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This Is What a Gun Looks Like When It's Pointing Straight At You
The New Republic ^ | 4/2/14 | Maia Booker

Posted on 04/02/2014 9:31:39 AM PDT by VanShuyten

The brainchild of Canada-based photographer Peter Andrew and Creative Directors Simon Duffy and Derek Blais, The Point Blank project shoots handguns in close-up, portrait-style, and straight down the barrel. In doing so, the project creates large-scale, extremely detailed, and uncomfortably in-your-face frontal photographs. The images have a jarring beauty in the symmetry of design, the depth-of-field, and the level of detail—all the more powerful for their implicit violence. These subjects have, quite literally, the power to kill.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunporn
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To: VanShuyten

I’ve always thought that the S&W N frames, from the Triple Lock to the early post-war (WWII) guns were some the finest looking guns ever made.


41 posted on 04/02/2014 11:59:01 AM PDT by W.Lee (After the first one, the rest are free.)
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To: VanShuyten
That reminds me, I need to replace my Glock 23 with something a bit smaller, since I'm moving to a desert climate. Smaller than the Glock and easily concealed, .40, 10 round magazine and utterly reliable. I have my work cut out for me.
42 posted on 04/02/2014 12:06:22 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: VanShuyten
The one pistol that is the most intimidating, when seen from the muzzle, is the Colt Model 1917 in .45 ACP. I can't really explain it but that muzzle seems to grow — if you're on the wrong side — until it looks like the muzzle of a 16-inch naval rifle.
43 posted on 04/02/2014 12:10:20 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: VanShuyten
This is what a gun looks like when it is pointed at the American people:


44 posted on 04/02/2014 12:11:32 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: driftdiver

I have had a gun pointed at me and the barrel looked like a howitzer. Its a strange kind of scary. LOL!


45 posted on 04/02/2014 12:24:48 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: VanShuyten

Well, those of us who follow the basic runs of gun safety never have seen our weapon system this way.


46 posted on 04/02/2014 12:26:54 PM PDT by HammerT (The Commonsense civil right of Armed Self-defense [CASD], its the law of the land.)
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To: VanShuyten

John Wilkes Booth's Derringer

47 posted on 04/02/2014 12:40:08 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: VanShuyten
Ok. I went to the link and wasted my time.

The picture, if 1:1 perspective, is of 2 things in my opinion:

1. Liberal's last vision (deer in the headlights)
2. A dead shooter (if it were pointed at me or anyone I know...and I mean from their own weapon)

The Point Blank project shoots handguns in close-up, portrait-style, and straight down the barrel.

What a horrible use of language and pathetic waste of time.

48 posted on 04/02/2014 12:58:27 PM PDT by logi_cal869
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To: VanShuyten

I’ve looked down the barrel of so many guns, I can’t even imagine where I would begin to count. In other words, big hairy deal!


49 posted on 04/02/2014 1:15:00 PM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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To: vpintheak

But have you looked down one when someone else is holding it and you know there are bullets in the gun?


50 posted on 04/02/2014 2:18:14 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: driftdiver
In my experience the muzzle looks exceedingly larger than that.

In 1950s Cuba, a bunch of us drunken swabbies were staggering back to out boat and took a wrong turn. Cuba then had what they called "Maritime Police" and this guy was armed with a 7MM Mauser. When he yelled "ALTO!" and pointed that thing at us, the bore looked like a garbage can. That and the "click" as the safety went off set us stone cold sober. We kept yelling "Americano! Americano!" and backed away immediately.

Those guys didn't mess around.

51 posted on 04/02/2014 2:56:12 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: OneVike

I was born in the Ft. Benning hospital. Martin Army Hospital I think it was called.


52 posted on 04/02/2014 2:59:05 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I support Joe Carr in the TN GOP Primary against Lamar!)
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To: OneVike

Fortunately, no. But that’s not what this was about.


53 posted on 04/02/2014 4:29:38 PM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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To: null and void
Like a frickin' sewer pipe!

This is true.

54 posted on 04/02/2014 4:33:32 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: driftdiver

When there is a gun is pointed at you your eyes never leave the gun, making eye contact never comes to mind.


55 posted on 04/02/2014 5:04:42 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: mountainlion

Some said that being shot at by a 45 hollowpoint is like having a trash can fired at you.


56 posted on 04/02/2014 6:32:26 PM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Fledermaus

What year? I was stationed there from 74 to 76.


57 posted on 04/02/2014 9:06:13 PM PDT by OneVike (I'm just a Christian waiting for a ride home)
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To: VanShuyten
The "business end" of what I keep under my pillow. IMG_0269p
58 posted on 04/03/2014 4:42:30 AM PDT by Stevee
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To: OneVike

1959!


59 posted on 04/03/2014 1:29:58 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I support Joe Carr in the TN GOP Primary against Lamar!)
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