Hey, that’s how I used to sling my guitar when playing in bands. It looks cool, true, but when flinging it around into playing position you have to be REALLY sure of your strap.
Just…trust me on this one. Lesson learned.
So, at the end of the day, after all the ignorance is fought*, the angst is about the mere fact that a civilian is carrying a firearm in a civilian setting.
That’s cool, since everyone is entitled to their opinion. But there is only one mockery-eligible observable fact in that scene: the subject is carrying a firearm in a setting where firearms aren’t commonly expected. The manner of carriage itself is potentially normal and reasonable. (Other than the magazine, and it seems like that’s acceptable in some settings. But if he has a round in battery, all bets are off since that’s a pretty rank violation of gun safety common sense.)
*The ignorance being, of course, “look at the stupid (but apparently completely legitimate and accepted) way of carrying that weapon.” This wasn’t really OP’s assertion, but it certainly looks like the bandwagon many commenters jumped up on.
A rather unfair assessment of my OP if I may say so. I believe I framed it fairly neutrally, explaining that I didn’t see any advantage, and plenty of disadvantages, to the particular style of carry. I was quite careful to refrain from judgment, in fact. I saw something that seemed off, suspected ignorance was afoot either with myself or with the Nimrod, and I asked the question, received feedback on my question and a few other unintended points, had some fun with puns, and ultimately stuff got learned. It is perhaps unfortunate that the fellow in the video brought more layers to the thread than intended, but I frankly am a sloppy person who can’t be arsed to scour the interwebs for a more specific and limited example to support my question.
And just to avoid being called disingenuous, I do feel some angst akin to what you describe. I think Nimrod’s performance was both unnecessary and, in the larger picture detrimental, to the desires of gun rights activists. Rubbing an assault rifle in someone’s face only because you can is a passive aggressive dick move, and it’s not clear someone that immature should have access to that sort of weaponry. By behaving in this way, he risks mobilizing against this issue the very people he should be hoping to befriend.
You’re right. I actually did exclude your OP from the angst-wagon; I recognize there was a legitimate and not-overwhelmingly-editorial question there that got answered by expert testimonial. SDMB at its finest, in that way.
I guess that on some level, I wish the strong emotions engendered by the topic didn’t interfere with level-headed and factual discussions, but I guess for some people the emotional reaction and the head-canon it creates overrides any consideration of objectively knowable facts. It’s human nature, I suppose, that once someone has decided they don’t like someone else on the basis of some observable surface fact, the liberty to assume all manner of terrible things without any evidence whatsoever is kind of inevitable.
I blame the Russian trolls that have been persistently manipulating our collective psyche and social media since the introduction of the Bulletin Board System in an increasingly-successful effort to destroy our otherwise politely contentious democracy. Most actual fleshpeople I meet are fairly reasonable, the real loons seem to exist only in cyberspace. Makes ya think…
I see a united democratic army in our near future: legions of armed, deeply religious conservatives blazing away with small arms fire at Russian computer hubs and trolls, while their liberal brethren play the longer game, forcing the trolls into unproductive homosexual relationships, forcibly aborting all embryos, and compelling the wounded to disgorge the entirety of their collective net worth to pay for their own bullet wounds.
Has anyone seen my mushrooms?
It would almost be worthy of its own thread. Lets just say that to my mind a professionally installed muzzle-brake is the better option. The theory is it reduces recoil if done right and that allows for better accuracy since the shooter will have a steadier hold. I have seen some home-done barrels that -------- I would very quickly replace.
No rear sight!? :smack:
Just goes to show he was merely making a showoff display, as he could not be bothered to mount either his rear sight or his optics.
“Spray ‘n’ pray”
“Jesus take the trigger”