[halloweenskellington]

my Halloween senses are tingling

[meg-elle]

[pikauni]

Just a girl and a late night joint 🌿🌿

[hekacute-deactivated20141230]

Put a pancake on a girl’s head when she’s asleep to keep her warm and safe. 

[re-cog]

[youra-chan]

[vapourflwr-deactivated20171230]

[emmagrace-x]

[angelsaxis]

YOURE TELLING ME THIS IS WHAT THEY'VE BEEN SHOOTING PROTESTERS WITH????

[katjohnadams]

YEP! These are meant to be skipped into the ground and then spin into people's legs and dissuade people from advancing or move them away. FIRING THEM AT PEOPLE'S HEADS IS 100% AGAINST THE PROPER USE. AND THEY ARE SHOOTING THESE AT MEDICS. DOCTORS, EMTS, AND NURSES. AT CLOSE RANGE. THESE CAN BREAK YOUR SKULL. THEY ARE NOT A JOKE. THIS IS LESS LETHAL LIKE A BASEBALL BAT IS LESS LETHAL THAN A SWORD. BOTH STILL CAN KILL.

[scottishwobbly]

I only found out today they’re meant to be fired at the ground to bounce back at protesters... I don’t think  I’ve ever seen the cops use them that way

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

They're also often actually metal with a thin coating of rubber.

[ms-demeanor]

Hi.

Your buddy from the ammo industry here.

1) these are absolutely not supposed to be fired directly at people, they are supposed to be fired indirectly.

2) they can kill and seriously injure people

3) this type of "rubber bullet" (often called a "foam baton" or "rubber baton" round) is a lightweight projectile that will nonetheless fuck you up. I've loaded and worked with foam batons and rubber shot for a long time and in all the time I've worked with people who were loading and firing rubber bullets with police departments I've never encountered any version of a 37 or 40mm baton round that has a "thin layer of rubber over a metal core," which is a description I've seen a lot of in the last few days and wanted to correct.

[ms-demeanor]

I couldn't find any of the batons/projectiles in the stuff I've moved, but I've literally done load dev on this shit in the past.

They can totally, totally kill you, they should never be fired directly at people (hence the "to be used by prime who have successfully completed specialty impact munitions training") but the light launchers and dearth of training mean that if these were rubber-jacketed steel rounds they'd need so much powder to move them that they'd break the shooter's shoulder.

I don't want to be misunderstood, this does not mean they're safe to fire into crowds, this does not mean that they can't kill you, it's just that a metal projectile this size is literally the kind of thing that tanks fire, not the kind of thing that officer asshole who hasn't qualified at the range in five years shoots out of his modified flare launcher.

[minuty]

[tamper]

[shootcharlieshoot]

[danger]

[destroymylife]

[bled]

Fight Club (1999)

[eliminated]

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