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2015-07-19 -Short Attention Span Theater-

This is the only way I can think of to ask a question.

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Posted by Seeking a cure for ignorance 2015-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Since it's ask Fred anything day, is Mosul really infested with Djinns?

Posted by Shipman 2015-07-19 04:03|| 2015-07-19 04:03|| Front Page Top

#2 If a man is alone in the middle of the forest and he says something and there is no women around to hear is he still wrong?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-07-19 06:33|| 2015-07-19 06:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Dear Mr. Rabbit,

YES, and don't even think it!

Posted by AlanC 2015-07-19 08:04|| 2015-07-19 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 They know what you think---even if you don't.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-07-19 08:07|| 2015-07-19 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I have carefully analyzed the picture of the gun above and must respectfully submit that that gun does not qualify as a shutter gun.

The term "shutter gun" was very common in the U.S. during the civil war, especially in the South. Today the term has evolved to mean different things in different countries. And although it may be mislabeled by the Daily Star or maybe even designated as a shutter gun by the RAB the most obvious mechanical features of a shutter gun are obviously and completely missing from this gun's design.

Posted by junkiron 2015-07-19 10:15|| 2015-07-19 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 In Ask Anything Day - Why do people always refer to Nazis as "right wing" when they were socialists.

They were nationalist, and socialist. They made a pact with the internationalist bolsheviks (ribbentrop-molotov) but that then fell apart.

"Right wing" would be the capitalist USA and Britain that fought the Nazis. So how come every time there is anything nazi people say "far right" or "right wing"?

Posted by anon1 2015-07-19 10:32|| 2015-07-19 10:32|| Front Page Top

#7 "Right wing" is "anything that is bad".

I remember when Soviet power was collapsing in the period 1989-1991, how unreconstructed Communists were referred to as "right wingers" or "conservatives".

Posted by charger 2015-07-19 11:15|| 2015-07-19 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 The media and our ~~indoctrination~~ educational system anon. Repeat a lie often enough and all that.

Much like the Democrats taking credit for the Civil Rights Act.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-07-19 11:34|| 2015-07-19 11:34|| Front Page Top

#9 And the KKK being considered Right Wing.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-07-19 11:35|| 2015-07-19 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 This is a serious question, I'm glad that most of you know what a shuttle gun is.

How about explaining to those of us who are clueless please?

The only explanation I got that remotely made sense came from a friend who explained that it's a single or double barreled gun/rifle where the barrel crack open and the ammo is removed and loaded manually (AKA 'Break action'). It differ from a shotgun in that it use solid bullets instead of shots. But this friend is not a gun expert so I'm not sure if the above is correct or not, which is why I'm asking for a knowledgeable person or expert explanation.

Posted by Seeking a cure for ignorance 2015-07-19 12:53|| 2015-07-19 12:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Seeking dear, the serious answer for the Rantburg context is the one from Mr. Pruitt in Post-It Note yellow with the photo, which was only discovered a few months ago. Until then we all were precisely as frustratedly ignorant as you were a moment ago. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2015-07-19 14:48|| 2015-07-19 14:48|| Front Page Top

#12 Originally the term shutter gun referred a single shot breech loading shotgun that was hinged and broke-over (opened) in the middle.
The reason it was called a "shutter" was because to load the gun you slid a shell into the breech and then snapped it "shut".

Some people would cut off the stock at the pistol grip and shorten the barrel to make it into a pistol.
"Shutter gun" more recently became slang for a sawed off modified shotgun. Several companies began producing short barreled pistol grip shotguns which they advertised as shutter guns. Some of them were absolutely beautiful and very expensive. Some Italian models sold for many thousands of dollars.

Shutter guns were very popular in Pakistan during the British rule. There are still quite a few of them in circulation in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Plus a lot of cheap home made ones.

Short barreled shutter guns the last time I checked were still illegal in the U.S. and never were popular here.
In the U.S. Southern states a single shot breech loading long barreled shotgun is still called a shutter gun in some localities.
So now the mystery is solved. It's been fun. Sometimes it's more fun to be wondering than it is to be knowing.

Posted by junkiron 2015-07-19 15:02|| 2015-07-19 15:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Thank you junkiron.

I came across the term Vacuum Missile the other day, and finally had to look it up after my mind came up with the Al-Cleavers in a typical kitchen. Daaaaad! Where are the potato mashers? Over on the barrel bomb son, but first go fetch the vacuum missile for your moms, and close the shutter gun, its too bright outside.

It is slang for thermobaric, which then made sense.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-07-19 16:19|| 2015-07-19 16:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Still no photo to be found of its polished mahogany engraved velvet-lined fitted gun case (with slot for round of bullet).

I guess we might never know.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2015-07-19 17:40|| 2015-07-19 17:40|| Front Page Top

#15 Thank you Junkiron and trailing wife! The photo from Mr. Pruitt does appear to be a shutter gun according to Junkiron's description. There's what appears to be a lever on the side (next to the hammer) that release the barrel which then swivel on a point forward of the trigger under the barrel for unloading and loading what looks like shotgun shells (not sure what gauge, my guess is .410, but could be 12 gauge) in the barrel. Then the barrel gets 'shut'.

So my take away on this is that guns called "shutter gun" because it's "shut" closed and is actually a "break action" gun that can fire either shots or solid projectiles.

It's the "break action" part that makes it a "shuttle gun".

Thank you very much, a lamp has been lite inside my head!

Posted by Seeking a cure for ignorance 2015-07-19 23:27|| 2015-07-19 23:27|| Front Page Top

#16 Hmm, I know Mr Pruitt said the gun in the photo fires .410 shells, but the shells somehow looks bigger than a .410 in the picture, so it's hard to be sure.

Posted by Seeking a cure for ignorance 2015-07-19 23:29|| 2015-07-19 23:29|| Front Page Top

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