Tuesday, September 88, 2001

KNWGM NEWS

The Optical Sight Special Edition

Issue
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Gary Sneed

 

Server Terrorized by Graphs

Wave of Graphs Strikes

 

Autists come in many shapes and sizes. Christopher Chandler is autistic. Paul Harrell is autistic. The Average 4chan user is autistic, and the average Redditor is autistic. And these various autists develop different manners of speech and communication. Paul Harrell for example pronounces Cuba as “kooba”, which is probably correct but also an autistic thing to do. Some autists don’t communicate at all. They should probably be put down like dogs but I digress. The autist of concern for this article communicates with graphs. He uses these graphs to confuse, and bewilder, and terrify the viewer for his own nefarious ends.

 

 

 

 

Wasn't this picture funny when it came out

 

Gary Sneed

 

Bumf Goes Beyond The Peach

Actually Goes to Jail Like a Boss

Donald John Trump (45th President of the United States, certified gangster) was recently convicted of paying off his side hoe. This could get him up to 20 years in prison due to each of the 34 counts being worth up to 4 years, with a combined maximum of 20 years. He could also get no jail time, while still having 34 felonies (idk how that works tbh). Sentencing is set for July 11th, one day before the deadline where the GOP must lock in a presidential candidate. If he is sentenced to time in prison, then elected he will have effectively won the gulag and will instantly be released from prison to assume office.

In all actuality this makes his chances of winning the election very slim. He may lose the middle voters by being a felon, and he may lose votes from people too stupid to understand that neither being a felon nor being in prison stops you from becoming president. Besides Bumf the GOP only has Ramaswarthy (already dropped out), Nikki Haley (lost to nobody) and Ron DeSanctimonious. The GOP is well on its way to throwing away another election to one of the weakest candidates the Democratic party has ran. Very cool GOP!

 

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Gun Safety

Opinion Piece

.223 Remington Vs. 5.56x45mm NATO

And .308 Vs. 7.62

Handgun Reliability

The 1911 Actually Sucks

Gary Sneed

Gary Sneed

Gary Sneed

Jeff Cooper’s four rules of gun safety are impossible to follow and were developed for complete fucking morons.

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Boomers don’t know what they are talking about.

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The common wisdom is that revolvers are more reliable than autoloading pistols. Is this a fair assessment?

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Tuesday, September 88, 2001

KNWGM NEWS

Issue #8

Gary Sneed

 

Gun Safety

You Can Tell if its Loaded by Feeling how Heavy it is.

Marine Colonel Jeff Cooper invented the four gun safety rules that every new shooter is taught today in the United States. He is also the guy responsible for the scout rifle concept and the “modern technique” (since outdated) of handgun shooting, and the denotation of handgun “conditions” for being loaded. He is generally considered to be one of the premier experts on firearms and their use. I could go on all day about how he is the man, but his four rules of gun safety are bullshit. To expand on that I first have to make clear exactly what those rules are.

  1. 1.Treat all guns as if they are loaded 

  2. 2.Never point a gun at anything you aren't willing to shoot 

  3. 3.Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target 

  4. 4.Be aware of your target AND what is behind it 

Pretty simple. Now the first rule is the most retarded. If you treated every gun as if it were loaded at all times, the Glock would be impossible to disassemble. How are you supposed to inspect the bore of a rifle for fouling or obstructions if it is loaded? Am I supposed to head down to the range to practice dry fire drills? I'm obviously being hyperbolic but the rule itself is hyperbolic. A rule that logically cannot be followed is one that won’t be followed.

