What is your mental picture of a "gun"?

[Deleted member 67409]

I think most people, regardless of whether they own guns or not, have a mental picture of what they think a gun should look like. Usually its something easily recognizable - ARs, AKs, handguns, shotguns, etc. I think this may also play into what people's first gun is - if someone sees and really wants an AR, they'll probably get one sooner rather than later.

For me, it was always been WW1 and WW2 era bolt action service rifles.

 

[whatluck]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIJvPj_pjE

 

[Picton]

M1911 first, FAL second, P.38 third. All because of toys that I or my GI Joe figures carried around when I was a kid.

 

[Reptile]

The one that is the emoji.

I think they deleted it.

Some sort of Colt snake gun. Silver with Black grip.

 

[DarthRevan]

It used to be the image of this:


When I was a kid and young adult, guns were kinda featureless to me. I didn’t really pay super close attention.

Now it’s usually pistols (shitty old Smith autos or home brewed Sat. Night Specials) when shootings are reported in the news.
When it’s people going to the ranges I think 15-22s, 10/22s and 320s or Shields for Joe Average.

Then I think of my friends and know they’re just flexing on the poors. While I do my best to kinda keep up lol.

I need a suppressor and NVs now…

 

[nutsym16]

M16a1

 

[Reptile]

M16a1

That’s what I call a rifle.

 

[enbloc]

"Polish Revolver"...

 

[uvholic]

Is it even a gun if it's not a gold plated AK in the hands of a West African warlord?

 

[Zappa]

"Polish Revolver"...

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The real joke here is that they need six rounds.^

 

[whacko]

For me it's always been a 1911

 

[TrashcanDan]

 

[DarkJoker33]

Old west style

Lever action
And revolver

Newer

Beretta 92
Hk mk 23
M1A
M1903A4 springfield(blame saving private ryan)

Edit forgot the smg

Hk ump

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[ldi]

I’ve tried changing it but it’s always AK

 

[murf4321]

 

[highlander]

Single action Colt revolver,Winchester lever action,Thompson SMG. Child of the tv westerns and Combat.

 

[Fetch]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f16XSB2cORg

 

[MisterHappy]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_urZ5KDPec

 

[Marty McFly]

 

[cjmass]

Winchester lever action rifle. or German Luger. (Once had a much loved Luger squirt gun!)

 

[NorthShore]

Too many WWII movies as a kid

 

[Welder1]

"Polish Revolver"...

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Matt, I take extra offense to this!

 

[Chevy 2 65]

 

[apander]

Anything made by John Browning !

 

[BTSDOG]

 

[Rocky Mosasaurus]

When I was in pre-k I cut an L-shaped gun out of construction paper and got in trouble, so for me with pistols it’s always been some ambiguous semiautomatic…hammer or no hammer. For rifles I always think about an M16 with a carrying handle, fixed stock, and grenade launcher because I owned a shitload of GI-Joes when I was younger. For a Shotgun I’m going with a simple pump, it resembles a Remington 870 every single time. Machine gun would be either an Uzi, a Mac-10, or an MP5 because they’re in a bunch of video games and action movies you can’t really avoid them being imprinted in your memory especially because of how relatively bizarre each of them look compared with other machine guns.

 

[SgtHal75]

M16a1 ( too many Vietnam movies) and a m9 Beretta, the preferred weapon of Officer Riggs and Officer MacClain.

 

[Broc]

 

[SHOCKNAWE]

Glock or AR unless I’m daydreaming then it’s this …

 

[tuna]

Colt 1873 SAA
Winchester 94
Side by Side shotgun