Hi all, just found this community and figured I’d share my one-two combo I call Thelma and Louise. I guess I have a type after all! Maybe I should get a 1911 to round it all out….
Them’s some pretty pieces, but I find dark polymers to get hot as shit during any sunny range day.
The difference in price between this and the wood stock was a couple of magazines….went with the mags
To all the liberals down voting this stuff constantly, please tell me how the cops are gonna save your white suburban ass from being deported to CECOT for being a registered democrat. Also, before you say F-15 go read about Afghanistan and the troubles.
Dude. Ffs. Chill out, the post is sitting at 9 upvotes currently. You jumped the gun (heh) and started whining about votes and combined it with bitching about “liberals” on a post that’s about some classic firearms.
Like, you have the right to do that if that’s really what you want to do, but, c’mon, you have to know that kneejerk bullshit isn’t in any way useful
It’s all of these posts. Firearm content attracts a lot of downvotes on Lemmy. The classic firearms were precisely what made me want to say something. One can’t really have that kind of community here because of all the people trolling ‘all’ and randomly interacting with stuff that wasn’t meant for them.
Also liberal is in the title so it felt right. I’m not a liberal, I’m an leftist, so do with that what you will.
Going back one month, I see two posts that aren’t in the positive on this C/, and one of those is kinda off topic, the other at 0, which means equal down and up votes.
I’m also subscribed to most of the firearm communities and haven’t seen consistent negative votes over time. They all have reliably calm discussion, when discussion occurs, with some outliers.
There definitely are knee-jerk down votes, but they balance back out. This post was at 9 (iirc) positive when I first commented in response to you, and was sitting at 14 before I started this comment.
Are the numbers showing different for you? Some apps don’t always show votes right, or so I’ve been told, and some instances are slower to federate votes supposedly (with .world being the usual major slow one). So you may be seeing inaccurate numbers. Now, I checked on a different app, and via browser before opening my big mouth for this comment, and all showed 14 positive for me. I don’t care about down votes much, so I didn’t check to see how many of those were present (probably should have, but that’s what I get for starting before taking an extra half minute to think).
Lemmy is way slower than reddit. You can make a post and not get any votes for days on the more niche communities. It’s nothing unusual for the first few votes to be down for whatever reason, and then go up over hours or days.
But, being real, I’m outspoken about firearms rights here on lemmy. It is very rare anyone raises a fuss at all, and I’ve never had a comment stay in the negative (and this is an aside to my homie Spider, I told you I don’t fucking care, so stop pestering me about it).
Seriously, take a day or two, come back and check this post again. I strongly suspect it’ll end up around 20 positive total. Maybe higher.
But you can’t base anything off of the first few hours after a lemmy post. We just don’t have the traffic
Fwiw, I’m leftist too, I was wondering about the use of the term because the usual US conservative vs liberal thing taints some subjects. Sorry if I was dickish, that wasn’t my intent at all.
I don’t think Afghanistan is a good analogy, but “the troubles” are. Also Rwanda. I don’t understand how anyone can call Trump a fascist, and realize how popular firearms are with his supporters… and maintain a stance that reasonable people shouldn’t arm themselves. If there is a time to pursue gun control, it surely isn’t right now.
M1A’s a bit dated but it’s still usable as anything else.
I’d throw at least a red dot on the scout rail personally. Those M1 sights are very tough to use in anything but good lighting. But before that, make sure you have adequate magazines and a decent amount of ammo.
Yeah I live in a restrictive state for guns so no AR for me. I’m already bulking up on ammo and probably gonna get a scout scope for it.
Check out the Ruger Mini 14 Ranch. It’s likely available in your state.
I considered it, but went with 7.62 vs 5.56. Just a personal preference
