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Well in the case of a PIAT, you got a pretty sweet catapult.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Well in the case of a PIAT, you got a pretty sweet catapult. Escalate your food fight into a food war with the PIAT system! 
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Ainsley McTree posted:What do you even do with a privately-owned bazooka, anyway It's like none of y'all are 'Mericans or something. Ask again next Tuesday. 
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:"Amnesty", possibly - usually I see this in relation to traffic or parking tickets, or overdue library books. Artist Tom Sachs has a history of making cheapo zip guns and selling them to the NYPD gun buybacks for as much as $300.
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(Montana/Eastern WA, over the years.) IIRC, in metro areas weapons amnesties have been done, which have now been supplanted by "gun buy-backs", which still function as a way to dispose of scary/unwanted/stolen or will-draw-lots-of-heat crime guns.
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TerminalSaint posted:Artist Tom Sachs has a history of making cheapo zip guns and selling them to the NYPD gun buybacks for as much as $300. A few years ago a representative from Connecticut introduced a bill to the house, which she gave the tortuous name of the "Support Assault Firearms Elimination and Reduction for Our Streets Act" so that it would have a catchy acronym. It would have provided a $2,000 refundable tax credit to anyone who turned an "assault weapon" over to the cops. I could have turned in my $95 SKS and bought a tricked-out AR, it was amazing. Hell, since legally speaking it's the lower receiver of an AR that's considered the "firearm," you could turn in cheap-as-dirt polymer lowers and collect thousands of dollars in tax credits. I really wanted that one to pass.
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Phanatic posted:"Support Assault Firearms Elimination and Reduction for Our Streets Act" so that it would have a catchy acronym. SAFE ROSA? SAFEARFOSA? 
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Cyrano4747 posted:SAFE ROSA? probably just SAFE but yeah I did this exact exercise when I saw it was meant to be used as an acronym and had the same reaction
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Cyrano4747 posted:SAFE ROSA? Well, it is one letter off from SAFER [U]SA...?
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Davin Valkri posted:Well, it is one letter off from SAFER [U]SA...? SAFER OSA?
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Jun 29, 2017 20:31
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For Ur Streets Act
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Cyrano4747 posted:SAFE ROSA? SAFER Streets Act.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Selfies There's an embarrassing lack of 'Using as a dick prop in pictures' on this list.
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Damnit, knew I missed one
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Hogge Wild posted:Bombs dropped by Allied forces during WWII: Why did the British bomb Nigeria sometime in 1942?
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StandardVC10 posted:Why did the British bomb Nigeria sometime in 1942? THEY KNOW WHY
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StandardVC10 posted:Why did the British bomb Nigeria sometime in 1942? A prince stole Churchill's SSN after a telegram promising an exciting new front that the prince himself couldn't open.
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Polyakov posted:How would they fuse them for that long? I wouldnt have thought electronics were that advanced or common in Russia at that time. There were also radio commanded fuses. When Finns encountered these in 1941 and figured the frequency the bombs were set to, they started playing music non-stop on that frequency until the bomb batteries were drained. And so the first 24/7 music station was born.
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Cyrano4747 posted:SAFER OSA? Maybe she was hoping to get the bill some broader appeal by making its name almost sound like an album by The Pixies?
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Cyrano4747 posted:SAFER OSA?  I agree, it could be made safer.
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Saferosa sounds like a character from Fury Road as directed by the Care Bears.
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I doubt safer osha has a chance of making it in this current administration. Was talking to a Vietnam vet and he was convinced 99% of draftees ended up in the army. Of course the draft pushed more qualified people to volunteer in the navy/air force/college/seminary and the 99% figure is obviously exaggerated and a minority of personnel were drafted but I couldn't find the breakdown of how draftees were distributed among branches in my brief googling.
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I have an odd question, but does anyone have a good source on the Lille pocket in 1940? I just found out that 40,000 Frenchmen held off 7 divisions during the Fall of France and might have directly contributed to the sheer amount of men, but my brief googling found only a few clickbait articles and a woefully short wikipedia article. It seems depressingly obscure for something so important.
