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This person just turned into a liberal twitter poster after getting banned here? lol
Also, linking your reddit account in your twitter bio is so embarassing
Nah they first went to stupidpol only to get banned there too, then they became a liberal twitter poster.
This is the ideal AR form. You may not like it, but this is what peak gun ownership looks like.
No grenade launcher? How is it supposed to [REDACTED] cop cars??
Average airsoft loadout
Holy shit
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It literally says in the text they're getting an optic for it
-7WetFarts
RIFLE IS FINE. YOU FUCK IT, IT ONLY GET HEAVY AND YOU STILL NO HIT LARGEST SIDE OF BARN. GO TO FIRING RANGE, PRACTICE WITH MANY MAGAZINE OF CARTRIDGE. THEN YOU NOT NEED DUMB SHIT PUT ON SIDE OF RIFLE.
Was shooting a friends kitted out 9mm yesterday. Had a crazy optic, still had to use the rails to hit anything.
This new gun culture we have now is not even gun culture anymore, it's just worship of guns as conspicuous consumption objects. Every weapon post is full of disgusting reddit brain comments about how they didn't spend enough unless it's some $10,000 safe queen.
Also apparently the AR15 is a fudd gun now, lmao
It's consumerism like a lot of hobbies it's actually just about buying accessories for your hobby.
What? I'm going to agree with that person. It should have a rail and an optic. And it doesn't cost 10k to get there
My comment is directed at mainstream gun culture at large and not necessarily at this specific instance. My frustraion is with people who's only way to interact about firearms is to talk about upgrades and similar and constantly mention what somone "should have bought" or "should have done" or what they "need to buy". Especially for people's first guns, when they maybe can't come up with the cash to fully outfit their firearm.
I recall there was a comrade who posted that they had bought a Hi-Point, paid for on an installment plan. Many people who had no experience shooting that specific gun or maybe even at all told them in a derisive manner to just get a Glock because it was better, in spite of the fact that Glocks start at between four and six times the price of a Hi-Point.
A guy on Reddit getting asked why he didn't have an ACOG instead of a Primary Arms prism
Guns are part of a system, not the end all be all of your effectiveness in a deadly force encounter.
Yeah I agree generally. Better a hi point than nothing and I remember that thread too. There's good advice and bad advice. This post is an example of good advice and it's good advice to get a Glock or Glock clone over a hi point. There's a difference between recommending nods vs recommending a first handgun, don't you think?
I say this as a person running a primary arms psa $550 ar 15 with a rattle can job and a $20 Amazon sling
just the way they like it
I'm not online enough, so 7deadlyfetishes bit poster is now a chud and shitting on leftist gun owners? 
Maybe one of the fetishes is self owns
7DF already had this opinion before getting banned, i wouldn't call them a chud just wrong in this instance
— 7DeadlyFetishes
— 7SillyLARPers
I don't like ARs because of the apple-on-the-post iron sights they have and the minor ptsd I have of being forced to clean one manually to perfection for an entire night and morning with nothing but my hands, a torn chunk of shirt, and a box of q-tips. The star chamber was the devil's asshole. My pinky fingers have calluses because of it and it was where I spent the majority of the time cleaning.
7dorkassfish doesn't like it because it doesn't have all the snivel gear on it to coddle the firearm owner.
All you fundamentally need to know is how to use and zero in the iron sights and make consistent groupings at 300m from standing, crouching, prone, and after moving around to get winded, then you'll have more solid foundations to build on and be able to run circles around any gunfucker that only "trains" for making vanity tik tok videos
Still prefer AK platforms.
irons are obsolescent. red dots are cheap enough, reliable enough, and faster to pick up.
cost is only a factor if you also can't afford ammo for training, and if you can't train you might not want the gun at all.
No they're not. if you can't comprehend how to use and sight in irons for basic marksmanship you'll be struggling to hit a tree in the middle of a forest with an actual scope you have to dial in. The most important principle of firearm use is putting rounds on target accurately and the most important principle of firearm combat is to always engage in favorable conditions.
a red dot isn't a magnified scope and you'd have to do windage and elevation on adjustable irons anyway.
I know its not a magnified scope, thats my whole point
and i said irons are on the way out because red dots are better. i didn't say anything about scopes but people don't need to try to be top percentile snipers. If you aren't engaging further than 300 meters and you're not trying to shoot to hostage rescue levels of precision at closer distances then i'll take an rds over the scope too.
