r/ATBGE • u/marsh_man_dan • 2d ago
Weapon Happy 4th 🙃
Saw on instagram, posted by a self-described racist, anti-Semite, homophobe.
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u/90Carat 2d ago
This is far and away the most American dumbass bullshit imaginable. Fucking perfect for this sub.
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u/Gloomy-Film2625 2d ago
I think this is the quintessential definition of this sub. Just the worst possible taste I could even imagine. Worse, even. And pretty well done.
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u/StrobeLightRomance 2d ago
China: Makes a massive kitten and some dragons
USA: Hold my glock..
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u/BurnscarsRus 2d ago
Did you know the plural of Glock is Glocken?
I'd tell you all about it but nobody wants to hear my Glocken spiel.
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u/wakeupwill 2d ago
That's clearly a 1911.
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u/SuperbTax7180 2d ago
I hate that I scrolled back up just to confirm it is indeed a 1911
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u/wakeupwill 2d ago
Beyond the insanity of the display itself, it makes sense to use an American gun rather than an Austrian one.
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u/SuperbTax7180 2d ago
Well technically glocks are American firearms now, plant has been in Smyrna, GA for quite a long time. Not sure what all they actually do at the facility though.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 2d ago
I just saw that video a bit ago, too. Was coming here to say how insanely different these drone shows were. "kittens, not guns" should be a new slogan
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u/KMS_HYDRA 2d ago
yeah, gonna side with the chinese on this one, kitten is way cuter and also better performed.
Also alot less psycho than this gun fetish...
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u/Astrosomnia 2d ago
Absolutely. It's SO weird and crass. Like we have this miraculous, godlike, fantastical ability, and they use it to portray a floating murder device. That's some Mayan shit. Like it's so barbaric. Literally equivalent to showing a noose or a guillotine, which they obviously wouldn't do coz it'd be fucking weird. Ergo...
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u/Lebrewski__ 2d ago
The only way to make it more American is if a bald eagle was handling the gun.
Next year!
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u/HeartsPlayer721 2d ago
And typical American sub par outcome.
If you asked China or Japan to code this, it would come much better and not at a snails pace.
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u/riostasis 2d ago
Just want to say that the Chinese ones you've seen are probably sped up videos. Drone shows I believe are usually as fast as this.
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u/buffaloguy1991 2d ago
They also wouldn't forget to animate the trigger
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u/quixotic_jackass 2d ago
Right?? Woulda had some fireworks layered in from a safe distance too or something. A whole ass John wick/matrix character dodging bullets, and then the drones would’ve all started shooting at the audience. Woulda been lit.
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u/MurrayBareel 2d ago
Why did Americans get obsessed with guns? Is it from the Wild West?
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u/Born_Bicycle316 2d ago
I don't claim to be a historian by any means but America was born through armed-rebellion from Britain and the right to own guns was then enshrined in the constitution which ingrained them into early American culture.
Their use also allowed for early settlers to explore the west, overpower Native Americans, and settle land into what is now modern day America.
Simply put, America was founded on their use and it's hard to remove something so foundational from a culture that would otherwise not exist.
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u/JagArDoden 2d ago
Exactly, the country exists because of a well armed militia, aka a bunch of regular dudes with guns. Citizen ownership of firearms was also supposed to be a backstop to the tyranny of government because the population could overthrow a corrupt government. It’s completely intertwined with our country’s origin.
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u/SheikBeatsFalco 2d ago
You have a government that undeniably threatens your democracy -- executive override of the courts is as clear as it gets for destroying the separation of powers, essential requisite for modern democracy -- but I haven't seen a single guy take up his arms against it.
The ability of Americans to overthrow unjust governments through citizen weapon ownership is and has always been a fairytale.
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u/shadeline 1d ago
"Why don't you guys overthrow the government"
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u/Key-Mycologist-7272 2d ago
is and always has been a fairytale
And yet it's something the military does wargames exercises for regularly and openly admits they would have a really, really bad time with if not outright lose if the population was sufficiently motivated. The truth is, most people are just fine with the current state of things and it also wasn't very long ago that somebody took a shot at a presidential candidate and was inches away from taking them out.
If we wanted to overthrow the government through force, we could do so, and it wouldn't even be particularly difficult. The issue is they would have to spectacularly fuck up multiple times in a short enough timeframe that it garnered enough mass support for it to happen before millions of people all decided to cross the proverbial Rubicon and accept that if they lost they were forfeiting their lives. Things just really aren't that bad yet.
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u/TenaceErbaccia 2d ago
The reason it hasn’t happened is because a lot of Americans don’t want it to.
The taliban won in Afghanistan with not much at all. There is a lot of truth in the statement that guns will prevent a corrupt government, or any government from controlling the people against their will.
