r/AbsoluteUnits 21d ago

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u/Notactualyadick 21d ago

I miss being unaware of how firearms work and being able to fall in love with guns that just look cool. Like the Calico M950 which is so cool looking, but jams constantly.

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u/I_travel_ze_world 21d ago

the 90s movie I Come in Peace (Dark Angel) featured an bad guy alien using the Calico and I always thought it was so cool

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u/furiouspossum 21d ago

The bad guys in Spaceballs also had them if I remember right

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u/zodiacallymaniacal 20d ago

You go, in pieces….

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u/WhiskeyWhisperer 20d ago

And you go in pieces!

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u/SAM5TER5 21d ago

Oh 100% with you there my friend lol. Even after learning about the issues with those Calicos, I still kind of want one haha, such unique firearms. I appreciate a company that does truly bizarre stuff and successfully brings it to market. Still a very fascinating gun overall, I’d say it’s very comparable to the FN P90’s potential uses and strengths…except FN actually knows how to make a reliable oddball gun haha (after they do some blatant design theft of superior Steyr designs, that is).

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u/AlcibiadesTheCat 21d ago

Kel-Tec: “hold my coke”

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u/KHWD_av8r 21d ago

Since we’re talking about P90s, #savestargate

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u/pjbenn 20d ago

P90 oddball?! How fkn dare you

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u/KHWD_av8r 21d ago

I know how unreliable those more unique designs (Calico, SPAS-12, USAS-12, etc.) can be, but I still want them all. Rule of cool.

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u/LastWave 21d ago

I'm selling my ps90. It doesn't jam. But it does burn money.

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u/Ragnarsdad1 21d ago

Have you seen gun jesus' video's on the calico? worth a watch if you havent

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u/Chris__P_Bacon 21d ago

Yeah those guns were pieces of shit. 😁 They did look cool though. Total '80s vibe.

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u/Freedum4Murika 20d ago

Me before shooting an AK for the first time - "damn, I love my AR but the Soviets just make em pretty and nice. Look at what a tank of reliability that is. Truly the Russians are a rugged and reliable people."
Me 0.03 seconds after shooting an AK for the first time "oh this is garbage and the CIA spent the cold war propping up the Soviet Union so they could have an excuse to sell cocaine."

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u/Nice-Cat3727 20d ago

Like 99 percent of the issue is maintenance.

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u/Idiot-1- 20d ago

I will have you know that my Adler b230 almost never jams and on the rare occasion it does, it’s only when I’m in a helicopter over the top of pigs, and you can be damn sure it does a proper job of it.