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Late Night Open Thread: Tucker Carlson, Gunne Dude

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I don’t know whether to worry about the consequences of a bunch of untrained suburbanites taking their cue from Young Tucker, Most Dangerous (to His Crew) Gun in the West… or to laugh at the way the Wingnut Wurlitzer is reduced to pew-pew-pew! cosplay, now that their strenuous decades-long project to give ‘The Coloreds and Their Pansy Liberal Supporters Are Coming for You’ scaremongering some respectable legal heft is falling apart on all fronts…

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  8. 8.

    Leto

    @West of the Rockies: I’m seeing so many from the fact the gun is too low on his shoulder, he’s basically too high on the back sight so he’s looking DOWN instead of straight through, his stance, his arms… I’ll say that in the military we basically don’t have left handed ejection port M16A2s (AR-15s). Everyone gets a right hand ejection gun. But with his production budget, surely they could’ve gotten him a proper gun. He’ll still hold it like he’s cosplaying an idiot, but at least the brass won’t be giving him love taps to the face. And potentially down his shirt. Ooof! That shit buuuurns!

  9. 9.

    West of the Rockies

    @Yutsano:

    I know the whole First! thing is a joke (or at least I hope so).  We’ve kind of been running with it for a week now.  I promise not to do it again.

  10. 10.

    West of the Rockies

    @Leto:

    If Tucker had pecs, they’d be bruised.  Sadly for Mrs. Tucker, he appears to have the physique of a well-fed sixth grader.

  11. 11.

    Amir Khalid

    Bragging about one’s familiarity with guns, and then haplessly outing oneself as a total gun noob, seems to be a Republican tradition. I remember Sarah Palin doing it too. At least it wasn’t as gross as pre- Cancun Ted draping strips of bacon over his rifle barrel, firing the weapon, and then eating them.

  12. 12.

    Amir Khalid

    @Leto: ​
     I presume that everyone issued an M16-A2 in your armed forces must learn to fire it righthanded, even if a southpaw.

  18. 18.

    Amir Khalid

    A tech question: if I switch to Adblock Ultimate, must I remove Adblock Plus first? If so, how do I go about removing a Firefox extension?

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    @Amir Khalid

    Dunno when it comes to your first question.

    To answer your second question, Click on Tools — Add-ons.

    Scroll to the add-on you wish to remove and click on its little box with 3 dots.

    One of the options will be Remove.

  20. 20.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Holy shnikeys. It’s starting to come out.

    Donald Trump reported making more than $1.6 billion in outside revenue and income during his four years as President of the United States, according to a review of his financial disclosures by CREW. While Trump publicly took credit for donating his taxpayer-funded salary, that ended up being less than 0.1% of the revenue and income he disclosed during his presidency. Far from being a sacrifice, the donation was merely a fig leaf to cover up four years of brazen corruption.

  22. 22.

    Sloane Ranger

    If the gun range owner allows his paying customers to shoot like that without correcting their mistakes he deserves to lose his licence.

    Actually he deserves to lose his licence anyway. Carson is a danger to himself and his camera crew.

    Or do you not need a licence to operate a shooting range in the US?

  23. 23.

    NetheadJay

    @Amir Khalid: NotMax has already detailed how to remove a Firefox extension, but yes, I would remove the the existing extension first and then restart the browser. A bit cumbersome I know, but I’ve seen reports of problems specifically with adblockers.

  26. 26.

    mrmoshpotato

    OMG! Would this even qualify as amateur gun humping?

    Hey gun humpers, chicken broth boy is making you morons look even worse.

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Leto:

    He’ll still hold it like he’s cosplaying an idiot 

    Narrator: This was no cosplay.  Little Fucker really was an idiot.

  28. 28.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    Jeez, even the eighteen-year-old conscripts I had to go through basic training with in the Greek army were better at handling long guns. Well, after they were taught how. When the rifles were first issued, some kids were handling them like toys. Granted, they generally didn’t issue ammunition in boot camp except for people on sentry duty or firing-range days.

    (And as an aside, since it’s an open thread, the ability to use a Heckler & Koch G3 rifle in games such as Metal Gear Solid 4 or Call of Duty did not help me in the slightest when I was issued a G3A3 in boot camp.)