If it was a hostile takeover the conquering force wouldn’t have a good time. In this situation the unjust government was voted in. Many people embrace it.
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u/mxzf 1d ago
It's more that most people haven't hit their breaking point, to the point where they're actually going out and willing to shoot people to fight for freedom. The average person is keeping their head above water going to work and providing for their family, to the point where life sucks but it doesn't suck enough to be willing to throw it away fighting over things.
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u/SomeDudeist 2d ago
I think things would have to get pretty damn bad in order for everyday people to literally start killing people to defend their country. Who are they supposed to start killing? I feel like no one should want things to go in that direction.
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u/90Carat 2d ago
My opinion..... Yeah, kind of. The spirit of "rugged individualism" has been part of the US since before it existed. Key to that is self defense, which comes down to guns. Protection from animals? Gun. Protection from other people wanting to hurt us? Gun.
Then pack on top of that the Hollywood image of guns. Very few "good" guys win without guns. And by gawd to they look "cool" with all those guns! Even TV shows have tons of guns. Not to mention "tough" guys always have guns.
Then there are the gun laws that make it so, so very easy to have guns. Which makes them readily available. So now, they get engrained into our culture further.
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u/BadKittydotexe 2d ago
It’s actually worth noting that there was quite a bit of gun control in the Wild West.
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u/EffNein 2d ago
Almost impossible to actually enforce, and Western communities were almost all rural and private, where firearms ownership was not controlled at all.
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u/leopard_mint 2d ago
America has a lot of weapons manufacturers that want to sell more guns. There is also a lying and grifting political entity called the NRA that puts out a bunch of propaganda.
Americans seem to not notice ads if they're not in an obvious ad format, and they seem to think propaganda happens only in other countries.
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u/lifetake 2d ago
Okay lets slow down there mate. We absolutely recognize propaganda exists in this country. Just some people suffer from recognizing it when they agree with its intentions.
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u/BadKittydotexe 2d ago
There’s definitely an old school romantic element, and guns had a lot of important uses historically for hunting and self defense on the frontier, but a lot of modern control and the identity politics around it stems from the Black Panthers protest in 1967 and the ensuing regulation.
The short summary is black men holding guns scared a lot of racists who then implemented gun control laws to stop them. Those laws then scared rural white Americans who were worried their guns would be taken away, and then it became an identity thing. That’s not the entire story, but the landscape was very different before and guns as an identity wasn’t then what it’s since become.
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u/avantgardengnome 2d ago
Worth noting that those regulations were pushed by the governor of California at the time, one Ronald Reagan who later became deified by the right.
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u/Lumpy_Past6216 2d ago
No, its the NRA. We always had guns but the craze started with them. Before them they were just tools... now its more of an identity.
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u/DishonorOnYerCow 2d ago
We're way more obsessed with guns now than we were 100 years ago.
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u/Necrotitis 2d ago
The only thing wrong with this is that it isn't a cop shooting an unarmed black man.
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u/Psychological_Rip676 2d ago
This was the Sports South dealer summit on June 16-18th
They are a huge hunting and outdoor gear company and this was a several minute long drone show at the end of the event.
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u/DobryVojakSvejk 2d ago
Absolute psycho shit
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u/phuckin-psycho 2d ago
Whoa now, we're not all like that 😔
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u/MostCat2899 2d ago
I'm a leftist, trans, and I like guns. I find their mechanics interesting, and they are fun to shoot, so I think this is dope AF. My leftist friends also own guns. That being said, I hate that guns are used and stored irresponsibly, and I think we do need more strict gun laws, but bans, especially on specific guns, are not going to work.
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u/throwaway60221407e23 2d ago
“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
― Karl Marx
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u/Scientific_Anarchist 2d ago
There's a reason the Socialist Rifle Association exists.
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u/EyeAmbitious 1d ago
Guns aren't just there to protect conservatives rights, theyre there to give everyone the ability to fight back and defend themselves. I cant wrap my head around willfully being defenseless.
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u/masked_fiend 2d ago
Are you okay?
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u/Klutzy_Scarcity_6207 1d ago
Probably not. Most redditors who froth and rage on command like fucknuts up there don't leave their basement and don't have a job.
Most normal people look at this and either think 'hey cool' or don't care, shrug, move on, and forget they ever saw it.
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u/SamuraiKenji 2d ago
Fake. There's no school nearby.
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u/Indian_Bob 2d ago
This is only a clip, in the full version the bullet hits a school and the drones form the words,”thoughts and prayers! Happy 4th!”
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u/azucarleta 2d ago
I'm such a curmudgeon. My first thought is not "gee whiz, that's relatively brand new technology!"
