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shalafi@lemmy.world 13 hours agoThank you for your take! American gun nuts tend to think Europeans can’t own a weapon, at all. Funny enough, what you’ve described is most of my gun collection. A dozen shotguns, mostly single shots and vintage/antiques. Loads of .22s, but my wife’s Walther .22 is a total POS! How funny is that? And yes, American hunting rifles are typically bolt-action. I think there are a couple of states where it’s illegal to hunt with an AR platform? The rounds are too wimpy for clean kills. (That’s a joke meme.)
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 6 hours ago
I can’t say I have any experience with Walther’s PDWs, but their sporting pistols are - while expensive - beautifully machined and crafted devices. Completely impractical for anything else obviously, but then, .22LR wouldn’t exactly be the caliber of choice for self-defense anyway - nor would pistols with very inconvenient shapes, no safety, deliberately added weight for recoil compensation and very, very sensitive triggers, e.g. 1000g or 1360g. I certainly wouldn’t want to walk around with one strapped to me in a holster.
Most people here tend to shoot only unjacketed .22 for sports in any case - much less barrel wear, less cost and it’s not like anything more is needed to penetrate a paper target anyway.
There’s a number of stringent requirements for secure storage that makes most people just lease room for storing privately owned weapons at the range, and would, even if they did bother obtaining a certified gun safe, make it completely impractical to actually use the weapon for self-defense. I believe privately held weapons are supposed to be stored with the firing pin removed and stored separately, if possible. The same goes for transport.
Frankly, even if a person owns a gun, they’re much better off just getting a metal baseball bat if they’re concerned about home invaders.