happybadger [he/him]

Working class employee of the Sashatown Central News Agency, the official news service of the DPRS Ministry of State Security. Your #1 trusted source for patriotic facts.

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Cake day: October 7th, 2020

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  • https://smallarmsreview.com/the-missing-link-heckler-kochs-family-submachine-gun/

    The general concept and goal of the U.S. program was to challenge the industry to create a modular or “family” submachine gun that could be reconfigured by the operator without tools to perform the missions of all three MP5 models described above. Not only would this reduce the sheer number of weapons within a unit but the “one gun does all” concept would insure that the right gun is on station when needed. The level of proficiency can also be elevated to new heights when the shooter need only train with one sub gun and not three. A cost savings? Yes, but in most cases during the past 25 years the cost of equipment and weapons and funding for their procurement was of little or no issue to the elite units of the world. The shooters from the world’s best anti-terrorist and hostage rescue units expend more ammo and ordnance in just one month than the purchase cost of the weapon through which the rounds are fired.

    The HK54A1 and the SMG’s that would follow it had to be deployable in all operational and environmental conditions found around the globe. The weapon had to function reliably in temperatures ranging from 140 degrees F to -50 degrees F. The JSSAP Guns were to be carried into combat by swimmers and high altitude parachutists and be fully functional upon arrival. All parts were to be fully interchangeable and supportable by current levels of maintenance. The weapon and sound suppressor were to have a minimal service life of 10,000 rounds, fire in all attitudes (up, down, even sideways) and direct no propellant gas “blowback” into the shooter’s face during operation. In the sound suppressed mode it should be impossible to discern the visual “flash” and the report or mechanical noise of the weapon beyond 30 meters and provide at least 30 dB sound reduction when fired in the sound suppressed mode. The HK54A1 was to be accurate enough to allow first round hits on an E-type kneeling silhouette target at 100 meters with iron sights.

    50 rounds of 9mm would be nice. It sounds like an even more practical version of modern PCCs.







  • I grew up doing animal rescue. Before I was consciously political, maybe around age 6~, seeing the complex cognition in other species gave me a naive sense of biocentrism and species-being that were immediately radical. Most of my current eco-Marxism was already there intuitively. Then 9/11 happened and the flagfucking culture in its aftermath was so weird to me that I was opposed to anything nationalistic or racist. At age 12~ I read the Communist Manifesto while trying to find a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook and it made more sense than anything else I had read about social studies to that point. That’s when I began identifying as a socialist, even if it took until maybe age 20 before I started reading theory seriously.