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Got my revolver and gunbelt on for the first time in forever and Misty for some reason thinks this means I'm going to work?? No girl I'm just making sure my shit fits so I don't get my bones jacked by a mountain lion while we're working

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TRICK OR TREAT!!!

I gift you a Remington 700, which is the rifle Sniper uses in-game :)

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Trick or treat >:3

I gift you the Mossberg Patriot chambered in .375 Ruger. A rifle powerful enough to take Bigfoot! (Or, like, a really big bear or something.)

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Yeah so whatever fucking nuke is on the left

I don’t like ):

And i sure as hell don’t want to meet whatever fires it! 😂

Pretty sure that's a .950 JDJ (parent case is a Vulcan, made for being shot out of an M61 Vulcan) compared to what looks like a 5.56 (which is what most AR platforms shoot—my dad argues it's a .30-06 round but I'm very familiar with those as I shoot strictly .30-06 and the actual size of the bullet is too small and the cartridge's neck looks too short for me).

The M61 is an aircraft-mounted machinegun.

This is one installed on a West German F-104.

The M61 has been in service internationally since the late 50s and first saw combat in dogfights during the Vietnam War.

That said the insane part is that despite having a Vulcan parent case, the .950 JDJ is actually a fucking rifle cartridge. It's meant to be shot out of a rifle. Except only three of these rifles were ever built (by SSK, who received a sporting use exception to allow these rifles to be legally produced and sold in the USA—no special licensing or permit needed). That said they'd blow about anything you shot completely apart so they're useless for hunting and overall incredibly obsolete, which is why SSK only ever produced three of the rifles (their only real use is as a novelty item) and the .950 JDJ round itself ceased production around 2014.

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I can actually answer this!! His rifle is modelled after a Remington 700, it's just heavily cartoonised! :]

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man who knows about firearms. how feasible/reasonable is it to engrave bullets/casings with stupid bullshit. bc they’re saying that the shooter had engraved bullets with silly nonsense on them, but like, silly nonsense that’s gonna be used to blame queer people. and im hesitant to believe it because it sounds like bullshit consent manufacturing, but I want the opinion of someone who knows what they’re talking about with regards to firearms.

I actually was just discussing this in my server this morning.

how feasible/reasonable is it to engrave bullets/casings with stupid bullshit

Very reasonable. Nobody's engraving on bullets because it fucks up the ballistics, but it's perfectly feasible for somebody to carve a message or some kind of enscription on the casing. They're larger than you think. It's even easier/safer to write something on them in sharpie (which is what most people do, and what I assume the shooter did). Carving means the casing can be weakened enough to explode (depending on how deep you carve and how much material you remove), but just writing with sharpie does no damage to the casing at all. I'll sometimes write a short prayer on my cartridges if I'm doing a bounty shoot since I take those at a longer distance.

bc they’re saying that the shooter had engraved bullets with silly nonsense on them, but like, silly nonsense that’s gonna be used to blame queer people. and im hesitant to believe it because it sounds like bullshit consent manufacturing

Two things:

Yes, the casings were inscribed.

Nothing on the casings said anything about trans/queer people. The closest was an inscription that says "If you read this you're gay LMAO". The "trans ideology inscription" is from a now-disproven investigation details leak hoax.

Continuing from 2, (I'm gonna copy-paste my journalling from this morning)...

I think I might know where the "bullets enscribed with trans ideology" claim came from.

I think whatever dipshit ATF investigator they had on the case saw a TRN/TRA headstamp (manufacturer's stamp) on the foot of the casing.

But there's an issue with the TRN theory in specific.

TRN is the stamp for Turan, a Turkish arms manufacturer. Turan makes ammo, but they don't make .30-06 (which the ATF has confirmed the rifle, a Mauser M98, is). The closest calibre Turan makes is .308.

So it's not TRN/Turan's headstamp.

The closest to that is TRA, the original stamp of Armscor (previously Arms Corporation of the Philippines). TRA as we all know stands for Trans Rights Activist, so I assume some dipshit ATF agent read "TRA" and went "ah yeah. Trans people" instead of reading a very obvious headstamp for what it was.

Only reason I can't prove this hypothesis is cuz I don't buy Armscor ammo so I don't know if they still stamp their cartridges with TRA or if they changed it after their 2017 rebrand (looking online it seems they might have changed it)

If that's the case then it means this ammunition is at least 8 years old—too old to have been bought by the kid. So who bought it? His parents? This kid has access to ammunition he didn't buy?

Mate of mine suggested that maybe he wanted an untraceable round. But the ammo wouldn't have been traceable to a receipt either unless he brought the box. Ammo boxes don't have serial numbers.

