Better yet, ask them what they’ll do when they show up with an M2.
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Every single US vet (and even some NVA troops) in Ken Burns’ Vietnam War documentary has said, in great detail, that the M-16 was a hunk of scrap metal disguised as a gun. They would find casualties with their guns dismantled because they’d jam mid-combat.
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In Angola, those things used to get dragged across rocks and through bush, used as hammers, spades, soup stirrers, never ever cleaned, and they’d still fire.
Not straight, but they’d fire.
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Or an A-10!
“I got 50k rounds of . 223! No one is commin near this place or I’ll…”
BRRRRRRT BRRRRRT BRRRRRRRT!
There. Now you have a few thousand rounds of 30mm too!
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It’s ON!!!
I’m bringing a small arsenal over to an upper middle-class blue-haired socialist’s back yard. We’re going to 'merica the place up a bit and de-mystify semi-automatic firearms later this afternoon.
Strange times indeed!
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And ironically the nomenklatura pressured old Mikhail into designing a weapon (AK-74) with a 5,54 round because they believed the Amerikantsy somehow knew better.
Same thing happened with the Buran, the copy of the Space Shuttle.
Want to piss of an actual Russian? Ask whether it’s a coincidence that a lowly sergeant Kalashnikov designed a weapon strikingly similar to German StG 44, whose designer Hugo Schmeisser was held by the Soviets in the same compund at Izmash.
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Ahh, nothing like some good corruption to bring down an “evil empire” 
shhhhh… the NKVD are watching…
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Yes they are. It’s “Chekist”. It was always “Chekist”. From the time Iron Felix (Dzerzhinsky) established Cheka, the word was etched in popular memory and is still widely used colloquially today for FSB personnel and Putin’s siloviki.
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the OG! Things went downhill after that. Ezhov was somewhat decent, Beria’s just a piece of crap
No one even remembers Khrushchev’s guys
By the way, what is your background. You seem very well versed in history
Construction engineer. Amateur historian. Old enough to have had been obliged to join the Youth Communist League.
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Where are you from?
Pretty sure that’s a non-essential activity in MD…
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Not from the one-time Workers’ Paradise, but from one of the unfortunate satellites where you had to join the Youth Communist League.
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Aside from the usual suspects who howl at the moon on social media and are eagerly reporting people for non-compliance, even my liberal friends are beginning to give our governor the finger. Enough is enough. I grabbed takeout today and nobody, NOBODY was wearing a mask. Not even the cop’s wife I ran into.
That doesn’t change our incredibly grim local economic outlook, which is what I imagine has my friend looking at expanding their toolbox.
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I’m legitimately fascinated by this. I’d love to be there to see the trigger get pulled and the light go on.
Especially if it’s something with a big boom and a target that goes Ding!
Well I just got home and it was fun and hopefully educational. We started with the .22 and worked up from there. I used the words "de-mystify semi-automatic firearms’ on purpose, and I think that’s what we just did.
Black rifles aren’t so scary after all. Just a little bit louder than the plinker and barely any more recoil.
Fun, too!
Now my friend just needs to wait out the shortages or figure out what to buy that’s available.
Edit: Not to speak on my friend’s behalf, but food and self defense is what was on the mind. Mild meat shortages are already hitting us, and this person has a backyard with quite a few potential meals.
It really was a fun afternoon. We rarely talk politics and we didn’t today either but this individual now supports the idea of legal suppressors out of consideration for the neighbors.
Just saw this
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“we didn’t shut things down back when the country had significantly less population, had significantly less chronic diseases, and the population was significantly younger. Why should we shut things down now that all those factors are significantly different?”
That has to be one of the dumbest arguments I’ve read about this whole CF of a situation.
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Interesting article, Bryan Adams never mentioned an hellacious pandemic. It’s always good to learn more about the past.
Also valid points about everything being different now vs then.
I like how a supposed libertarian casually slips in the article a bunch of deranged conspiracy theories but with a question mark because he doesn’t have the guts to go all out.
"Excessive adoration of predictive modeling". Ah yes, evil math and evil scientists.
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