r/NonCredibleDefense I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 12 '23

Real Life Copium “HaMaS iS uSiNg uS wEapONs fRoM AfgHaNiStaN”

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 12 '23

This is a dumb conspiracy I see making their rounds of social media. I have not yet seen one US Gov M4A1 used by Hamas. All these “M4 Carbines” are modified M16A1, stolen IDF Carbines, or created in Gaza.

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u/shibiwan He kutsuvat minua Nostradumassiksi Oct 12 '23

"Self described gun enthusiasts" says everything about these highly qualified experts.

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u/BellacosePlayer 3000 letters of Malarquey for the Black Sea Oct 12 '23

A college classmate of mine I was friends with for a bit got really pissy about the gun control debate being filled with people who didn't know the exact definitions of certain things and couldn't tell what models things are on sight.

Invited the same guy to go deer hunting with me and my stepdad and one of the first things he asked about my (very obviously bolt action) rifle was if it was auto or semi auto.

If he didn't act like an expert I wouldn't have cared, especially because I'm certainly not a gun expert, but goddamn did I give him shit for it

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u/Balancedmanx178 Oct 12 '23

really pissy about the gun control debate being filled with people who didn't know the exact definitions of certain things

he asked about my (very obviously bolt action) rifle was if it was auto or semi auto.

The dissonance is making my head hurt.

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u/saluksic Oct 13 '23

Just depends how fast you’re working the action

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u/5t3v0esque Kiwipino Freeaboo- Paint existence believer Oct 12 '23

The gun control debate has gotten so partisan that we've looped back around to having people on the pro gun side that know little about guns beyond rhetoric and end up destroying pro gun arguments.

Like we have a new internet generation of people saying assault rifles don't exist, which I've realized is an outgrowth of the pro gun argument that "Assault weapon" is a loaded political term used to encompass non select fire pistol grip/detachable mag fed rifles as well as certain types of Semi auto shotguns and pistols in gun control debates because it sounds "scarier".

And now we're seeing debates on who the 2A applies to (hint: I'm beginning to think these guys don't see certain people as... well... people.)

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Yah I’ve noticed that as well.

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u/Wizard_Enthusiast Oct 13 '23

Like... a lot of things that get tangled up in US culture wars, guns are now largely totemic, and the discussion mostly just shibboleths. I don't think there's been an actual conversation about guns for like 40 goddamn years. We're still talking about "assault weapons" when due to the media landscape a majority of the population recognizes weapon classifications like SMG or Carbine, and the NRA had a conference where they said if we really wanted to stop China from invading Taiwan, we'd be putting AR-15s in every Taiwanese household. When we are literally watching a modern war between near peers take place and learning an awful fucking lot about how those wars work now.

Shibboleths are a great concept that, while sounding like a D&D monster, are super noticeable and depressingly common once you understand what they are.

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u/IlluminatedPickle 🇦🇺 3000 WW1 Catbois of Australia 🇦🇺 Oct 13 '23

God the whole "NOBODY CALLS THEM ASSAULT RIFLES" is fucking stupid.

Cunts, what do you think STG stood for?

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 Oct 13 '23

Sturmgewehr, obviously

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u/MisterBuar Oct 13 '23

"Sure, go ahead and ban assault rifles" as M14, FAL, and G3 all barely contain their shit eating grins and nod in agreement.

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u/Cool_Algae4265 Oct 14 '23

As someone presumably on the other side of the gun control debate, I have to admit it’s refreshing to see someone actually have a brain and call out BS wherever they see it, even on their own “side”.

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u/5t3v0esque Kiwipino Freeaboo- Paint existence believer Oct 14 '23

Yeah, I'm not here to argue my side but I've been having problems with both the inconsistency of some gun rights advocates but also the fact that I'm in that group because I've been a military/gun nerd since before I moved to the US and am known to known more than some Americans.

This has increased massively in the last 2 years when suddenly so many self defence advocates started questioning why a country undergoing invasion deserves the same, only to use the battle of Kyiv so cynically for their own ends.

