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    A: Fucking impressive, holy shit. Good on them for having a plan that day.

    B: I thought that was a fucking battleaxe in the foreground for a moment there.

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    Visually impressive and to an enough degree even the anti-riot forces felt necessary to turn the water cannon on the individual.

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    Jesus tap dancing Christ. That’s simultaneously one of the coolest and most insane things I’ve ever seen. It just kept going!

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      It’s more effective in an area where police’s response to a perceived threat (real or imaginary) is to shoot first, perspire later.

      Not to take anything away from this particular instance. It’s rad and inspiring as hell. However, I fear that, were I to try this at any protest in my area, I would be forcibly aerated in short order.

      Could be doomerism has a hold on me this afternoon, but, if anything, this post makes me despair that any effective protest in my country (i.e. something with enough teeth to make oligarchs take notice) will be met with deadly force employed in the name of “restoring order”, and the whole political and media apparatus will jump through hoops to frame the story as, “well, we all applaud protestors for making their voices heard, but they didn’t follow our clear directions, and therefore they brought their fates upon themselves.”

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      A free and fair election.

      They had an election recently which was not free and fair, high evidence of vote manipulation, ballots being burnt, people getting beat up and payed at polling states, which led to the pro-Russia party pulled off a suprise “win”.

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        Give it a few more years and we’ll need our own gatling fireworks in the US. We’ve checked several of those boxes, just not on a large scale.

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          This is America, we have miniguns. Yes, they are $800,000 and there are only 12 that are civilian transferrable after a 9-18 month application process, but we have them.

          Edit: I origionally said “gatling gun” and corrected it to “miniguns”. You can buy a gatling gun(hand crank) with only the standard background check in most states for like $5k, but the 12 miniguns need all the cost and hoops. Might as well add there is one mk19 40mm automatic grenade launcher for sale at around $500k; I have heard there are more than the one, but it wouldnt be more than 6.

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            This is America, we have miniguns.

            Yes, but in America a crank operated Gatling gun (i.e. an actual Gatling gun) is legal at least on the federal level.

            And quite easy and fun to construct at home. Just saying!

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            You can buy a gatling gun(hand crank) with only the standard background check in most states

            “I sure hope people dont attach a cheap drill to this totally legal crank powered gatlin gun” -ATF (probably)

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            1. When you say there are only 12, do you mean models or units?

            2. If someone adds a motor to the hand crank does it become an (illegal) minigun?

            3. Isn’t it weird that miniguns are the largest, heaviest types of gun possible.

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              1. Twelve units total, due to the unique way in that the law is structured via the rather Orwellianly named “Firearm Owners’ Protection Act.” Only machine guns of any type manufactured before the law itself was enacted on May 19, 1986 are eligible for transfer and civilian ownership. That means that the available selection is not only fixed but shrinking, and every single transferable machine gun of any type instantly became an incredibly expensive collector’s item.
              2. Yes. The ATF’s interpretation of this is that a “machine gun” is anything capable of firing more than one shot with one trigger pull. Making your trigger electrical or electronic does not circumvent this and, in fact, is how miniguns actually work – being motor driven.
              3. They’re designed to be mounted on vehicles. The canard about them being man-portable is just that; it’s a fabrication made up out of the whole cloth for the Terminator/Predator movies. The “mini” in “minigun” came from the M134 which is chambered in 7.62×51mm, and is specifically a reference to it being smaller than the M61 “Vulcan” gun which was chambered in 20mm.
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                For 2, based on the Supreme Court’s recent very flawed ruling on bump stocks, I would assume you could make a mechanically actuated trigger that lifts itself up each round fired in such a way if you’re still putting pressure it will fire again. That’s how a bump stock works. I’m curious how far that could be pushed. Can you have a motor repeatedly pull the trigger? I assume probably not, but it’s not much different than a bump stock.

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                  What you’re describing is a “reset trigger,” more or less, and they are indeed legal.

                  You could also just make a crank operated gun. Those are legal, too. The key is you have to keep turning the crank to keep firing. Your continued action is necessary.

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      The ruling party, recently reelected in a fraudulent election has declared that EU accession talks will be stopped until 2028. This has stoked ongoing protests over election results.

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    Too bad psycological damage isn’t counted on scoreboard

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      Right, not to instigate violence but people need to go to the hardware store and buy some pipes and get crafting