• blakenong@lemmings.world
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        5 hours ago

        This could be taken in many ways, so, it might be helpful to just come out and say it… because we are running out of time. 😅

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          4 hours ago

          Did you know that for the past few years, the people of Myanmar have been fighting back against a genocidal apartheid government without any support from outside countries? They can get ammo and hobbyist 3d printers, but nobody is willing to send them any guns to use.

          I’ll give you an acronym so you can try and guess the redacted word: PSR.

          Buy a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he can feed a family for a lifetime. After all, many hands make for light work.

          Edit: The quote and gif are a reference to a Fallout meme involving The Burned Man, who is sitting at a table with a pile of unchecked 1911s on one side and stacks of cleared pistols on the other.

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            3 hours ago

            Ahhh, so the gif is handing over the gun, and not pointing the barrel to his head? Because that’s some really poor gun handling.

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              3 hours ago

              In context of the scene this comes from, he has a stack of about six dozen .45 handguns that he’s clearing, cleaning, and preparing. In the seconds preceding this one that’s pictured he just ejected the magazine and locked open the slide. He looks down the barrel to check for obstructions or debris and then turns the gun back around and reassembles it.

              This is Joshua Graham from Fallout New Vegas and I promise he knows his gun handling better than either you or I.

            • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              3 hours ago

              No, it’s part of a longer animation where he pulls the mag, racks the slide, checks down the chamber to examine the barrel and chamber for damage, then flips it to check it again from the other end, before putting the mag back in, and putting the now cleared gun onto one of the stacks.

              Then he picks up a new one and begins the process all over again.

              He actually shows pretty good gun handling during the whole thing. Even with the slide racked, the mag out, and the chamber checked and cleared, he still uses proper trigger discipline through the whole process. Flipping the gun is really the only “rule of cool” bit of the whole thing.

              The whole thing is that he’s prepping 1911s for use to defend a tribe against an invading army. A lot of 1911s.

              My point was that you can buy one gun, or help the community to either arm themselves or teach them how to. I figured a reference to Joshua Graham and his famous scene of checking guns forever would be picked up since the quote “We can’t expect God to do all the work” was a big meme for awhile.

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      8 hours ago

      “Used”

      Might wanna check what it’s been used for. It’s one thing to go to jail for your own actions, but what if the gun’s previous crimes go against your principles?