Comments on: Guns, Guns, Guns

By: Dell_Dude

Dell_Dude — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:09:50 +0000

You find it strange?

Perhaps you might find it even stranger that just such an application is what caused me to go to the iPhone platform.

The fact that I can have a ballistics calculator and a shot timer on my phone, without purchasing or lugging around additional junk really appealed to me.

By: R Fain SSG, USA (Ret)

R Fain SSG, USA (Ret) — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:03:39 +0000

Andrew:

Gosh, isn’t it odd how companies decide what products THEY want to have attached to THEIR product?

You are easily amazed, I am guessing. They (Apple) are trying to make their product appeal to more people. Since they know that there are an estimated 283 million (283,000,000) firearms in the United States, wouldn’t it be prudent to build an app for those (40%?) who have them?

(By the way, Gun Control means hitting your target. This app helps do that, therefore this app is a gun control measure!)

By: David Serlin

David Serlin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:24:33 +0000

Bullet flight trajectory calculations are important to long range marksman, whether they are shooting at paper or steel targets on a range, prairie dogs tearing up a rancher’s pasture, coyotes stalking sheep, or pirates getting ready to execute innocent seamen. Considering the types of egregiously violent and even vicious criminal behavior that has been carefully simulated in various video games over the past 30 years, your “amazement” at a simple ballistics computational application is mind boggling in both its hypocrisy and naiveté.

By: B Leonard

B Leonard — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:08:10 +0000

Probably more for police snipers than military.

Considering it’s more of a pure engineering product than a political statement I can see Apple’s point. If it were called “Waste a(n) (insert name of group here), Not a Shot” it would probably not have passed review.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:41:49 +0000

So what?