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DandyLion posted:Cripes is there anything louder than that AR. Shooting one at the range with plugs and earmuffs still leaves them ringing when I leave. I can only imagine it hurt his ears for the first 1 or 2 shots (after which it was plenty quiet). I've listened to an AKM being rapid fired from about 150-200 feet away, and it's loud enough that it's hard to talk over. Everyone there was probably temporarily deaf after they stopped firing, while the guy shooting while driving spent the whole drat drive like Archer in that tinnitus video.
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DandyLion posted:Cripes is there anything louder than that AR. Shooting one at the range with plugs and earmuffs still leaves them ringing when I leave. I can only imagine it hurt his ears for the first 1 or 2 shots (after which it was plenty quiet). Blue Footed Booby posted:The actual reason you got SAWs was that M2s are heavy, huge, and have expensive ammo. All sorts of weird rumors circulated within the military because theyve never really been good at communication.
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spog posted:I think they kept shooting him as he was driving away in the ambulance. Then pumped a couple of dozen more into him at the hospital. Do they plan to bury him, or just sharpen him and use him as a pencil? As for deafness among the state troopers - I think situations like that are when good fire control is the most necessary. I wonder how many people have been killed while trying to surrender because the cops literally could not hear the order to cease fire or the calls of "I give up"?
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Jedit posted:Do they plan to bury him, or just sharpen him and use him as a pencil? Well, just in case you haven't heard the news in the past few years...
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Jedit posted:Do they plan to bury him, or just sharpen him and use him as a pencil? There's literally never been an order to cease fire though.
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Don't cops specifically get trained to mag dump into their targets? Or is that an internet hyperbole I've fallen for.
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Pharnakes posted:Don't cops specifically get trained to mag dump into their targets? Or is that an internet hyperbole I've fallen for. Hyperbole. They have "overkill" rules, but just like the "don't kill unarmed citizens" or "don't take kickbacks and bribes" rules they don't really ever get enforced.
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"Mag dump" is an exaggeration, but they are definitely taught to fire until they are certain there is no more threat. So if a multiple murderer is shooting at you, and then he all of the sudden says "ok I give up! I give up!", it would be within the rules for a cop to continue firing until the guy was actually down and no longer a threat. You don't just take a guy's word for it when he just got through decapitating people and shooting at cops. They're taught that if you're pulling the trigger, its because lethal force is necessary and there's no middle ground. Shoot to kill and keep shooting until the threat to your safety is neutralized.
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Basebf555 posted:"Mag dump" is an exaggeration, but they are definitely taught to fire until they are certain there is no more threat. So if a multiple murderer is shooting at you, and then he all of the sudden says "ok I give up! I give up!", it would be within the rules for a cop to continue firing until the guy was actually down and no longer a threat. You don't just take a guy's word for it when he just got through decapitating people and shooting at cops. This also ties into adrenaline. Police officers, as much as it pains some of them to hear it, aren't sharply trained soldiers making precise life-or-death decisions. When they start shooting (especially at a guy who's shooting back), they're often under a terrifying fight-or-flight reaction and operating on instinct. It's very easy in that kind of situation to just start reflexively pulling the trigger until something brings you back. I'm a very vocal opponent of police brutality, but "overshooting" is one of the very few things I give a pass on most of the time just because of the psychology and intent behind it. chitoryu12 has a new favorite as of 22:04 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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chitoryu12 posted:This also ties into adrenaline. Police officers, as much as it pains some of them to hear it, aren't sharply trained soldiers making precise life-or-death decisions. When they start shooting (especially at a guy who's shooting back), they're often under a terrifying fight-or-flight reaction and operating on instinct. It's very easy in that kind of situation to just start reflexively pulling the trigger until something brings you back. That's what I was saying. Although I remember hearing about a dude years ago who was being watched by 2 undercover police officers, and as he left a club they claim they thought they saw a gun, so they shot him 56 times. With their sidearms. I feel like a few reloads would have ben required.
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princecoo posted:That's what I was saying. Yeah, that's probably excessive. Though I do recall that one guy in New York who got infamously shot for pulling out a wallet got shot a ton because he fell against a wall and they thought they were missing.
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Not breaking exactly, but great news for this thread's favorite badass military plane https://twitter.com/foxtrotalpha/status/792065485747712000
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That is really good.
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Hell yes. I used to work at the Tucson airport and got to see those suckers all the time. Love me the warthog.
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TheBigAristotle posted:Not breaking exactly, but great news for this thread's favorite badass military plane Obligatory GAU-8 photo: 
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That is loving boner inducing levels of awesome. Imagine just getting to fire that once.
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Soulex posted:That is loving boner inducing levels of awesome. Imagine just getting to fire that once. You don't fire a Volkswagen so much as you drive it but yeah, same.
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Got curious why it had 2 feeds from the ammo drum and found out that the second is for collecting the spent casings to prevent them from messing up the aircraft. Never really considered it, but yeah the casings are massive and if there were hundreds of them spewing out of the frame in a second poo poo would get wrecked in a hurry, nevermind the engines at the back.
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My understanding was that the GAU-8 kept the cases to help maintain the aircraft's center of gravity. Which is probably also a dealbreaker for the Firehog.
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Gogea Mitu, tallest boxer ever (7'4").
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Say Nothing posted:Gogea Mitu, tallest boxer ever (7'4"). Join the Nintendo Fun Club today, Mac!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFu4E7c2Hmk&hd=1 I hope I'm this lucid and amazing when I'm 94 years old. No doubt him and his instructor were helped to the ground by this man's enormous balls.
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Please watch this insane story featuring a lizard and a snake. https://twitter.com/MrLukeJohnston/status/795609403789635584?s=09 I ain't even kidding 
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a kitten posted:Please watch this insane story featuring a lizard and a snake. Play 'til the whistle
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Yeah. That poo poo was intense! I don't hate snakes but I might not have made it like the lizard did.
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I really hate snakes, go lizard-bro. (Christ that photography.)
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a kitten posted:Please watch this insane story featuring a lizard and a snake. This has blown up everywhere suddenly. Even people I don't talk to often sent me this video.
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It's like a scene out of an action movie.
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It's like a scene out of the best action movie you've ever seen.
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Can someone tell me where that was filmed so I can be sure I never go within 1000 miles of the place?
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Lordshmee posted:Can someone tell me where that was filmed so I can be sure I never go within 1000 miles of the place? Pretty sure it was just outside of Akron, Ohio
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pik_d posted:Pretty sure it was just outside of Akron, Ohio Makes sense, snakes lost after being up 3-1.
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Rolo posted:Hell yes. I used to work at the Tucson airport and got to see those suckers all the time. I love how they look - you can slot them into almost any era and they'd fit right in, design-wise. Such an awesome aircraft
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Lordshmee posted:Can someone tell me where that was filmed so I can be sure I never go within 1000 miles of the place? Galápagos Islands, more specifically : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernandina_Island Apparently the show is on BBC America in January. It's absolutely worth a watch. A handful of times I thinking to myself it has to be CGI, the cinematography is just beautiful. 
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