No, I don't mean THAT old hunk of shit, they got rid of that for a reason, I mean the later Enfield revolver, where the UK Gov't asked Enfield to make a ripoff Webley revolver after Webley didn't bid low enough (which Webley later won a court case over IIRC).
View attachment 4638478View attachment 4638499
Virtually the same thing, an overall adequate revolver for a .38 Smith & Wesson load with a heavy 200gr projectile. They went and worked over all the Enfield ones after some point, converting them to a DAO lockwork with a bobbed hammer, probably making them less useful IMO.
Fucking spat my water reading "the hate site AR15.com" imagining it in the voice of that Fox News anchor going "They call themselves ANONYMOUS..."
I'm ok with holding violent felons, and people who have demonstrated to otherwise be a great risk to themselves or others, to a different standard than the rest. Not permanently, some turn their life around, but if you're looking at someone who's been in and out of jail for violent crimes, or who's been trying to kill themselves a bunch of times in the past year, perhaps they shouldn't get to be armed just like everyone else. Maybe compromise solutions could be worked out for some.
Might make little difference for more hardcore career criminals, but presenting some sort of significant penalty for possessing a weapon for the kinds of people who have genuinely demonstrated that they're genuinely very dangerous, I don't think is a problem,
as long as there is due process. This all of course quickly gets into far more complex subjects about recidivism and the availability and quality of mental health care, and the question of if someone is such a danger to society, should they be released at all, etc.
Illegal immigrants may have the right to defend their lives or property like anyone else, but they should outright have to pack their shit and be sent home if discovered, so that's a separate issue.
Cops are often retards, frequently spreading bullshit or even making up their own. Dumb cops picking up dumb shit on YouTube is unsurprising.
If I were to interpret it charitably, I figure it as one of those desperate improvisations for where you don't have a first aid kit and you have to do SOMETHING. Possibly someone once did that for something much less dramatic than a gunshot wound, some work accident or something, and people came to overestimate them.
Or it's a joke which got out of hand.
The IDF was ragtag as fuck in their early days, so I could see some retarded shit being done out of necessity, but they've also been pretty damn cheap for a lot of its history, so they
probably wouldn't go with the more expensive and vastly inferior option by choice. Unless maybe at some early point they chanced into trading for a shipment which happened to just include a lot of tampons, and someone figured they may as well get some use out of them to save shekels.