The standardized rifleman optic used by darn near all militaries is some variant of medium range rifle scope, respectively being the Russian 1P86-1 and the American TA31RCO, something that can be both used in close engagements within 100m and further engagements past 300m. Training to use them gives an individual a more wider range of possible actions they can take in both conducting quick-reaction point-and-shoot drills and precise marksmanship as needed by the situation. With regards to practicality of use, it's superior to red dots because it allows for greater engagement distance which in turn allows the user to engage in distant ambush tactics and have both ample distance and time to withdraw from the area to avoid reprisal, which is overwhelmingly the most common and most practical form of asymmetric warfare that irregular forces engage in when faced with numerically and technologically superior forces. Red dot sights can only be calibrated to one set distance and can at best mildly hinder the user's combat capabilities if engaging in a varied distance firefight, red dot sights are fundamentally trapped in their niche specialization and encouraging to train exclusively in them is to trap yourself in a 100m box in the greater world of light infantry firefights. And falling back to my initial point, Iron sights usage is excellent training for gaining understanding of distance, learning visual range-finding, learning rifle zeroing calibration for engaging targets at varying distances, and ultimately as a weapon sight of last resort.
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I am of the opinion that you should train until you are extremely competent with iron sights before you add an optic to a build
I guess that makes sense if you have $0.12 5.56, but even cheap optics are pretty good now and iron sights are far less performant across the board, especially for new shooters or people who don't have time to train extensively. It's a great skill for sure, just putting a counterpoint out there.
Funny enough, the post they're trying to make fun of mentions how they're going to be picking up a sight
For some people, using any optic is the difference between knowing what you’re shooting at and blind firing. It’s me I’m some people.
maybe 20 years ago. If my mom decides to get a rifle, we're starting her with a red dot.
Anyone from a slightly less insane country: '"Yep, that's a gun."
That thing shoots bullets
i just wanna say my gun's a Garand and with practice i'm about as good at shooting it as I was when I had an m16 with an acog but shooting it is a lot more fun (although carrying it in a war would suuuuuck)
Is it really an AR-15 if you haven’t added a bunch of unnecessary mods in order to do Seal Team Six LARPing?
get a 500$ scope, night vision and other nifty attachements@doesn't use a maxim "if you can take a photo, you can take a shot" x50000000 - portrait of america 2026
where are the accessories?
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I'm always a little bit surprised when I find out that someone has read the alt-text that I wrote out.
I give it my best effort regardless but I find myself wondering if I'm doing a good job with it - if I'm capturing the right details in a logical order that makes enough sense to stand on its own and whether I'm doing it with the right amount of depth.
Thanks for the encouragement!
It's funny that the alt text includes details that are almost impossible to spot in the graphic.
I like writing alt texts because it makes me reflect on what I'm actually trying to convey with an image. It's an interesting choice what to include since there is often more clarity in the text but also images are often used in a referencial manner and I'm never sure how well that comes across.
The Connect app shows alt text when you click on images.
But I've also seen Edie dig up alt texts from the HTML.
There are dozens of us
But yeah, it definitely does the same for me and I've made a little commitment to myself to try to add extra details into my alt-text to make it like a little reward or Easter egg for the people who do read it so it's not just a sort of afterthought for people with visual impairment but as a way to break down the barrier and the stigma around using accessibility tools (in a very small way) by encouraging everyone to read the alt-text because they might get something out of it that they wouldn't have otherwise gotten. If we often get bonus content that is relevant to the image in the alt-text then we're all going to be more likely to engage with it and hopefully we can inspire others by setting the standard with good examples of visual description.
Not to overstate the importance of my alt-text here but my hope was that it might get noticed as a little experiential thing where you get a sense of what it's like to have a visual impairment and how the alt-text can really enrich your understanding because the blurry keychain becomes much easier to understand when you've got a written description to guide your interpretation of some blurry pixels.
In another life I had to do quite a bit of presentations for my work and it was only when there was a coworker who was legally blind that I started doing visual descriptions of images like graphs or pictures to represent a concept that I realized just how valuable it is to all participants if I take a moment to describe the images and how they relate to what's being presented. It really reinforces the message and drives things home for everyone when you're presenting and it was a really big moment for me to be hit with the curb-cut effect in such a dramatic and almost tangible way like that. I made a commitment to myself to continue this practice for presentations and public speaking after I had that epiphany that this coworker was a catalyst for.
Yo! I remember this dude from when I was on reddit socialistra! I don't remember him being bad in any way, but I disagree with him here. Your weapon choices should flow from your expectations for their use. Any rifle is better than no rifle, and this one isn't even a dinosaur like a fuckin Mosin or something.
Yes, optics are definitely worth it and you should get them on your weapons if you can. I will say that given the current situation/conditions and likely zones of potential armed conflict... I would recommend shorter weapons. Something that you can shoulder, but small. Pistol-caliber carbines, Uzi/mac-type guns etc. Concealable and maneuverable for ambushes and quick raids.
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