Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Brandon Herrera" channel.

  1. Well, no electricity is fine, gas actuated hydraulic motor driven... ;)
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  2. Black powder firearms, the only weapon that produced a complimentary smoke screen. ;)
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  3. They don't get to define a firearm, Congress does.
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  4.  @TheInviolation  PA doesn't consider black powder weapons firearms, even revolvers. Conversion to cartridge would make it a firearm under PA law.
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  5.  @martinsaunders7925  true. All things in moderation, avoiding excess.
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  6. So, I've stumbled upon the Masochism Central Channel, got ya. :P:p:P:p:P:p Obviously, I'm a masochist, why else would I put in nearly 28 years into a military career? I only retired because, it just started to hurt too damned much to put all of that gear on in the morning. Don't get me started on AK's built in blacksmith shops (or is that shoppes?) in the rural Afghan regions... Rust control, I take it you've never been to Iraq... Overall, I'm well known to imbibe truly legendary amounts of distilled spirits, but I've never been drunk enough to build that or fire something that abusively malassembled - outside of from a vise. Given that ethanol, firearms and myself remain amicably strangers, yeah, vise testing only. I like having forearms and hands! Total frankenbuild from below hell. Pretty bad when one is building shit from seven floors below hell. But, it proves, some people should never be allowed to assemble metal of any sort.
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  7. That's what the ATF website says.
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  8. Well, black powder is a low explosive, smokeless powder isn't, it deflagrates only, so the pressure profile is a lot different. Pyrodex is a weird bird, as it's not listed as a low explosive, yet contains the same ingredients as black powder, plus graphite, an oxidizer and whatever secret sauce the manufacturer wants to add in. Didn't they also have a bullet similar to the Minie ball for the revolvers? Or is my memory shorting out again?
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  9.  @MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV  that's true of many big cities. Pennsylvania is an open carry state, save in cities of the first class, where concealed carry is only permitted with permit and open carry prohibited. Cities of the first class being defined by population size, which currently escapes my memory. I knew one guy who loved to open carry in Delaware County, he got to know every cop in the county, but they couldn't do anything, as we've always been an open carry state - but very few bother. Not much in dangerous animals here and they permanently closed mother in law season, so there's little need. Now, in Louisiana, open carry and I did in the yard, keep getting cottonmouths in the frigging yard.
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  10. Two hands, two guns. Done in Venom's voice... ;)
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  11. To show the actual power of the round, shouldn't you replace your butterfingers? ;) I've ten thumbs to loan you, if it's any help... My earliest memory, Mom telling not to jump, lest I get stuck by a diaper pin. Being a natural born asshole, I jumped and got pricked with the pin. My next earliest memory was of Mom sitting me in front of the TV, telling me to "Watch him, he's the President, he's important", while she took down the drapes for laundering. She never finished that task that day, as I interrupted her with the news that the President was shot in the head. Was watching what I'd later learn was CBS. Hey, being born in late 1961, that's a major series of accomplishments! Especially given, I was born a week after Tsar Bomba, the biggest nuke ever detonated and I'm still fairly radioactive, per a gamma ray camera (benchmark scan for a test I wasn't allowed to study for and a talk with the radiologist). ;) That' my excuse and I'm sticking with it. But, the marksman in me gently reminds all, via my gentle lead pipe, range is a factor. Keyholing only starts when the round meets resistance, which pretty much when it hits a body or on a day that ends in Y in English. But, do come to talk with me after you've shot someone and witness what a bullet will do personally. I've already done so. Not an experience that I recommend. Or as I related to Dad, who barely missed WWII, nothing good to recommend the experience. Having to pee so often, you might wanna talk to doctor about that... I'll just get my hat... ;)
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  12. It's a black powder cannon, not a firearm and not a destructive weapon. And it's something no less than Ben Franklin did for his militia unit.
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