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Hilarious AliExpress rules workaround.
james_s:
The silencer thing has always seemed kind of weird to me. The problem I think is that most people think a silencer works the way Hollywood show it, making a gun almost silent. In reality many bullets travel at supersonic speed and a large part of the noise you hear is a sonic boom from the bullet passing through the air. A silencer on a gun is very much like the muffler on a lawnmower or chainsaw, it reduces the noise from absolutely deafening to extremely loud but not so likely to cause permanent damage to your hearing. They seem like a sensible device to make a gun safer for the operator and less disturbing to people nearby, they are NOT going to enable a person to shoot somebody covertly like a movie assassin. Movies are fantasy, they are not real. If a person learns everything they know about guns from watching movies then nearly everything they know is wrong.
magic:
Yeah, there still are people who think that the "chimp shooting AK47" video was real ;)
Nusa:
--- Quote from: magic on August 28, 2021, 07:25:26 pm ---Yeah, there still are people who think that the "chimp shooting AK47" video was real ;)
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Video aside, anyone who's been around AK's knows that's not what they sound like.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: thm_w on August 27, 2021, 09:27:36 pm ---If you accidentally ever click the wrong item you'll end up with some very weird suggestions.
I remember searching for stainless steel thin wall tubing, and then a bunch of rods with rifling showed up. Clearly intended to be used on long range type rifles.
And then there was the endless wigs, not sure what triggered that.
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I got the wigs one too for some also unknown reason. Once I'd also searched for something with "silicone" in the description, the suggestions got very interesting.
BrianHG:
--- Quote from: ataradov on August 27, 2021, 08:04:33 pm ---I was looking for stuff on AliExpress, and a picture caught my eye. The picture looked like a gun silencer, but the description did not make any sense at all: "Aluminum 12" 10" 6" Extension Spiral 1/2-20 1/2-28 5/8-24 M14*1 M14*1L Car Fuel Filter Car Solvent Trap for NAPA 4003 WIX 24003" (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001450369678.html)
With features like "Great for a fuel filter", "Fuel Type: fuel filter(ONLY for car use)", and even a picture inside the car hood.
But the Q&A section contains such gems as "On AK 47 7,62*39 What do you need, tell me please ???" and "Which is ideal for AR15 5.56?"
There are a lot of listings like this, some even advertise exact compatible car types.
Obviously they are trying to dodge prohibition to sell firearm parts, but this made me chuckle.
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:scared: Thanks a million. I clicked once on your link and what do you think happened... |O
Adds and emails with links to nothing but these fuel savers...
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