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@SeraphimDawn
 
pretty much

@SeraphimDawn  
parenthesize with explanationmarx

Trivia question: What was the first ever production semi-auto pistol produced for the mainstream market?

Hate everything about them. Am leaving now.

@Yorec  
Aren’t there cheaper Filipino made 1911 copies?

@Namalsk  
Mostly private weapons purchased by officers.

Gun satire at it’s best.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTEswkc4lPs

@Background Pony  
I’m pretty sure there’s a certain military which uses them in tiny numbers. I do agree that it’s a completely useless weapon, though.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/M_C3A9morial_uniforme_sovi_C3A9tique_WWII.JPG/450px-M_C3A9morial_uniforme_sovi_C3A9tique_WWII.JPG
 
How do you post pictures in comments? Please tell me, thanks.

I would personally love to own a 1911. There’s the matter of getting the money to buy a gun in the first place, but one can dream.

@Get pills, against my orders  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga-12

@SeraphimDawn
 
I prefer the AA-12.

@Get pills, against my orders  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK3A1
 
Apparently, it never made it beyond prototype.

@Background Pony
 
Only a few of those guns were made in real life, right? As with the case of the Pancor Jackhammer.

The Desert Eagle is what I would call, the Douche Bag ot the Handgun World. It looks “beautiful” in a bad way, and it is pretty much just that. Totally unsuitable as a combat pistol. It’s bulky, heavy, and it kicks like a horse. Who in the right mind would needs .50 AE to stop a man? Even if I needed such stopping power to kill a bear I’d use a rifle. But thanks to Hollywood and Video Games, brats everywhere think its the perfect combat pistol. If the DE was as good in real life as they are portrayed in fiction, you’d think every military in the world would adopt them, right? In reality, no armed forces use them.

@AaronMk  
Makarov(not the guy from COD MW series) PM was a Russian standard issue pistol during the Cold War. People say it is a pretty nice, simple gun and is rather affordable. Become popular in the US as a conceal carry after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsoJOjt25vU

@TagAnon  
That was why modified S&W Model 29 revolvers were issued to tunnel crawler in Vietnam.
 
And I assume Britain was one of the last major powers to transition from revolvers to automatic pistols as standard issue side arms. They’ve used Enfield and Webley and some S&W Model 10 revolvers during WW2.

@AaronMk
 
Hey, everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.

@SeraphimDawn
 
As soon as you said Makarov PM I stopped knowing what you’re talking about from then on, lol.
 
I’m not as big as a gun-nut as my friends are. I really tend to look at them more from the design perspective: which translates over into “The older they are, the cooler I find them to look like”.

@AaronMk  
Believe it or not, the Russian Railway and a few police forces in that country still use the Nagant M1895, gas Seal revolver. the TT-33 Tokarev is also used to this day in certain countries such as Pakistan, China, and North Korea.
 
I particularly like guns from WW2 era, especially Russian, German, and Belgian. Some early Cold war era guns such as the Makarov PM and CZ-52 look nice. Is the CZ-75 really that good?

@SeraphimDawn
 
Knowing Russian manufacturing they probably pumped out enough of those rifles to outfit the world. But the Mosin-Nagant is apparently still in use. I’ve heard stories of insurgents killed in action having Mosin-Nagants on their corpse.
 
Though I think production has ceased, the USSR literally handed out so many they keep cropping up everywhere. Every nation in the Soviet or Chinese sphere was handed a Mosin-Nagant to arm their military. Sort of like how you could look at the AK series of assault rifles.

@AaronMk  
Most people I see have the Mosin Nagant. Are those really that common? Don’t seem to see as much Mauser 98k videos.

@AaronMk  
Basically, this
 
and this
 

@Namalsk
 
I believe so. But based on my knowledge they’re basically all a sniper-rifle in some form and not standard-issue combat gear like the Garand was in the Second World War and possibly Korea. The Rifle as the work-horse of infantry affairs as sort of given way to assault rifles and dudes behind counsels half a world away pushing buttons to fly a million-dollar video game.
 
War in my opinion has gotten less human than it was before, and the guns just as hideous.

@Namalsk
 
Eh, that’s good enough. I’m not sure about the legality of bolt-action rifles in the Philippines though.