Anti-Material Rifle : a very large cartridge at the very limit of human ability to control, fired from a weapon that weighs more than twenty (and sometimes forty) pounds, capable of shooting armor-piercing and incendiary (and other) rounds, and reliable out to a mile in the hands of a trained individual.
Hunting Rifle: full size cartridges, long range, precise, with very high power, firing from a bolt. (Sniper rifles are hunting rifles with very precise tolerances, and high quality optics).
Battle Rifle: Full size cartridge, long distance, one round per trigger pull – necessary since the recoil is too large otherwise.
Assault Rifle: Intermediate Cartridge, medium distance, full auto. (Technically ‘select fire’.) Possible since by reducing the scale (force) of the cartridge the gun was controllable at full auto.
Semi Automatic Rifle: Intermediate cartridge. Firing a single round per trigger pull. It has turned out that full auto is useless other than for suppressing fire during movement. A skilled individual can fire american weapons (which have springs that dampen inertia) at pistol (fast) speeds without losing sight picture.
Sub machine gun: a pistol cartridge, and a high rate of fire, made possible by the use of a magazine, and requiring two hands. (600-800 rounds per minute, usually in short busts)
Modern 9mm semi-auto pistols with 15+ rounds have taken the market because they can be emptied (fired) quickly, effectively providing a low rate of fire submachine gun (180 rounds per minute) in a small package, while maintaining sight picture.
Modern 45 semi-auto pistols hold a smaller number of rounds and require a stronger individual to fire quickly, but are usually preferred by military special forces personnel.
Modern 10mm semi-auto pistols are hard to control for inexperienced smaller or weaker shooters, but can, if used properly stop a bear in the wild.
Modern large caliber revolvers can be used for hunting medium and large sized game. There are modern hunting pistols at the limit of human ability to control.
And we complete the loop and return to the hunting rifle.
Americans chose to make an ultra-light, full auto, sniper rifle with smaller cartridges so that they could carry more rounds (the M16/M4). Russians chose to make a full auto battle rifle regardless of weight (The AK). The Russian choice was superior in battlefield conditions.
It appears that the German technology (as usual) has found the optimum which is a heavier bullet but improving upon the black gun (ultra light weight) american weapon design. And this is the current direction of military weapons development.
It appears that the polymer pistol with octagonal barrel and fully replaceable trigger group has taken over the military handgun market.
Use the tool you can most comfortably master.
Category: Politics, Power, and Governance
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And when to revolution we bend our will, how soon we find fit those instruments
And when to revolution we bend our will, how soon we find fit those instruments of ill.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 20:37:00 UTC
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And when to revolution we bend our will, how soon we find fit those instruments
And when to revolution we bend our will, how soon we find fit those instruments of ill. -
And when to revolution we bend our will, how soon we find fit those instruments
And when to revolution we bend our will, how soon we find fit those instruments of ill. -
“I missed the part where you get from A (here) to B … actually changing curren
—“I missed the part where you get from A (here) to B … actually changing current legal institutions.”—- (a friend)
Um. that’s the part where stuff is on fire, the power is out, and there hospitals are full…… Just like every other time we got from A to B.
😉
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 13:23:00 UTC
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“I missed the part where you get from A (here) to B … actually changing curren
—“I missed the part where you get from A (here) to B … actually changing current legal institutions.”—- (a friend) Um. that’s the part where stuff is on fire, the power is out, and there hospitals are full…… Just like every other time we got from A to B. 😉 -
“I missed the part where you get from A (here) to B … actually changing curren
—“I missed the part where you get from A (here) to B … actually changing current legal institutions.”—- (a friend) Um. that’s the part where stuff is on fire, the power is out, and there hospitals are full…… Just like every other time we got from A to B. 😉 -
The people of Connecticut must finally come to understand that the reason they a
The people of Connecticut must finally come to understand that the reason they are 44th in the nation (and CT is a dump) is because the people of CT have always been wrong.
ALWAYS. Self righteous puritanism led to self righteous socialism led to self righteous postmodernism, and what was the finest parcel of real estate habitable by man outside of the Loire Valley in France, has been reduced to a soviet slum from the border of Fairfield county -which is nothing more than a tax haven for New Yorkers, and New York is just the profit center for the marketing and sale of US Federal Fiat Currency to the financial and banking markets.
Why did Boston lose the technology market to the Bay Area? Why has every company of every possible size that can physically afford to do so, left connecticut?
Why does ever person with any economic ability leave connecticut? Why doe entrepreneurs laugh when Connecticut is mentioned?
Connecticut was the state that most thoroughly implemented the soviet model, and is paying the same price of the soviets.
Connecticut is a wasteland from springfield through hartford through new haven through bridgeport, and has now lost the southeast to immigrant crime.
There is a reason we replaced the priesthood with the middle class business person during the enlightenment. There is a reason we replaced the church with science.
People who try to do good by political means always and everywhere do ill for the simple reason that anything you subsidize increases.
