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Belesarius

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  1. So I was wandering through TFB today like I always do and became bogged down in one of the press releases articles on the site penned by a writer other than Nathaniel about an effort by SilencerCo to update laws regarding silencers/suppressors and to presumably get rid of the federal tax stamp. This is something that I'm supportive of.

     

    And there's a slick little website run by SilencerCo offering their services with photos of models gunowners with duct tape over their mouths, talking about the right not to shoot loud guns without suppressors and likening the $200 tax stamp to the Tiananmen Square Massacre. And they have an Instagram page where you can submit photos of yourself with duct tape over your mouth holding a suppressed firearm. One of which is this one of a (I'm guessing) six year old kid brandishing a cocked semiautomatic handgun.

     

    https://instagram.com/p/0VP1J7kfTu/

     

    So. Smart move or more dumb stuff by gun owners? And I suppose we can expand on things with the question of when is the "right" time for kids to become familiar with rifles, shotguns and pistols?

    I think it's kinda a dumb move due to the majority of the photo's being 'black rifle' type photos.  Let's be real here.  Your average uneducated white person who doesn't like guns thinks AR-15 is Scary so posting picks of SBRd AR-15s with Suppressors on them isn't going to get you a lot of new support.   Post pics of hunting guns and target guns with suppressors on them. Emphasize the hearing damage reduction... etc.  I'm Canuckistani... So I want suppressors to be legal for the most Canadian of reasons. As a wanna-be shooter, I think they are just good manners.

  2. Mach 3-4 at low level is a non-trivial exercise, especially that far back.  I agree with Unstart that you'd have to use nukes to even mission kill it, given the short engagement time and technology at the time.  I'd be worried about how accurate and reliable n proximity nukes of an acceptable yield would be given fire control and Russian engineering at the time.

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