The second rule is also a problem. If you have ever carried a gun, in a holster, you ignored this rule. You pointed the gun at your leg to holster it  OWB, you pointed it at your dick and/or balls when you holstered it IWB. You point it at your pelvis when carrying in a shoulder holster. I'm not saying you should intentionally flag everyone, but rather, that the rule is impossible to follow. Rule 3, not a very big problem there, but it has the issue where if you are 50% right, you are 100% wrong. If I'm pointed downrange waiting for a target to make itself apparent, like a popup target, or a rabbit I know is in a bush, or a hostile combatant I  saw hide behind a sandbag, I'm not going to take my finger off the trigger and wait for them to appear. Now the reason that this is an issue, is not only because woman tier handling can result in an ND just when moving the gun around or whatever, but if you are in a situation where you are in a low ready or whatever and someone bumps into you, or you make a wrong step and your reaction is to tense up, you can yank the trigger and that is more your fault than theirs. But if you are pointed downrange and you have an unexpected discharge it isn't much of a safety hazard, its just embarrassing. Rule 4 also isn't a big problem. I'm sure there are many retards out there who shoot straight through plywood in their back yard and send bullets several hundred yards through it, and for true academics, knowing the penetration of your round through various materials is important not only for safety but for more “tactical” purposes.

So if these four rules are no good, then what are fair replacements? Well I can give it a shot.

  1. 1.Never assume the condition of a weapon you haven't personally checked 

  2. 2.Control the direction of your muzzle at all times 

  3. 3.keep your finger off the trigger when not intending to fire 

  4. 4.Assess your target and the penetration of your bullet through it 

Now these rules may be more difficult to explain to a beginner but I think they are far superior for practical handling. Rule #1 in particular is important because depending on what you are doing, an unexpectedly empty gun can be more dangerous to you than one that was unexpectedly loaded. Assuming a gun is loaded then sticking it in your pants to carry isn't smart. The Canadian system for firearms safety is superior in some ways. It is called ACTS and PROVE. Assume every weapon is loaded. Control the Muzzle. Trigger finger outside of trigger guard. See the weapon is unloaded, then prove it safe. Point the weapon in the safest direction. Remove all ammunition. Observe the chamber. Verify feeding path (editors note, this is important). Examine the bore. Fuck you Jeff Cooper you fucking fudd. I was once nearly shot in the chest and killed so that makes me an expert on gun safety.

 

On another occasion I will go on about pistol technique as it applies to safety, but I'm sure this was already quite boring. Jeff Cooper (second from the right) developed what we now know as the modern technique of the pistol. The one where you use the Weaver stance (named after the guy on the right) along with two hands on the pistol, a novel concept at the time, to achieve faster first shots and faster follow up shots than what other competitors were able to achieve with any one handed technique. They believed a “pretty fast hit” was better than a “lightning quick miss”. Modern technique is somewhat denigrated nowadays as outdated. Ironic considering its name. But for some shooters the Weaver stance is still an easier stance to learn than Isosceles, and some experts (including Paul Harrell) continue to champion the Weaver stance.

 

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Tuesday, September 88, 2001

KNWGM NEWS

Issue #8

 

Gary Sneed

 

5.56 Vs. .223

Those Numbers are Different

 

1981 is when the confusion really starts. The NATO trials I have referenced probably 4 times already ended in the adoption of a 5.56x45mm cartridge. Not the American one. The cartridge dimensions between the American .223 cartridge and the Belgian 5.56 cartridge were identical, nearly entirely interchangeable. The twist rate was the big problem. You have read about that already. You can take the newer Belgian ammo and drop it into a 1959 AR-15 and shoot it totally fine, it will keyhole in flight like in Metal Gear Solid 3 but it won’t cause the rifle itself any trouble. Now the famous troubles of the M16 in Vietnam were partially caused by a change in propellant, the details of that story are for a later date, but the switch in powder caused a jump in chamber pressure from 52,000 PSI to 55,000 PSI. Take note that the rifles did not explode from this jump. The difference in chamber pressure between actual hot loaded .223 and 5.56 NATO is very slim. Some sources (which don’t always agree with each other) say identical. The problem arises when some rifle manufacturers cut the chamber dimensions on their .223 rifles tight. When you cram a military spec 5.56 round in there the pressure spikes above what is normal for both the .223 rifle and the 5.56 cartridge, which can potentially cause issues, especially in the long term. 5.56 NATO chambers are cut longer and keep pressures lower. This is why the headspace gauges for both cartridges are different. The internal case volume for 5.56 is also lower because the case walls are thicker. Which needs to be accounted for when reloading

