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AR 15 is complex & difficult to operate & clean. Shotguns with buckshot have been the recommendation for home defense. BuckShot scatters so you have a better chance of hitting or wounding perp. Shaking hands with AR 15 not going to hit anything when home invasion occurs.
— 🌻 FlyAway🏳️🌈⚢ (@Tejaas23) June 5, 2021
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This is a woman that is both a US Army veteran and an engineer from the University of Southern California.
She thinks the AR is too “complex & difficult to operate & clean” and that you don’t have to aim with a shotgun full of buckshot.
Could she prove any more succinctly that just because someone was in the Army, doesn’t mean they know fuck-al about guns?
Also, from an engineering standpoint, let alone a gun owner’s standpoint, I’d rather break down and clean an AR-15 than a Mossberg 590 or Remington 870.
The engineering behind the AR-15 is marvelous.
And let me be clear on this, when I talk about the engineering of guns, it’s not my armchair opinion. I have been and continue to be a gainfully employed engineer in small arms design. Trust me, I know what I’m talking about.
In one Tweet, this woman has given me the ammunition to shoot down all of her opinions as ignorant, partisan horseshit.
Update:
I can dissemble & reassemble a M-16 blindfolded. I’m sure I’ve shot more sophisticated weapons – like .50 Val’s, LAWs & TOWs & M1A1 120mm main rounds, 20mm Gatling gun mounted on helos & several foreign made weapons.
— 🌻 FlyAway🏳️🌈⚢ (@Tejaas23) June 5, 2021
“Dissasemble blindfolded” is no something anyone in the military is trained to do, that’s some shit that Hollywood came up with.
Second, what does a TOW or 120mm have to do with anything?
Lastly, how did she shoot both an M1A1 and a helicopter 20mm?
The only 20mm I’m familiar with for helicopters is the M-197 which I’m only aware of being mounted on Navy helicopters.
She would have to jump both MOS and branches to shoot both a tank main gun and helicopter automatic cannon.
This seems more and more like bullshit.
“…complex and difficult to operate and clean..”
Makes all my children prodigies.
I am nor sure if contemporary medicine, in it’s taxonomy of mental inability, has terminology to accurately describe this soul’s lack of function.
Although, the fudd-like ” I know guns, becuz ah’ve fired (gun name here)” suggests gaslighting lying, rather than mental infirmity. Evil, not in knowing.
I believe it is called the Dunning-Kruger effect.
‘Credentials Stretching’ is also acceptable.
To quote a rather annoyingly popular video game meme: seems kinda sus to me.
I’d just straight up ask for her DD214. See if she’s got the spine to show it.
Isn’t the LAW a single-shot dispensable recoil less grenade launcher/RPG? WHY would I dissamble it? Disassembling with this gun is firing 😀
It’s sort of a nice affirmation to us followers of this blog, when every one of us can spot a faker who boasts superior knowledge of firearms.
She also “Stands” with the traitorous Reality Winner, so she doesn’t exactly have America’s best interests at heart.
While she ‘may’ be a vet, I’m going to call some Stolen Valor here. Officers don’t normally train w/ rifles. She was a test pilot and a supply officer while working w/ armor and anti-armor? Think someone spent more time playing Call of Duty than range time.
Given all the evidence you put together, this seems like an obvious case of “stolen valor”. The odds against this person being an actual veteran are slim indeed. And the odds of all that stuff she claimed to know being real are several orders of magnitude slimmer still.
Firing a 20mm from a helo, possible explanation:
If she’s my age, early 50’s, then she’s old enough for when the Army still flew Cobras… but then there’s that whole no women in Combat Arms back then…
OK, test pilot! Test pilots get to fly lots of things outside their own service.
But pilot at all is enough to cross train on another service’s planes. I’ve got a friend who flew Phantoms for the USAF and he’s got F-4N time and carrier traps in his log book. Exchange tours are a thing.
None of that supports her ridiculous claim that the AR is complex or difficult.
She’s making a false equivalence.
She shouldn’t be doing too much bragging about firing the M256. It’s not that hard. It’s been deliberately made easy because there’s a lot to take into account when firing on the move from a tank and there’s a huge amount of computer and automation helping. Unlike aviation, pilots don’t exchange into tanks, so she almost certainly got to fire a staged shot from a stationary tank. Having set a tank up for such shooting for local dignitaries, she probably didn’t even aim it.
As for the engineering of the AR-15 being amazing. It is.
A few months ago I was doing some examination of my AR and just how it works and so forth. I had just watched a video on how the full automatic works in particular the auto-sear.
The gist of the auto sear is to make sure that the bolt is in battery before the hammer drops as we don’t want to fire out of battery.
In looking at this my mechanics brain started figuring tolerances and timing and trying to figure out how you made sure that all this magic happens when it is suppose to keep the rifle from firing when out of battery.
Then I watched what happens as the bolt closes when the hammer is following, riding on the tail of the firing pin. Sort of a worse case of the hammer tripping early.
NO firing pin protrusion. NONE. The bolt has to touch the and cam (rotate) more than a bit before the bolt is far enough back in the bolt carrier for the firing pin to protrude.
As far as I can tell, the only way to get the firing pin to stick out the face of the bolt is to have the firing pin break AND stick hard enough to set off primers.
