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I found the info I wanted, as y'all can see. Still don't have pen figures for the APDS, though.

Folland Gnat, first prototype. I went to the trouble to dig up picks of the exact aircraft shown in the video, G-39-2:

Excellent homologous photographs, taken 70 years apart.

The latest one's pretty good:

No 4x TXAA, 0/10, would not play.

Why do you think the AR-15 has such a shoddy reputation, hmmm?

Technically not mechanized warfare, but what can my armor guys tell me about this gun?

The consumer has wizened up a bit, and the result has been hilariously cheap evil black rifles.

More like the cosplayers/otaku of the gun world.

CAS is not dead. Go to any two-bit gunshow and marvel at the old farts with no fashion sense cosplaying as Wyatt Earp.

Then you simply are not paying attention.

Uh, are you high?

On Monday, before I ever posted the article, I asked for a couple days off.

Good music that receives radio play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxroiTRg7Tg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89VoXz4_uMM

I think in retrospect it was in bad taste. I'm not sure the public apology did anything but stir the pot more, though.

Keep in mind, Zumbo would have called both of those "terrorist rifles". He was the product of another age... Don't think it's just the Right; that's a big mistake. If anything, the Left is more guilty. Blame it on our Calvinist ancestors, if you must.

I find getting hit on by gays relatively soothing. It might be an innate insecurity of mine, but I figure if I can attract the attention of a guy - the sex with the indisputably higher set of standards - then surely I am a good candidate for some bedroom time with the other sex. I may have had too many formative years too close to the theater, come to think of it...

Don, you're absolutely right, but nevertheless I have more to add. Note the date I got "gunny". 2004. That was the sunset of the "assault weapons" ban. So I'm coming from that angle, first off. I think "sporting purpose" got redefined, hard. Zumbo types were convinced "sporting purpose" meant "something that looked like something Mauser or Browning designed", but actually lots of guns have a sporting purpose. I'd contend the AR-15 is more uniquely suited to certain significant sporting purposes than other rifles, including Mausers and Browning-designed leverguns by a mile. Maryland, for example, had at least until recently (didn't bother myself to familiarize myself with the Chesapeake AWB Mk. II, Electric Boogaloo much) a specific exemption on HBAR AR-15s, so well-suited to Hi Power competition were they. Likewise, the .223 caliber is uniquely suited to "varmints" and even medium game with heavier bullets, a spectrum which you may note makes up a majority of the hunting sports. And, of course, the sportsman can always use more versatility, accuracy (the AR-15 provides possibly as much as an order of magnitude more than the Winchester 1894/ Marlin 36), and reliability. So it wasn't so much that people switched to liking evil, purposeless guns as they did recognize the utility of evil black rifles. They were ugly, they weren't traditional, but god did they perform! Imagine if Twinkies were the epitome of nutritious and habit-forming; that's basically the AR-15. Definitely an improvement over the previous paradigm, but highly subject to "over-doing it". And the final word is... Donward's exactly right when he says the scary guns were easier to make. In fact, that's probably the scariest bit about them, and something I'm hoping to stamp into the popular consciousness with my writing. Assault rifles, which form the basis for "modern sporting rifles"/"evil black rifles" (both terms subject to equal quantities of derision and rejection from me), are a halfway point between the traditional repeating rifle and the submachine gun, yes, but they're most importantly more mass producible than the bolt gun (thought probably not quite as cheap as the SMG). Naturally this carries over to the "modern sporting rifle", which, while accurate, is still an infuriating euphemism. Seriously! A military-spec M4 clone costs less than a grand; someone willing to compromise could get something that looked almost identical for $700, easy. How on earth is even the most popular "traditional" levergun supposed to compete with that!? No, you never will, Fudds, so give up on it. The days of the fine Mauser and elegant lever-actuated repeater are gone for a time; they may return but not today, tomorrow, or the next decade. Keep your dogs, your falcons, your class. Pass that on; it's what really matters. The next generation may foxhunt with an ugly black gun with a collapsible stock, but make sure they do!

Dude, I never thought about rap much before, but you make a compelling case for it being a distraction from the True Calling of the Soul Brothah. As a resident of truly racially harmonious East-east-Texas, Louisiana, I approve of this line of thinking.

It's just a part of my history or whatever. Also fuck feminists. I am only human!

OK, so I got into the gun hobby when I was fourteen, in 2004 when ammunition was really, freakishly cheap. My perspective is colored by this. I think we had to get rid of anyone like Jim Zumbo, and that meant that whatever gun the latest spree killer was using, we needed to adopt as our very own child. See my previous post on gun politics in the USA for why we'd do such an insane thing (cue Hitler's mustache analogies). So basically, the scarier the better. This meant anyone who just wanted to hunt pheasant and didn't care about those evil black guns was, pffft, well screw them, anyway. This was a good move in the short term, as it consolidated the base, but in the long term, and in terms of cultivating a certain classiness, it has been a disaster. Basically, this is why Chipotle-dwelling rifle open carry activists exist. Jim, come back to us!

We had to dump it to survive. :\

Holy shit, dude, you think about the NRA!?!? Yes, traditionalism has been dumped by the community at large, but there are some of us (blessedly, a few of us actually have an audience) who mean to change that, myself included.

The red pill community (if by that you mean RoK, which is basically bros with added pretension) can go fuck itself. As a member of the original red pill community, which they sacked and from which they stole their name, Fuck Those Guys. They ain't shit, anyway. Having said that, the lefties (uh, which is probably everyone here) should know I'm not - dogmatically-speaking - an ally, so even "moderate" feminists aren't really that appealing to me. I haven't spent most of my time outside feminism; I've actually spent most of my time in it, and while I have much nicer things to say about it than radical feminism - like "they don't literally want to kill all men" and "they don't disown me when I disagree with them" - that doesn't mean I'm on their side.