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I'm now trying to picture what an Apple handgun would look like
They would change the magazine design every few years and it would only fire Apple ammunition.
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The dream of every gun nut is to imagine they live in a world where they gotta pack that go bag and ammo and head down to the Capitol to stop the steal.
Her name was Ashli Babbitt, and she wasn't killed by a citizen with a gun, but rather a government employee with a gun.
CZ makes damn fine guns, so this seems like one of the better outcomes--better than being bought by a maker of crap who wishes to apply a veneer of respectability through the Colt name.
The CZ Scorpion EVO subreddit is one of the more active firearm ones on Reddit, not surprised here. https://old.reddit.com/r/czscorpion/
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I'm now trying to picture what an Apple handgun would look like
They would change the magazine design every few years and it would only fire Apple ammunition.
(Sorry if the changed magasine design was about something else.)
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Lots of tyrants have implemented strict rules against theft as well. It’s really not a great argument on its own.
It's unclear to me how enforcing laws on theft pertains to a tyrant retaining power over their citizens.
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But still, that means several of those highly-valued SV companies could afford to buy most gunmakers in existence...
Yeah, they could , but why would they? There are lots of less controversial fields to invest in...
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The dream and goal of every tyrant and despot ever is to reduce the martial capacity of their "subjects".
A tyrant and despot doesn't have to decrease your "martial capacity" but simply make sure theirs is more than yours. If a tyrant/despot secures control of economic resources this isn't overly difficult. Furthermore: rising up against a tyrant/despot is only possible if the population is very united; but a tyrant/despot, with enough economic power (or oppression of others) can make sure a population is ideologically o…
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But still, that means several of those highly-valued SV companies could afford to buy most gunmakers in existence...
Yup. The largest ones could afford to buy a mid-size country. (AMZN revenue = $386B, AAPL revenue = $274B, GOOG revenue = $182B, Norway GDP = $366B, Vietnam GDP = $340B, Chile GDP = $245B). Note also that SpaceX has more accurate ballistic missiles than the U.S. and Russia (PeaceKeeper CEP = 40M, while SpaceX routinely lands rockets upright within a ~10M radius on a drone ship), and Google has more data than the CIA…
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It's the second amendment for a reason. Modern America is a historical anomaly. And as inequality grows here in America and we slowly but surely descend back to what has been the default state of humanity for thousands of years...with a few rich and powerful with their neck on the rest of society who is poor...we'll be glad the average citizen has guns to fight back at some point. There's a saying: History repeats it…
Is there any country in history that prevented its downfall because its civilians are armed to the teeth?
Likewise, while it may not be to your taste, Afghanistan's polity has spent the last 200 years stubbornly being Afghan, to the surprise and annoyance of the British, Russians, Americans, etc.