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Bb Gun - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 4th Oct, 2006 - 3:43am
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Post Date: 4th Oct, 2006 - 12:43am / Post ID: #
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Why do BB Guns have the "BB" in it and can they be used for defense?
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Unless you can actually "down" someone with a BB or two, I wouldn't use one for defense. Generally, you would just annoy and anger the person you are trying to defend yourself from, probably to the point where he would take the BB gun away from you and beat you with it.
Here's info from Wikipedia:
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| While it is often stated that "BB" stands for "ball bearing", this is not the case. The original BB guns used the BB sized lead shotgun shot, midway between B and BBB size. BB shot was nominally .180 inches (4.5 mm), but tended to vary considerably in size due to the high allowable tolerances for shotgun shell use. Around 1900, Daisy, one of the earliest makers of BB guns, changed the bore diameter to .175 inches (4.375 mm), and began to market precision made lead shot specifically for BB guns. They called this "air rifle shot", but the "BB" name was already well established, so everyone kept calling the guns "BB guns" and the shot "BB shot" or just "BBs". |
I didn't know that!
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