Western civilization created extraordinary wealthy by innovation, expansion, competition, and conquest. And northeasterners and their ‘cult’ have destroyed that civilization in less than a century of ‘good intentions’.
The road to hell, and the road to bankruptcy and poverty are paved with good intentions.
Prosperity is always and everywhere the result of continuous competitive advancement.
All the great arts and sciences are the work of conquering commercial empires.
So if you are a new englander, of ‘priestly’ bent, you are doing nothing other than buying self serving virtue signals by spending down the accumulated competitiveness of your ancestors.
And you have paved your way to hell.
A very wise man said: “Whenever you are unsure how to vote, consult a well meaning fool, and vote the other direction. People of Connecticut need to move radically in the other direction, or this “soviet worker’s paradise on englishs soil’ will continue to decline as did the soviet union, and every other nation that has attempted the same.
The future is not star trek. It’s venezuela, brazil, and india.
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-11 11:17:00 UTC
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The people of Connecticut must finally come to understand that the reason they a
The people of Connecticut must finally come to understand that the reason they are 44th in the nation (and CT is a dump) is because the people of CT have always been wrong. ALWAYS. Self righteous puritanism led to self righteous socialism led to self righteous postmodernism, and what was the finest parcel of real estate habitable by man outside of the Loire Valley in France, has been reduced to a soviet slum from the border of Fairfield county -which is nothing more than a tax haven for New Yorkers, and New York is just the profit center for the marketing and sale of US Federal Fiat Currency to the financial and banking markets. Why did Boston lose the technology market to the Bay Area? Why has every company of every possible size that can physically afford to do so, left connecticut? Why does ever person with any economic ability leave connecticut? Why doe entrepreneurs laugh when Connecticut is mentioned? Connecticut was the state that most thoroughly implemented the soviet model, and is paying the same price of the soviets. Connecticut is a wasteland from springfield through hartford through new haven through bridgeport, and has now lost the southeast to immigrant crime. There is a reason we replaced the priesthood with the middle class business person during the enlightenment. There is a reason we replaced the church with science. People who try to do good by political means always and everywhere do ill for the simple reason that anything you subsidize increases. Western civilization created extraordinary wealthy by innovation, expansion, competition, and conquest. And northeasterners and their ‘cult’ have destroyed that civilization in less than a century of ‘good intentions’. The road to hell, and the road to bankruptcy and poverty are paved with good intentions. Prosperity is always and everywhere the result of continuous competitive advancement. All the great arts and sciences are the work of conquering commercial empires. So if you are a new englander, of ‘priestly’ bent, you are doing nothing other than buying self serving virtue signals by spending down the accumulated competitiveness of your ancestors. And you have paved your way to hell. A very wise man said: “Whenever you are unsure how to vote, consult a well meaning fool, and vote the other direction. People of Connecticut need to move radically in the other direction, or this “soviet worker’s paradise on englishs soil’ will continue to decline as did the soviet union, and every other nation that has attempted the same. The future is not star trek. It’s venezuela, brazil, and india. -
The people of Connecticut must finally come to understand that the reason they a
The people of Connecticut must finally come to understand that the reason they are 44th in the nation (and CT is a dump) is because the people of CT have always been wrong. ALWAYS. Self righteous puritanism led to self righteous socialism led to self righteous postmodernism, and what was the finest parcel of real estate habitable by man outside of the Loire Valley in France, has been reduced to a soviet slum from the border of Fairfield county -which is nothing more than a tax haven for New Yorkers, and New York is just the profit center for the marketing and sale of US Federal Fiat Currency to the financial and banking markets. Why did Boston lose the technology market to the Bay Area? Why has every company of every possible size that can physically afford to do so, left connecticut? Why does ever person with any economic ability leave connecticut? Why doe entrepreneurs laugh when Connecticut is mentioned? Connecticut was the state that most thoroughly implemented the soviet model, and is paying the same price of the soviets. Connecticut is a wasteland from springfield through hartford through new haven through bridgeport, and has now lost the southeast to immigrant crime. There is a reason we replaced the priesthood with the middle class business person during the enlightenment. There is a reason we replaced the church with science. People who try to do good by political means always and everywhere do ill for the simple reason that anything you subsidize increases. Western civilization created extraordinary wealthy by innovation, expansion, competition, and conquest. And northeasterners and their ‘cult’ have destroyed that civilization in less than a century of ‘good intentions’. The road to hell, and the road to bankruptcy and poverty are paved with good intentions. Prosperity is always and everywhere the result of continuous competitive advancement. All the great arts and sciences are the work of conquering commercial empires. So if you are a new englander, of ‘priestly’ bent, you are doing nothing other than buying self serving virtue signals by spending down the accumulated competitiveness of your ancestors. And you have paved your way to hell. A very wise man said: “Whenever you are unsure how to vote, consult a well meaning fool, and vote the other direction. People of Connecticut need to move radically in the other direction, or this “soviet worker’s paradise on englishs soil’ will continue to decline as did the soviet union, and every other nation that has attempted the same. The future is not star trek. It’s venezuela, brazil, and india.