Why doesn't the US make masterpieces like this anymore?

>>33681027
Are you asking why we don't make 11 pound rifles that hold 8 rounds of a cartridge that's good out to ~1km and put only iron sights on them anymore?

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>>33681027
>Why doesn't the US make masterpieces like this anymore?

>>33681067

I really have nothing else to add to what this guy said, so: what this guy said.

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>>33681027
but we do

>>33681096
>poodle shooter
>masterpiece
Pick one.

>>33681143
Stand out at 400 yards and get shot at by any M4, you wouldn't say that shit for much longer.

>>33681067
>11 pound rifles

Come on, you can handle it. You're a big guy.

>>33681080
They are also expensive as piss to manufacture. And wood really isn't efficient for something that's going to be beat to shit and stored in crates without climate control for long periods of time.

>>33681177
>Implying that's realistic for combat conditions.

>>33681178
For you.

>>33681259
The M4 and M16 literally derive from studies that showed 400m to be reasonable combat range

>>33681279
Citation fucking needed kiddo. No one is saying 5.56 can't kill someone, it whether 5.56 is effective at killing people. Peanut allergies kill millions every year, does that mean peanut butter is an effective infantry weapon?

>>33681178
Well, sure, but for whatever maximum amount of weight I can carry around, the difference between an 11 pound M1 and a 7 pound M4 is 4 pounds of ammo I could be carrying.

>>33681351
it's good that 5.56 can kill (in 18 inch barrels) at up to 800 yards.
With MK262 I'd say the max effective range with a M4 is 500 yards, more than enough for combat.

>>33681417
>it's good that 5.56 can kill (in 18 inch barrels) at up to 800 yards.
In theory. In fact, it's more likely to wound at that range.

>>33681096
but that's not a mod 0

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>>33681027
These are mine. I appreciate them.

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>>33681143
just because they are made for children doesnt make them less of a masterpiece you arrogant prick.

>>33681448
no, mk262 fragments reliably from a 18 inch barrel at that range. It might be pushing it a bit, but it still can and will kill that far away.

>>33681351

The US gov't has been shooting people with AR15s now for 53 years at least. I think they've decided that it's effective at killing.

>>33681544
Hi Ayures

>>33681417
No citations and there is no proof that 5.56 is any more effective than something like .22LR.
Btw .22LR has killed more living beings than any other rounds so 5.56 is actually less effective than a peashooter babies 1st gun

>>33681567
The USA has fought the drug war for 50 years, how is that going?

The USA started the "war on poverty" 50 years ago, has the welfare state beinifited the poor and eliminated social problems caused by poverty?

Firearms background checks were created 60 years ago, has gun crime been eliminated?

Good fucking Goy.

>>33681928
I just watched a documentary about the Thompson .45 SMG and this was the biggest lesson: the Army is retarded. They shunned and ignored the Thompson and SMG in general to keep outfitting troops with fucking 03 Springfields right into World War 2, then trying to catch up while we were fighting. This is how it's always been probably

>>33681928
>>33681871
>>33681448
>>33681351
>>33681259
>>33681143
I remember the days when trolling was an art form

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>>33681468
This one is mine.

>>33681067
So why didnt they make something like the M16A4 instead of the Garand?

>>33681961

>trolling was a art form

FTFY

>>33681027
Because the lowest common denominator dictated they needed a weapon so easy a lobotomized marine could do it.

>>33681959
That's pretty rich seeing as all of our opponents and allies were still using using bolt guns and we had a semi auto.

>>33681961
>anyone that disagrees with me is trolling

Hi r/guns, how many "plate carrier at the range" selfies will you take this weekend?

>>33681959
>keep outfitting troops with fucking 03 Springfields right into World War 2

The M1 was adopted designed in 1928, and adopted in 1936 you turbo-tard.

>>33682233
>take my shit opinions seriously

>>33681928

Are you on drugs

>>33681928
nigga what the fuck you smokin

>>33682233
>t. butthurt fudd

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>>33681928
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>>33681507
>fragments
Fragment means to break. You're literally saying the bullet is fragile. I think you are confusing fragmentation with tumbling.

>>33681959

In all fairness, the original Tommy was $200 old USA currency. That's ~2,000 in today's money. Added the fact the depression was going on and the USA was not a super power until later in the war.

>>33682481
Not him, but fragmenting is correct. The bullet is designed to fragment in flesh.

>>33681964
Lol good question, why don't you just go ask them?

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>>33682498
>you will never buy a Tommy Gun for $200

>>33682296

>Le omg your ideas differ from muh CNN blue pill so le drugs memay

Tuck your wife's son Tyreesious into bed already cuckboi
>>33682450
>anime girl reaction image

Just say you're a fat NEET who hasn't touched a Vag since birth next time
>>33682323
>Le weed memay

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>>33682266
Army troops in the Pacific and the USMC did not have M1 garands at the outset of WW2.

>>33683028
*Draws Colt 1911 rechambered in .460 Rowland and puts it to your head*

Laugh again and you'll see what your head looks like when it's all over the wall puto.....

~3rd Marines, the baddest gang on earth and proud of it~(me)
~Fck w/ the best dye like the rest with one to the head and two in the chest~(me)
~Boy you just went from a retard orgy to a bullet gang bang...~(duckhuntingLEO1964)

>>33682669
Are you larping or just pretending to have an extra chromosome?

>>33681027
Something something mature technology. The difference between a Garand and a 1903 is miles beyond the difference between an AR15 and whatever you think the best modern rifle.

>>33681071
I think I vomited a little

>>33681959
>Thompson .45 SMG
shotgun desu.
>inb4 it was fine in it's era
except it was still shit compared to anything europoors had before and after ww2.

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>>33682669

>>33682669
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>>33681928
I really want to think this guy is 100% serious, I would cry laughing