The "standard" rule of thumb most people use is usually 1x per 100m for a combat rifle. That's a good starting point.
If you have the offset red dot, do you REALLY need to get down all the way to 3x? Increasing the ratio between the top and bottom number is where a lot of that extra weight and cost is coming from. There may be some magnification/weight tradeoffs available to you that you haven't considered if you go from a 5x to a 4x or 3x magnification ratio.
The human eye is typically good to about one MOA if you have 20-20 vision. This is a decent approximation of what the rifle is capable of as well. You might get a quarter to half that with a good AR, and less with bench rest, but 1 MOA is kind of the standard for a "good" rifle
Technically, even with a 1x scope you should be able to hit anything big enough to see... but just barely see. The main benefit of a scope is to place your target and reticle in the same focal plane.
The real benefit of the higher magnification is more in target identification than actual effective accuracy. Also, higher magnification can make a paper target easier to see and just plain more pleasant to shoot, so preference plays a role.
Personally, for a practical rifle, where my goal is to "hit" rather than "miss" as fast as possible from field positions, I'd want a 1-4 or 1-6 scope on there, skip the red dot, throw some offset BUIS on. From the choices you listed, I'd go 2-10.
For a bench gun that I wanted to really wring maximum accuracy from, though, I'd get the 3-15x, or even more.
I bought a Canik TP9SF Elite with the intent to resell as NiB so I don't want to shoot it.
Don't ever say this.
In a way you are both right.
Winning a civil war requires actions that have ugly consequences, and afterwords we will have to live with them and face those consequences.
Sticking to moral behavior is admirable, but it is dangerous to try and convince ourselves that we can come out of a civil war with our humanity intact. History has very few examples of that happening.
If we don't consider the fact that our morality and humanity will be compromised by any civil conflict, then we are failing to fully consider the costs of our actions when marching toward that conflict.
This, in turn, causes us to undervalue the avoidance of said conflict. If we can't find a peaceful resolution, there is a good chance that our souls get sacrificed along with our bodies.
Seriously. Why the fuck is that fucking agency allowed to do this shit?
Because they are confident that no one will murder their families in retaliation
People still running the 90's dildo under their handguard, and rocking carbine gas on a 16" barrel, but who at least have the self respect to be ashamed of it have entered the chat
I can't be the only one that has ever spent an hour in front of the TV unloading and reloading PMAGs to verify they have 30 rounds in them.
In b4 gay window gang.
Oh, interesting. I think the last car I dropped a tank on to replace a pump was a 1996 ZJ... so I could be a couple decades out of date
Of course, any car I am likely to strip a fuel system out of for autistic garage adventures is likely of a similar age.
There is no sub-1000 NV solution for the AR that won't light you up like a Christmas tree for anyone else with NV.
At that budget, I'd drop an aimpoint T2 on there, a good weaponlight, and call it a day.
Ditto the Glock. Your quality white light/laser combos just aren't available in that price range. Just get some tritium dots and a white light, and learn to use your sights. Honestly, the main purpose of a laser on the rail is just to track movement to detect flinches and during dry fire. They don't make much sense tactically.
Shotgun -- red dot can work, or just a good ghost ring sight with a tritium front post (optional honestly)... and put a good white light on it (seeing a pattern here?)
FOIA request inbound?
We need to get these officers' names on the Potential Non-Steppers list. Maybe they fucked him up because he's ATF. Maybe they were protecting and serving their local communities for real. Maybe these are good guys.
Kinda gives me hope.
So, your gas tank should already have at least three. One to fill it with, one heading to the engine, one return line. Usually there will be at least one vacuum line directing vapors out through a charcoal canister.
Interestingly, gasoline is pretty hard to detonate, and in liquid form is surprisingly hard to burn. We've all see the demonstration where a lit match can actually be extinguished in the stuff, and witness the giant flaming rag needed for a molotov to be reliable.
There is one place where gas is always nicely vaporized for rapid combustion: inside of our actual car engines. Just need a spark there, and it all goes poof in a few milliseconds.
The practical upshot being that fuel tank, fuel pump, fuel lines, and fuel injectors -- the latter fed with some suitable square wave to achieve an appropriate duty cycle -- form an effective and readily available and fuel aerosolization system.
I wonder if, with a little autistic ingenuity, we could mod these devices into Minecraft.
At today's healthcare prices, a dog trained in tissue debridement would be worth more than a goose that squeezes eggs out it's ass. Less annoying to boot.
Or better yet, just swiss cheese the door without ever opening it.
Just, you know, aim somewhere higher than girl scout height. And buy a couple dozen boxes of thin mints if it wasn't the ATF.
It's hideous I love it.
And drill the third hole and add a can while you're at it.
And then go USE IT.
In for a penny in for a pound.
Would a 3rd hole jig actually be breaking any laws?
He could also make a bunch of martyrs without actually dying and then gamble that he got at least one autist on the jury.
Pro tip: The soup also comes in family sized cans.
How have I never seen alphabet soup before.
That is awesome.
Maybe we should plan on logging in to their family's minecraft servers on Christmas Eve and submitting our comments via in game chat.
If it gets to the point that fedbois are kicking in doors of 2A advocacy group members, then all is lost anyway...
No, if it gets that far this soon, we get prompted to actually fix things.
Don't forget about our culture of superior cuisine to fuel our 'tism.
Honestly, if .25 ACP is your mental model for what should be expected from a handgun, you are closer to the truth than most people.
Far more people have died from incorrectly assuming a 9mm won't behave like a .25 than have died from assuming a .25 will behave like a 9mm.
I only hate one race: the human race. :-)
Personally, Glock 17 or 19, and a 16" or 20" AR-15. Neither system is my favorite to shoot, but they are the Honda Civic of guns. Cheap. Easy to stockpile mags, spare parts. Easy to get technical data. Basically they are "good enough" and win hands down for logistic reasons alone. They are the systems that I have multiple thousands of training rounds through for this reason, and the systems I am most willing to excessively dry fire. They are also both on the light side, weight wise, which is important when you add ammo, armor, PFAK, comms and water -- all of which are as important as the guns themselves.
The 20" actually might get a slight nod in current conditions because of the deterrent value of being able to toss a bayonet on there. Sharp objects are a far less abstract danger. People have demonstrated they are willing to rush a rifle. They might hesitate with the bayo, and then I don't have to shoot them. Win-win. I am biased though because I actually just like how a full sized AR feels and handles, even if a shorter one is more practical in many situations.
The bottom line here, though, is it's important to go with what you can afford to feed, what you train the most with, and what is common to the people you train with. The difference from system to system is less importance than the difference that comes from your own experience.