"My wife is pregnant"
Actually, having watched a dozen or so times now, I take that back. These cops were honestly pretty chill. This dude decided to resist. What an idiot.
Honestly, I'm glad that is an ATF agent. He was kind of a dick, but so was CPD. If that had been an actual human being getting tazed this video might have been hard to watch.
Especially now that many have so little else to lose.
"Relax. This will be fiery, but mostly peaceful"
Thank you for this. I couldn't figure out what she was doing with that bayonet that was so egregious.
Not a bayonet. Right. LOL.
The problem with these "full featured" rifles, aside from cost, is that we have mil-spec rifles which aren't as good, but which are a known quantity.
If there is one thing I've learned about engineering over the years, it's that ANY change to a system, even an "improvement", has the potential to break it in ways you never thought of.
This is basically the downside of every single "innovation" in AR land. You have all these improvements, most of which are pretty clearly a good idea, but none of which have been tested by producing them in million unit quantities and then pounding the hell out of them for six decades.
I get that this is a recipe for stagnation, and I totally support innovation for fun, or for competition, but for any sort of serious use I want to know exactly what I am dealing with.
So yeah, that's the problem with the AR -- it works well enough that there are no problems with it that NEED to be solved, and it's hard to justify improvements when it means adopting a prototype, comparatively speaking.
The comment made me smile. Updoot.
Anyone else super curious what book is sitting in front of the stacks of belted ammo in the back there?
Nationwide mesh network. Let's do this thing.
Weekendgunnit will be fine. We can always fall back to shit posting in morse code using yard pops.
It'd be sort of awesome if it turned out we all live within walking distance of the same closed bar. We can go kick that back doors in and open some claws together.
How is 2026? Is NC independent? Did we boog? Is the rona over?
I like Oppenheimer's version better. Which is probably why he was a builder of atomic weapons while the original author couldn't invent indoor plumbing.
Pull trigger with toes.
The Republican Party needs to go.
In a perfect world this would mean killing it and establishing a non-pozzed party of our own. Unfortunately this would mean several democratic years while that transition took place and the GOP and FAFO parties were competing for votes.
Realistically we're gonna have to vivisect the GOP and start wearing it's skin before the twitching has even stopped. Infiltrate and subvert and all that.
As Ghandi wisely said: "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind".
Ghandi understood that the only way to end the cycle of violence and revenge was to forgive the person who takes your eye. Then, lovingly and without malice, to take both of his eyes and murder everyone he has ever loved.
Ghandi was very wise, even if he clearly skipped leg day.
Username checks out.
At $0.82 a round for 5.56, the cyclic rate of a properly drilled AR-15 is now $492/minute.
While I don't not want one, I have to admit the appeal has cooled a little.
After Wednesday, if you get shot while unarmed, it's your own damned fault for being unarmed.
Their utilization of cover in this picture is downright shameful.
I must contest "technically not a firearm".
The only strict technical definitions of firearm that would exclude such a tool are those provided to us by the steppers. These have no place in polite society.
In any common parlance, outside that found in infringements, it is very obviously a highly specialized firearm.
Depends on whether you are going to follow up the conversation with a tactical zap retrieval.
We're gonna be downright nostalgic about his policies in six months or so.
That would have been protecting the wrong people.
He provided entertainment. This is literally the first time the ATF has given me a damn thing in exchange for my tax dollars.