Am i the only responsible gun owner who likes firearm related video games?

Nope - I enjoy them a good deal - or did when I had more time. I actually prefer the games with an actual "gun" style controller - Like Area 51. In fact, I tend to see those sorts of "true" first person shooter as a sort of analog for getting real trigger time. I saw improvement in my real time between targets with practice in that virtual environment. No recoil, targets are moving, gun is lightweight, trigger has no weight - it really is all about how fast can you pick up the front sight if you play it that way.

More or less I think that sometimes people get a little too wound about what they read here. (me included) I think there are plenty of trolls out there just trying to yank our chains. Combine those with the kids that want to play at armchair gun enthusiast and sometimes it's worth stepping back from the keyboard.

Thinkingblade

Nick-

I am a Firearm Instructor, and I still relieve my stress on my computer and XBOX. So lets see?

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

HALO and HALO 2

Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2

Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2

The Orange Box, (Half Life 2: All)

Painkiller

Farcry and Farcry 2

Battlefield 2 and 2142

Stalker

Descent: FreeSpace, (Old Game I really like)

Gears of War

Quake 4

Pariah

Bioshock

Doom 3

Fear

Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

Call of Juarez

Need I say more?

System?

AMD Athlon II 4400+ Dual Core Socket 939

A-Data LL PC-3200 RAM, (4 GB)

Asus A8V-SE Mobo

nVidia GTX 250 Video Card

2-Hitachi Deskstar 350Gb Drives, (U-ATA 133)

CoolMax 750 Watt Modular PSU

Creative Sound Blaster: Audigy Gamer Series Sound Card

Plextor CD/DVD RAM Drive

Xclio A-380 Gaming Case

Saitek Eclipse II Keyboard

Microsoft Sidewider Gaming Mouse

Sun Micro-Systems 19" CRT Graphics Rendering Monitor, (Courtesy Electronic Arts, Redood Shores Studio).

Not that I am trying to brag about my system, but everyone always ends up asking about it.

Yeah, I am still on Windows XP Professional 32 Bit. New machine is in the works for Win-7 X64.

Parts are more expensive on this build!

Good Luck and Happy Shooting/Gaming!

Although i actually own and sometimes play COD black ops, i understand why people get frustrated with the people that play these games. Ive seen countless idiots on youtube arguing with people about weapons in videos, like "the ak74u is a submachine gun, not an assault rifle". Seems like lots of kids are basing all of their firearm " knowledge" on these games, which is very scary from a safety standpoint. You dont want to go to the range with this type of person around, there are enough idiots in this world already.

I admit that particular game is entertaining, but realistic? Barely. I could spend about 40 minutes typing up all the errors and downright falsifications in that game. As for you and firearms, that doesnt seem common nowadays. I was raised in a rural environment, shooting guns long before i picked up a videogame controller. That isnt the case for most of these kids, and that could prove to cause lots of problems when they actually are old enough to buy the guns they see in games, which most seem to want to do.

EDIT: No need to get defensive. I was simply stating that it wasnt common, i wasnt saying that you were irresponsible. There really isnt much of a way i could judge that through the internet...

i played video games before i was allowed to keep & bear arms. never really got into modern FPS games, and before i could bu ya gun, all i knew was video game guns (which none where real)

i have & still occasionally play games like:

Counter Strike 1.6

Counter Strike Source

Day of Defeat 1.3

Postal 2 (the most ridiculous game I've ever played)

several half life mods

Crysis

Deus Ex (1,2)

Once I got into having real guns I discarded everything i knew about video game guns are they're fake and stupid. actually the only reason why i played video games was because I couldn't have the real thing.

I'd say I'm a responsible gun owner. but i still often try "dumb" things, such as shooting pellets out of my 22lr rifle using nail gun blanks or

Actually you're not alone. I'm a married 34 year old soon to be dad who loves playing CODMW2 and CODBO, both on PC. I'm a responsible gun owner, and no, I don't care to build a collection of the weapons that are available in the games. I know the difference between video game guns and real life guns.

@jake (below me) - i have real guns and i still want an airsoft gun for in my garage fun drunk target practice on the sticky 'dart board' made for airsoft rounds.

There's nothing wrong with playing some video games. It's the video game questions in the hunting section that are annoying.

I like playing an old Gran Turismo game, but I don't bother the Cars & Transportation section with questions like "Which is better: The Ferrari F430 or Lamborghini Murcielago?"

I know what you mean. Video games are part of American Culture so its always fun to beat people online and catch up with friends. Its normal and this isn't like playing airsoft. If you have real guns and are still buying airsoft guns then there might be something wrong with you;) .22lr pistols are a good alternative to co2.

I play call of duty on occasion and have guns,Its just most people that play video games no nothing outside of video games.

Like my cousin for example,when I see him (not to often,maybe 2 or 3 times a month) all he talks about are video games.

I kinda out grew the videogame thing when I became a gun owner, I had more fun with shooting then i did with videogames

Also when I became a firearm owner I didnt really have time for both.

although I still enjoy the occasional videogame, but don't enjoy when kids take them as fact

No my only friend who owns guns (I go to a small privite school so not too many contry folk there) plays cod and when I want to talk about guns and the outdoors hes always wanting to talk cod but he loves guns and the outdoors