Armscor doesn't make sense either. It's not like he's matching tradition. I can see an M98 if it's all he had (likely). But Armscor?

It's not like the ammunition is good. If you're gonna do an assassination you'd probably be using a precision ammo like Hornady or ELD-X or something. Federal, even. Armscor is what you'd use if you're doing target practice and don't care if you miss or kill your target. It's a plinking brand, not a duty brand. They're not made for realiability.

So did he care if he hit his target?

Either this kid bought 8yo Armscor ammo, and did it intentionally for some fucking reason, or he had access to ammo he didn't buy, OR the ATF agent that dobbed about "trans messaging" either just confused "you read this ur gay" with "trans ideology" or just. Fucken lied outright.

I recognise lies is most likely, but I honestly don't expect any better from the "AK-47 upper receiver" ATF. Whether in reference to them lying or just them mistaking a manufacturer's stamp for a carving. They're all fucking idiots in that bureau. If their collective brains were dynamite they wouldn't have enough to blow a single nose.

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DEAR ARTISTS

(Cheers to @kreidxpriz for asking this in the replies of my other post!)

Many people don't actually know what a bullet is.

These are not bullets. These are cartridges.

THESE are bullets.

Bullets go into the casing to make a cartridge. Inside the cartridge are what the bullet needs to operate: gunpowder and the primer. The primer pushes inward, strikes one side, and that ignites the gunpowder which explodes and propels the bullet out of the barrel of the firearm.

This is what they look like separate. (Those coloured tips on the bullets are polymer points that assist in cutting through the air which lessens the amount of tumbling and also with penetrating the target. The colour isn't important and is often different depending on who manufactures the bullets.)

That piece on the bottom is calling the casing or shell. That's what ejects from the bolt of a firearm when you cycle it. Some firearms cycle automatically (the automatic family of weapons which includes automatic and semi-automatic, where pulling the trigger will fire a bullet, eject the spent casing, and automatically chamber another round), and some have to be cycled manually (bolt-action rifles, where pulling the trigger ONLY fires the bullet and you have to pull back the bolt to eject the spent casing and allow another round to move into the receiver, then pushing the bolt forward chambers that round).

Why am I explaining this to you? There's different between a bullet and a cartridge. So, dear artists: YOU NEVER PUT A BULLET IN YOUR MOUTH. Many bullets do NOT have metal jackets, meaning the bullet is not fully encased in metal, most commonly copper. The casing is usually brass. Why encase the bullet to start with? Inside the bullet is usually lead. Lead is soft and doesn't penetrate very well, so full metal jackets (FMJs) and total metal jackets (TMJs) are used for better penetration. Because the lead is encased and doesn't "fold," they also have much better trajectory and strike more accurately. Point is, don't put a grey bullet in your mouth unless you want lead poisoning.

Additionally, holding a bullet in your mouth will bugger up something we call ballistics, which is how the bullet travels through the air on its path to its target. Any scratching on the surface or minute dents from your teeth that you can't even see will effect the aerodynamics of the bullet, causing the round to tumble. This throws off accuracy and affects how the bullet strikes.

On that similar note: PEOPLE DO NOT CARVE ANYTHING INTO BULLETS UNLESS IT'S ON THE BASE OF THE BULLET. That's this flat part. (Note that this is a TMJ. An FMJ leaves an exposed bit of lead at the bottom of the bullet.)

The flat part is the ONLY part on a bullet that isn't influenced by aerodynamics, so it's the only "safe" place to carve. That said, it's a small bloody space, so good luck carving anything into that. TMJs are VERY difficult to carve and can only be effectively "scratched." FMJs are easier to carve thanks to their exposed lead, which is a much softer material. VERY rarely you'll see people carving an "X" into the very tip of the bullet so that it fragments better, but this takes time and buggers up the accuracy so it's very uncommon (and when it is seen, it's usually only in handgun-calibre rounds where you're not firing over long distances).

What people DO sometimes do (if they have a real grudge) is scratch into the CASING of the round. Some places even imprint them for mementos. This has no real effect on the round or how it fires, so it's safe to do.

Point here is that people don't hold bullets between their teeth. If they're holding anything, it's the cartridge. When I need to reload quickly, I hold the cartridge between my LIPS with the primer against the flat of my canine tooth or incisors so it doesn't get tapped by accident.

That's all and happy drawing!

As always, if you have any questions feel free to send me an ask!

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i just remembered i had this and thought you would like it :)

(yes, the pink in the blades reflection is my hair lol)

SORRY FOR NOT RESPONDING TO ASKS I HAVEN'T BEEN ON TUMBLR MUCH

I love the wood on that knife. Mwah. Chef's kiss. Bewdy.