remember american gladiators

it's not really about the M16 much

futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2019/12/guns-from-future-us-army-advanced.html

ah yes I too find sleeping breaks continuity in my life

in my case this is not a good thing, as it means I may forget to keep working on the same thing day to day

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yeah because we went to the sandbox and fired a bajillion rounds without having the problems everyone said we would have

wonder how many people are cooking meat in polyester blend twine because you have to go far out of your way to find "cotton" twine that *isn't* blended with polyester these days

I wonder if theirs are more effective

ours have a very high dud rate

there's still time :sadcat:

just import 50,000 taiwanese workers

I'm sure they'd love to come to the best country in the world, right

right?

...

correct, I carry a katadyn filter that could keep me going for a year on a single filter

that looks horrific

and I'll say again, these are not real problems

this is theoretical wankery taken to an extreme, throwing out what's actually important in favor of some neat space age shit because people can't be bothered to actually test things side by side to see what works

which describes the entire "gun culture" for the last 20 years, frankly

and I get worse mechanics and ergonomics for what benefit? a marginal velocity increase I don't care about?

changing a magazine is pretty important, and trying to jam one under your armpit is never going to be as natural as going forward of the grip

also try that lying down with armor on

I will never understand the fascination with bullpups

the ergonomics are fucking awful

and I wouldn't be that surprised if it works to some degree

coke *is* acidic. don't people use it for removing rust? it's a bad source of phosphoric acid