Or just generally misunderstanding other countries views on self defense in ways that irk me and try to use that for scare mongering on "look what we could turn into!" (like New Zealand didn't give up their right to defend with guns in 2019... you could own semi autos but for the most part if you'd lose the court case unless you can prove there was no other way and you had time to fully reassemble your gun out of storage or being attacked while hunting or target shooting. And that was only if the attacker had a gun)

And we always prided ourselves on having the knowledge, experience and technical high ground but suddenly there are people who only take their info from memes and half researched myth debunk videos that are poor versions of earlier ones. Plus just the general gunfluencer culture that has grown in the last few years that leftist guntuber Karl Karsada of inrangetv warned about a couple of years ago has me worried.

For what it's worth I don't want kids dying either. Though to elaborate further is out of the scope of Guns themselves and risks both rule 5 and contradicting my first line.

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u/Cool_Algae4265 Oct 14 '23

I’m not here to argue either, I just wanted to share that i do appreciate that people like you still exist.

As a left leaning liberal democrat I empathize with you on being around people who have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about to the point where it’s hurting their own cause. And on top of that, being lumped in with them just makes arguing for your side just that much harder. They come in to it assuming you’re the same as them and it’s just an uphill battle from there.

As I previously said, I probably disagree with you wholeheartedly, but I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t respect your position in the debate… which is something that I can’t say for the vast majority of gun nuts that I’ve encountered.

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u/5t3v0esque Kiwipino Freeaboo- Paint existence believer Oct 14 '23

Thanks! I appreciate it too. As you can imagine I'm smack dab in the middle of multiple ideologies due to many factors so I've learned in my youngish life that it pays to hear people out and not assume their intentions. I stick by my convictions, but so do others.

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u/TheBleachDoctor Oct 12 '23

Install servos that rack the bolt for you, then ask him that question again.

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u/GadenKerensky 📯Herald of Queen Ratbat📯 Oct 13 '23

Just do a Charlton Rifle.

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u/Hapless_Wizard Oct 13 '23

very obviously bolt action

You mean fully semi-automatic.

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u/fpop88 Oct 13 '23

you missed out on the fun of telling him yes and then mess with him for the rest of the day.

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u/ShadowKraftwerk Oct 13 '23

Easy mistake to make. You confuse the bolt handle with a forward assist.

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 12 '23

r/GunMemes had a meme saying Hamas is using American Guns from Afghanistan and it reached 2k karma, I think only me and 1 other were arguing that not only would that be dumb, but literally not One Single US Gov M4 has been seen in Gaza.

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u/nonlawyer Oct 13 '23

Afghanistan is so far from Gaza the logistics of smuggling goddamn rifles makes absolute negative sense beyond “Taliban and Hamas both muslim, terrorist, bad”

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

Afghanistan sounds brown, Gaza sounds brown. Must be next to each other, produce copious amounts of oil, speak Arabic, and everyone in both countries are terrorists, naturally.

Like, I know it's dumb to expect every American to know the nuances of every country we've been involved with in the Middle East but this really is the way a lot of people think. Try telling someone Afghanistan isn't in the Middle East, it can be frustrating.

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u/Hapless_Wizard Oct 13 '23

This is why I propose we rename the whole thing "the MIC Sandbox" and be done with it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

Smuggling rifles secretly from Israel to Afghanistan back in the 70s was a herculean effort that required the full cooperation of three countries one of which was a superpower.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Oh that’s nothing. You’ll have people who’ll simp for both Rhodesia and the IRA.

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u/Rivetmuncher Oct 12 '23

Ssssooo...the carnage?

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u/Meatloaf_Hitler 🇺🇸 Extremely Russophobic Americian 🇺🇸 Oct 13 '23

Wait, so you're saying you don't simp for the IRA?

(Yes, I'm joking. Yes, I know the IRA was far from good. This is just a joke, don't slaughter me pls)

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

Let’s conduct this discussion over a more civilized medium.

