Jesus tap dancing Christ. That’s simultaneously one of the coolest and most insane things I’ve ever seen. It just kept going!
In didn’t see this in the news. It’s freaking awesome. I think it doesn’t need to be that fast to be effective. Plus slower would last much longer. And if they had a few in different locations it would be way more interesting too. As is, this is probably some of the best self defense I’ve ever seen.
Idk what they’re fighting about, but I pick that guy’s team.
If it was an incoming firework ban, I don’t think the authorities would see this as a good case being made.
Russia has infiltrated Georgian politics and is suspending their bid to join the EU.
Oh shit.
What are the protesters demanding?
The release of Serious Sam 5?A free and fair election.
They had an election recently which was not free and fair, high evidence of vote manipulation, ballots being burnt, people getting beat up and payed at polling states, which led to the pro-Russia party pulled off a suprise “win”.
Sounds like average election in Saint Petesburg.
Give it a few more years and we’ll need our own gatling fireworks in the US. We’ve checked several of those boxes, just not on a large scale.
We need them now. Not for the elections, but you know.
and we’ll need our own gatling fireworks in the US.
No we won’t.
You mean it’s already too late for that? You’re probably right.
I mean we have guns here
This is America, we have Gatling guns. Yes, they are $800,000 and there are only 12 that are civilian transferrable after a 9-18 month application process, but we have them.
This is America, we have miniguns.
Yes, but in America a crank operated Gatling gun (i.e. an actual Gatling gun) is legal at least on the federal level.
And quite easy and fun to construct at home. Just saying!
You can buy a gatling gun(hand crank) with only the standard background check in most states
“I sure hope people dont attach a cheap drill to this totally legal crank powered gatlin gun” -ATF (probably)
Yeah, they don’t like that one.
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When you say there are only 12, do you mean models or units?
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If someone adds a motor to the hand crank does it become an (illegal) minigun?
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Isn’t it weird that miniguns are the largest, heaviest types of gun possible.
- Twelve units total, due to the unique way in that the law is structured via the rather Orwellianly named “Firearm Owners’ Protection Act.” Only machine guns of any type manufactured before the law itself was enacted on May 19, 1986 are eligible for transfer and civilian ownership. That means that the available selection is not only fixed but shrinking, and every single transferable machine gun of any type instantly became an incredibly expensive collector’s item.
- Yes. The ATF’s interpretation of this is that a “machine gun” is anything capable of firing more than one shot with one trigger pull. Making your trigger electrical or electronic does not circumvent this and, in fact, is how miniguns actually work – being motor driven.
- They’re designed to be mounted on vehicles. The canard about them being man-portable is just that; it’s a fabrication made up out of the whole cloth for the Terminator/Predator movies. The “mini” in “minigun” came from the M134 which is chambered in 7.62×51mm, and is specifically a reference to it being smaller than the M61 “Vulcan” gun which was chambered in 20mm.
For 2, based on the Supreme Court’s recent very flawed ruling on bump stocks, I would assume you could make a mechanically actuated trigger that lifts itself up each round fired in such a way if you’re still putting pressure it will fire again. That’s how a bump stock works. I’m curious how far that could be pushed. Can you have a motor repeatedly pull the trigger? I assume probably not, but it’s not much different than a bump stock.
What you’re describing is a “reset trigger,” more or less, and they are indeed legal.
You could also just make a crank operated gun. Those are legal, too. The key is you have to keep turning the crank to keep firing. Your continued action is necessary.
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A not corrupt election…
The ruling party, recently reelected in a fraudulent election has declared that EU accession talks will be stopped until 2028. This has stoked ongoing protests over election results.
Cops: “We have a firehose!”
No, this is a fire hose.
Finally, a weapon to surpass metal gear.
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I heard this comment.
Fuck yea
Now that’s how to protest. Make the police sweat. They should fire a few strobe rockets overhead for effect.
It’s more effective in an area where police’s response to a perceived threat (real or imaginary) is to shoot first, perspire later.
Not to take anything away from this particular instance. It’s rad and inspiring as hell. However, I fear that, were I to try this at any protest in my area, I would be forcibly aerated in short order.
Could be doomerism has a hold on me this afternoon, but, if anything, this post makes me despair that any effective protest in my country (i.e. something with enough teeth to make oligarchs take notice) will be met with deadly force employed in the name of “restoring order”, and the whole political and media apparatus will jump through hoops to frame the story as, “well, we all applaud protestors for making their voices heard, but they didn’t follow our clear directions, and therefore they brought their fates upon themselves.”
A: Fucking impressive, holy shit. Good on them for having a plan that day.
B: I thought that was a fucking battleaxe in the foreground for a moment there.
Visually impressive and to an enough degree even the anti-riot forces felt necessary to turn the water cannon on the individual.
That is fucking amazing. Bravo.
it costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds
Still not comparable to military ammo costs
Oh my God… who touched Sasha???
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I ain’t got time to bleed.
Thats the type of human I want to be in the trench beside me.
Be the change you want to see…
Damn, I didn’t the Brotherhood of Steel operated in Georgia.
How in the fuck does it keep going like that?
The link posted as a reply seems to be dead but you can buy them here and it has a video demo, looks like you’re not supposed to hold them.
Nice. Thx
Behold! The Gatling Barrage!!
Only $25? Fuck yeah
£25 so $31.66, but still a nice price.
To me it looks like a bunch of what we call Roman candles bunched up together, they’re like tubes that will fire maybe between 10-40 shots depending how big they are (I assume these are the biggest ones they could find and like maybe 10/12 of them together).
Have used these before for displays and they are good https://www.cubefireworks.com/en/product/gatling-roman-candle-barrage-300-shot-888
