Trigger finger
I wonder how many people get the joke in the first panel.
As I explained to more than a few people: This comic is not just for shooters. Sometimes, I’m gonna get instructional. I’ll try to keep the instruction fresh and new, but there will be sound gun advice in these comics. For the noobs to gun culture, you dig?
And yes, I DO stand behind Mick’s statements here. Unless it’s seriously malfunctioning, a firearm CANNOT fire unless something pulls the trigger. I see stupid-ass news articles all the time stating someone “Dropped the gun and it went off.” Horseshit. The dude obviously was adjusting the gun in his waistband and accidentally pulled the trigger. A dropped gun does NOT just “go off.” Want proof? Try this video, where a guy drags a cocked Glock for a mile behind his truck, and it is still cocked and ready to fire afterwards.
Your finger + Trigger = Negligent Discharge. Nothing else.
Why I like the AK:
Anyone who does not get the first joke should be forcibly sterilized, and then sat down to watch all the good movies, Clockwork Orange style.
Anyone who does not get the first joke is too young to be reading this comic, really. Get the hell off our internets, you cultureless, Bieber-listening whippersnappers!!
I don’t get the first joke at all, and I’m certainly not of the Beiber generation. To what movie are you referring?
The problem, Anon, is people like to feel superior to others, so they’ll make comments like “Anyone who does not get the joke blah blah blah.” So, they’ll make fun of you, but won’t bother to educate you.
It’s too bad the internet has so many of these types of people. Sometimes makes me with the internet stayed as BBSes. Had a lot more fun on those, to be honest. Only problem would be the lack of webcomics such as this.
And no, I’m not sure I know the joke in the first panel, either, although I probably have seen the movie that it references, and just don’t remember.
Willow, the scene at the beginning when the title character is being tested for a spot as a magician’s apprentice.
Cheers, not normally my thing but I’ll give it a watch sometime.
I haven’t seen that movie in so long. Plans for Wednesday are made!
Only time I’ve seen a gun go off by itself was a Colt SAA, first gen. Guy was a cowboy action shooter, don’t know how, but he managed to drop it and it landed on the hammer while closed on a live round. Didn’t hurt anyone thankfully.
That said, I do remember awhile back someone had put a webcam on their “evil black rifle” as it sat in the corner to see if it would go off by itself or go out and kill anyone. Can’t find it anymore though 🙁
Came for the gun related comic, stayed for the Willow reference.
Me! Me! I do!
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Oh shoot, you already gave it away..
Wait. They’re all nelwyns?
Oh wow! Then Omar is Burglekutt!
Oh, and to back up your assertion:
I once threw a loaded .38 (did I type that right?) from a second-story veranda, and when it hit the ground, it did NOT go off.
I was a bit surprised, when I thought about it later, but then I didn’t know much about guns at the time. Just how to point and make it go bang.
(Still don’t, really. Heh.)
If you scroll down this page, they show how a pistol transfer bar works on a revolver. Long story short – unless a finger is actively depressing the trigger when the hammer drops, the hammer cannot reach the firing pin.
There are revolvers without transfer bar safeties.
Great blog but maybe you should get up and stand up
Wut