Comments by "Archangel M127" (@Archangelm127) on "Forgotten Weapons" channel.

  1.  @H3LLS.GARAGE  You have NO idea how many different types and styles of hat there are. You don't see it until you start looking.
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  2. 04:55 - Fun fact -- the original M1 Bazooka featured rockets that actually finished their burn before they exited the tube. That's why the thing didn't need any blast shields etc, in contrast to the Panzershreck.
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  3. For an undergrad paper, that's pretty damn good.
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  4. Anyone: "Hey US Military, how much firepower do you want?" USM: "Yes."
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  5. If you look at the US Navy's steadily increasing numbers of 20mm and 40mm anti-air guns on all their ships over the course of the Pacific war, even at the cost of removing ARMOR, you'd swear there was at least one Ork in an advisory capacity. This has led to Dracinifel, among others, adopting the term of "American levels of firepower" (meaning roughly "all the dakka") as a matter of course.
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  6. One time at an Old West reenactment I met a lovely lady who had no less than 10 of these concealed around her person. You'd never know, given the elaborate dress favored by ladies at the time. Really cool bit of living history.
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  7. They surrendered to him, then moved immediately to collaboration.
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  8. Seconded. I'd love to see some really egregious fakes or just weird rebuilds like this one.
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  9. I'd buy this thing for $20 and build a Metro cosplay around it. It's the only conceivable function for the piece that I can see.
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  10.  @Locutus494  Congress banned plasma weapons in 1976 after an incident at Groom Lake or some damn place. I think that ban is still in force. :)
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  11.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Go play "Metal Gear Solid" ;)
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  12.  @user-kj6ul3rl8l  The Bastard's muzzle doesn't fly off. Not yet for me, anyway.
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  13.  @dwaneanderson8039  It would make an interesting conversation piece. I mean, we're all here.
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  14. Superbly split hairs, my friend. I approve. :)
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  15.  @nickkennedy9034  It's not a guarantee of a positive work culture, though. I mean... Ubisoft. To take one example.
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  16. It costs $400,000 to fire this gun... for twelve seconds.
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  17. Did they ever get back to you about your role in John Wick IV, Ian?
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  18. I've never seen a break-action revolver that opens from the bottom like that.
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  19. I can hear Ian's heart break a little when he says that they aren't his.
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  20. "Heh-cah-tay," Ian. It's not that hard. ^_^
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  21. You know it's German if it's meticulously in ordnung and thoroughly overcomplicated. ^_^
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  22. Rule 34 isn't just for sex.
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  23. Or even better, an early steam tractor. Go full literal steampunk 🤣
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  24. As a veteran Arma 3 player, my finger keeps twitching for the "3" key on my keyboard as I watch this. ^_^
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  25. Waste of inventory space, IMHO, but yes. (Note: NOT a bad gun in vanilla RE4, just not worth giving up that much inventory space considering that you already have your pistol, shotgun, and sniper in the mix, to say nothing of various explosive options. It's just superfluous. Again, the way I play (slowly, carefully, poorly).
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  26.  @riseupagainstthenwo9995  Your troll skills need work, bro. ;)
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  27. I love the silent-movie style commentary during the firing. Very entertaining. :)
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  28. Thank God that's not a thing or I'd be flat broke
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  29. Rot at the core spreads outward.
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  30. Actually yeah. I wonder if anyone ever went looking.
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  31.  Alexi Malenkov  Not cool, bro.
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  32. I'll stick with Patreon for now, but it's good to know I can still support you if YouTube completely caves to the fossil media.
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  33.  @ForOne814  Just play ArmA 3, you can have all you want
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  34. I agree 100%. Whenever I see some idiot say things like "they couldn't have aligned the Great Pyramids so precisely without alien assistance," I want to punch them. They had very smart people then, just as we do now, and they had a monarchy with the wealth, resources, and inclination to set these smart people to work on great projects.
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  35. Someone needs to make that porno. :D
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  36. Was he just that bored, or what?
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  37.  @ForgottenWeapons  Now if that isn't proof that Hollywood is in decline, I don't know what is. <3
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  38. He was; if you look back on the channel there's a video.
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  39. As a WW2 re-enactor, I am displeased to report that Myth #1 is alive and well among the general public. You guys might be happy to know that we go our of our way to dispel this myth when we talk weapons during living history events.
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  40. Hallelujah, brothers and sisters! :P
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  41. Holy shit, you're right
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  42. God yes. Gimme that sweet 2mmEC goodness <3
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  43. Top. Men.
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  44.  @ricardokowalski1579  I remember. Also as Drac went through the Solomon Islands campaign and reads the AARs from CV-6 USS Enterprise, where this one officer becomes increasingly in favor of what we today would call "m0ar dakka!!!" Great stuff.
