The great thing about doing my resolutions on LiveJournal, I don't have to read too far back to find last year's ( Read more... )

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Going over the resolutions ( Read more... )

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The latest episode of Marvel's Agents of Shield for a moment had me going. You see, there's a classic gun-handling mistake you see in movies. One of the best examples of which was Stallone in Demolition Man ( Read more... )

Since I'm home sick from work.
The Slow-Mo guys take on a full-auto M4 rifle. And if you watch, not only is it cool (watching things happen like the bolt bouncing before it fully settles into battery) but it also shows why you can't hit shit in full auto. (Hollywood is full of shit, but for some reason people believe them).

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So, shooting an AK-47 underwater. Just sounds like something some redneck would do. That is until you get out the insanely high-speed camera, and start taking a serious look at what the physics involved do. The coolest thing is seeing the resulting air-bubbles, some of which are NOT what you would think, not only expand and collapse, but then, ( Read more... )

Magazine capacity bans, do they do what they're promised to do? Will they slow down mass shooters? Will they give victims a chance to tackle a shooter during the reload? Will they make anyone safer ( Read more... )