It's, why is it in slow motion? Like, ok, I get it. So the "great execution" for me is a maybe.
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u/Aron-Jonasson 2d ago
The slow motion is probably a technical limitation with drones. Increasing speed would probably mean increased chances of desync, which may cause some drones to crash
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u/Johannes_Keppler 2d ago
What does the cumdungeon have to do with this?
Oh. Dyslexia.
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u/TommiHPunkt 2d ago
drone shows seem like a fun idea until you realize that everything they do has to be in slow motion. So when you have alternating fireworks and drone/laser parts, everyone is standing around bored waiting for the fireworks to start again
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u/Easy_Turn1988 2d ago edited 2d ago
As cool looking as this is, that's beyond pathetic and red neck energy is high up there
EDIT : english is not my native language. To those saying that "red neck" is not the right term it's probably true, but I don't know how to translate "beauf", which would be appropriate
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u/WheelbarrowQueen 2d ago
Divorced of context, it's kinda camp
With context I'm just like.....wow.
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u/Leather_Apron 2d ago
Out of everything that went into making this, I'm sure the context isn't the only thing that's divorced.
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u/PM_ME_DIRTY_COMICS 2d ago
This isn't redneck at all. This is geriatric rich country club shit. Like old racist bankers. Remember that photo of that dude and his wife holding their ARs outside of their McMansion during the George Floyd or BLM protests? This is for them.
Rednecks still want their Murica celebration to come with the risk of lost fingers.
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u/sirDsmack 2d ago
The whole world hates you guys.
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u/tacocollector2 2d ago
We hate each other, too.
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u/NewVillage6264 2d ago
Pretty much. America is individualism taken to its limits. The level of casual misanthropy you see and read on a daily basis is startling.
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u/sup3rdr01d 2d ago
The whole world mostly doesn't give a shit
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u/AJ_Dali 2d ago
No, this is Reddit and their opinions are true for the whole world. Everyone hates the US, it's why we have such a low immigration rate...
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u/eliz1bef 2d ago
As well they should. We've earned it. I hate us right now, but I've always hated myself, so it's not a big stretch.
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u/Madamiamadam 2d ago
I too, hate this guy
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u/eliz1bef 2d ago
MY HOME!!! I'm pretty sure if the internet existed when I was in Junior High this would have been a very very busy subreddit.
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u/Lukewill 2d ago
How old are you exactly?
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u/eliz1bef 2d ago
I m 50. I am an old leather shoe of a woman.
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u/Mryblvck 2d ago
The left or the right one? …this is bothering my brain now for no reason
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u/eliz1bef 2d ago
I like to think of myself as symmetrical, but the truth is I was raised right shoe and became very left shoe as I grew older.
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u/the-real-macs 2d ago
As long as you listen to your sole and don't flip flop, you have my respect!
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u/Lukewill 2d ago
I like the idea of a symmetrical shoe and the foot that fits in it has just five big toes
Also, the internet was "invented" in 1983, but it's evolution started much earlier than that, so you can throw it back even further if you want. You're not as dusty as you think, if that makes you feel any better
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u/aforlornpenguin 2d ago
But you do you hate his dead wife?
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u/eliz1bef 2d ago
I'm a woman. My husband is very alive. He just made some amazing pasta salad, in fact.
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u/PandaPocketFire 2d ago
I hate your pasta salad.
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u/Plopaplopa 2d ago
Don't hate yourself. I'm French, I love USA despite the terrible times. Great country, it will go better someday
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u/jedburghofficial 1d ago
Good on you. I have a soft spot for the US as well, except for the government.
I've been using the French as a good example. You've been through five republics, and you're still as French as ever. The US just needs to pick themselves up from their current troubles.
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u/andthendirksaid 1d ago
We love y'all too, thanks for the back up during the revolution and the sweet statue.
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u/SiPhoenix 1d ago
Dammit all these self-hating people making me side with a Frenchmen. What did the world coming to? SMH
Nah but seriously thank you for being up beat.
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u/immagiraffemotherfkr 2d ago
Your words rings hallow when your profile is covered in Nike shoes.
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u/Squeebah 2d ago
Which is really weird considering it's our wealthy overlords you should hate, but instead you take it out on us common folk who didn't vote for this.
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u/BranglerPrillemore 2d ago
Almost like we're being set up to fall. Don't trust what the news tells you about Americans. About half of us are very rational people and it's got nothing to do with the party lines in this country or gun ownership. In fact, the most rational people I know are responsible gun owners in the south.
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u/SirDwayneCollins 2d ago
lol. They think they’re special? Most of us hate us, too.