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  45. Same
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  46. Nope.
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  47. Only practical use for the full-auto setting that I'm aware of.
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  48. One of the guys in my reenacting unit has a kriegsmodell (sp?) Kar98K that he picked up for a song from a dealer who thought it was busted.
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  49. Here's a great story I never get tired of telling. I'm a casual WWII reenactor, and my CO (retired USAF, retired cop) has a small armory in his basement. One of his dozen-odd Kar98k rifles is a late war 'kriegsmodel,' one made with all possible features omitted... including the safety. This story is about how he got that rifle. So basically he was at a swap meet and happened to see this on a table with half a dozen other bolties. My CO assumed that this relatively rare example of a kriegsmodel Kar98k would go for a premium, and he didn't have that much money to spare that month. So he just picked it up to take a look at it, and offhandedly asked the seller how much he was asking. The seller quoted a price that was about 60% of the going rate for a normal Kar98k at the time. (Don't ask for numbers, I don't know.) The seller explained that he couldn't in good conscience ask full price for a rifle that had obviously been so abused that it had even lost its safety. My CO immediately bought the rifle at the quoted price. Once money was exchanged and paperwork was fully signed, he explained in brief what the seller had actually just sold him. The seller took it with good grace. The rifle now serves as a fantastic piece for weapons lectures to the public, and the rifle you don't want to get stuck with if we're reenacting German today. (We do both German and American, as needed.)
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  50.  @svenblubber5448  That makes more sense, actually.
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  51. Incorrect. The term "gun" is very general and can refer to all sizes of firearms. The more technical term for what you describe is (most commonly) "cannon." Depending on the specifics it might be more properly described as a "howitzer" or even a large "mortar," though. I'm sure there's other types of artillery that I don't know or can't remember.
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  52. Absolutely magnificent. <3
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  53. @lzydwg You win the Internet for today. Congratulations! <3
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  54. To get politicians to increase military spending, just develop a ravenous military-industrial complex. Worked for us here in the USA! :)
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  55. As a video gamer, I can't help giggling at "it just works." ^_^
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  56.  @thegodfather_8455  I don't remember specificially, but there was basically an unboxing vid of one of the crates with Ian helping them. If you search for the company name or Ethiopian in the channel history it will likely come up
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  57. Please do one of these on the term "Personal Defense Weapon" (or PDW), so I can finally get the concept across to @21Kiloton. ☢
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  58. The crowbar thing loses its luster by the third crate. Trust me.
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  59. Definitely in Texas and Montana. Not sure about other states.
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  60.  @no1DdC  I agree; he's needs a plaid sport coat and a faded necktie. And more airtime. :D
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  61. This thing wouldn't last a day in the wilderness. It's a shop prototype that's been mostly user-proofed.
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  62. When you need to take out a Metal Gear but don't have a Stinger launcher.
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  63. If it worked properly, we'd all be dead.
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  64. I've always heard it pronounced more like "Dishka." Is that just Americans being American with the pronunciation, or is it a po-tay-to po-tah-to situation, or what?
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  65. Not dull, Ian. I come here for the history, since I'm too thick to understand the mechanical stuff. ^_^
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  66. Before this tech can eclipse conventional firearms, it not only needs to lower weight and raise impact, but also needs to be reliable, field-proof, soldier-proof, and on and on and on. But yeah, baby steps. Props to David for not overselling this model or the technology in general.
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  67. Just for context here, the GR-1 lists at $3,375 USD on Arcflash's website. Out of my budget, but hopefully not out of yours. :)
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  68. Got any grapes?
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  69.  @spraynpray  What planet are you on?
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  70.  @nehcrum  Thanks, that makes a bit more sense now.
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  71. XXL: .50 AE
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  72. Novelty target shooting? /shrug
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  73.  Beaverish Buck Teeth  Pretty sure the company as a whole is still headquartered just outside of Paris.
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  74. That's the spirit :)
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  75. I remember watching reruns one drunken night in college, when that episode came on. I had to explain to my mostly-blasted, non-history-major friends that A&F used to be very different. Hard, since I was three sheets to the wind myself.
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  76. Or a porno.
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  77. Ian looks so happy! ^_^
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  78. Like every genuine badass I've ever met, M. Prouteau looks incredibly ordinary. ❤
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  79. All very interesting, but how do you do it *illegally*?
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  80. 24:00 - Likewise, the German units using wooden bullets (particularly in Normandy) was actually training ammo being pressed into frontline service.
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  81. Thanks for that. >_<
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  82. I never knew that. My opinion of A&F just jumped about 5 notches. (Can't STAND the man.)
