• nomorgrms@lemmy.cafe
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    10 hours ago

    The head of the EU commission (von der leyen) is in bed with the weapon industry. The same people who just spent the last 20 years telling us we don’t have moneys for hospitals are now saying we should buy more fighters planes, and the scumy idiots with their violence boner will jump on the jingoists

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    2 days ago

    Canada announces rebolstering and refurb of armed forces

    Canada broke up with USA

    The possibilities are endless now…

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    Hey, maybe if everyone stops buying all our death machines we’ll stop making so many and build something useful instead? Wishful thinking I know but…

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      We stopped buying these death machines from you years ago (in fact, we never really started buying them):

      But that didn’t stop you from making more of them or making them more deadly each year.

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    2 days ago

    The saying remains: European rifles are amazing unless you’re left handed.

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      I’ll be contrarian on this: For rifles, your eye dominance matters a lot more than which hand you use. Really you shouldnt be relying much on fine motor skills for it anyway. My southpawed family members just shoot like everyone else.

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          23 hours ago

          … right, but if you dont shoot lefty, that’s not a problem. That is my point. Just shoot “righty”. There isnt a good reason not to unless you are mostly blind in the right eye or otherwise impaired on the right.

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            21 hours ago

            Because my dominant eye is the left? So I shoot lefty. Even tho I am right handed. And yes the difference is noticable when I shoot righty.

            Now to be fair I only do standing air rifle shooting maybe real firefight situation is different.

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              21 hours ago

              Yeah, I meant for service rifles where typically accuracy isnt the top priority. Most people can learn to cope with it, even if your other eye is strongly dominant.

              Everyone is different, but I have taught people to shoot and I am myself a strongly left-eye dominant righty. I have no problem with it for rifle with a magnified optic and I learned to deal with it for 1x red dot and irons. I had to cover my left eye with a patch or blacked out glasses lens to train my brain to deal with it, but it does work. I still prefer to cover one eye in some positions and situations.

              I taught my family to shoot righty because it isnt that hard to shoot with your non-dominant hand and there are so many more options for right-handed rifles. IMO, for service rifles, it doesnt necessarily make sense to spend much engineering effort to accomodate 10% of users.

              Now dont get me wrong: I sometimes switch sides for training, so I do appreciate ambidextrous controls on rifles and I detest shooting wrong-handed on some guns. I just dont think it needs to be a dealbreaker when you can train around it.

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          20 hours ago

          Holds up staff weapon

          “This, is a weapon of terror. It’s made to intimidate the enemy.”

          Casually tosses it aside and holds up P90

          “This, is a weapon of war. It’s made to kill your enemy.”