If you had to trust your life to a firearm that you never test fired, what would it be?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - If you had to trust your life to a firearm that you never test fired, what would it be? (Page 1 of 3)

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:48:19 PM EDT

I think I would pick an AK47, maybe a S&W 357 revolver. But probably the AK.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:50:35 PM EDT

[#1]

Glock

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:50:40 PM EDT

[#2]

Any S&W/Ruger revolver

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:51:16 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Any S&W/Ruger revolver

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:51:22 PM EDT

[#4]

HK MK23
HK USP (anything)
Sig P220R
Sig P226R

- rem

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:51:31 PM EDT

[#5]

Hate to be in that position!

1911 A1

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:51:31 PM EDT

[#6]

Glock 17

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:51:55 PM EDT

[#7]

a ruger or S&W revolver
a RRA, I own two, and between friends there are 4 more that I see shot all the time. Not a one has ever had a non magazine related malfunction, and those were with cheap ass USA mags from a gun show.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:52:00 PM EDT

[#8]

AK.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:52:15 PM EDT

[#9]

SIG

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:54:21 PM EDT

[#10]

glock, If I couldnt shoot them, then at least I could kill us all with the kabooms I keep hearing about...

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:54:41 PM EDT

[#11]

Assuming never fired before:

Home Invasion = Glock for sure
US Invasion = AK

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:54:58 PM EDT

[#12]

A Mosin or a Mauser bolt action.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:55:15 PM EDT

[#13]

sp101 ruger

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:55:22 PM EDT

[#14]

if i had no choice, SW revolver. nothing else.

even then i wouldn't be happy about it.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:55:54 PM EDT

[#15]

AK, Glock, or a wheelgun.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:56:00 PM EDT

[#16]

depends.

is it new? used? homebuilt? factory made?

if factory made, I'll take a Bushmaster or an HK (well made, reliable and accurate)
if used, I'll take a Glock or an AK (can take a beating)
if homebuilt, I would have to know by who so I could determine if using it as a club would be best

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:56:16 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
SIG

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:56:31 PM EDT

[#18]

Hands down a 1911

Alvin

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:57:19 PM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
SIG

+226

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:57:34 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
depends.

is it new? used? homebuilt? factory made?

if factory made, I'll take a Bushmaster or an HK (well made, reliable and accurate)
if used, I'll take a Glock or an AK (can take a beating)
if homebuilt, I would have to know by who so I could determine if using it as a club would be best

We will say that you don't have that information at the time of the decision.^

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:58:09 PM EDT

[#21]

CZ 75B - like the FAL, its world reknown and is NATO approved. Plus, numerous countries currently deploy it.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:59:04 PM EDT

[#22]

HK USP45 or a S&W Revolver.

Posted: 1/30/2006 3:59:19 PM EDT

[#23]

Handgun: SIG P226 9mm.

Rifle: FN FAL or G3.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:00:12 PM EDT

[#24]

AK/Glock.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:00:21 PM EDT

[#25]

Beretta 92FS for auto pistol
Ruger Redhawk for DA rev. in .44
A bolt rifle...Savage, Win mod 70 or something rugged and hearty like a Rem 788 in .308
the more technical and the more parts, the less I would want to trust it....

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:00:40 PM EDT

[#26]

Colt AR. At least they test fire them so hopefully they did it well.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:01:14 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
Glock

Glock and no other.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:01:39 PM EDT

[#28]

Glock or a Rock River Arms AR

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:03:50 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
AK/Glock.

Yep.
alternatively
Pre 1970 S&W revolver/Mauser 98

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:04:58 PM EDT

[#30]

Remington 870 as a sight unseen run in and grab a gun out of a pile.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:07:50 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Quoted:
SIG

+226

+220

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:08:55 PM EDT

[#32]

I wish i could have put a pumpgun on the list.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:10:22 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:
Colt AR. At least they test fire them so hopefully they did it well.

CHEATER!

plus, I didn't think of that

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:12:30 PM EDT

[#34]

+1 Revolver. We're talking about "trust with my life" and "never test fired". Its easy to sit back and speculate when you haven't been in this position. We all love our ARs and HKs, etc. I have built my own ARs that have run flawlessly. When hurricane Katrina hit, however, and people were being shot in parking lots for their cars with fuel, I slept with my AK. All pride and pretense go out the window when your life is on the line.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:12:47 PM EDT

[#35]

Anybody that says 1911 is crazy. I love mine, but if you grabbed my brand new Springer before I had a chance to work on it, you would have grabbed a jam-o-matic. Congrats, you're a dead man.

I'd probably grab a S&W 357, or similar revolver. It's "Six for sure" for a reason. Odds are (and all we have are odds in this example), it's gonna go bang every time.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:15:00 PM EDT

[#36]

SIG

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:16:19 PM EDT

[#37]

If you give me a revolver it would only take about a minute to find out if it will work or not, so I pick a revolver.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:20:54 PM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
SIG

+226

+220

+1 on both

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:22:03 PM EDT

[#39]

I like the fact that the AK is winning in the poll. I picked the ak because not only because of its track record, but because I know how to clear it, and operate it even if it does malfunction. And a thirty round mag gives you 24 extra chances that a six gun can't. Though the firepower is alot from the ak, I think it's better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:27:19 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Remington 870 as a sight unseen run in and grab a gun out of a pile.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:31:28 PM EDT

[#41]

AK47. Made to be idiot proof I think it would have the best chance of being operational regardless what might have happened to it.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:39:41 PM EDT

[#42]

ANYTHING NOT MADE BY CENTURY

or a sig

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:41:30 PM EDT

[#43]

Remington 870 nuff said.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:47:52 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Glock

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:49:05 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
SIG

P220.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:49:17 PM EDT

[#46]

GLOCK, presently 32 out of 92 votes, more than any other. [ 36.96% ]

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:50:37 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:
GLOCK, presently 32 out of 92 votes, more than any other. [ 36.96% ]

5 poll options skew the results.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:52:24 PM EDT

[#48]

AK for rifle.
HK USP for pistol.

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:55:00 PM EDT

[#49]

Sig 226

Posted: 1/30/2006 4:55:10 PM EDT

[#50]

Other....

streetfight
http://ruger.com/Firearms/images/Products/53L.gif
GP100

home defense
http://mossberg.com/pcatalog/images/0250665.gif
mossberg 590

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