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nukem556 · 02-22-2011, 05:44 PM

I dunno...I can see both sides, but to me a firearm is a machine, a tool....to not use it at all is to deny its identity, its purpose for being. I wouldn't own a functional firearm I didn't personally shoot at least ONCE, otherwise it's just a lump of metal.
Conversely, I agree that irreplaceable pieces of history shouldn't be abused or fundamentally altered (if i had a 1902 Carbine, I might put a dozen rounds a year or so through it, but I wouldn't nickle-plate it!).
While we are still a ostensibly free country, you can't make other folks decisions for them though...it makes me ill that guys take P-51 Mustangs and Hawker Sea Furies and chop the wings shorter, soup up the engines and race them at Reno....but hey, they own 'em.

02-22-2011, 05:44 PM	#12
nukem556 User Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Irmo, SC Posts: 625 Thanks: 35 Thanked 168 Times in 107 Posts	I dunno...I can see both sides, but to me a firearm is a machine, a tool....to not use it at all is to deny its identity, its purpose for being. I wouldn't own a functional firearm I didn't personally shoot at least ONCE, otherwise it's just a lump of metal. Conversely, I agree that irreplaceable pieces of history shouldn't be abused or fundamentally altered (if i had a 1902 Carbine, I might put a dozen rounds a year or so through it, but I wouldn't nickle-plate it!). While we are still a ostensibly free country, you can't make other folks decisions for them though...it makes me ill that guys take P-51 Mustangs and Hawker Sea Furies and chop the wings shorter, soup up the engines and race them at Reno....but hey, they own 'em.