Gene Kearns wrote:
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:
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| |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.
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| I've always considered dry firing a weapon a really bad idea...... I
| just wouldn't do it....
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| 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 text -
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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.....



There's very little chance of damaging the parts of a modern semi-auto
centerfire pistol via dry-firing. This subject is discussed ad nauseum
on the gun boards, especially when brought up by newbies.

It's not an issue for any of my semi-auto centerfires. I've read
somewhere it might not be a good idea to dry fire rimfire weapons.

Loogy the assclown..perfect.