• THCDenton@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Dude I’m pro 2a and this shit creeps me out. These guys look like they’d have blood orgies during the purge.

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      10 months ago

      I like that you can tell who his in-laws and least favorite children are, because they look like this picture was taken during the Vietnam War during an impromptu clan rally in Vermont.

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    10 months ago

    I’ve said “guns are tools” before but when you take family pics with them, you lose the ability to say that shit.

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    10 months ago

    Starting back to front, left to right, looks like they have a G3 with buffer tube adapter and standard cheap adjustable stock, Paratrooper FAL, M16A2, M16A1, M60, Uzi, and Thomson Submachine gun.

    The designs are old enough to where they could be legal pre-ban machine guns but those are insanely expensive to own ($10k+ each minimum) but considering they’re in congress and have an M60 (even semi-auto only is expensive), they’re probably extremely rich.

    I support people responsibly owning firearms and they are handling them safely (open chambers, no magazines, safe direction, fingers off triggers), but this still looks very bad for a congressman.

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      10 months ago

      It’s also just a really really weird Christmas photo regardless of who is taking it.

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        10 months ago

        I need someone to edit out the guns so it just looks like a bunch of weirdos pointing in different directions.

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      10 months ago

      Seriously : I expected this was a joke picture and if not, just some exgremsitst having some fun… You’re telling me this is a congressman???

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      10 months ago

      Fully automatic firearms are actually ready to fire specifically with an open chamber. Closed chamber is considered safe with an open bolt rather than the inverse.

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    10 months ago

    No one learned gun safety anymore huh? That daughter is aiming that gun straight at her mom’s head.

    Edit: It’s not, but this is still stupid.

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      10 months ago

      Dad’s got his finger on the literal trigger, FFS. Both Mom and Li’l sis have shitty spatial awareness, but Dad’s ignoring trigger etiquette entirely. This whole family is just advertising that their entire compound is a slightly prickly post-apoc supplies cache, and their neighbors’ll be the first to take it.

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        10 months ago

        Dad’s got his finger on the literal trigger

        Index finger looks straight to me, generally I see not a lot wrong with their positioning and grip on the guns in this picture.

        Except for the fact that they are posing for a family picture with them - guns are not toys, they’re not accessories , they’re not decoration - their only purpose is being tools of destruction, handling them in any other way is improper to me.

        So in the picture it looks fine but the whole premise of the picture is the improper handling of guns in the first place, any sort of discussion about the content of the picture should begin there.

        Edit: Index finger straight next to the trigger guard is okay-ish I’d say, lots of caveats there, but resting your finger on the leading edge of the trigger guard (like the upper left guy) can lead to serious accidents by mistaking the trigger for the guard. Second guy from the left has better positioning of the finger but the one handed holding of a rifle while the other hand is free gives me the irks.

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          10 months ago

          Fair point, I should’ve looked closer at the angle of his hand. The rest of your comment is also right in line with my stance as well. 🤌🏼

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      Also, the congressman has his fucking finger on the trigger like the big stupid idiot that he is. Like, if you’re going to be a “gun person,” can’t you at least follow the rules? There’s so much wrong with this person and this photo.

      People like this are the reason I got out of target shooting, which was the only sport I was ever any good at (which turned out to be really great for me, because I was able to explore machining and electronics stuff which I like more). Like, I was just there for the engineering challenge and precision, when it seemed like a bunch of the people I was competing with were there for the “2nd amendment fuck yeah fuck the libs fuck the poor my gun is an extension of my big floppy weiner” shit. I have such contempt for people like this, and I’ve grown to feel horrified at the violence that this type of behavior leads to.

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        Do you live in a conservative area? I ask because I’m a target shooter, and I’m even a member of a shooting club, and nobody is like that there. They’re all very respectful and respectable people, who treat guns as the deadly instruments that they are, and treat shooting as a challenging sport. But I live in a very liberal area. Like super liberal, to the tune of 98% liberal.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t know, but based on faces, and a few assumptions, she is pointing the weapon at her son-in-law.

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    Is that an M60 machine gun?

    Edit: It is. I went looking and ones manufactured before 1986 are legal to own in the US. The average cost for one is around $25K USD.

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    10 months ago

    Any person who needs a weapon in order to feel safe in their own home / country, is living in a shithole.

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    There’s something really unnerving about that picture. Like I get the sense that these people would do horrible things with those guns while thinking they are doing good the whole time. At least at first, but once they start to question it, it will be too late to fix it.

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      Absolutely they would. But mind you they only feel this power rush when the other side is unarmed. Put three of four black dudes with guns and these cowards will shit their pants.

      They love to LARP.

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    10 months ago

    These people are all worried about registering guns but then turn around and post their arsenals on social media.

    An actual preper never shows off their prep.

    These fucks are cosplayers.