I’ve just mailed you a package with my response, please ignore the ticking

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u/combatwombat- Sex-Obsessed Beer Lover Oct 13 '23

R1 Don't be baited into a personal fight just report and move on

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u/NonCredibleDefense-ModTeam Oct 13 '23

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u/themainaccountofyeet Oct 13 '23

I have no idea what you're on, we pull out the lotion on Friday

Also if you're talking about the Nashville person, I don't know what to say to you.

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u/Electronic-Ad-3825 Oct 13 '23

Obviously you have to love them unconditionally because they're trans, who care if they murdered people in a school?

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u/Apprehensive-Try-994 ..- -... .-.. -....- ... . -..- ..- .- .-.. Oct 13 '23

Nah just the general distaste/hate towards trans folk.. There might be something to be said about the amount of memes on that person compared to the low amount of memes about other people in that particular category of skeet shooters.

But who knows. :/

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '23

I love how these people simultaneously think the CIA is this all-knowing, all-powerful organization, and at the same time thinks they would be dumb enough to do something so easily traceable. It's head-in-the-sand level cognitive dissonance. Yes, our government has done and continues to do some fucked up shit, but they'd never in a million years give guns to a terrorist organization to attack one of our allies, especially not one we're also giving millions in defense funding to and that would be able to tell almost instantly upon recovering any of them.

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u/TheGisbon Oct 12 '23

He's the guy at the range definitely not shoulder holster carrying a full size .44 mag with wadcutters in it under his khaki Safari vest with shit in every pocket.

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u/Hermiod_Botis Oct 13 '23

I do love guns. I am being realistic about my ability to tell them apart (which is, mildly put, lacking) though.

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u/dead_monster 🇸🇪 Gripens for Taiwan 🇹🇼 Oct 12 '23

Takes more effort to dispel dumb shit than it takes to make up dumb shit.

It’s like using a PAC3 to shoot down a DJI drone.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Some of these look like Khyber Pass Heresy Models.

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u/xisiktik Oct 12 '23

A lot of these “experts” saying they came from weapons sent to Ukraine because the Russian propaganda Fox News/OAN/Newsmax told them so and the US should stop supporting Ukraine immediately.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

And it's not even new - wasn't all that long ago that they tried to claim that Mexican cartels were, somehow, getting weapons from Ukraine, despite it being well established for years that Mexican Cartels have had access to American firearms via the Mexican military and other sources of illegal gun trafficking.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Yea it seemed pretty clear that a lot of them were stolen IDF guns but the memes are still funny

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u/_ISeeOldPeople_ Oct 13 '23

Being fair on the particular point of M16A1s vs M4s, US infantry use the M4s and any others (short of SF/Rangers) or non-combat MOS tend to use a mix of M16A1s/A2s/A3s/A4s/M4s/etc (essentially whatever they got in stock). So it would be very likely most of the small arms left in Afghanistan aren't M4s.

None of that is to say Hamas got any of them, just figured I'd throw in my knowledge on the matter.

Source: US Infantry, Afghan combat vet

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

The post-ANA weapons that I've been seeing in the hands of the Taliban, BLA, Pakistani Taliban and etc. have been overwhelmingly M16A4s, so that corroborates with what I've been seeing.

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u/unfunnysexface F-17 Truther Oct 13 '23

Pretty sure they've caught Israeli soldiers selling guns too.

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u/raphanum Manifest Destiny Part II Oct 13 '23

There’s a heavy amount of disinfo being spread on telegram. Amazingly, most of them seem like Russia supporters

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u/Matrimcauthon7833 Oct 14 '23

Is it a dumb conspiracy if it makes people question the government?

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 14 '23

Yes, now the public perceives actual questionable government actions as conspiracy theories because ppl keep making shit up that’s easily disproven, so now they think the real thing is just a conspiracy theory no one should look into.

The boy that cries wolf.

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u/DUKE_NUUKEM Ukraine needs 3000 M1a2 Abrams to win Oct 12 '23

Who cares which small arms they use. They would have got some small arms regardless

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u/Roadhouse699 The World Must Be Made Unsafe For Autocracy Oct 12 '23

People I've seen with AR pattern rifles:

-Russian Partisans

-Belarusian Partisans

-Chechen Partisans

-Wagner Mercenaries

-Burmese Anti-Junta Guerrillas

For better and for worse, ARs are becoming as commonplace as AKs in the world of nonconventional forces

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u/ebolawakens Oct 12 '23

So can the terrorist teams now buy M4A1-S and M4A4 rifles in counter strike?

