I’m confused why people are saying that the suggestion to separate the two sections was intended to stop children from seeing guns at all. I didn’t read a single post that said that. The intent was to cut down on the number of children in the vicinity just in case an unlikely accident happened - and for some of the posters, I suppose, to stop them from associating the guns with toys. Sounds like a sensible idea to me.
For the record, I’m NOT anti-gun, though I’d never claim to be particularily pro- either.
I live in Rochester, Minnesota, and last night a guy went into one of our two Wal-Mart stores in town and asked to see a gun, proceeded to load it without being stopped, tried to take the safety off, the gun discharged and shot a display–fortunately no one was hurt but they could have been. He apparently wanted to kill himself but didn’t quite think it through. After the gun went off he ran out but was caught by security in the parking lot.
Gen. Julian Hatcher dispelled this myth in Hatcher’s Notebook. When a modern smikeless round goes off unconfined, at worst it just propels the bullet at a very, very low velocity.
I’m a hunter, my brother is a Hogguide and Hunting lodge owner.
Nipple is a viable term when referring to bullets, shot, etc.
It is mostly known for muzzleloader aspects of hunting, but the bullet (or packed shot) has several differentiating parts with numerous viable names. Nipple being one of them. All bullets fire in a like manner…no wonder the names transcend types of firearms.
You’re not alone; I also doubted this claim in an earlier post. And his use of the word “shell” instead of “round” or “cartridge” further supports the theory that this claim is BS.
I’ve called my squirrel huntin’ ammo (12 ga.) “shells” for a long, long time. Here in the sticks we don’t ever say cartridge. We only use the term “round” if we need to know how many our huntin’ buddy has left. “How many rounds ya got left?”
Now as far as a bullet blowing up fertilizer…that is a bunch of hooha. The only explosion, ever so minor, takes place in the barrel which propels the bullet, shot, etc. What reaches the target is merely the projectile “bullet, shot”.
I am really worried about all these people that know nothing about guns.
In my years (all 25 of them) I have always been taught, and referred to it myself, that the primer is the “nipple”. Maybe it is just because I am deeply southern fried…but that is how I was raised.
I haven’t found an example for a shotgun shell as of yet…but oh well. You get the picture.
Okay, I made it through page 1 and skipped pages 2 & 3 as the posts seemed to be circling the issue from both directions.
Not all Wal-Mart stores are laid out along the same lines; the Super Center near where I lived in Garland, Texas had Hardware and Automotive between Sporting Goods and Toys.
No place that sells a projectile launcher (be they BB’s, Arrows or bullets) should allow said launcher to be loaded with a projectile while in the store; if it did happen, once, in Newport, it would seem to indicate to me a single point failure, not a system-wide failure.
To wit: one idiot of a store clerk allowed someone to load a BB gun and then discharge it. Wal-Mart, being a corporate entity, is probably even more aware of their liability in that singularly cited incident than J. Average Doper would care to believe.
Could it happen again? Sure. Is it likely to happen again? Not.
Forcing people or corporations to change because of improbable point failures, especially when they have human error involved, (as opposed to systemic failures) is asinine.