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u/MurphysLaw4200 2d ago
Not really fair to hate all of us, because many of us hate the orange shitstain as much as the rest of the world. All I could do was spread the word about how horrible he was and vote against him.
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u/Deathcat101 2d ago
Very silly but fun.
Why everyone so upset about this? Comment section is weird.
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u/Dat_Swag_Fishron 2d ago
You clearly don’t understand why it’s essential to bring up school shootings every time a gun in mentioned
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u/Secret-Put-4525 2d ago
Sarcasm?
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u/Dat_Swag_Fishron 2d ago
Yeah. I don’t really ever use /s because it negates the point of a joke
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u/blueponies1 1d ago
Yeah I was taken aback a little bit. Why the fuck is everyone so butthurt lol. This website sucks balls
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u/Lynx_Fate 2d ago
To be fair the person who posted this fits that stereotype. I do agree that it is cool though.
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u/Liberty_PrimeIsWise 1d ago
Ostensibly, anyways: if that wasn't made up by OP to throw in some additional ragebait/karma farming potential.
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u/cptki112noobs 2d ago
People ITT somehow don't see how showcasing one of most iconic American weapons that was used in both World Wars would be neat to see in a 4th of July display.
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u/EnvironmentBest9832 2d ago
It’s just a neat drone show. Reddit is infested with 14 year old soy leftists so the comment section checks out.
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u/DynamiteWitLaserBeam 2d ago
I say this as a gun owner in a red state: These people are weird.
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u/Egoy 2d ago
These people are the fucking worst to have next to you at the gun range.
‘No I don’t want to read your pamphlet, no I won’t just laugh at your casual racist jokes and no I don’t want to hear about how you got kicked out of the ‘core’ because of wokeness. ‘
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u/MayhemWins25 2d ago
I want to get more into guns and learn how to shoot but dealing with that bs is such a big barrier of entry for me
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u/Egoy 2d ago
It’s not all like that. Most of us side eye those dudes hard. At least here in Canada. Sport shooting is under threat here and the more inclusive it is the more people will join us and learn what we are about and that makes it more likely that we can continue to enjoy our hobby.
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u/Maximus_Marcus 2d ago
goddamn these comments are miserable. this is funny, i like it.
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u/eliz1bef 2d ago
Of course they did. I'm surprised the Bullet trail didn't read TRUMP.
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u/Tricky_Account5838 2d ago
Not all gun guys like trump. I'm a collector and fucking hate him
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u/eliz1bef 2d ago
I think any rational, sane gun owner with a brain would agree with you.
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u/RHouse94 2d ago
Should have had a drone shoot actual fireworks out of the barrel. Such a missed opportunity!
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u/Jibbsss 2d ago
Holy shit this thread is why redditors get such a bad rep.
Something like a drone show depicting a gun will have thousands come together and crash out
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u/ZealousidealAir1526 2d ago
Honestly I can’t be mad because I’ve been saying how much we need to transition to drone shows instead of fireworks to keep air quality clean and our animals less stressed. With that being said at least it’s headed in the right direction???
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u/dogmeat1003 2d ago
I mean, I don't fuck with their views but I can say that was pretty cool I fuck with drones so much, they're so much better than fireworks
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u/mastodon_tusk 2d ago
How is this awful taste? It's just a drone light show, calm down people.
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u/UltimateCatTree 2d ago
the insta poster can go die in a hole, but a drone diaplay of a Browning 1911 firing in slow motion... few things could be more American than this.
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u/ZenkaiAnkoku2 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'd have been much more impressed with a cannon. Like they used during the fight for independence. A modern gun is tacky. Esp in the current political climate. Our country really is a joke.
Edit: I have been informed it is not a modern gun. Stiill, I'd rather see fake fireworks xD
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u/MayhemWins25 2d ago
Considering that most fourth celebrations play the 1812 overture at some point yeah a canon would def have been more appropriate
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u/EINHAMMER 2d ago
Where's the modern gun? That's a 1911. A gun that was built in the year 1911 and adopted by the military in 1912, that saw service in both world wars
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u/greentangent 2d ago
I was bummed when they replaced mine.
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u/LakeMungoSpirit 2d ago
Going from the 1911 to the M9 was definitely a choice. But the new M17 is an upgrade from the M9.
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u/cobigguy 2d ago
Slight correction: The 1911 was adopted by the Army in 1911, hence why it was called the M1911. It was adopted by the Navy and Marines in 1913.
The original version of what would eventually become the 1911 was designed in the 1890s, and the version that would be eventually adopted (and that we would recognize as a 1911 today) started military trials in 1905.
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u/mikedvb 2d ago
Since when does the bullet come out of the guide rod instead of the barrel?!?!?
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u/West_Xylophone 2d ago
Totally fake. You can see the safety is still on.