• Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf
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    6 months ago

    In the military, even using a 3 round burst setting is discouraged. You immediately lose accuracy and go through ammunition extremely fast.

    If you’ve never fired a full auto weapon, the magazine is empty almost instantly if you hold down the trigger. And none of the rounds after the first 3 are anywhere near a target.

    Its only advantage is providing suppression but at the cost of vastly more ammo consumption.

    It’s incredibly fucking stupid to use these things for anything other than indiscriminate area effect, which equates only to spraying into a crowd in any realistic civilian context.

    American gun culture is so incredibly fucking stupid and lacking in any kind of moral guidance.

    • ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      It’s incredibly fucking stupid to use these things for anything other than indiscriminate area effect, which equates only to spraying into a crowd in any realistic civilian context.

      This is what really pains me is the bump stock is a device whose only real purpose is to hurt a large group of people with no regard to who is in that area. No one is going to be out on the white house lawn mowing down zombie hordes with this thing. Its primary intent is to hurt civilians.