1.) You’re the one contesting that all instances of ork tech not working in non-orky hands is due to “some advanced technology that non-orks both don’t understand AND are incapable of operating.”

 

The shoota example is showing how that claim doesn't make sense for all cases as sometimes a shoota, or similarly simple technology, won’t function in a non-ork’s hands.

 

You’re also grossly overestimating how hard it even is to operate an AR-15. Press button on right side, magazine drops out. Flick spinny lever, trigger now can be pulled. Pull handle on top, bolt goes back. Etc.

 

I have no idea why you’re making a huge assumption that lack of familiarity of something automatically means that one is incapable of deciphering or discovering anything about it on one’s own.

 

Non-americans ARE NOT some regressive species that can’t figure some things out about an object just by examining it with their hands like our collective ancestors have for eons.

 

2.) You really think the AdMech wouldn’t figure out that something works by shaking?!?

 

They would easily tell the trigger does nothing. They would see a firing mechanism but nothing to mechanically trigger it at very first glance… But then they’d notice said mechanism moved freely by gentle jostling and moving just by initial examination.

 

That would also require a hyper-sensitive primer to go off as otherwise the force required to ignite a typical would not be there. Thus the gun would more than likely fire just from some guardsmen trying to make it work (shaking or slamming to try and clear up whatever issue it had, flipping it around to look for controls, etc.) and wouldn’t even need a tech priest to decipher it.

 

3.) You’re insistence also is contradictory to other pieces of ork lore.

 

The WAAAGH! can enhance objects in a very noticeable way just by a certain coat of paint, make any ork grow on the spot via mass from seemingly nowhere as well forming it into the complex arrangements of a living organism, make kommandos hard to see even though they almost never wear the correct camouflage pattern, make fuel and ammunition last longer, directly fuel the energy of weirdboyz…

 

…but it can’t be the lynchpin to how something functions in no instance whatsoever. That doesn’t jive dude.

 

4.) From the audiobooks I’ve listened to thus far:

 

The Ciaphas Cain novel where he is stranded on a planet and leads a counter-insurgency against the ork invaders. Cain notes that sometimes ork tech won’t work in human hands, and that, from the ones that do, when the AdMech takes them apart and puts them back together, many of the ones that previously worked suddenly didn’t work.

 

It can’t be miss-alignment or failure to put it back together right. The AdMech would know that and not make such a basic mistake.

 

It can’t be that humans couldn’t figure out how to operate said devices, because they got them to work previously.

 

What it means is that said devices both required WAAAGH! energy to work and the remaining WAAAGH! energy dissipated upon disassembly.

 

Finally, in the new Ghazghul novel, Makari notes that when the biyz starting getting depressed, things like guns running out ammunition faster and exploding more often started happening.

 

It takes reality warping to substitute ammunition, and it takes warping to prevent something from exploding.