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  83.  @SonsOfLorgar  Would that it were, my brother. Would that it were. ^_^
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  84. I thought the vanilla M3 charged from the bolt, and the M3A1 had the charging handle. Did I have that backwards?
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  85. How many days did you spend filming in the Gray Room anyway, Ian? It's the gift that keeps on giving <3
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  86. So CUTE! Oh my goodness <3
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  87.  @ishitrealbad3039  Depends on where in the country you are. I live in MA, and that's actually not as common a sentiment as you may think. People who disagree keep their peace so they won't be hounded to death.
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  88. If it wasn't next door to Russia, I'd want to move to Finland.
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  89. Just so you know, Ian, I'm always far more interested in the history behind the guns than their mechanics. I don't expect you to neglect the latter for the sake of the former, but please don't leave the history out! <3
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  90. Re: the NJ law -- this is why we can't have nice things.
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  91. Too funny.
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  92. Somebody please please PLEASE make an Arma 3 mod of this pistol. I'm sure we can tap Ian for the sound recordings. <3
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  93.  @Mike-ukr  I'd say it's a weapon issued for primarily the purpose of self-defense, to those personnel who are not frontline infantrymen. What you describe is how most modern PDWs tend to go, but a pistol issued for this purpose also counts. The M1 Carbine as employed by the US Army during WWII also counts. That's my opinion, anyway.
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  94.  @Mike-ukr  & @BleedingUranium I'd argue that a PDW is a role rather than a distinct type of firearm. Every "PDW" can be fitted neatly into an existing category; it's just employed (and often designed) with the PDW role in mind. This is the crux of the debate/argument/confusion surrounding the term. For example, I'd argue that an M1 Carbine is intrinsically a carbine. A P90 is intrinsically an SMG. A Skorpion is intrinsically a machine pistol. Again, this is my view, shaped mainly by the answer Ian gave when I put the question to him in a Q&A probably years ago now.
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  95. This is cool, but I still prefer the classic BFG-9000
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  96. Has this been modded into ArmA 3 yet? :P
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  97. I believe the appropriate expression is "penny wise, pound foolish."
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  98. Why hasn't this story been made into a movie?
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  99. Whenever I hear "no-clip rifle" I just think of a rifle that lets you walk through walls.
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  100. It's just Twitter. You don't have to qualify yourself. ❤
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  101. The original gun in HL1 was a straight-up MP5, which was then changed to an M4 carbine in the HD texture pack. For HL2... I dunno. It could be this? Maybe? Sorta?
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  102. No taxation without representation! :D
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  103. Can any Taiwanese viewers maybe contact the Fourth Arsenal and see if they have any records or insight on this piece?
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  104. Insert "Final Fantasy VIII" joke here ^_^
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  105. Okay, seriously: was this designed for a real, actual purpose, or just for cool factor? The latter is totally a legit reason to make something, but Ian wasn't clear on that point.
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  106. Seconded. You see it in every video game ever, but I don't know a thing about it.
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  107. I believe the British Army used this gun right through the Falklands, though I may be mistaken. It's certainly aged very well IMHO.
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  108. I think "dafuq?!" about covers my reaction.
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  109. Uzi does it. 😂
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  110. 1:00 - Geez, spoiler warning! :P
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  111. I spent the whole video having "Metro" flashbacks. :P
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  112. "Metro Exodus" called; it wants its post-apocalyptic AK back. ;)
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  113. 2:20 - Sorry to be pedantic, Ian, but when you have a sec check the difference between "precedent" and "precedence." <3
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  114. I want to loan one of these to Paul Harrell to shoot at the Meat Target. Probably won't do all that much damage, but I am very very curious.
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  115. Next time you're in Boston, MA check out the haberdasher I use. The name of the shop is Salmagundi Boston. Two locations, same selection at both. Wicked cool store. :)
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  116. There is no such f*cking thing as an "assault weapon." Anyone who says different needs to be edumacated.
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  117. One word: STEAMPUNK.
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  118. The idea of suing over this is ludicrous. If anything, firearms companies should be tossing game studios a few bucks to use correct names and models of their products in video games as cheap advertising.
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  119.  @urbanimage  I'd buy an RPG for my daughter, if I had one. Not pink, though; too easy to spot.
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  120.  @urbanimage  Absolutely. Boy cheats on her, she can blow up his car. :D
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  121.  @urbanimage  I'd prefer an AR or AK for that, unless they're all bunched together at pep rally or something ;)
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  122.  @urbanimage  Aaaand we've gone from being silly-funny to silly-unfunny.
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  123.  @urbanimage  Shoo.
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  124. If I recall correctly, Eisenhower asked for Marines for Operation Overlord. The Navy's response was something along the lines of "HAHAHAHAHAHA no."
