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Yes, in bootcamp. Haven't shot a gun since though.
What branch? The minimum when I served was once a year.
Yes, in bootcamp. Haven't shot a gun since though.
Why are you buying your first gun andwhat type of gun? Do you plan to learn how to use it?Off to buy my first next weekend. Been meaning to for ages, never thought I would feel the need to.
What branch? The minimum when I served was once a year.
Yeah, I maintained 9mm and shotgun quals my whole 20 years, with .45 in there early on and AR-15 a few years injected in there.What branch? The minimum when I served was once a year.
Sure is possible in the Navy, but on a Submarine, everyone is part of the reaction force to defend the ship so had to maintain quals. After 9-11 (I think that was the catalyst, it may have been the attack on the USS Cole. IDK, I'm old and forgetful), they upped the number of armed watch standers while in port, so as the engineering department duty supervisor (or the roving mechanical watch) you would have to be armed as well as the topside access security watch. And prior to that, in a total Barney Fife way, the armed watch would have ammo but not in his gun. After that 2 topside watches and 2 below decks watches were always armed with actual loaded weapons.Yeah but you're a Jarhead. "Every Marine is a rifleman"
In the USCG it is possible depending on your rating and or career path to never fire a weapon after basic. I might hazard to guess Navy and Airforce are similar?
Very good points sir.plus it looks fuckin ridiculous. strings everywhere, wheels and shit. bro, i'm trying to shoot a sharp stick further, not direct a laser beam from Mars. gtfoh with all this fancy shit that's just going to get tangled in tree branches and bushes. i'm a simple man, i hunt with a knife and a bunch of dogs. but i respect archers who use bows like our ancestors did. all this fancy shit just gives me vibes that there's more points of failure or something to go wrong than the simple bows.
Sure is possible in the Navy, but on a Submarine, everyone is part of the reaction force to defend the ship so had to maintain quals. After 9-11 (I think that was the catalyst, it may have been the attack on the USS Cole. IDK, I'm old and forgetful), they upped the number of armed watch standers while in port, so as the engineering department duty supervisor (or the roving mechanical watch) you would have to be armed as well as the topside access security watch. And prior to that, in a total Barney Fife way, the armed watch would have ammo but not in his gun. After that 2 topside watches and 2 below decks watches were always armed with actual loaded weapons.
Yeah but you're a Jarhead. "Every Marine is a rifleman"
In the USCG it is possible depending on your rating and or career path to never fire a weapon after basic. I might hazard to guess Navy and Airforce are similar?
I grew up hunting, so plenty of experience shooting long guns. First shot pistol at basic, sucked with it, bought one so I could get better and carried when qualifying for a boarding team. Then aced the shotgun course, so when we did any high risk boarding, I always got the 12 gauge. Shot expert on the m16 but never was in a situation where I had to carry aside from force protection drills.
Was also a mounted m60 gunner (dating myself) then m240 before I advanced myself out of the gunner spot to mount captain on a ship.
Then got into working buoys and haven't fired a gun for the CG in years, but still shoot for fun/hunt when I go home to Michigan.
So your a felon and you now can’t own a gun. Wow, what a travesty. I’m sure you were completely innocent of the crime of which you were convicted.Sure, I just like making up going to prison just so i can complain that that my state doesn't allow american citizens to own a gun if they ever got a felony on their record.
So your a felon and you now can’t own a gun. Wow, what a travesty. I’m sure you were completely innocent of the crime of which you were convicted.
But almost all of America agrees that felons shouldn’t be allowed to own firearms.
I used to shoot regularly for many years, especially when I owned an AK 47 and an AR-15. I sold them a few years back because I stopped going to the range. I still have my Springfield 1911 but haven't shot it in years.