{"id":5186,"date":"2010-09-16T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/09\/16\/9-classic-firearms-myths\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:11:55","slug":"9-classic-firearms-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5186","title":{"rendered":"9 Classic Firearms Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18925,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.itstactical.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260410171034\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.itstactical.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 02:50:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 02:50:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18926,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.itstactical.com\\\/2010\\\/09\\\/15\\\/debunking-9-classic-myths-and-whoppers-about-firearms\\\/#more-7212&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.itstactical.com\\\/warcom\\\/firearms\\\/debunking-9-classic-myths-and-whoppers-about-firearms\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Rsktkr at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itstactical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITSTactical blog<\/a> has an excellent article debunking nine classic firearms myths and whoppers.<\/p>\n<p><b>The 9 Classic Myths<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Caliber Matters<\/li>\n<li>Firearms Experts<\/li>\n<li>Dryfiring Damages Weapons<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;I&#8217;m a Great Shot&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A (insert gun here) isn&#8217;t very accurate&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I know how to shoot I&#8217;m a Police officer, Marine&#8230;(Fill in the Blank)&#8221;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Kneeling\/Modern Isosceles\/Monica\/(insert technique here) isn&#8217;t comfortable&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I can&#8217;t shoot a (insert gun here) because of the grip angle&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Guns need to be cleaned every time they are fired&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itstactical.com\/2010\/09\/15\/debunking-9-classic-myths-and-whoppers-about-firearms\/#more-7212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read his responses to these myths here<\/a>. Some of them are quite funny and really quite true.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rsktkr at the ITSTactical blog has an excellent article debunking nine classic firearms myths and whoppers. The 9 Classic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3651],"class_list":["post-5186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-firearms-myths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5186\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}