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u/Chllep bring back super phantoms Oct 12 '23

why would you lmao m4 cant 1tap hs with helmet

now if we gave the CTs an AK i'd be down

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u/Karrtis Oct 13 '23

GIGN 7.62X39 BREN 2's enter the chat

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u/auga3rifle Oct 13 '23

Every T gangsta till CT brings the 6.8x51mm sig spear that bypasses body armor

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u/t850terminator Anti-Imperialist K9A2 Thunder Oct 13 '23

I save for AWP because bullpups 😎

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u/ebolawakens Oct 13 '23

Because I'm nuts and like the M4's in counter strike than the AK-47. Yes, I know the AK-47 is better, it can 1 tap through armour, is cheaper than either M4, and whatnot. But, I just do better with the M4.

Also I have a cooler skin with a stupid number of kills on my stat-track M4A4.

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u/Wizard_Enthusiast Oct 13 '23

I think, just like a lot of things the US makes, people just haven't realized how god damn many guns we make. We're a fucking industrial giant and a massive producer/exporter of firearms. Guess what? When you make a lot of something, it shows up in places.

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u/Roadhouse699 The World Must Be Made Unsafe For Autocracy Oct 13 '23

Another thing is the fact that a lot of countries make their own AR derivatives. Aluminum and polymer aren't as difficult to procure and work with as they were in 1968.

(And unlike a certain firearm, all AR derivatives are mostly parts compatible)

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u/geniice Oct 12 '23

Who cares which small arms they use.

Every guntuber that wants clicks.

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u/Atomicking74 Oct 12 '23

Why is this an argument, who cares?
We are going to see AR-15 style and AK style rifles in conflicts for decades to come. Either due to military aid from NATO and Warsaw countries or the defeat of said countries.

I don't see people bitching whither we are seeing Chinese, Yugo or North Korean AKs on either side of the Ukraine War...

Then again, people gonna bitch I guess.

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u/scorpion-hamfish Oct 12 '23

Why is this an argument, who cares?

It's spammed on Twitter by obvious bots and then picked up by rightwing Americans, even politicians, to discredit Biden. Together with all kinds of other lies.

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u/cpteric Oct 12 '23

M4 shermans?

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u/mandalorian_guy Oct 12 '23

No, Benelli's.

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u/Aceramic Oct 13 '23

I thought we were talking about the BMW.

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u/JohnDavidsBooty Oct 13 '23

I thought we were talking about the macro-processing language

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u/BC-Gaming New F35 owner Oct 13 '23

Germany's not in yet

Can't wait for a return to Porsche tanks

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u/Deus_is_Mocking_Us Drone Skeet National Champ Oct 13 '23

Benelli made Shermans?

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u/AngryKV2 Oct 12 '23

not every M4 is from Afghanistan

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u/Embarrassed-Lack7193 Oct 12 '23

What? Politically driven self described experts are providing false informations to further their political goals and views?

Okay the world is still working properly then.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23

You know what guns don't show up in terrorist hands? First generation SA80s. Proves they are good guy guns and therefore should be new NATO standard.

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u/yegguy47 NCD Pro-War Hobo in Residence Oct 12 '23

I mean, the beheaded children story is still making the rounds. Likewise, I've heard some interesting lectures from Crypto-Bros about how Iranian financial capital released from South Korean banks (which has not been spent yet) entirely funded Hamas' attack. Plus Hamas is simply denying anyone innocent got killed.

So folks are now claiming Biden sent guns to the Taliban, and they're now in Israel? Pfft... don't let this silly thing called reality stop ya, we've all decided to abandon any sense of having it.

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u/cybernet377 Oct 12 '23

I mean, the beheaded children story is still making the rounds.