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Pontius Pilate posted:I doubt safer osha has a chance of making it in this current administration. Off the top of my head I think 2/3rds of draftees ended up as infantry in the army? It was pretty disproportionate as you might expect - the whole point of advertising enlisting/becoming an officer was that you got to pick your MOS. There are a bunch of stories of enlisted volunteers and draftees being in boot camp together, and the draftees knowing they were almost certainly going to end up in Vietnam as an infantryman.
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StandardVC10 posted:Why did the British bomb Nigeria sometime in 1942? Apparently it was an error by the person that made the gif, they reversed the lat and long and that was meant to be in Italy somewhere
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Don Gato posted:I have an odd question, but does anyone have a good source on the Lille pocket in 1940? I just found out that 40,000 Frenchmen held off 7 divisions during the Fall of France and might have directly contributed to the sheer amount of men, but my brief googling found only a few clickbait articles and a woefully short wikipedia article. It seems depressingly obscure for something so important. With a certain film relase looming towards the cinema now would be a good time to look a bit deeper into the Battle Of France yeah, so any book suggestions if anyone can help Don Gato here too?
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I ended up looking into the "some other region conquers the world" counterfactual again, and the most recent argument I've seen is that the western world was involved in more warfare than the rest of the world; is that true? I would've thought the middle east and india at least were on par.
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spectralent posted:I ended up looking into the "some other region conquers the world" counterfactual again, and the most recent argument I've seen is that the western world was involved in more warfare than the rest of the world; is that true? I would've thought the middle east and india at least were on par. No?
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spectralent posted:I ended up looking into the "some other region conquers the world" counterfactual again, and the most recent argument I've seen is that the western world was involved in more warfare than the rest of the world; is that true? I would've thought the middle east and india at least were on par. sounds like some Victor Davis Hanson poo poo
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Jamwad Hilder posted:sounds like some Victor Davis Hanson poo poo Reading up it's almost certainly this guy's arguments I hit on and also jesus christ that loving guy.
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spectralent posted:Reading up it's almost certainly this guy's arguments I hit on and also jesus christ that loving guy. His early stuff about hoplite warfare was actually really good, in my opinion. I think 9/11 broke his brain because since then almost everything he puts out is about how The West is inherently superior and garbage like "mixed-race cultures are doomed to fail".
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howe_sam posted:The US bombed the gently caress outta Burma, I never really knew that. Same here. I knew it was the Brits last stand after Singapore/Malaysia, and I knew the US was involved with air attacks over China, but I never knew how much bombing happened there. My english grandfather was in Burma after being rescued and re-armed/re-trained post Dunkirk.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Well in the case of a PIAT, you got a pretty sweet catapult. Does anyone field a PIAT-style shoulder-fired-mortar these days? I understand that the lack of backblast gave it certain advantages over recoilless rifles / rocket launchers in urban terrain.
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The Lone Badger posted:Does anyone field a PIAT-style shoulder-fired-mortar these days? I understand that the lack of backblast gave it certain advantages over recoilless rifles / rocket launchers in urban terrain. Not as far as I know. Underbarrel grenade launchers fill out an explosive HE need, and with today's modern armour you'd need a dedicated anti-tank rocket launcher anyways.
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People have other ways of reducing backblast now. See e.g. the AT4-CS.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:There's a distinction for New Zealand and South Africa, but no France, Canada, Allied Italy, Russia, or other minors. What did Allied Italy bomb? Also lol at including Soviet Union in the list of minors you sneaky bastard! 
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The Lone Badger posted:Does anyone field a PIAT-style shoulder-fired-mortar these days? I understand that the lack of backblast gave it certain advantages over recoilless rifles / rocket launchers in urban terrain. It was a really unreliable spring loaded piece of poo poo, they were not loved in any terrain.
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Though it was substantially more concealable than a rocket or explosive powered launcher and you could fire it laying down and indoors.
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The Lone Badger posted:Does anyone field a PIAT-style shoulder-fired-mortar these days? I understand that the lack of backblast gave it certain advantages over recoilless rifles / rocket launchers in urban terrain. Modern rocket and missile systems with soft launch capability exist so it'd be pointless.
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I don't know what you mean by that, concealability is not really an attribute of crew served anti tank weapons. The PIAT was bigger and heavier and less reliable and worse at killing tanks than even the early bazookas, and by the end of the war they were used more for blowing up houses and walls than for killing tanks. Kind of a neat design, but apparently it would fail to fire all the time.
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