5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

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http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5- ... ovies.html
a U.S. infantryman only carries 210 rounds total, which means a battle conducted with full-auto machine gun fire would be over in less than a minute even if you count the time it takes to switch magazines. Fortunately, they fire on full-auto so rarely that many of the military's rifles don't even have that capability.

"But wait!" you say, "I've seen war footage from Vietnam and Iraq and everywhere else and you can totally hear machine fire chattering in the distance at all times. Somebody's using it, dammit!"

That's true, they're just not shooting people with it. Full-auto is only really used for suppression, that is, to make the bad guys duck their heads and hunker down while your people maneuver into position. In fact, virtually all bullets are used for this. For each insurgent killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, 250,000 shots are fired that hit absolutely nothing. About three tons of ammunition for every one dude killed. Picture Arnold lugging that shit around.
Yet many FPS players call deliberately firing without hitting anything "spamming" :rolleyes: It's called suppressive fire, fucknuts. Then "accuracy" is used to determine skill at the end of a match. ...
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And your perfect record of posting breathtakingly stupid shit remains intact.
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5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)

5 Ridiculous Gun Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
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this has been posted before, and not that long ago. seems familiar. almost as familiar, in fact, as the OP's love of pulsating horse cocks
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I didn't believe any of those myths.
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Is this Gwramps bait?
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Pulsating horse cocks? Pulsating horse cocks. Pulsating horse cocks?
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We bring this up because that means the MacManus brothers purposefully de-cocked their guns before shooting that mobster, just so they could make that sound.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18576_5- ... z2Br9zVH1P
pretty sure that was actually the point of the prayer. not too sure though.
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For each insurgent killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, 250,000 shots are fired that hit absolutely nothing. About three tons of ammunition for every one dude killed. Picture Arnold lugging that shit around.
Interesting numbers :up:
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Speaking of interesting numbers...

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DTS routinely has his mind blown by useless factoids dropped into the empty cavity of his head like pennies in a piggy bank.
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Pretty sure this mofo could still take down a forest though

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Yes I'm actually Jesse Ventura.
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