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But then there's also this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&name=medium https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&name=...
by thu2111 6y ago
But then there's also this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&name=medium https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaQyClgU4AEJnWf?format=jpg&name=...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&name=900x900 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaQyCmMUEAEn_1o?format=jpg&name=...
I've not before seen a summer street festival where armed militias wearing bulletproof vests patrol the streets.
- jasonvorhe 6y agoHow many summer festivals have you been to where to people in charge are at risk of being attacked by armed white supremacists?
- thu2111 6y agoPutting aside the question of who is going to attack these people, that's my point. It's not a summer festival.
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- latencyloser 6y agoThat's just a plate carrier, with no plates in it. It won't stop a bullet, definitely not a rifle round. Maybe he has some soft armor jammed in there but doubtful based on the rest of his "I bought this from the local gunstore 3 days ago setup."
- dmoy 6y agoYou cannot buy a semiautomatic rifle in 3 days in WA. There is a minimum 10 day waiting period. You could buy the pieces and build it yourself, but you'd need some tooling.
- latencyloser 6y agoYes, you're correct and it's a good clarification. Thanks. The rifle in this photo is definitely purchased and would've been subject to the waiting period you mention. I was being a being a bit sarcastic about his gear being brand new and forgot about the relatively new laws as part of my joke. :)
- dmoy 6y agoTrue, I'm being needlessly pedantic here :) And who knows, they could have bought the parts and assembled it, if they can find things in stock somewhere.
- numpad0 6y agoLooks like a completely stock S&W M&P 15 Sport II, 16” barrel, GI style mag, collapsible stock, plus a cheap airsoft optic. M&P 15 is a complete knockoff of US military M4/M4A1 carbine, except barrel is longer and has no full auto function to comply with regulations. Way too boring configuration to build from parts or build out of an 80% blank, and also probably not an airsoft. Disclaimer: I’m an airsofter outside US at best in the context
- tekknik 6y agoYou got this backwards, an M4 is actually a knock off of the AR-15. That is to say the AR-15 came before both the M16 and the M4 and both of those guns were built from the AR-15.
- numpad0 6y agoI mean that pictured gun is an M4gery isn’t it
- dmoy 6y agoSure? If you mean it's probably a 16" with a carbine-length gas system, tube-like handguard that probably isn't floated, and a carbine stock, that looks about right. It's kind of an ill-defined term, and doesn't really mean that it was purchased whole. It could easily be a stripped lower + lpk + complete upper, or complete lower + complete upper. Either of those sidesteps the 10 day waiting period, and it's about the same price - you can get a lower+lpk with buffer tube and halfway-decent buttstock for something like $120, or you can buy a complete lower for about that same price. Assuming you just buy a stripped lower and not an 80% lower, assembling requires minimal tooling - a couple roll pin punches, a hammer, some pliers, a hex wrench, and maybe another wrench. A vise grip makes it easier but isn't strictly speaking required. Takes like an hour or two even if you have no idea wtf you're doing. That said, I agree it's probably more likely they bought it whole, or bought a lower+upper and just slapped it together (which takes 5 seconds and zero tools).
- beerandt 6y agoWhat's the waiting period on rifles looted out of stores, cop cars, and police buildings?
- jakelazaroff 6y agoI truly don't understand the problem here. Can you tell me what it is that makes these people dangerous and scary, but the similarly armed protestors who showed up at government buildings a month ago — or, frankly, the police — fine?
- dgellow 6y agoYou draw a false dichotomy. Nobody in this thread said that armed protestors or the police aren't scary.
- jakelazaroff 6y agoI'm not drawing any sort of dichotomy; I'm just asking for an explanation as to why this is notable.
- dgellow 6y agoI expect that someone with an assault weapon and what looks like a bullet proof vest is scary for quite a lot of people. And that's notable in the sense that is goes against the idea of "a peaceful event similar to a music festival" (paraphrasing).
- jakelazaroff 6y agoBut you see stuff like that at music festivals as well, in the form of police. So I'm asking why this is scary or notable but that is not.
- umanwizard 6y agoThe only big music festival I've been to is Sasquatch (twice). I certainly did not see people with assault rifles there. Which festivals are you talking about?
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- staticassertion 6y agoSummer street festivals often have a police presence.
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- ryanlol 6y ago> I've not before seen a summer street festival where armed militias wearing bulletproof vests patrol the streets. In big European cities it’s pretty normal to see cops wearing body armor and carrying rifles around such events.
- tekknik 6y agoIt is not common in the US. In parts of the middle east it’s a daily affair to see someone walking around with an AK or equivalent
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- rayiner 6y agoThis is the point of the Second Amendment: for when people feel safer with random dudes in bulletproof vests and AR-15s providing security than they do with the police.