• db2@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Thanks Gustave, in payment you can eat as many ICE agents as you can fit, in perpetuity.

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    6 days ago

    I’m no expert but as I understand it, a longer barrel adds more velocity/pressure to a firearm. Cutting a barrel that short would probably put the velocity in the range of ‘kind of sucks’.

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      6 days ago

      It decreases the need for accuracy when used with shot. In a longer barrel, the shot will expand in a relatively small cone. Coming out of a short barrel, everything in the general vicinity in front of you will get little damaging pieces embedded all over their body.

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        6 days ago

        Without much velocity/pressure from the barrel, the pellets are only getting propelled from the primer alone. This short would throw the pellets in a wide area but it would likely be Nerf gun ranges.

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          5 days ago

          This is true, but as most self defense people will tell you, it only takes a small hole in another person to stop them worrying about much more than “oh damn that dude just shot me”.

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      6 days ago

      I wouldn’t exactly worry about range of a firearm with a barrel cut so short the ends of the shells stick out.

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        6 days ago

        Its more about the velocity. A barrel is needed to ‘shoot’ a shell. If you took a shotgun shell and hit a hammer onto the primer to set it off, well it would be a mess of pellets, but it wouldn’t fire with lethal velocity.

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      6 days ago

      Absolutely. They are stickup weapons, you pull them on someone on the other side of a register. The dude behind the counter will still shit himself.

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      6 days ago

      You’re spot on. Also, the spread would be stupid. You’d be lucky to land a single pellet on me at 15’.

      SOURCE: Have dozen shotguns.

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    6 days ago

    Seen a guy do an LS4 conversion on that very body back in 2012, wood paneling and all.

    I only heard stories about it, but it apparently surprised the hell out of a lot of pony cars in that area.

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          4 days ago

          Kombi is mostly used in Germany, estate in the UK. In my ex-soviet corner of Europe we don’t use Kombi despite the fact that the Moskvitch Kombi was a thing and was a wagon. We call it an “universaal”, and an MPV is a “mahtuniversaal” (so universal and volume universal lol). People who aren’t car people will call them pick-ups though. Which I hate.

          Wagon is the most universally understood variant* IMO. Though not usually station wagon.

          * Yes that’s a VW joke. I owned a Passat Variant at one point. Worst car I’ve ever owned, though that’s not saying much, I’ve owned a bunch of excellent cars and that one I got for 800 euros.

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            Nice to know

            Here in Poland we call it Kombi and VW Passat is our stereotypical boomer car.

            And I think in Czech Republic and Slovakia they call it Kombi as well.