The thing is that finding an actual .223 rifle is pretty hard, especially in current year after the invention of the .223 Wylde chamber, more to follow on that. Mostly bolt action rifles will have true .223 chambers, but ironically they will be the rifles most resilient to the higher pressure. Others like the Mini-14 may have real .223 chambers. But even the AR-15s which are explicitly marked .223 will do fine with 5.56. Now .223 Wylde is not a cartridge but rather a chamber. It is a chamber meant to handle 5.56 cartridges while also having a tighter chamber for finer accuracy when using both .223 and 5.56. You will find barrels on modern rifles in both. Faxon for example makes AR barrels in both chamberings. Some boomers will refer to 55gr as .223 and 62gr as 5.56, not frue. Some people think that 5.56 is substantially more powerful than .223, not frue. That may be frue in practice due to manufacturers chronically underloading their .223 (even their 5.56) but on paper the difference in power is insignificant, even nonexistent depending on what your definition of 5.56 is. And manufacturers definitions wont even be the same. .308 and 7.62 NATO is the same story, but reversed. .308 is the higher pressure of the two and sometimes 7.62 guns cant handle it. But just like with 5.56 there is little practical difference between the two.

Post Script: according to other sources, there is no difference whatsoever between 5.56 and .223 brass, and the C.I.P. pressure for the two is identical, at 62,000 PSI, but that generally .223 averages 5,000 PSI lower.

The common boomer wisdom is that .223 and 5.56 are different enough to cause significant issues. If you put 5.56 into a .223 rifle it would be like putting .357 Magnum into a .38 Special. This isn't true. This is the part where I talk about the AR-15 :3. The AR-15 was originally developed for the .222 Remington cartridge, then when Eugene Stoner went to them to have factory ammo produced to the spec he wanted, they posited the idea of changing the case dimensions slightly to allow the pressure curve they wanted for Stoner’s 55gr at 3,300 Fps spec. This became .223 Remington. Now this then went into service with the U.S. Air-Force then U.S. Army. The models 601 and 602 as adopted by the Air-Force were marked on the lower receiver “Colt AR-15 Cal. .223”. However these Air-Force guns were bought at a low rate and weren’t even government property marked. For the Army contract, their model 603 rifles were instead marked (variously) “Colt AR-15 Property of U.S. Government, XM16E1 Cal. 5.56mm” This is because for NATO compliance the cartridges were spec’d in millimeters. The rifles were chambered identically, used the same barrels and bolts from the same factory, but one was .223 and one was 5.56. Colt’s civilian rifles at this time were also marked .223.

 

 

 

 

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Tuesday, September 88, 2001

KNWGM NEWS

Issue #8

 

 

 

 

 

Gary Sneed

How Reliable are Automatic Handguns?

More Than They Used to Be.

The truly vintage people among us will champion revolvers as far more reliable than automatic pistols. This is because they come from ancient times, where that was true. The 1911 is known for many things, but infallible, unstoppable reliability is not one of them. Well, maybe it is but the people who say that are the same people who say the M14 was accurate so just ignore them. Anyways the 1911 is not resilient to any unusual bullet geometry like semi-wadcutters or hollow points. If you aren't using anything other than hardball ammunition its going to get spotty pretty quick. And even if you are the 1911 is really never going to run 100%, which is why boomers have rituals like polishing feed ramps and changing spring weights and magazines. Now the 1911 was what I will call the first truly successful automatic pistol, every other pistol of its era was an evolutionary dead end. It then became the Browning Hi-Power. The Hi-Power is another pistol that doesn’t really run 100%, and in the United States specifically was handicapped by a problem that will continue to rear its head for another 50 years after its introduction. American made 9mm ammunition has no ass. What the Europeans call 9mm we call 9mm +P because ours is pissy loaded. That in particular may be a topic to expand upon later, but not only was the ammunition underloaded compared to what the pistol was designed for, it was also frequently out of spec. The cartridge overall length and case length was inconsistent on U.S. made ammunition, powder charge would also vary from one manufacturer to the next. Automatic pistol aficionados would be using a .45 anyways so most of this ammo was being made to be shot in surplus pistols as a curiosity. This also led to poor reliability in these European 9mms being fed shitty U.S. ammo. So in the United States your only options were 1911s (which only held one more round than the revolvers they were competing with) and didn’t run with the hollow point ammunition or wadcutters law enforcement were using. Or 9mm pistols which were being fed shit tier ammo and were loaded with ineffective hollow point designs. Police stuck with their revolvers until the 80s. Compact pistols of this era were also either anemic .32s or .25s or 5 shot .38s. The choice there was also pretty clear.

