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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
Hot new Fuddblaster is out now!
The gun no one knows how it works, where dozen of Youtubers have just made shit up about it!
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Show and tell time
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I have an idea to make things right…
For everyone.
You show me. You can’t.
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And have a great day.
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
Jun 11
"modern sporting rifle" is just a euphemism for "assault weapon"
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
Jun 11
Josh Sugarman was 5 years old when gun reviewer Bob Zwirz used "assault weapon" to describe the Colt AR-15 Sporter in 1965.
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Ironically, the opening photo of Zwirz and his twenty round target was reused.
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
Jun 11
Reducing the combat effectiveness of a firearm simply to what projectile is fired is a gross oversimplification that betrays either ignorance or insincerity.
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Jun 11
A semiauto AR15 is a far more capable firearm than the Thompson Submachinegun (which was "the" machinegun that the NFA meant to ban).
The machinegun "dangerous" counterfactual is silly, especially in the era of FRTs and the like.
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There's no good argument for why semiautos should be protected and machine guns shouldn't.
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And to be clear, when I say "capable," I mean "really good at killing people quickly and easily," which is the entire point of self defense in the first place.
There's no chivalry in bringing a knife to a gunfight. Self defense should be decisive and unfair.
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
Jun 11
The Army used semiauto AR-15s as designated marksman rifles throughout GWOT. They were built using M16A2/A4 lowers but had commercial semiauto match triggers installed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squad_…
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
There are a hundred different things in the average person’s day that we teach children how to safely navigate around.
Open flames, electrical outlets, stoves, cars, knives, and more.
It is only with firearms, tools that exist in the millions across the United States, that there is such a concentrated effort to ensure children remain completely ignorant of basic safety around them.
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
It was added due to extensive Army testing some 7 years before we officially entered Vietnam. XM16E1 with the forward assist began production in early 1964, deployment to Vietnam was 1965.
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
you've clearly never read the manual you're talking about
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Navi of Boomhandia retweeted
Jun 8
Forward assist hate is an excellent Midwit detector
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There's documentary evidence of AR-15s in Vietnam jamming, with the bolt failing to fully close due to friction between the bolt carrier and upper.
This is the exact jam the forward assist solves, yet people still choose to believe Stoner (who never used any rifle in combat).
Eugene talks about this. The FA in fact did not come from any soldier input, but instead brass that knew little to none about the rifle. Born from ignorance, essentially.
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This jam was observed all the way back in 1958 when the Army first tested the AR-15.
Much like with the AR-10 and FAL (both of which had forward assists added), sealed rifle systems can get dirty enough for the bolt to end up sluggish. You can't call a time-out to clean it.
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The whole "the Army is so stupid about guns" thing is just idiotic. In particular about the AR15, where the Army identified practically every issue it had before 1963. Yet they were ignored, DOD forced adoption, then somehow people now blame the Army for the rifle's issues.
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Perhaps Stoner would have been taken seriously if the AR-15 hadn't been so poorly designed initially.
Perhaps people would have listened to him if he didn't insist that the AR-15 was perfect in 1959.
Stoner got a lot more wrong than he did right with "his" AR-15.
Still amazing that Eugene Stoner outright told the Marine Corps all the problems of the M16A2, but got hand waved away because the target shooters who made the changes felt "it was their baby". He was right about every criticism too.
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At any rate, the M16A2 was an excellent rifle and I suspect Stoner's ire with it stems mostly from the fact that other engineers continued to make something better out of a design that he started (and left in a rather incomplete state).
That, and his royalties were running out.
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Again, this isn't to say he wasn't brilliant. He certainly was. But he was a long way from faultless. And that's ok. But the veneration of Stoner like he's incapable of making bad decisions ends up obscuring (and contradicting) the history of the AR-15.
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