  32. 32.

    J R in WV

    Wow!

    No hearing protection, no glasses of any kind. Those are the two biggest mistakes I take away from this expedition into gun manliness. He is unlikely to be so unable to control the rifle as to accidentally kill people behind him, as has happened when parents (dads) actually put a fully automatic weapon in their 5 or 6 year old’s hands and let it rip without any preparation to help the little kid control the suddenly wild machine.

    Tucker didn’t appear to be learning anything, older guy didn’t appear to try to teach anything, either.

    But they will wind up with tinnitus and significant hearing loss if this went on all day. Or even an hour or two. Those puppies are LOUD…

    I would have left quickly if I saw this happening over there at a range.  I prefer controlled fire, one shot at a time, which is how you fire aimed shots. Untrained militia boobs spray and pray and don’t often hit what they needed to hit.

  33. 33.

    coin operated

    Left-handed here.  The weapon is quite safe for lefties if you’ve got the buttstock tucked properly in the shoulder pocket and the tip of your nose on the back sight.  Tucker, being a complete poser, can and will hurt himself with his firing position eventually.

    The only problem with the M16s is clearing a jam,  where it becomes obvious the design was around right-handed shooters.

  34. 34.

    Evil_Paul

    The C7A1 & A2 (the Canadian M-16) has a ‘casing deflector’ to make sure the brass flies forward, away from the shooter’s face whether they’re left or right handed. I…I got a whole new appreciation for that feature right now. Yikes.

  35. 35.

    trnc

    @Steeplejack (phone): ​
     

    While Trump publicly took credit for donating his taxpayer-funded salary, that ended up being less than 0.1% of the revenue and income he disclosed during his presidency. Far from being a sacrifice, the donation was merely a fig leaf to cover up four years of brazen corruption.

    Unless someone can point to some documents that prove DT actually donated his salary, I’m going to assume it’s just one more lie.

  38. 38.

    RobertB

    1. @West of the Rockies: From my experience, the M16 has very little recoil.  When I was in Basic they made someone fire it with the stock against their crotch just to prove that.  Not going to help with the brass in the face though.
  40. 40.

    Bill K

    Hah!  I had to put up with that the whole time I was in the Army.  I hate Tucker Carlson, but I almost feel sympathy with him about this.  I was trained to put my nose right up against the back of the sites.  Being left handed, that meant I got the spent casings flying across my right cheek.  I could use a brass deflector.  Then the hot spent casings would land on my right arm.  I decided to live with a little burn mark on my cheek.

  42. 42.

    Noah Brand

    Goddammit, I recognize the guy whose range he’s using. Goes by hickok45 on YouTube, and I’ve watched and enjoyed some of his videos. Lots of good shooting, with a lighthearted, knowledgeable take on guns, and never heard him bring up politics other than encouraging NRA membership. Guess that latter should have been a red flag.

    Guess I’m done watching his stuff, then.

  43. 43.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    For some middle age guy who only skill in life is babbling like an idiot on TV to suddenly try shooting, that sounds like Tucker is scared of something and bluffing to hide his fear.  So Tucker having a midlife crises? AntiFa had enough of Tucker’s Gobbles impersonation? Even more crazier Conservatives put Tucker on the death list as a Fox News Libertard?

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Not left-handed, but my experience in the army was that left-handed people got fucked by the hot brass one way or another.  As Leto said, lots of things with what he’s doing but fundamentally that weapon was made for right-handed people.

  45. 45.

    LeeM

    @Amir Khalid: I qualified (expert) with the M-16, left handed, back in the 80s. Learned very fast to keep that collar buttoned unless you want to do the hot brass dance. Too bad Ted Cruise didn’t get the full experience.

  46. 46.

    To be Frank

    @Leto: The Army issued me a brass deflector so the casings from my right-handed m16A1 wouldn’t go down my left-handed bdu shirt (I was an LT who knew such a thing existed, so there is that.) And whatever it is he thinks it is he is shooting at is the safest thing downrange.  He clearly lacks sufficient training and experience to be confident or competent.

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