https://www.f35.com/media/videos-detail/f-35a-gun-fires-181-rounds
@TheDivineInfidel thought you might like to see its firing test.
get schooled bitch
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yea i saw that the other day …useless for CAS
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Well at least the A-10 isn’t being replaced by the F-35 any more, some good news out of this shit project.
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"If one is going to talk about history back to the Wild West days, then there were a couple of things called the World Wars that went on in Europe and Asia and various other atrocities around the world. Not to put too fine a point on it, but America is notable for letting our minorities survive the 1940s for the most part.
The real difference is that America seems to have more of a trickle of violence, while other places seem to have periods of peace punctuated by sybaritic binges of violence."
"Killing in the US tend to be numerous but fairly small in scope, so it’s six people here, and twenty there, and it gives the impression that there are a lot. Killings in Europe tend to be less frequent but more accomplished. England’s Harold Shipman puts the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer to shame in terms of pure volume.
Also consider Anders Brevik. If nothing else, a single person killing that many people in one day with nothing but hand-held arms that he carried on his person is an amazing accomplishment. I enjoy firearms and am an excellent shot, and at least I used to be unusually strong and robust, but just the pure logistics of carrying that much lead and firearms, which after all do eventually overheat and fail in various ways with that high use, boggles my mind.
Yet Norway’s reaction seems largely concerned with treating Brevik well to maintain an image that Norway is civilized. Well, it’s still a rather massive killing, and nothing like that one day has ever happened in the US, not with individual, hand-carried arms by one person. Though we’ve had some bombings that killed more people, the logistics are easier. Norway, in terms of size and population is comparable to Atlanta, where I live. If something like that happened in Atlanta, the reaction would be quite different. Atlanta went nuts over the child killings in the late 1970s by Wayne Williams. Cultural differences, y’all.
Happenings in other cultures always seem more strange and alarming than happenings in one’s own culture. This is why anthropologists take the view of cultural relativism, the idea that to understand any particular thing in a culture you have to understand the rest of the culture for context. This doesn’t appear to be a popular view, though.
At this moment, I’m pretty sure that there are people reading this who are outraged and offended at what I’m saying, who jump to the inaccurate conclusion that what I’m saying is based on cultural chauvinism, whereas in fact it’s precisely the opposite. They’re looking through Google to find effective put-downs, which they’ll deliver in rapid fire, and then they’ll feel superior to me. People do this all the time. I’m pretty sure that my saying that I’m aware of it will not forestall the reaction, based on my experience that as soon as people see red, they stop reading.
But what will they find? The most egregious serial killers I can find in the US in recent years were people like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy and, of course, the aforementioned Wayne Williams. But taken together, all three took several years each to amass the kind of carnage that Brevik managed in one day.
So people from outside the US look at the US and say “so many incidents, they’re barbaric” while people inside the US look outside and say “such effectiveness, they’re barbaric.” Both are wrong or at least blinkered due to cultural expectations. If you look at the total number of killings, amortized over enough time and over a large enough land area and cultural extent and avoid fairly arbitrary classifications, concentrating primarily on the number of killings, I think you’ll find that it’s pretty much a wash."
What do you guys think of the helicopter hieroglyphs?
Hahaha funny meme, but it does bring up something that annoys me about westerners and their understanding of Karma.
Everyone thinks its a give and take system and based on action, when in reality its based on intention of thought and action and is accumulative and you only cash out whether positive or negative after reincarnation.
If karmic law is something that interests you here is general summary of the subject.
Got a link for the source material?
Well, Breivik was primarily law enforcement failure.
He got exhausted to the point that he took quite a long break during the killing. At that time he called the police and offered his surrender, but the cop on the line just didn’t react to his liking so he continued. Meanwhile the local cops were waiting on the mainland for the SWAT to arrive. SWAT didn’t have heli so they took all the time in the world before they came. The moment they were there he surrendered.
He killed 69 and wounded 66 people in about an hour. Within an island or water, most younger and completely left helpless for him to kill. That is really not “an amazing accomplishment”. Not as regards overheating neither the amount of rounds needed.
THe author should probably change his guns. I can easily do 800+ rounds out of my CZ 75 without any maintenance with 100% reliability. I could probably do much more without cleaning, but I never got to try.
VZ.58s will fire thousands upon thousands of rounds to the point you can’t hold it even in heat protective gloves, but it won’t fail.
The funny thing @thedivineinfidel is that Breivik was watching BBC and got the impression from their program on the Czech Republic that Prague is something akin to Mogadishu when it comes to illicit firearms trade.
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Of course.
In US everyone has his own psychiatrist but in here every get his own arms dealer.
Well to be fair the Czech Republic is probably the only country in the EU where you can legally buy guns online. You still need to have the gun license (and purchase permit for B category guns) and it will be delivered by licensed gun dealer who will check all the credentials, but still, it is quite comfy and saves a lot of time. I had my last gun delivered to my workplace.
When a newspaperguy from a country where it is next to impossible to own a firearm, and where a 90 year old get 8 years imprisonment sentence for having a legally owned 130 years old gun loaded in his car comes to a country where you can order semi-auto AR15 online (as long as you have all corresponding licenses and permits), it is easy to jump to the Mogadishu conclusion. Especially when you spend a week in the city with the lowest crime rate among EU capitals and find nothing else newsworthy.
That sounds dangerous.
Why exactly? I sent the seller PDFs with my credentials, he came in to a private room at work with all paperwork filled out, checked my credentials again, I took the gun over and he was on his way. He even gave me invoice that was due in 3 months, so I didn’t need to bring cash. I saved about hour and half of time needed to get to the shop on the outskirt of Prague and back.
Next week I went and registered the gun with police accordingly with the law, they meanwhile already had his registration of the sale. No issue whatsoever.
I meant from the empolyer’s and coworkers veiw.
edit: nevermind… i dont know where I went with this anymore.
Well, coworker that I share the office with liked the gun very much 
Otherwise it’s nobody’s business whether I have gun on me or not.
Well, I would like to know whether my coworker who sits next to me has a gun.
This information could be pretty useful in certain situations.
Could you elaborate on this? What would it be useful for? What situations?
These situations are bit extreme but not improbable.
- Your place is attacked by armed men. In this situation you know your coworker has a gun so you will be safer with him. r if your coworker was killed you know he had a gun you can use.
- You coworker is mentaly unstable (I am not sure how strtict are the rules for aquiring licence), when he starts acting strangely you will act much more quicker with knowledge that he has a gun.
Not knowing this could be the the difference between life and death
The most accurate and yet short description is here:
You in Prague? Wanna go to range some day?
Our carry laws are based on the concealed principle. That is partially also what the gun owners want - the general population that has no interest in guns doesn’t realize that there are hundreds of thousands of people licensed to carry firearms for self defense so they are not bothered by seeing armed people in public. Most shootings are justifiable self defense cases. So the no-gun population doesn’t really care about gun control, because they mostly don’t realize guns are around them (low gun crime rate with legal guns helps this very much).
The main principle of concealed carry is don’t ask don’t tell. I know other coworkers who own guns but I’ve never asked them whether they carry and they never asked me. I assume they might and they assume the same.
Truth to be told I don’t carry every day to work because I don’t have a safe here and I don’t want to have gun on me all day in office. I plan on buying safe and then I’ll have it in it for the duration of the day. I carry to work mostly when I have other plans for the evening than going straight home. On days off work I am basically always armed.
That is little bit like thinking you buy a piano and suddenly can play Chopin.
I was just thinking that I might want to learn how to shoot.
You know, just in case… of… zombie apocalypse