Fuck it, today's gonna be slow anyways.

One like = one potentially unpopular gun take

The M16 is an AR-15, the AR-15 isn't the "civilian version" of anything. Stoner designated the design "AR-15" and made it available in both select fire and semiauto versions. The M16, M4, and their variants are US military designations given to specific configurations of AR-15.

*Most* people who work as professional gunsmiths and have the FFL's to do that work are underqualified, and are better described as an armorer. They do more PM and wiping on cold bluing than anything you see Larry Potterfield and Mark Novak doing on Youtube.

AK's on the US market are a shitty value and have been for at least ten years. "Entry level" guns are often priced higher than an poverty pony AR and have poorer fitment and construction, quality examples are going to cost you SCAR money without half the features.

Those old timers you mock for talking about IRUN SITES have a point, and it will make you a better shooter if you get good with them. It would behoove you to stuff your arrogant attitude and listen to the people who were doing it right decades before you picked up a gun.

Armor is almost 100% larp. You should absolutely be allowed to own it and there are edge cases where you may need it, but if you have time to go put on your pl8 carrier at your house or from your car, you probably had time to avoid the gunfight entirely.

In the same vein, shooting with your torso squared to the target "so your body armor is square to the target" is assuming you've fucked up badly enough to be taking fire without cover. Your plates aren't there for you to be a berserker, they're there to save you when you fuck up.

Concealed carry in most places that require a license currently should be unregulated, and licensing/proof of competence through a qualification process should be on a shall issue basis for enhanced carry in places like airports, schools etc. where it's currently banned.

In a DGU, if the weapon is drawn but hasn't been fired yet, but the attacker stops and then starts saying "shoot me" or "you won't shoot me," you should be free to blast them.

.32 ACP and .380 ACP deserve more respect but manufacturers only chambers guns with impractically short barrels for them anymore. As much as people want to trash .32 ACP you do not want to get shot by that old man who still carries his trusty Colt 1903.

This is becoming more mainstream as of late, but while the M1 Garand is an excellent design for its time, putting it on life support as a vanity project 20+ years later as the M14 was reckless and stupid.

There's no such thing as too many mags until you have to carry all of them, and while you might invision yoyrself running around oper8ing epic style with 25 loaded 30 rounders and a D60, what you need much more than that is to get some friends.

Technicals need to be better understood and the fact that I have never seen a b00gboi larp group with a tech built does not bode well for them

The FiveseneN should have been a machinepistol, or at least have a select fire variant. What a waste of such high capacity.

Walther should have continued to develop the P38's system after the P5. We should have gotten a double stack P5 pattern with a 4" barrel, decocker only, and ambi controls.

Everybody loves gas delayed blowback (myself included) but the issues with heat and carbon buildup are legitimate and there's a reason they never do super well in the market relative to tilting barrel short recoil.

People make our hobby way too serious at times, and you don't need to have a tactical use for a gun. If you already have a defensive tool you feel confident in, understand, and train with, buy whatever fun, interesting, or goofy shit you want and enjoy yourself with it.

While you shouldn't be making new sporter conversions, milsurp sporters can be an affordable way to get into a cool old bolt gun, and if it's already been modified that way there's really nothing wrong with you improving it by making it a better or more modern sporting rifle.

.41 Action Express is superior to .40 Smith and Wesson, and the FBI fucked us over severely by adopting .40 S&W.

Bayonets are pretty fucking cool and it sucks that you probably have better odds of getting hit by lightning than ever needing one. There's just something in the lizard-monkey part of my brain that wants to use the shooty spear.

While the A2 govt profile barrel is widely regarded as a mistake, at the time it was seen as an improvement for a reason, and a 20" upper with a govt profile barrel isn't as heavy as twig armed internet autists like to make it out to be.

Along with this, the A2 fixed stock is fine and unless you're wearing a pack over a plate carrier you don't need the same length of pull as one of those "my first rifle" .22's people get for their six year old.

Where you put the gas port can improve or reduce muzzle velocity and 20" with rifle gas is optimal for 5.56x45 because that's literally the barrel the cartridge was designed for. Yes some newer loadings are optimized for M4's but your bulk M193 isn't that load.

As nice as a free float tube can be, I doubt most people are doing the kind of shooting where it will matter with their basic 16" build, especially paired with unmagnified optics, a 6 position stock, and a GI trigger.

Scout rifles can be really handy little rifles, but the people with strong pro or anti opinions on them are insufferable. No it's not god's gift to shooting but if your reasons not to buy one all revolve around combat effectiveness you've missed the point entirely.

I've said it before but the Bersa Thunder is for people too poor for a Walther and who don't know about all of the cheap combloc PPK clones.

In my younger, dumber days I shot inside of a shoot house with no earpro. People who say you will become disoriented and lose your hearing permanently from a home defense shooting are just parroting lore. (Tinnitus sucks though so use your earpro when you can)

Ranges and matches that are "cast bullets only" are bullshit and I will not show up for that shit.

If you go around calling .243 Winchester the "sons and wives caliber" you don't get to brag to me about your 6.5 Creedmoor.

Reloaders, myself included, are incredibly reluctant to admit how quickly it can become a money pit. It's a hobby and it's good to spend money on things you enjoy but why do we try to pretend it makes our .30-06 as cheap as .22lr when we're dropping $300+ at a time on Midway?

Things like the Mossberg Shockwave or whatever the Remington response is are actually pretty cool if you view them as a starting point for a SBS build, or if you just want to explode watermelons/water jugs

A lot of people seem to misunderstand night sights and think they're meant to be used in zero light. In a dim enough room or outside under a street lamp etc. they'll help you pick up the sights but you are silly if all your reasons not to use them assume it's pitch black.

.30-40 Krag gets trashed for a perceived lack of power by a community full of people who will also tell you 7.62x39 is plenty, simply because the Krag existed in an era where people had unrealistic expectations of a service rifle.

3-gun not allowing military style LBE is just old fashioned gatekeeping and I don't care how much people want to go on about "muh optics we need to look more like a sport" etc. You're denying the origin of the sport if you want to pretend it's always had a golf style dresscode.

Corrosive primers are bullshit and I will spend extra money on better ammo rather than risk turning my nice shiny bore red. Idk why people bother with combloc surplus 8x57 and 7.62x54r.

I have no tolerance for teachers and instructors who insult the intelligence of their students. Don't tell me I shouldn't field strip my rifle because I might break something or that it's impossible for me to safely make a batch of ammo with my press at home.