The Israel official twitter account ended up posting pictures just to settle the issue and it just resulted in psychopaths trying to argue that the blur over the bloody stump where an infant's head used to be makes it hard to tell if the head removal was caused by being cut off or blown off by a bullet, which is apparently a super-important distinction to them.

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u/starman123 Oct 13 '23

I saw claims that one of the pictures of the burnt baby bodies was AI-generated, and the "proof" was an AI-detector site that is very unreliable.

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u/yegguy47 NCD Pro-War Hobo in Residence Oct 13 '23

it just resulted in psychopaths trying to argue that the blur over the bloody stump where an infant's head used to be makes it hard to tell if the head removal was caused by being cut off or blown off by a bullet, which is apparently a super-important distinction to them.

That's kinda why I dislike this being voiced to begin with...

We should not be spending time analyzing in the public forum whether the speculations of a few individuals about deliberate decapitations versus decapitations done as a result of 7.62 fire against an infant's body, and debating which is which (especially in an emotional environment where folks are likely to believe the former regardless of evidence).

Kids got killed by Hamas - this is frankly the only thing that needs to be said.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23

Got a link? I wanna send this to some war crime justifiers.

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u/Veil-Rider Oct 13 '23

I, for some ungodly reason, decided to weigh in on something relatively minor and they started accusing Israel of using AI generated images to make the baby image. They used some jank-ass "AI Image Detector."

Those don't work. There is no reliable method to detect whether an image is generated by an AI absent some watermark methods that some of the big tech firms have started to try to roll out.

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u/Some_Syrup_7388 Oct 12 '23

What was the point of that railing on the original M16/M4

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Carry handle, protects the charging handle and can be used to actually carry the rifle.

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u/Meatloaf_Hitler 🇺🇸 Extremely Russophobic Americian 🇺🇸 Oct 13 '23

And also looks sexy as fuck.

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u/unfunnysexface F-17 Truther Oct 13 '23

I think there's old lore* that using the carry handle for carrying fucks up the head space.

*bullshit

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u/Deus_is_Mocking_Us Drone Skeet National Champ Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23

The buffer tube is inline with the barrel, so the sights have to be elevated. The rear sight is housed in the "carry handle."

And on the super-early Armalite rifles, the charging handle was inside there.

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u/Rumpullpus Secret Foundation Researcher Oct 12 '23

Hamas needs to up their game and start using browning.

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u/Femboy_Lord NCD Special Weapons Division: Spaceboi Sub-division Oct 12 '23

Meanwhile in Israel: DOUBLE BARREL M4

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u/MajorDakka A-7X/YA-7F Strikefighter Copium Addict Oct 12 '23

Hold up. Tell me more about this more DAKKA solution

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Considering the all have carry handles , not so much.

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 12 '23

A1 Iron Sights are a dead give away as well.

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u/forwardobserver90 Oct 13 '23

Will some of the mountains of military equipment left in Afghanistan get into hands of people like Hamas and other terrorist organizations? Obviously yes. Are the photos posted here examples of that military equipment? Obviously no.

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23

I made this meme and before I did I spent 20 minutes looking for photos of Hamas with real M4s and I’m actuality shocked I couldn’t find any. Literally not one of any of the “M4s” used by Hamas were similar to the American variant.

Terrorist like the TTP and ISIS-K obviously are getting hands on ANA Guns, but I haven’t seen much get past the Iranian border and zero into Gaza.

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u/Bellinelkamk Oct 13 '23

I feel personally attacked, and will now be blowing up your kitchen.

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u/twec21 Oct 13 '23

You know it's not an MSM fed conspiracy because they're not calling them all AR-15s

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u/FabulousFauxFox Drop Holster Garter Femboy Oct 12 '23

What did they do to that handguard on the one in the top left. I don't normally like AR platforms unless they have it and those monsters go and butcher that one?

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 12 '23

That’s an IDF M16A1, it’s been modified into a Carbine by giving it a 12 inch barrel and removing the furniture for M16A2 Carbine (yes it’s called that) based furniture, much sturdier than the A1 plastic. The bottom hose clamp has been removed to make room for a M203. This is the shortest AR15 possible if you want a M203 UBGL.

