I dont have a real pistol yet as Im slowly working the process, but I did get a M&P 40 BB Gun and a Sig M17 Airsoft gun and both have actually blowback feature. I know its not the same but there are things I can do to practice. You can use both to also dryfire practice as well, although Im not sure if the trigger pull is the same as the real version. They are pretty good replicas for practice.
Since I got into gun I ran into the bb/airsoft culture and was surprised how well that market developed over the years, and some of these rifles shoot at some really high FPS.
IMO any practice you can get in is good if it translates to being able to handle your tool more effectively. One thing I have noticed is that there are a lot of people in my local area getting their first guns and I don't think they've fully considered the responsibility they are taking on. It's like they think they will buy a gun, put it in a safe and it will be there when they need it and that's the next time it will come out of the safe.
I will admit, the first 3 times I went to shoot I was nervous as hell. Even when I knew what to expect, I just wasn't used to it and had so many things I was trying to learn - especially safety. I still haven't mastered it by any means, I have a LONG way to go. I'm just now, after around 800 rounds, getting to a point where I can start to adjust and improve my shooting. There were times I went to the range and shot steel plates, and wasted maybe 50 rounds because I couldn't hit a thing and since I didn't hit anything I didn't know what I was even doing wrong...Paper targets in close are much better for this I learned quickly
@ax1 got the sense that things were staged as things were going down in real time. I don’t know, there seems to be some red flags popping up
In my experience, police act aggressively by default. If they come into a situation and they don't know what is going on and if there is a danger or not, they are aggressive and take over the situation and control it - as they should. I just don't see them behaving like this in these videos. I mean, these guys shouldn't just be your standard police force from some urban town, these guys are more well trained than that and a lot of the footage looks like they're standing around chatting with the "insurgents".
I know this sounds strange, I’ve been on this board for over a decade talking “tin-foil” topics and I feel like I’ve never had so many people start siding with me
Good conspiracies have a thread of truth to them. I often wonder if the conspiracies are often intentional by the perpetrators. If they can tell the truth in such an insane way, no one will believe it and the the thread of truth becomes lost.
From what I see, you are a little more down the conspiracy path than I would be, but no quite so far gone that you've lost a grasp on it all if that makes sense....
So, yeah, given the recent events and discord in the nation, and the craziness coming from everyone - it's understandable. Must feel good to have the group coming to your side haha.
They keep showing it on mainstream media, its a picture/s of some dude in tactical gear coming down from the ceiling or 2nd floor like spiderman with with large size ties indicating he was prepped for a big hostage situation.
Let me see if I can find the photo, have to find the right search words...Ok, so I found out they have been arrested....https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2021/01/10/two-men-carrying-zip-ties-at-capitol-riot-arrested-after-citizen-sleuths-idd-them-online/?sh=53833d7f771b
I wonder how they were identified....one was former airforce.....he claimed he found them on the floor and intended to surrender them to the police. I dunno I gotta go through this more.
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Watch the TV show called "See No Evil" and you will realize how they identify these guys. People don't realize how much video surveillance they are on, constantly. They think if they wear a mask robbing a bank they are safe. Then they go around the corner, get in their car and drive off - on another camera. And then across town they stop at a gas station and get out of same car wearing no mask, and bang - the cops have their face. Then they use their credit card to buy their Snickers bar and now they have their name. Cops don't have to do much anymore, just follow video footage from one camera to the next, to the next - until they get a bunch of pieces and tie it together.
Or, this guy knew someone there who was seen with him that they identified, they arrested that guy and he ratted them out.
Or, someone who knows him and knows his gear, etc. saw the footage and called.
Plus...you know, the gov't has some intelligence that would blow your mind. I've got a couple stories that make me realize they have crazy info on people.
I dunno, this one doesnt fit right yet with me.
The identities of both men were pieced together by citizen sleuths on the internet via a crowdsourcing effort led by experts like John Scott-Railton at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, though it’s unknown if the FBI was aided by their efforts or had already identified them independently.
I know a guy who was a mathematical genius in high school. This kid was on another level. And he had an older brother who was on another level from him - one of my other friends once described the older brother as being so smart he can't even tie his shoes - being a joke that he was so busy on high-end things he had no room for the tasks of normal people.
That guy was working on facial recognition technology in Washington DC in the early 2000's after 9/11. At the time I thought it was so far fetched as to not even be a serious issue - but of course looking back I believe the gov't had people like him working on that and they can find someone in a crowd at a stadium, and put that video into a database and start getting hits.
Once the internet nerds put their mind to something, they can achieve some spectacular things. The internet cronies helped identify the Boston bombers
This I agree with as well - people are REALLY quick to forget how resourceful people are. If someone does something I can't understand, it must be magic or impossible.
What comes to mind is the Pyramids - people today cannot understand how they built them without the tech we have today, so it must be aliens. Because it couldn't possibly be that humans were resourceful. It would be like believing I cannot build a table without using a table saw and power tools.
Which MantisX system do you have?
I have the X3. It's a lot of fun. I got a little laser that slides into the chamber into the barrel and has a button on the back as well - when you pull the trigger the striker hits the button and flashes the laser, which shows you where you would have hit on your taget. Using that with the X3 is pretty nifty.
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