Obama is getting the lead out

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02 Feb 2013, 1:59 pm

Nice shotgun if I do say so.

(It's clearly a political stunt, so here makes sense.)

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02 Feb 2013, 2:16 pm

Can't tell from the image that it's him or not but let's assume it is.

I can see the caption.
"See, President Obama is cool with guns but believes in common sense gun laws and doesn't think anyone needs a dangerous assault weapon".
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02 Feb 2013, 3:42 pm

To be honest I am more interested if he hit the target.

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02 Feb 2013, 3:46 pm

I was thinking the same thing.
Probably not.

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02 Feb 2013, 4:04 pm

Looks like a .410 or at most 20 gauge. 12 would be too much recoil for an inexperienced shooter like him.

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02 Feb 2013, 4:12 pm

1000Knives wrote:

Looks like a .410 or at most 20 gauge. 12 would be too much recoil for an inexperienced shooter like him.

I can tell it has ported barrels.
A ported 12 gauge with the light loads used for trap and skeet (#7 1/2 or smaller) won't have much recoil.
I was doing that at 13 and it didn't bother me a bit.
If it's a ported .410 or 28 gauge he really is a wus.

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02 Feb 2013, 4:54 pm

Quote:

"This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House."

careful with the photoshop guys

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02 Feb 2013, 4:59 pm

I actually agree with one of the posts on TTAG concerning this picture; political stunt or not, it does show our black president using a firearm for completely sporting purposes, which has a certain normalizing effect as to people peacefully using guns. Who knows, maybe he'll get a taste for it, stranger things have happened. I'll also give him, as far as these things go, he looks a lot more comfortable with that shotgun than John Kerry did on his "duck hunts" during his campaign a few years back.

Now if the Secret Service could only introduce him to the joys of pistol and rifle shooting, maybe we'd be getting somewhere. Presidential 3 gun anyone?

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02 Feb 2013, 5:11 pm

I agree.

Shooting is a fun hobby, and like any hobby, it can make you more interested the first time or you just move on to something else if it's not your thing (everyone I know that has shot has found it fun, even if it's not there thing).

Showing Obama shooting is a positive thing for the simple reason that it demystifies it from the ignorant (he's an icon compared to the usual commoner), and perhaps a person they admire does enjoy it -- it's reasonable and safe to shoot firearms. In the least, it'll make people who think "all guns need to be banned" perhaps think differently.

I'm sure he's of the usual "high-end shotgun shooters" mindset of no one needs an AR or AK, though.

As an aside, it looks like a Browning to me.

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02 Feb 2013, 9:39 pm

Even if he does like guns he probably will never trust us, the unwashed masses, with them.
Only for the more socially enlightened.
I'm being a realist.

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