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What are some of the ways the internet has changed gun culture? Before the internet, the only information you got was from authority figures, like publishing houses, military training films, instructors who taught in-person classes, and periodical columnists. You had to accept whatever they said because there was no other point of view for you to hear. If you wanted to educate yourself, you had to make the effort to actually call companies like Sierra and ask them what kind of bullet or powder was most appropriate for a particular handload. If you wanted to know the actual barrel diameter for a particular cartridge, you had to call SAAMI and ask for a spec sheet. Now, the internet has given everyone a voice. This is a blessing and a curse. Anyone can say false things about guns online, but the proliferation of wrong information has caused many of us to develop an immunity to it. Folks are more skeptical about fuddlore now than they were before.
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people get way more triggered when you call a magazine a clip than they did before the internet
other than that, meh
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Lots of fanboyism and retarded cartridge "debates". These existed before the proliferation of Internet use, but it's probably been amplified 100 times.
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That started in WW2, when millions of illiterate conscripts were handed Springfields, which used stripper clips, and Garands, which used en bloc clips. They starting calling anything which held ammunition a clip. They also popularized the mispronunciation of Garand.
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In the old days, those debates happened around campfires over lots of beer and whiskey or between columnists like Elmer Keith and Jack O'Connor.
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