Enter stage left, the 1986 Miami-Dade shooting. The FBI got BTFO’d and cops around the country felt the need to up their firepower. Their .38 K-Frames were traded out for the latest in 9mm pistol technology. Since the 1950s 9mm pistols had been increasing in both their features and reliability. Double action/single action lockwork was installed, magazines with capacities of as much as 15 became available, both reliability and durability were improved, steel frames gave way to aluminum alloys, and American 9mm ammunition stepped up to the plate. It was still mostly underpowered but it was at least produced to a consistent spec. The ammunition was so underloaded that the HK VP-70 achieved only 5 rounds between stoppage in U.S. Government testing, the same score for the Star Model 28, which was successful in foreign tests. Many pistols became available like the Beretta 92, CZ 75, Sig P226, Glock 17, S&W 59, Steyr GB, Ruger P85 and later HK USP. All with stellar reliability The Beretta 92 was also selected in 1985 as the new U.S. Army handgun, the M9. It achieved 2,000 rounds between stoppage in testing, however using American fuckup ammunition cracked the slides on some early pistols which warranted a lawsuit from Beretta against the Army for defamation. As the 90s rolled around the automatic pistol truly hit its stride, hollow points with superior performance became available as well as more reliable pistols in more major calibers like .45 ACP, 10mm Auto and .40 S&W. The generation of pistols made basically post 1975 have reliability that can best be expressed as 99.995% when using quality ammunition, only experiencing failures every 5,000 rounds or so. Revolvers aren't totally obsolete but there are few reasons to use one over a current automatic, reliability is not a reason I find compelling. As a footnote you can go out and get Euro spec 9mm ammo its marked 9x19mm NATO on store shelves, and it typically produces around 100 more fps than typical 9mm.

 

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Tuesday, September 88, 2001

KNWGM NEWS

Issue #8

 

 

 

 

Gamer Obama

The Weekly Soap Box

Not Much, Not Even Honest Work.

 

Theydies and gentlethems, Spotify has disallowed white boy goofing once more. Last time I talked about how bad the mobile app was for Spotify and how, despite some glitches, the desktop one granted me special capabilities such as infinite skips. Schlomo Shekelstien felt that this happiness must come to an end. I still get skips 4 dayz, but they have done something heinous. They took the lyrics feature… and made it part of premium. The funny part is that a decent chunk of songs on there didn’t even have lyrics on the website. And unlike Genius, the lyrics didn’t have any explanation feature. So what they are gatekeeping is the bare minimum that they could include as an auxiliary feature.

Spotify is still adding songs that it thinks fit yuore vibes to playlists both without your consent and it doesn't give you the choice to exclude them. How gay! It makes me mad! You know what else makes me mad? When brownoid Italian twinks say that I like to get mad. You saying that makes me sound like I’m some sort of unstable person. Makes me want to bludgeon you to completion. I like to cringe, which occasionally elicits an angery reaction. That’s all. I am not a mad person. I love happy :^D. I become an unwholesome bean when people suggest otherwise. I am aware that this installment of Gamer Loves Being Mad and is Mad About Everything Always is particularly short. I sowy

 

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