In the process of the bolt carrier moving back, it pulls the firing pin out of the firing pin hole. If the pin sticks in the hole it will either break free or you will have complete failure to extract. Once back from the face, the pin can’t protrude until the bolt is locked up.
Just an amazing little bit of engineering.
Eugene was a hell of an engineer, worthy of inclusion with St. Browning himself.
It’s no accident that pretty much every modern rifle is based on either the AR-15 or the AR-18.
I’ll admit that I do have some difficulty getting the craving handle back in place. 8>)
But then, I wasn’t in the Armed Forces.
OTOH, I have run across vets who don’t seem to have a clear understanding of what their oath meant. (I can understand draftees being negative on our Rights, but not volunteers.)
“…buckshot scatters, so you have a better chance of…hitting the perp…”
Hmmm. As a civilian, doesn’t she own every single projectile she fires?
Wanna explain to Little Mary Sunshine, across the street, that she doesn’t *really* need that eye, so that you can have a better chance to strike your “perp” with a buckshot pellet?
The derp is deep, in this one!
The idea that the shotgun fires a massive, hallway clearing wall of gibbet creating death the mark of those who are ignorant of firearms.
But even cheap, non controlled 00 buck usually only spreads to about 12″ at 40 feet. At close, inside the house distances, it’s still pretty tight together.
Then there’s the matter that most pump shotguns are far, far more complex internally than any AR-15. But I doubt she’s ever detail stripped an 870 or 500.
True story: in my salad days, I was a medic for Democrat Blue Hive EMS. This was something on the order of 35-40 years ago. This fellow was on the receiving end of a shotgun shell. It struck him right about where his right kidney would/used to be.
Hole was on the order of 3-4 inches across. Vice Ms. I’ma Ballistician, “buckshot scatters”.
Ma’am, may I introduce you to the concept of clinical case studies, and data collection?
My tale is one data point.
Perhaps she’d care to illuminate the discussion, with her personal clinical experience.
I wonder how she feels about an AK-47…
She claims the AR-15 is “complicated,” and “difficult to operate.”
She claims to have been a test pilot of aircraft, the least complicated of which has far more controls, monitors, and doodads than even the most complicated rifle.
These two things do not rhyme with each other.
Don’t forget – difficult to clean. And yet a test pilot/supply officer/tank gunner, who would have literally no reason to ever have more than a passing familiarity with one in any chapter of her Walter Mitty-esque career can disassemble and reassemble it blindfolded.
“Walter Mitty-esque” LOL, good one.
Can someone tell me what a logicistician is? Loggie puke? Truck driver in the sky? Not sure how that squares with having been an Army test pilot. I could be wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I love loggies and wish I had gone for that back when I was young but I’m not claiming to be a test pilot. Or a pilot at all just for the record.
OMG… soooooooooo much to tear apart with this moron… .50 Cal? M2A2 or A1 sweetie? Closest thing this split has ever been to a .50 is her g/f strapon.
LAW? Where and when sweetie… it’s primarily (these days) a “Marine thang”… Army phased out in favor of the AT-4 (which I covered over at my place a while back, jes’ sayin’
TOW? HIGHLY doubtful. As in fullashytte. ONE round (practice) of a BGM-71 costs as much as a new car… like $40k…a ‘warshot, depending on which one, Aero attack or Bunker Buster, are $93K and $56K PER SHOT. As a former 11H20 (Heavy Anti-Armor Weapons Infantryman, i.e. TOW Gunner) I only got one warshot out of a ten year career, and 4-5 think it was only 4… (too many years, too many beers) live-fire practice rounds… I know of what I speaketh.
120mm Main Gun of the DotMil M1A1/2 series tank? Again, fullashytte… No split would be allowed to climb in the gunner’s hole and fire the Big Bad. My reclass to 19K10 (M1A1 Tanker) taught me that… I purely hated gunning… scary as hell, loud and dangerous, as the breech block (7.5 metric tones of steel and the gun itself) recoils less than an inch from the left shoulder. All them metal guards are there to keep your arm from getting torn off when you fired it… scared me stupid back in the day. Wide guys need not apply…
Not even going to touch on the other stuff… blindfolded? In the Rakkasans we’d only do that for fun, as it wasn’t a ‘real thing’ per se… more like stupid Rambo wannabe bull.
As far as “DoD Trained Loggie?” Gee… that’s what -I- was so to speak, while waiting on my medboard, I was in supply, and did a LOT of contract work in supply. One of my many hats in Iraq so to speak… A monkey could do supply if you taught them the basics. Look at me for the prime example. If she’s doing supply as a DoD Logistician, then she’s not a test pilot by any scope or shot… Test Pilots of -any- stripe write their own six-digit payscale when they get out of the DotMil
Jes’ Sayin’
From everything she says I strongly suspect she is and has not been in the military. Her bragging is just too off the wall and gives the impression that IF she did serve, what was her MOS? I didn’t know there was a MOS that thise members jobs was solely to go around the Army and Navy and shoot weapons. All that said, the only thing I can say for sure is this chick is a real twat waffle.
I just realized… those graphics on her “bio” page included a US flag upside down — a common US-hater symbol though supposedly also used as an improvised distress signal at sea. But an upside down 48-star US flag? Surely she’s not that old? 🙂
The female version of Jesse Macbeth.
I’m willing to stipulate that she can, in fact, “dissemble.”
A Freudian Slip, perhaps?