• hostilearchitecture [any]
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    2 years ago

    Love this implication... What does he think a modern sniper rifle is? They haven't changed all that much, just materials and machining techniques but it's pretty hard to innovate the bolt-action all that much...

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      They haven’t changed all that much, just materials and machining techniques but it’s pretty hard to innovate the bolt-action all that much…

      Given liberals and their weird fetishization of shiny technology being an unambiguous good, it's not hard to make the logical gap that "shiny black polymer plastic = more technology" and "more technology = more gun shooting power"

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      the US military's most common sniper rifle in use is the M24 SWS, designed in 1988, but is in reality just a shorter version of the M1917 Enfield with a different caliber, which is the rifle the US used in WW1

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        2 years ago

        I thought the US military used the Springfield and the Enfield was the British rifle?

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          The AEF (the division of the US Army deployed to the western front) used the M1917, which was a modified version of the British Enfield rifle. The M1917 was often called the "American Enfield." Marines and the Navy used the 1903 Springfield and I'm not really sure why. A professor once told me the army had a different rifle because the Springfield had some kind of different heat treatment on the metal on the receiver and I don't remember why that was important.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The Marine Corps is the stupidest atavism in the military and should have been abolished decades ago.