Not green, but sort of feels green

128 points

Anon is slowing disarming America

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Can you imagine if that was your superpower. You just walk around and not machines, not tools, but guns specifically get disassembled in your presence.

Reminds me of a Nancy Kress story about a group of suburban terrorists who go around with a “dissambler” (nanotech) that erodes machinery in order to undermine a nanny state government that tries to keep a lid on technology. It eventually comes down to an arms race between different tech factions, and the idea of government is dissolved completely as the world descends (ascends?) into an anarchic-commune type situation.

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15 points

There’s a Ray Bradbury short story called A Piece of Wood about a man who invents a device that rapidly decomposes any modern weapon in his vicinity. It doesn’t end well for him.

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4 points

What’s the name of the story?

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4 points

I think it’s the third or fourth book in the Beggars in Spain series

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2 points

Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths, but he’s a reality straightener.

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4 points

Can you imagine if that was your superpower. You just walk around and not machines, not tools, but guns specifically get disassembled in your presence.

Should send that person on a tour around the entire country and then appoint them ambassador to Israel. Especially if their superpower extends to other weapons as well.

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79 points

There’s an old saying in Tennessee - I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can’t get fooled again.

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18 points

Now watch this drive

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7 points

Nuclear presidential quotes

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42 points

Anon should just buy a 3rd gun and take it apart

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30 points

It does look kind of complicated, but with less than 100 parts how hard could it be?

https://www.americanrifleman.org/media/bywncijv/2021swmodel29rev_parts-487x1024.jpg

Probably a fake post (b/c 4Chan), but maybe they got stuck at a specific section of the rebuild?

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33 points

That’s a lot more parts than I expected tbh

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13 points

I intended to make a joke about leaving the screws out, but there are only 5. (Plus nuts and bolts.)

10 springs though. A lot more than I anticipated.

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8 points

I used to do a lot of repair stuff and I posted a lot on the associated subreddits and stack exchanges related to the topic. I’ve seen a lot people with things much less complex than this post pictures like “how do I put it back together??? They’d get detailed instructions from people on how to do it, then post angry replies that people basically weren’t doing it for them and (I assume) give up

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3 points

He probably lost piece 69 and forgot to nut

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9 points

I’ll always be surprised that you can just go into a pawn shop and buy a revolver in America

I’m assuming this is set in America, at least

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