Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, I can understand the fascination, and I recognise that shooting can be a sport--after all, a flavour of it (skeet) is even in the Olympics, I think. When I was in my late teens in Denmark, I sometimes went with a friend to a shooting club in our hometown and fired some rounds of target practice. I just used a borrowed pistol, but the people who were really into the sport did own their handguns. BUT?they never left the club. Each member had a kind of safe deposit box there, and the gun and ammo were kept there. They never left the premises of the club. This was logical since a handgun has only two purposes: to shoot target practice, which one did at the club; or to kill other people, which is not allowed. So there was no need to take the gun out of the club. Cheers, Nathan On 19 Oct 2013, at 06:08, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote: > Sonny, > It is very difficult to get one's head around this "need" when one has > not even touched a gun in the whole 61 years of one's life, and never > really felt the need to touch one, either. Cultural differences, I > guess, but from my perspective this is one I cannot understand the > need at all. I am totally against hunting animals for sport as well, > so that accentuates the divide..... > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: >> Jay, >> Times have changed and so have I, but I've owned a Walther P38 (WWII) >> and a Walther PPKS (James Bond's pistol). I rarely fired either of them, >> almost always at our family farm. >> >> I did not own them for protection; I truly was fascinated by the >> mechanics. >> >> I traded one for the other, then sold the PPK when I needed to pay some >> bills. >> >> I now own three firearms; a shotgun, a 22 rifle and a 22 pistol. I've not >> seen any of them for several years, and the last time we used them was at >> the range, (I think I posted those pix) >> >> I'm pretty ambivalent about the issue when it comes to small arms like I >> own. I really don't understand, and get aggressive when the machine is >> very automatic and has a clip with a multitude of bullets. I don't know >> why anyone needs that, (surely not hunters). >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/