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Voting is an exercise of state power, and thereby a use of force. In order to vote one should first understand this. Military service could be one way to achieve that, but there are almost certainly others.

That, and military service does not in any way guarantee that a person will become a responsible adult. Some veterans do, some don't.

Canadian laws on a lot of stuff are pretty silly

Tis a silly place

What's a straight white men?

I think we'd all like to know that one

Try beating up more lobsters

Works for them

I'm torn between hating poor people and wanting to provide free helicopter rides for commies

Pacifism works until sometime realises they can rule by force, at which point it falls apart.

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California would be a nice place if it weren't for all of the Californians

1k rounds of 9x19? Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up

@R9b1t I don't buy 9mm, I load it. The containers help me keep it organized, so I can keep track of what they're loaded with, when they were loaded, etc.

I don't understand the question

I've got thousands of rounds of 9mm alone, and only a few magazines, I need a way to store it, keep it organized, keep track of how much I have, and transport it for range trips, having 100 round boxes makes all of that easy

It's not so much my job as it is good practice

I also keep a log book for my reloading, tracking how much I reloaded in a particular session, what recipe I used, etc.

Tracking that sort of stuff helps me identify any problems

I'm learning to shoot competitively

I easily shoot 3-500 rounds of 9mm alone in a range trip

5-10,000 rounds a year

No, I load my own

I couldn't afford to shoot as much as I do if I didn't

They're just boxes, sized specifically for the calibre, with dividers molded in to keep everything organized

I buy components in bulk, and use them to manufacture ammunition

I buy bang buttons, magical fire dust, and freedom seeds, while reusing metal holdy things, I have a machine that puts them all together

@R9b1t things explode

@Bookworm both, I save a fair bit of money, especially considering the amount I shoot, and I can tailor ammo exactly how I want it

@R9b1t things explode, but with more ooga booga

I just got a 590A1, I need a bayonet for it

For... Reasons...

Electronic ignition is pretty simple, arguably more so than mechanical, and can be pretty effectively ruggedized, but electronic operation doesn't seem worthwhile IMO

ignition just needs contacts, close a circuit, send a pulse to the primer, done. Electronic operation would require servos or something equivalent to them, and it doesn't really add anything over gas operation

You could, but that's not what matters, what matters is why you would

You're replacing one simple mechanical piece with several more complicated electromechanical assemblies

That is not a net benefit

Modern gas operation systems do not require years to perfect, that work is already done

Why reinvent the wheel?

Have you seen how cheap AR15s are now?

The tight tolerances aren't in the gas system

They're in the locking system

Regardless of how you unlock and cycle the action, you still need those tight tolerances in the locking system

Fancy new systems don't make things cheap, economy of scale does

It's true enough

Computer control only works in the first place because of economies of scale

Thing is, minimum an electronically controlled firearm requires pressure sensors in the barrel, actuators to unlock, some sort of battery and charging system, and a processor

A gas system does all the same stuff with a few simple mechanical components

Again, it's not about what's possible, it's about what it does *better*

Not necessarily

That's an over simplification of how gas systems work

And even presuming an electromechanical system it would still be ammo sensitive

Unless you actually cycled the action electronically

But again, how is that significantly better?

Under what plausible circumstances would that be a real benefit

Why not just use quality ammo?

Realistically, inconsistent ammunition is not a significant problem

Inconsistent ammo introduces a whole lot more problems than just reliability

It might be able to, but it doesn't matter

I've built my own guns, the gas system didn't need any fiddling

Haven't machined my own, yet

There's years of work going into a new design regardless

Shaving a bit off of the development timeline isn't that big of a deal

It's more important that the end product adequately meets the requirements

Which typically means some significant benefit over existing standards

It doesn't matter how quickly you can develop something if it isn't any better than what's already on the market

And who has such a requirement?

Because changing the buffer weight on an AR is a massively complex procedure

You want to re-engineer the AR to fire some new whiz bang cartridge? Sure thing, takes a new barrel, maybe a new bolt and feed system

Because they're buying something for a specific purpose

Calibre conversions are a meme

Big organizations generally don't bother

Tuning is not the problem

The gun is not the problem

Logistics are the problem

You're trying to solve a logistics problem with a new design, that doesn't work

They don't get new cartridges, because they've got existing stockpiles and systems designed around the existing systems

The gun is a minor part of the system

They've been doing that for decades

6.8 6.5, .300, 7mm, there's a new meme calibre that the army is *totally* going to adopt every week

There are, but the question is do they matter

Which is high, regardless of what it is, because it requires redesigning the existing systems developed around the existing standards

R&D is not even the most significant cost

If it provides some significant benefit them it's worth the cost

Cost isn't the significant factor with ammo on that scale

Weight is

As of yet we don't have man portable power systems that can drive rail or coil guns

The military almost certainly won't be the first to get that kind of power system

They don't do that kind of R&D

The private sector also has money

The applications for that kind of power system go far beyond military uses

Dude

There are so many private sector use cases

Manufacturing processes for one

Civilian market stuff develops faster because it's not based on bureaucratic procurement chains