big pauper
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2024
The ar-15 is an insanely and pointlessly overcomplicated design that accomplishes more or less the same thing as an ak-47 at significantly higher technical requirements. It requires milled aluminum parts and tight gas system tolerances, an ak-47 is so retard proof African slumlords use them.A minor one but I think the relentless shilling of AR15s has to have some ulterior motive. and has had one for 50+ years. Every time there's a shooting, it's an AR platform. All the cringiest psyop retards use ARs. AR15s weren't even very prolific when they were introduced to the civilian market, being expensive to make, hard to put sights on (which were exploding in popularity) yet the rifle mysteriously became ultra popular. The AR itself failed trials/lost design competitions and the M16 as eventually adopted and would not become genuine milsurp for a long while. I have a book written in the 70s about the then-current state of the hobby (hobby -- the book is written by a magazine editor and gun reviewer in the context of hunting and target shooting) in the early 70s already saying "Go get yourself an AR15!!" every other chapter despite talking about single-shot bench rifles or long-range hunting shotguns in the same paragraph. Colt alone isn't that powerful, and it can't just be good advertising since the thing is made by a million other manufacturers now. There's gotta be some reason the AR15 specifically is pushed so hard as being part of the American consciousness.
the madman finally did it and NASA had to replace the sun with one they got off of aliexpress
60 years ago it was shilled as "America's gun" to give people a solid propaganda fetish object, made even more potent by being so expensive the average person wouldn't bother acquiring one. They became less expensive but that made them cool in the 80s, and they became so cool the Clinton administration banned them because they were too accessible.
A warmongering jingoist was in the white house when the assault weapons ban sunsetted in 2004. Not only that, Aluminum billet machining became accessible, automated, and inexpensive. Now it's cheaper than casting unless you manufacture at massive scales. So the second it became legal to go to a store and buy one yourself it opened up a massive market of bespoke machine gun shops and accessory companies that revitalized the entire gun market and it gave the military propagandists a lot to work with