The guy's got ~10 kids. [Edit: It seems to me that a parent who keeps a gun on his bedside table is asking for trouble.]
One gun looks clearly like a prop gun to me. How about the antique gun? Is it real?
I wonder how many arguments there are that an antique gun is not dangerous cuz it's very hard to load and what kid knows how to use google to learn how to load it anyways?
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Also if it's real and Elon is known to fire it sometimes - Elon apologists might say he's got the ammo in a gun safe. But Elon being Elon - I wonder how secure that is.
The revolver is a prop - it has no trigger and the detailing is rough as shit - like you get from vacuum plastic. Not a hero prop by any means, but he probably bought it from etsy and thinks it's genuine. It looks familiar but I can't place which film/show it's from.
Darn. I thought I got movie trivia right for once.
I'm a member of a b-movie forum and I don't even try in the trivia threads. The answer will be something like "That gun is in the hand of Taro Yamaguchi in Yakuza Pride (1972) and second guy..."
I'll check Imdb and the movie has 293 votes. And Yamaguchi's page says he appeared in very minor roles in five other obscure Yakuza movies before dying in late 70s of cancer.
Can't really tell much about the antique one from this picture, but the revolver is just a replica of the one from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It might be this one, which also has those orange streaks on the cylinder, and also isn't even a proper replica, it's just a 3D-printed one, maybe derived from this model. I'm not too familiar with 3D-printed stuff, but 400 bucks doesn't seem like that much. If I had a hundred billion dollars, I'd just commission a gunsmith to build me an actual functional sci-fi gun.
All in all, a classic Elon move to play a game about corporations doing nefarious shit and go "wow, cool revolver!" (did we have a "wow, cool robot" emoji here, or am I misremembering?). Although admittedly Human Revolution does have Sarif as a "CEO but cool actually" character, so I guess that's who Elon self-inserted as, especially considering Sarif is also a tech-bro obsessed with "improving" humanity with technology.
And yeah, considering the revolver, I kind of doubt he shelled out for a real antique pistol
If I had a hundred billion dollars, I’d just commission a gunsmith to build me an actual functional sci-fi gun.
Yet another example of how almost anybody could use Elon's money better than he can. I bet Elon liked the game and got the first decent replica he found without even considering that he had the means to go way above and beyond with it.
Pretty much, those models are literally the first stuff that popped up from a simple google search, I didn't even need to do any real searching.
Old-timey aristocrats would have at least had engraved swords and all kinds of other cool shit, you can put that stuff in a museum after you're done guillotining them. We're not even going to be able to get anything like that painting of the Soviet soldier entering the Winter Palace, since modern billionaires apparently don't even have anything cool worth looking at.
If it's built to the same spec as the movie prop guns the M40A1 is a Thompson gun in a body kit. Pretty cool that they got the ammo counter working though.
I absolutely love how we have a resident gun expert on this website that we can just ping to ask "yo what the fuck is this gun" and get a solid effort post 10 minutes later
Edit: It seems to me that a parent who keeps a gun on his bedside table is asking for trouble
anyone is really. I keep a pistol safe by my bedside. Protected from curious houseguests / children and I can keep one in the chamber ready to go. It takes like a second to open, no big deal.
The antique gun is probably less dangerous than a modern one for that reason, but it's still a gun. Would hope that it's nonfunctional.
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The guy's got ~10 kids. [Edit: It seems to me that a parent who keeps a gun on his bedside table is asking for trouble.]
One gun looks clearly like a prop gun to me. How about the antique gun? Is it real?
I wonder how many arguments there are that an antique gun is not dangerous cuz it's very hard to load and what kid knows how to use google to learn how to load it anyways?
Edit
Also if it's real and Elon is known to fire it sometimes - Elon apologists might say he's got the ammo in a gun safe. But Elon being Elon - I wonder how secure that is.
The revolver is a prop - it has no trigger and the detailing is rough as shit - like you get from vacuum plastic. Not a hero prop by any means, but he probably bought it from etsy and thinks it's genuine. It looks familiar but I can't place which film/show it's from.
Hellboy?
I thought that, but The Samaritan is more out of proportion and like an oversized old-style Colt revolver. It's probably from some Marvel slop.
Darn. I thought I got movie trivia right for once.
I'm a member of a b-movie forum and I don't even try in the trivia threads. The answer will be something like "That gun is in the hand of Taro Yamaguchi in Yakuza Pride (1972) and second guy..."
I'll check Imdb and the movie has 293 votes. And Yamaguchi's page says he appeared in very minor roles in five other obscure Yakuza movies before dying in late 70s of cancer.
@Tervell, is it real?
Can't really tell much about the antique one from this picture, but the revolver is just a replica of the one from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It might be this one, which also has those orange streaks on the cylinder, and also isn't even a proper replica, it's just a 3D-printed one, maybe derived from this model. I'm not too familiar with 3D-printed stuff, but 400 bucks doesn't seem like that much. If I had a hundred billion dollars, I'd just commission a gunsmith to build me an actual functional sci-fi gun.
All in all, a classic Elon move to play a game about corporations doing nefarious shit and go "wow, cool revolver!" (did we have a "wow, cool robot" emoji here, or am I misremembering?). Although admittedly Human Revolution does have Sarif as a "CEO but cool actually" character, so I guess that's who Elon self-inserted as, especially considering Sarif is also a tech-bro obsessed with "improving" humanity with technology.
And yeah, considering the revolver, I kind of doubt he shelled out for a real antique pistol
black powder repros are pretty common and cheap, I wouldn't put it past him to have one with no powder, ball or cleaning equipment
Fantastic job comrade, thank you!
Yet another example of how almost anybody could use Elon's money better than he can. I bet Elon liked the game and got the first decent replica he found without even considering that he had the means to go way above and beyond with it.
Pretty much, those models are literally the first stuff that popped up from a simple google search, I didn't even need to do any real searching.
Old-timey aristocrats would have at least had engraved swords and all kinds of other cool shit, you can put that stuff in a museum after you're done guillotining them. We're not even going to be able to get anything like that painting of the Soviet soldier entering the Winter Palace, since modern billionaires apparently don't even have anything cool worth looking at.
If it's built to the same spec as the movie prop guns the M40A1 is a Thompson gun in a body kit. Pretty cool that they got the ammo counter working though.
I absolutely love how we have a resident gun expert on this website that we can just ping to ask "yo what the fuck is this gun" and get a solid effort post 10 minutes later
No way that any of his kids live with him, and are most adults by now?
I dunno. Some of them are teens by now but he keeps impregnating women.
Also - he has 10 kids we know about. I bet there are more. A bunch more?
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Elon Musk's kids: Meet his 10 children and their mothers
The layout of the info is crap - just give me a chart. I think the oldest are 18 year-old twins. And many of them are still babies.
anyone is really. I keep a pistol safe by my bedside. Protected from curious houseguests / children and I can keep one in the chamber ready to go. It takes like a second to open, no big deal.
The antique gun is probably less dangerous than a modern one for that reason, but it's still a gun. Would hope that it's nonfunctional.
i mean the chance the kids are living in the same house as him and they're not handled by nannies 24/7 is absolutely 0