Flea Market Finds

[razorjak]

Okay - watching HGTV in the background while I finish up some homework before heading to work. They showed a segment about antique weaponry and some of the items spotlighted were flintlock pistols from the Ottoman and Russian Empires.

These asshats narrating the show go on to say that, to be safe, these pistols should have the barrels filled in with lead by a local gunsmith to make them nonfireable!

What the FUCK!?!?!?!

It's not like someone can accidentally fire a friggin flintlock! Not unless the owner is as stupid as these doddering fools and keeps it primed and packed. And even then ... Just CHRIST ON A POGOSTICK!!!! My brain is still reelign over this.

These octagenarian fucktards are supposed to be offering advice on how to keep these finds in their most valuable condition! How can they in good faith offer that friggin advice? They didn't suggest that sword collectors have the hilted welded into the scabbards!

I hate asshats like that.

Comments

[halfgenieallman.livejournal.com]

Would you say that said asshats should get filled with lead by a local razorjak?

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

NO - that would be a waste of ammo.

[ogremarco.livejournal.com]

I'm speechless. That's just...just...fucking stupid.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

And you didn't see the beautiful piece of work they were showing just before mentioning it. It was an ornately engraved silvershod and jewel encrusted piece of Ottoman finery. A functional piece of art. And these fucks suggested taking it to a gunsmith and having the barrel filled in.

That's like saying the owner of the Mona Lisa should get a touch up artist give her a new smile.

[jruske.livejournal.com]

That's just friggin' stupid as hell! What was the name of the show? I need to put that one on the idiots only list.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

Flea Market Finds ...

not usually a show I watch but I was watching the show previously airing and didn't bother turning it off since I only had it on for background noise. The only reason it got my attention was the pretty antique swords ... then those two geriatric twits make the "suggestion" that pissed me off.

I've a good mind to try to find out the address to mail complaints to HGTV about this and start a campaign. But honestly I have more important things to do.

[prgrmr.livejournal.com]

Were the aforesaid asshats from Massachusetts by any chance?

(and why doesn't lj's spell checker recognize asshat? It's used constantly. You'd think someone pulling the strings behind the mother-of-all-blogs would notice. According to google (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6feglg%24rj2%40bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net&output=gplain), it was first used on-line all the way back in 1998. Of course, the spell checker doesn't like "blog" either. )

[montieth.livejournal.com]

The thing is, lead is not even close to a legal way to deactivate a weapon because it's so easily removed. BATF-E regs require 3 plasma or gas torch cuts across the receiver. Of course, if it doesn't fire fixed ammunition or is older than 100 years, then the BATF-E doesn't consider them to be firearms at all.

Sounds like the writer/producer at HGTV is a rabid anti-gun nut who know's little about guns in real life.

Now that said, I did hear on rec.guns that a family that had a flint lock discovered that it'd been loaded for years and years and years when someone playfully fired it. The thing about black powder is that it can get wet, dry off and still be useful. Easiest thing to do is to check the pan and run the rod down the barrel and see if it comes to the touch hole.

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

I am utterly speechless. That's deplorable.


BTW - I'm ogremarco's wife.

[missanthropy.livejournal.com]

Asshat.

That's priceless. That's my new favorite insult.