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I'm Rachel, 31 & queer, GunWitch, film enthusiast and tall borzoi friend β’ header/pfp - @dirtsecret.bsky.social β’ I'm gay for @strayghost.bsky.social π β’ it/she β’ ΞΞ #photography / #firearms / #USPSA π·: https://www.borzoi.photography
The Goop Apparatus
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QRP with your skull art
(I promise there's a skull... tilt your head to the right, you can see the eye socket and canine teeth of a canine skull.)
this rules
blehhh :P
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
they're a diamond hands style gamestop trader type mf so like the least ball knowledge kind of investor of all time. brain is definitely leaking out of the ears here.
Solid tungsten buffer weight
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A post that says: I genuinely don't think you realize how hard it is to handle a 40 lb rifle that kicks you like Mike Tyson every time you fire a shot lol. It's not COD dude, I'm considered a notably skilled shooter at the range and I genuinely cannot hit shit at 50 yards with something like an AR-15 and a holo dot.
bro deleted but i had foresight
goes insane mode
An EverQuest screenshot of an Iksar wearing Dreadscale armor, the Iksar is named 'Snarl Marx'
was looking up things about everquest because i was talking about it with some friends -- opened up the wiki to look at the sick ass Iksar Dreadscale armor and saw this fucking AWESOME name.
also i just uploaded a little short comic about the pnw on my subscription sites! If you want to help support me and my work and see stuff early check em out <3
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It's genuinely incredible.
reminder as always that the average gun owner in the US is a terrible shot and knows almost nothing about guns. even getting to C class in USPSA puts you in the top like 5% of skill. Stating "I'm a notably skilled shooter can't hit shit at 50 yards with a dot on an AR-15" without introspection is π€
Me holding a gen 5 Glock 34
If you're queer and want to buy a gun to defend yourself in 2025 you gotta lock the fuck in and put functionality first over aesthetics. We're leaving behind Soviet aesthetic choices for life saving equipment in 2025.
Just buy a Glock with a dot I'm begging you.
#firearms
the CZ offerings are extremely unimpressive until you get to their shadow 2 lineup. the P-10C design has a really awesome habit of nosediving rounds into the feed ramp. Just buy a Glock.
annoying. but persisting by drifting donuts around them in terms of firearms skill feels good as fuuuuuck and i will never stop pushing to train in a way that is actually conducive to shooting well and not just ego stroking, which often means shooting to high standards like competition shooters do.
the amount of pushback i have received in pursuance of #2 by some cis "allies" has been completely insane and maddening. the inability to take being humbled by a transfemme has lead to me being talked over *a lot* and overly and selectively tone-policed in some circles lately.
A Glock 34 open gun, with a collection of mags, a mag 'folio' and a bag of ammo that says '"Normal" 9mm (Major)' This is not intended as a portrayal as a "practical" setup, but was included for interest reasons.
#firearms
I think lately the most important thing to me has been trying to make sure trans people in my vicinity are okay.
the second most important thing has been making sure they have guns and know how to use them effectively.
we're probably at least One SHOT show away from this happening. I think 2027 could bring something like that.
do you mean a gun that uses chatgpt to tell you how many rounds you have left or something. im imagining the least competent possible application of AI in my head in the use of small arms now.
At the Technology Readiness Experimentation (T-REX) event in August, the US Defense Department tested an artificial intelligence-enabled autonomous robotic gun system developed by fledgling defense contractor Allen Control Systems dubbed the βBullfrog.β Consisting of a 7.62-mm M240 machine gun mounted on a specially designed rotating turret outfitted with an electro-optical sensor, proprietary AI, and computer vision software, the Bullfrog was designed to deliver small arms fire on drone targets with far more precision than the average US service member can achieve with a standard-issue weapon like the M4 carbine or next-generation XM7 rifle. Indeed, footage of the Bullfrog in action published by ACS shows the truck-mounted system locking onto small drones and knocking them out of the sky with just a few shots.
A picture of the Allen Control Systems Bullfrog
DevDroid says that its Droid TW 12.7 has an operational range of up to 15 miles and is controlled via a radio signal, but that the drone can use artificial intelligence to set its own course automatically. The extent to which it can autonomously navigate the battlefield and engage in combat is still unclear. The Third Army Corps posted a video in December of the drone firing at an off-camera target.
A Devdroid 'Droid TW 12.7'
bad news
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www.allencontrolsystems.com/capabilities...
A Glock 34 open gun and 126 rounds of JHP 9mm Major in a Carey Concealment Bounty Rig, with a Phlster Floodlight holster replacing the main holster. The word "concealment" is very loosely applied here.
#firearms
Messing around with the carey concealment bounty rig and remembered i had a chopped up phlster floodlight and a vision came so clearly to me that I had to put the two together.
showed my partner this and they said "thats us" which i think is the highest praise you can ever give an image. this rules.
oh COOL
I actually just bought a 43x with an EPS Carry to supplement my normal carry gun -- turns out you can adapt them to take metal CZ mags for 15 round capacity in a nearly-flushfit form factor lol.