Things You Believed as a Kid

ITT: Things you believed about firearms as a kid
>full-auto meant a gun could fire completely autonomously at random
>semi-auto meant the same thing but only if a person was holding it
>Gas-operated meant the gun ran off of gasoline

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>Magnum bullets were the size of D batteries
>shotguns were superior to rifles in every way
>golden guns could kill in one shot
>the Marine Corps were special forces

There was a point where I thought pistol magazines were just bricks of lead and it was turning it in to bullets inside the gun and firing it with each pull of the trigger

>the military was made up of the elite and most competent people of society
>the military was an honorable career that deserved people's respect
>modern combat was mostly made up of guys shooting at each other in close quarters

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>But user those people are TRAINED to use such dangerous weapons of war! How could anyone possibly compete with their EXPERT MILITARY TRAINING?

>shotguns were superior to rifles in every way
what brought you to this conclusion?

Spread hits more of the body than one bullet

>an organized army can easily beat a ragtag militia

>clips were magazines and magazines were catalog listings you would read

>all guns fire blaster bolts like in star wars
>the whole cartridge is fired
>the more holes the gun has, the deadlier it is
>bullets travel forever around the earth until they hit something
>you have to line up the reticles in a scope and if you have a scope, you'll always hit the target
>red dot sights just have a useless little glowing dot on the glass and you have to line it up with the barrel or something
>assault rifles use electric motors to fire in full auto mode

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>a bullet fired straight into the air will go into space

>you can legally buy any weapon in the US as a normal person, ie full auto, RPGs, mines, miniguns, etc.

>the more holes the gun has, the deadlier it is
pic related
>the horror

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>gas operated meant the gun had a gasoline tank and that helped fire faster

>hear "gas operated"
>smart enough to realize what kind of gas it is
>the thought that you could just drill a hole in the barrel didn't make any sense
>what about a sort of chamber on the muzzle to collect the gas
>look it up
mfw I re-invented the gas trap action at 14

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>damn that's a pretty thick looking barrel, the bullets must be huge
>the power of the bullets would make the barrel explode if it didn't have all those ventilation holes

>you fire the entire bullet, casing and all
>gas operated meant you had to add gas to the gun for it to function

>Old school armies were retarded because they would just line up in a big fancy row wearing stupid clothes making themselves a bigger target for the enemy

I thought only machine guns had those type of barrel shrouds, and if it didn't have those holes, it didn't shoot full auto.

The only exception to this was a minigun.

t. 9 year old me

>assault rifles use electric motors to fire in full auto mode
i also thought this kek. When i found out how guns were actually cycled i was blown away by the ingeniuty of the design and the idea of using the gas created during firing to cycle the gun.

>submachine guns are for shooting underwater

I thought that fire rate directly correlated with bullet size.

>Countries should have borders
>There are only 2 genders
>We're all equal

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You sick bastard, how retarded were you as a kid?

>Submachine guns were design to be used in subways.

>the military should use BB guns because they're so quiet

>the military has always been taught to fire from the hip

>Silencers actually made the gun really hard to hear

>gas powered
>where does the CO2 canister go?

The fast food place or the public transport?

>shotguns ripped through armor easily
>gas operated meant it operated on CO2 gas, like some airshit guns
>magnum pistol cartridges were more powerful than rifle cartridges
>bullet casings go around the entire bullet, and when the gun is fired the bullet breaks through the shell of brass
>clip
>suppressors made guns completely silent
> dual wielding handguns was a viable tactic
>helmets can stop rifle rounds and aren't just for ensuring you dont die when hit by low energy shrapnel and some pistol bullets
most of it came from vidya

I thought magazines were actual glossy paper booklets that were filled with cartridges between the pages.

>revolvers are more lethal than semi-auto pistols
>the handle/grip of a gun can't be longer than the barrel

Outside of some stuff other people are saying, I had a stupid idea of what shotgun shells were. My dad described them as cans with bbs in it. I thought you could fill coke cans with bbs for my bb gun and it would be a shotgun shell.

>most of it came from vidya
This and movies desu senpai

honestly when I look back on that that'd be pretty great. if cartidges were sold wrapped in gun literature, kind of like bazooka joe bubblegum to some extent.

>"machine guns" fired 3 round burst only full auto fired continuously
>bullet drop didnt exist and if you shot a gun at the sky it would just go that exact direction forever
>a .22 would have so much kick it would knock me over

All of these were resolved before I was 11/12

People died in one bullet. I grew up on commando, delta force 2 and Rambo.

>bolt action rifles are the only guns that shoot rifle cartridges
>machine guns just shoot fire and random shrapnel in a cone pattern
>pistols kill the hardest, especially if they're shiny
>shotguns just blast mystery particles out of the barrel in every direction as long as you pump it after every shot, very good at killing everyone in your field of view

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You should read the Mass Effect books. That's pretty much how the guns work in that universe. There's a block of steel or titanium or something that the gun just shears off a tiny bit of (like a grain of sand size) and propels it at incredible speed. Mass increases with velocity so it hits people like a .308 round. Pretty cool idea.

the restaurant inside the transit location

>>gas operated meant it operated on CO2 gas, like some airshit guns
I thought this too

>Mass increases with velocity

Wut

I remember telling a peer in like 2nd grade that I had been stationed in [local ww2 coastal defense fort museum] and had taken a 20mm to the knee *points to tiny scar*

>>gas operated meant it operated on CO2 gas
Damn i thought i was the only one. I always thought "modern" looking guns like AR15s and ACRs and whatnot were operated by an electric motor and "older" looking guns like the AK had a gas canister used to cycle the gun. I thought the "gas tube" was a CO2 canister lol.

he probably means energy

>To set bombs off, a person had to physically blow air into them like a balloon, hence the term "blowing up"
>"magnum" is just a term for revolvers, so all revolvers were "magnums" to me

>m16 and m4 were two very different guns
>m14 was more reliable than the m16
>shotguns cant kill beyond 10 feet

This is true.

Don't underestimate the Taliban, VC and the like. Militia sure, but the us has a trend of fighting them only after they're battle hardened veterans from conflicts with Russia (taliban) or China (VC).

Take a group of sergeants and have them go up against brand new privates and tell me which team wins. It'll be the better trained force.

Probably lives in a black hole or somethin.

great post, but post it Jow Forums

>m14 was more reliable than the m16
but it is user

>shotguns had a range of 10 feet before they did nothing
I am now convinced children need to be educated on firearms in school and Call of Duty be banned for people under 21

>all soldiers are issued rifles and back up pistols

I believed this too. I also thought they absolutely wrecked the shit out of anything within 10 feet, including armor.

As you approach the speed of light I believe that's indeed how it works.