UK Assault Knives?

[Kathyp]

At any rate, the program didn't have a real effect on the war effort, and no effect at all on British gun rights.

True enough.  Heart in the right place.

My sister has lived in England for just over 20 years.  The perception the people have of the US is kind of funny.  They seem to think that bullets fly everywhere, every day, and that people die in the streets for lack of medical care! 

[animal]

  They seem to think that bullets fly everywhere, every day, and that people die in the streets for lack of medical care!

Yeah, and when you tell them "nah.. it's nowhere near that cool", the look on their face is priceless.

[William Bagwell]

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[NigelP]

  They seem to think that bullets fly everywhere, every day, and that people die in the streets for lack of medical care!

Yeah, and when you tell them "nah.. it's nowhere near that cool", the look on their face is priceless.

LOL, typical American attitute.
The truth is far from it.

[animal]

yep, though the typical American attitude is also far from what I said, and why the joke works.. .. but ...

Here's a fun true story .. We have a naval air training base here, and get pilots in from all over the world. Oddly enough, we are about 150 miles (240 km. for those that don't understand English) from the nearest "big water" and mostly rural ("rural mississippi" translates closely to "impenetrable forest" in British, btw)
Anyway, met a Brit pilot a few years ago, friendly, really cool, smart, a bit stiff, obviously a credit to his uniform ... and he was curious about a few "Americanisms" ... so ... Being a gun nut and seeing it as my patriotic duty to show hospitality to our divorced extended family, I invited him to go shooting. ... set up range time, called a few friends to make sure there was a variety of firearms, etc...

The day comes, we go over range rules, gun safety; and he shoots a few pistols, rifles, and shotguns. He was having great fun and we made a point to tell him that since he was living off-base : while he was here, he could own and/or possess a gun (this is true), and he was amazed.
Then we brought out the fun stuff .. (Some of my friends have dealer or manufacturers licences for stuff that is HEAVILY regulated and you might say, normally highly illegal to possess.)
Of course, being unfamiliar with US law, the stuff being there, and being able to handle them on a range with a couple of cops a few lanes over ... he didn't know the difference. We didn't even have to try to convince him this was normal ... his mind was totally blown.

So after shooting a few machine guns and while holding an MP-40 He says something like "I've always heard it's easy to get a gun here in the US, but I haven't seen them for sale. Where do I go?" (I guess he hadn't fully explored WalMart yet.)

A buddy says,"Just walk in the back room of the Dollar General, they don't keep 'em up front." (deer in headlights look from our Officer)

At that point, we lost it. The thought of "Mr. Upright" walking into the stockroom of a low-brow variety store looking for a machine gun to purchase, was too much.
He did go deer hunting a few times after, and him politely declining offers to defect to a "free country" became a running joke.

[NigelP]

I think the joke loses its poignancy due to few people outside of the USA knowing  what a Walmarts or a Dollar General actually are, Having visited  several times I know what a Walmart (general store) is, but a Dollar General??? Another cheap food chain???
You seem to exploit your understanding of what is natural to you to mock those who don?t understand your ?native? lingo. Rather than being good hosts and explaining.

[animal]

it's called good natured hazing.. sort of a passive-aggressive way for one man to tell another that he likes him without saying it outright.
A way of "breaking the ice". After this, he was comfortable dishing it back out at each of us... and he did. Once all are comfortable, we become friends.
After this, there were several times he had all the guys laughing at me or at another in the group. It was fun, and we had fun doing other things at the same time.

Among some men, "throwing them in the middle of things" rather than explaining like they are a child is an unspoken sign of respect. This was a military guy, and we knew he would understand that.

Edit to add: Dollar General is a like a much smaller, lower class, version of WalMart crammed with all sorts of cheap stuff. There was one between the base and his house .. they're pretty much everywhere down here.

[Ben Framed]

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Sal

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Thanks to you both, William and Sal;..

[Kathyp]

This was a military guy, and we knew he would understand that.

The military hazing is pretty much universal. 

My brother took my British BIL out shooting.  He had a good time until he didn't seat the shotgun well and bruised his shoulder.  He was a good sport about it all though and at least had some stories to take home.

[animal]

yep, and universal among rednecks too

[Michael Bush]

>They seem to think that bullets fly everywhere, every day, and that people die in the streets for lack of medical care!

That's Chicago...

[salvo]

Rednecks