"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 10:39:52 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch penned the
following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|On Dec 5, 1:21 pm, wrote:
| On Dec 5, 1:13 pm, Frogwatch wrote:
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| On Dec 5, 12:58 pm, Gene Kearns

| wrote:
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| On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 08:54:32 -0800 (PST),
penned
| the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
| |On Dec 5, 11:51 am, wrote:
| | How many of you would play with your weapons, racking and
dryfiring
| | while talking on the phone to somebody? To me that is pretty
stupid,
| | but I am not a gun guy... What do you think, should someone like
that
| | be allowed to have handguns or should there be some kind of
safety
| | course/mental evaluation first?
| |
| |I think a mental evaluation should be mandatory for gun ownership.
I
| |don't want people around me with guns that are unstable. Take
someone
| |that is so paranoid that they answer their door with a loaded
weapon.
|
| I've always considered dry firing a weapon a really bad idea......
I
| just wouldn't do it....
|
| If I come to answer the door, I'm not taking the gun out, just to
do
| so.....
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| OK, I know nothing about guns. Why is dry firing bad?- Hide quoted
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| I don't know this for fact, but I think one thing would be excessive
| wear from the pin bottoming out because there is no resistence.
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|Are firing pins generally replaceable?

Yeah.... figure $50 plus labor..... plus any a$$ociated worn parts and
labor.....

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On a rifle or maybe the newer drop safe pistols, but to change a hammer
because you broke the pin, would probably be more expensive. There are snap
caps to install in the weapon to prevent problems. You can make one by
removing the primer from the cartridge and installing a pencil erasure.
Paint the cartridge a different color.