculous. Was someone feeling guilty that day and had to justify their job, or was it a "see how smart I am butch ...see see". whats next, lets take away everyones shoelaces cause they can strangle someone in the terrorists hands.

Talk about perpetuating the fear-mongering...The terrorists are laughing at you in their caves, guaranteed. Every time this kind of b.s happens they claim a small victory....and we have to foot the bill...by creating another job for some government waged moron to go "brainstorming".

I guess in a way its good to create jobs cause we're all losing ours as the same government sends our jobs off to China... Enjoy your American/Canadian raised chicken thats being sent all the way to China to be processed and then sent all the way back here for us to eat, cause it's cheaper that way. Pfft, Is'nt that where the bird flu came from?

And whats with the pictures that mis-represent the size of the bullets with respect to the size of the gun they are alledgley for. Probably more powder in a firecracker, that comes from China on an airplane.

cmbdiesel · #21 12-11-2013, 12:00 AM

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Originally Posted by macdoe

Kids can buy those airsoft rifles over the counter at wally mart that shoot up to 600 fps....so what. An airplane hitting a seagull could probably do more damage to an airplane. Lets get rid of all the birds. I let my son shoot me with his 420 fps airsoft gun...yea it hurts and left a welt but it did NOT break the skin. (certainly would'nt want one in the eye though)

Ridiculous. Was someone feeling guilty that day and had to justify their job, or was it a "see how smart I am butch ...see see". whats next, lets take away everyones shoelaces cause they can strangle someone in the terrorists hands.

Talk about perpetuating the fear-mongering...The terrorists are laughing at you in their caves, guaranteed. Every time this kind of b.s happens they claim a small victory....and we have to foot the bill...by creating another job for some government waged moron to go "brainstorming".

I guess in a way its good to create jobs cause we're all losing ours as the same government sends our jobs off to China... Enjoy your American/Canadian raised chicken thats being sent all the way to China to be processed and then sent all the way back here for us to eat, cause it's cheaper that way. Pfft, Is'nt that where the bird flu came from?

And whats with the pictures that mis-represent the size of the bullets with respect to the size of the gun they are alledgley for. Probably more powder in a firecracker, that comes from China on an airplane.

Couldn't have said it better.