Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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). > >