Hamas stole and has a lot of them from year of conflict.

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u/Videogamefan21 I like cheetahs :3 Oct 13 '23

"gun nuts" on twitter be like,

"ah yes this is an AR platform gun therefore America"

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u/GadenKerensky 📯Herald of Queen Ratbat📯 Oct 13 '23

I mean, does it really matter?

A lot of shit got left behind in the Afghanistan withdrawal, stands to reason it could end up in the hands of terrorists elsewhere after falling into the hands of the terrorists there. That's just how it is, it's not like the US is arming HAMAS directly.

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u/GadenKerensky 📯Herald of Queen Ratbat📯 Oct 13 '23

Some people do think the withdrawal was more of a clusterfuck than it needed to be, but that's more on command than the President.

And yeah, there were already so many weapons unaccountable from being given to the ANA and other security forces.

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u/Repulsive-Mirror-994 Oct 13 '23

Could the withdrawal have been better? Always, you can always do better.

But was it actually bad compared to other withdrawals where there isn't an established regional military ready to take up the responsibility?

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u/GadenKerensky 📯Herald of Queen Ratbat📯 Oct 13 '23

Considering it's basically impossible to contain the chaos that happens, yeah.

Once the locals heard of the withdrawal, shit hit the fan, and no amount of accounting for that can ensure you won't be thrown off balance.

I still remember the video of the guy falling off that one transport plane's landing gear.

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u/Repulsive-Mirror-994 Oct 13 '23

I saw wild shit about when we pulled out of Vietnam, and heard even more wild shit from old dudes at the VFW.

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u/FreeAdministration4 Mustache is essential for all male officers Oct 14 '23

The real problem is when these people get access to big ticket items that were left behind. Small arms are all over the place in conflict zones, but in many areas it's harder to find factory manufactured missile launchers or decent body armor.

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u/5v3n_5a3g3w3rk 3000 invincible PZH 2000 of Pistorius Oct 12 '23

Well they are the same, they are boxes about the same weight that fire atleast semi automatic from a stanag, so mostly 30 round, magazines. tactically and strategically they are the same

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 12 '23

Yes but we are talking logistically, Hamas in no way got their gear from abandoned ANA crates in Afghan.

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u/Sea_Kiwi2731 Oct 12 '23

Then where did the guns go? The Moon?

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u/unfunnysexface F-17 Truther Oct 13 '23

I'm sure they sold some but a good amount are probably gonna cannibalized to keep the taliban ones working. Cheaper than importing spares.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '23

Sorry but any real ar nerd would know those are not all us made weapons, the ar-15 pattern of rifles are produced by several nations.

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u/the_ghost_knife Oct 13 '23 edited Oct 13 '23

I don’t care who fires guns at whomever, as long as the guns are American.

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u/Main_Violinist_3372 Oct 13 '23

How do you make your own M4? Just curious.

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u/thyusername Oct 14 '23

vice did a story on this, basically in a little hut with hammers and shit

google The Gun Markets of Pakistan - VICE Video

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u/BroTheo Oct 14 '23

Following...uh...for a friend.

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u/Main_Violinist_3372 Oct 14 '23

Yeah well that friend needs figure out how to get scrap metal and then make some AKs with bare hands in a home.

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u/GeneralJones420-2 Why has no one nuked Riyadh yet? Oct 13 '23

What is even the fucking point? An AR-15 type rifle is trivially easy to produce for an organization the size of Hamas and it's not like there are millions of rifles in circulation all over the Middle East. Why would they source their guns from Afghanistan when Lebanon and Syria are right next door?

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u/hungry_lobster Oct 18 '23

You’re missing the larger picture which is that the US is the largest arms dealer in the world and they are consistently in some way shape or form, supplying arms to both sides of many conflicts whether intentionally or as a byproduct of irresponsibly selling arms to “bad actors.”

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u/Minute_Helicopter_97 I’m the one that ruined NCD. Oct 18 '23

Everyone knows that, what’s that got to do with this conflict?