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  125. The seal kind of looks like the seal of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from the crusades, but it was four small crosses rather than a pair each of crosses and crescents. Is there a sigliographer in the house?
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  126. This and the Judge are the only Taurus arms I've heard about. Are they representative of the company's products as a whole, or are they just anomalies? Merely curious.
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  127. The only difference between a boy and a man is the size and cost of the toys. <3
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  128. I always assumed the MP9 was an H&K product because of its name. Huh.
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  129. I wouldn't buy a Colt commercial gun, no matter how good, because by all accounts their customer service (to retail customers) is abysmal. It makes sense if you consider that their primary client is the US Military and similar entities, so the focus of their CS efforts go there.
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  130. I hate to be That Guy, but the marking on the rifle is "BradFIELD," not "BradFORD" <3
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  131. I'm starting to think the UK naming system for these things was designed on the principle of "security through obscurity."
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  132. Seconded.
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  133. Flipping huge, cross on the grip... this is Alucard's old revolver, isn't it?
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  134. Like, wow! That's, like, so totally interesting, y'know?
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  135. Never send a European to do an American's job. (In this case, the job would be excessive firepower. Nobody does that like America. ^_^)
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  136. 01:15 - It was ignored because the Ordnance Department was pretty much always opposed to any change in anything throughout its history, as near as I can tell.
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  137. The thing sounds so weird on the range.
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  138. Kwaii desu ❤
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  139. Just lie down on the couch and tell me what's bothering you, Ian. There's no need to torture yourself. <3
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  140. Nice.
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  141. What's the purpose of the dummy gun in the holster, rather than the real gun?
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  142. 10 minutes in the Punalty Box.
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  143.  @moonlily701  No I did not. Please edumacate me. :D
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  144. I don't really consider it nepotism when the beneficiary is actually good at their job.
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  145.  @zyamadeadborn1785  Interesting. We Americans call the M2 Browning "Ma Deuce" in a similar vein. ("Ma" being short for mom/mother and "deuce" being a slang term for the number two, especially in reference to playing cards.)
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  146. What's wrong with regular low-velocity ammunition? (Seriously asking.)
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  147. What's the point of a rifle grenade that doesn't go boom? :P
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  148. I am in favor of whatever prevents the destruction if irreplaceable historical artifacts. A close second is making them easily accessible to serious researchers and enthusiasts.
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  149. At the very beginning, I thought that was a NSDAP brassard on Ian's arm, and I was just staring dumbstruck. Then he showed the rest of it and I was like "oh, I'm stupid."
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  150. You want nuance on the Internet? Seriously? SERIOUSLY? 😂
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  151. When did we get to InRange? Not that I'm complaining, mind you. ❤
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  152. 12:00 - Great little story, dude. XD
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  153. Claire Redfield sends her regards <3
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  154. Isn't an SMG pistol-caliber by definition? (Seriously asking.)
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  155. I agree.
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  156. As several other commenters have noted, it needs a bayonet mount. (Because fuck you, that's why. <3)
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  157. I want a Star Wars blaster based on this frame. It looks way cool!
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  158. Where was the designer from? I'm guessing Germany from his last name and... well. This thing.
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  159. Always good to examine fine Czechnology.
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  160. HA!
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  161. I thought it was a PPSh at first glance.
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  162. Two gorgeous men talking about guns? This is verging on pr0n territory. <3
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  163. Sick. <3
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  164. Looks like I'll need the drool bucket today... damn. <3
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  165. Nani?
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  166. Why can't they set it up with a single trigger that only fires one barrel at a time? Still a silly novelty, but slightly more practical.
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  167. Kinda, yeah
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  168. More like the Vatican Secret Archives. (Yes, that's a thing, though slightly misnamed. Look it up.)
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  169.  @ishitrealbad3039  Fair enough. I was mostly being sarcastic with my "advice," if it wasn't clear. ^_^
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  170. We need to send Paul Harrel back in time to do a Meat Target test for the Dutch parliament.
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  171. Looks a lot like the AR in the newer 'Deus Ex' games.
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  172. Sound is only through the left channel for some reason.
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  173. Quite.
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  174. I never expect (or really want) any extra rewards for supporting content creators. What I want is for the actual content to keep coming. :)
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  175. How topical.
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  176. 2:20 - You do NOT, repeat NOT want to fire even a .45 pistol inside a bunker unless the muzzle is outside the firing port. You will blow your eardrums into your skull and they will collide in the middle of your brain. I imagine the same principle pertains to armored vehicles, but I don't know from personal experience like I do with bunkers.
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  177. Far out, man.
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  178.  @frank-mp3bq  Logical.
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  179. Serious question: why didn't Colt just adjust the license fee to account for the number of M16s the ROKs wanted to make and take their money?
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