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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

Most likely 5G microcell. The frequencies that 5G uses are very directional and don't carry near as far as legacy AMPS (analog) cellular did (900MHz range), so you're going to see tons of stuff like this on lamp posts, telephone poles, etc.

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

Israel has been a longtime partner/ally(ish) in that part of the world. With the normalization of relations between them and 4 of the biggest arab/muslim majority powers in the area, we've got a good start on a bloc to hedge Iran's fuckery.

Note, Russia and Iran are allies of convenience, not ideology. Russia gives them enough support to enable them to be a serious threat to the other arab states in the region to keep things destabilized, allowing them to protect access to the few seaports they have that are navigable year round.

If Iran had the means to go it alone, they'd stab Russia in the back in a fraction of a heartbeat, gleefully, and if Russia had uncontested claims to coastal property in the region, they'd tell Iran to go fuck itself, and Israel would have more or less free reign to go gloves off with Iran.

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Digital_Boy 1 point ago +1 / -0

In fairness, I've seen a lot of people who wear an N95 under a cloth mask, since most cloth masks are more cosmetic than anything else.

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Digital_Boy 1 point ago +1 / -0

Unimog with a utility body, but still, I approve. The portal axles give you insane ground clearance and torque multiplication for crawling.

Great bug out/overland rig

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

This requires millionaire/billionaire patrons to covertly fund the buses, food, signage, hotels/housing, etc.

Don't for a microsecond believe that all the various antifa factions are organically supported/grass roots movements.

That level of logistics coordination takes money, and a lot of it for the amount of bodies they move cross country so frequently.

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

no interest in owning anything other than rifles or pistols since getting out.

In a post Hughes Amendment world, that sentiment makes sense. Prior to May 1986, you could get a Colt AR-15 for something like $400, or you could get an honest to ghawd M16 with the rock'n'roll switch for $700, plus a $200 tax stamp, so a little more than double the price of the vanilla offering.

Post Hughes Amendment, a decent AR can be had for a grand, but a legally transferable M16 runs north of $50K due to artificial scarcity.

If MGs were still registerable, I imagine you'd see a noticeable fraction of gun owners with legal MGs and there'd be businesses catering to the market for belted ammo, and all the other paraphernalia for care and feeding of an MG, instead of them just being toys for the wealthy or investment vehicles for speculators.

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Digital_Boy 1 point ago +1 / -0

Also, you can't modify a MG to semi-auto. Per BATFE, once a machine gun, forever a machinegun. You need to cut the receiver with a torch into 3 pieces to meet the requirements for BATFE to legally consider the gun destroyed.

At that point you can re-weld it back together and make it semi-auto and assign a new serial number to it.

Lots of AKs from the former Soviet Bloc nations made their way to the US in exactly that fashion in the 90s. They torched the receivers, while preserving the trunnions and rear sight blocks, pulled the trigger assemblies out and tossed them in a bag and put it with the pieces. US companies then drilled out the rivets on the trunnions, harvested them and bent new sheetmetal receivers, rivet the trunnions in, weld bolt rails and (usually) re-installed the trigger groups minus the full auto bits.

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

No, the run of civilian M249s that FN did a while ago are closed bolt and not readily converted back to the same config as the military models.

Open bolt semi-autos were banned in the late 80s/early 90s as they were deemed readily convertible to full auto. Existing guns were grandfathered, but new ones going forward were considered MGs and banned from registration to individuals.

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Digital_Boy 1 point ago +1 / -0

No, I was asking if you hold a type 02 FFL (can manufacture/build firearms for profit) and a type 07 Special Occupation Tax, i.e. a license to build/manufacture NFA items (including machineguns) for profit.

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Digital_Boy 1 point ago +1 / -0

Honestly, the newest iteration of the Ultimax would be absolutely tits. The Singaporeans licensed Sullivan's continuous recoil design, which makes them very docile under full auto fire.

check out Karl from InrangeTV shooting the latest version here: https://youtu.be/TT8jSE_YK7g?t=44

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Digital_Boy 1 point ago +1 / -0

Don't bother with a polymer 80% lower that mimics the external dimensions of an aluminum lower receiver: the dimensions Stoner used were made with the tensile and compressive strengths of aluminum in mind. Using FRP or other polymers usually ends with the buffer tube mounting boss cracking and breaking off where it connects to the rest of the lower receiver.

Be prepared to spend a fair amount of money over and above buying a stripped 100% lower face to face (assuming you live in Freer America where private party transfers are not required to go through an FFL) as you're looking at a couple of hundred for a decent 80% jig, then a couple hundred more for a router/drill press/mill (well, any mill that runs a couple of hundred new will be "meh" and very low end, but will suffice for milling out the trigger pockets on a lower with a good jig) and the bits, and other ancillary tools. The up side is you can finish multiple lowers, and the better jigs will allow you to do AR-15 and AR-10 80% lowers.

In the case of using the enemy's resources against them, there are a couple of decent 80% build groups on BaceFook that often have people sharing tips, and selling off tools and such.

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'd put Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder up there with him too. Stellar exemplars of honest, direct, patriotic conservative (not necessarily Republican) Americans.

And they also happen to be black.

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's up, but dog ass slow right now

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

And that's with conceding Arizona's 11 votes, which are still very much in play.

Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin are way ahead for Trump.

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Digital_Boy 0 points ago +3 / -3

Given the bullshit with bumpstocks and this new fuckery with BATFE pulling a decision out of their ass that braced AR pistols, at least just the Q Honey Badger for now, are magically short barrel rifles, I'm not picking up what he's putting down about being pro-gun.

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Digital_Boy 3 points ago +3 / -0

Ah, Emilio Ghisoni's MaTeBa MTR series, looks like a MTR-8. Puts the bore axis as low as possible by relocating the cylinder. They were built for rapid fire competition as the low axis allows faster target sight re-acquisition.

Ghisoni's most famous gun is the MaTeBa Unica-6 autorevolver. It was made famous as Detective Togusa's gun of choice in the original Ghost In The Shell animated feature.

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Digital_Boy 4 points ago +4 / -0

Gen 2, not bad. I have an RDB. It's worlds different than the SU-16CA I had years ago. The RDB feels like a proper gun, the SU16 felt pretty toy-like.

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Digital_Boy 5 points ago +6 / -1

Too much?

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Digital_Boy 2 points ago +2 / -0

Carl : And??

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