Fluttershy you gotta focus no matter how good you are. You never know someone might jump you.

@Shritistrang
She’s hunting poachers.
^^

Is that a… on her shirt?

Fluttershy truly knows how to make peace with her foes.

@Shritistrang
Peace through Power

Why would one of the most pacifistic ponies out there, who ABHORS violence in any way, own a firearm of any kind?

Filesize is larger, everything else is the same.

Duplicate of >>458070, but larger?

@Jackarunda  
What you do is set this as the background of your phone. I’d second guess replying to a three year old comment but I suspect you wouldn’t mind much. :D

I could see Fluttershy investing in a rifle and visiting to a firing range to get rid of her fear of loud noises, then becoming a total firearmaholic. Developing a passion for the precision behind a rifle or something akin to that.
 
… That, or the inner pyromaniac finally came out.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Tries to favorite harder  
Breaks favorite button  
Worth it!

WOW.

not that it means anything coming from someone like me but FUCK, ARTIST, YOU ARE A LEGEND

gosh fucking damnit this is such an awesome picture  
I can’t even  
like
 
breathe
 
help
 
_^help

Excellent shirt  
Excellent firearm  
Excellent physique  
Excellent round  
Excellent scenery  
Excellent art
 
5/5 would view again  
5/5 would shake hand of artist  
5/5 would jizz on  
in an admiring way
 
fuck it, 1500/5 would spend every waking moment viewing

Badass Fluttershy

@Kazapsky  
I made an assumption because, it’s more common for someone with a family to buy a gun for home defense. What this means is that they will collect their family first which in the average to small sized home will often alert intruders to that activity. Shooting them completely unaware as they enter a room becomes less feasible. This led me to believe you would try to search for them. Once an armed intruder is aware they are very likely to keep their weapon drawn. At the same range you say would be impossible to miss they are also likely to shoot you as they are hit.

@CloSeph
 
Wow. Talk about reading something that was never posted. When did I ever suggest actively going after a home invader? (Hint: never.)
 
In a confined area like a family home, there’s not a lot of opportunities to miss. Unless you’ve got the coin for something that’s the subject of a “Cribs” episode, a house is mostly chokepoints from a tactical perspective. If someone’s in my bedroom, I don’t need training, I only need enough time to swing a barrel toward the threat. Any fool can land hits consistently at point-blank range in a narrow enclosure, and if you’re in a situation where you can legitimately claim self-defense, guess how far away your attacker is.

@Kazapsky  
The ideal way to go about home defense does not involve actively searching for the intruder. What you really do is gather your loved ones as quickly and quietly as possible and then hold a defensible position, without engaging, until either the police arrive and resolve the situation or the intruder provides detectable presence. Trying to engage an intruder before locating your family puts them in danger. As I’ve explained before, in a life or death situation a defender’s accuracy may not be their best. More than a few of the first shots may miss entirely or fail to incapacitate/kill a threat. You might be assuming that everything is going to land on target and strike vital areas. That’s just not the case

@CloSeph
 
Aha, good, i feel relieved knowing that, at least in this case, this is not used for painting walls red in a quick way.  
Thanks for the info and for your time.

@Background Pony  
quick correction on my last statement, the projectile for the 5.56 is actually 5.70mm. The naming conventions are applied by what the barrel diameter of the weapons they are fired from. Barrel measurements are either the diameter of the barrel with the rifling grooves or just the lands (what the barrel diameter would be without rifling grooves)

@Background Pony  
If you look at the column labeled common cartridge name you can identify which row it’s diameter will be listed.  
5.56 ammunition has a metric diameter of what it’s name implies 5.56 milimeters. The naming convention on the 7.62 is the same as well. Pistol rounds in 9mm are actually larger in diameter than most rifle rounds, the projectiles are just shorter and the casings holes much less gunpowder. So long as the bullets don’t tumble the 9mm should have a larger entrance wound. I don’t know too much about wound channels from ‘large’ ammunition but I’m pretty sure anything less than .50 caliber ammunition isn’t going to make limbs fly off

@CloSeph
 
<Reads chart. Stares blankly.>
 
Uhm… I notice nothing because i don’t know a thing about guns and calibers… That’s why i was asking, out of curiosity.
 
But, uuuh i’ll guess: you showed me this to tell me the gun in the pic is not that dangerous, isn’t it?

@CloSeph
 
Anything that’s still coming at you after the first couple shots won’t be stopped by the next handful either. Magazine size is irrelevant for self-defense. Anything beyond “enough firepower to kill a grown man” is simply a more violent version of toys for toys’ sake.
 
Then again, this is America we’re talking about - the only developed nation where having comparable firepower to a military detachment is considered a fundamental human right.

@Pony_tail  
Most people who buy more than one firearm for self defense often practice shooting and even do so for recreation.