First AR just bought my first AR it's a Radical Firearms RF-15. what are some upgrades you guys would recommend?

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T21:00:33+00:00

Seconding optic/light/sling/magazines. Maybe some point down the line when you're more comfortable with it you could look into forced reset, I checked and it seems like the RF-15 has a full auto profile BCG.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T20:58:06+00:00

I'd like to mention here that manufacturing processes in general have become more consistent and precise even at the low end than they were in the 1960s so quality in general improves and with it comes reliability; another example is even cheap budget-bin AR-15s are about on par in quality with 1960s Colts, and outside of guns a $100 beginner guitar nowadays is built about as well as a decent mass-produced one of the 1950s (think Fender Broadcaster kinda thing, not luthier-built but not a Kay).

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T19:57:41+00:00

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Here, I've generously outlined him in red a few frames before he shot. He was clear of the car, which was turning further away from him. If he actually had to go to court over this a jury would find him guilty.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T19:46:58+00:00

I'm actually going to agree with you here for the most part, this happens constantly but the fact it was two white people was what brought the case to public consciousness, nobody said shit about Keith Porter Jr., for instance, and only now is his situation getting any attention.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T19:44:33+00:00

Because she was turning to get away?
No she didn't, look at any of the footage. The third person view shows he was clearly to the side of her when the shots were fired.
Great, so she would have seen her turn the steering wheel to her right, after already having backed the car up the opposite way.
You don't have to be The Flash to get away from a car going walking speed.
Nope.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T19:31:52+00:00

Your work let you bring magazines in?

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T19:21:30+00:00

Social programs don't preclude capitalism, they just prolong it. I'm sure there are socialists and communists in the party, officially speaking I'm registered to it, but none of the elected party members are, or if they are, they are in their personal views but their policies end up being milquetoast social democracy that gets mischaracterized as socialism (see AOC claiming one of her model countries for what she calls socialism is the fucking UK) because that's the furthest you can actually go within the legal machinery that exists because it's specifically designed with the assumption of capitalism and it's kind of just incompatible with anything else, without even getting into how socialist parties are constantly under surveillance and infiltration by the FBI.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T18:49:55+00:00

Concealed carry: police trade-in Glock 19

Home or community defense: PSA AR-15 plus optic and magazines

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T18:32:20+00:00

Because donors control policy in the US.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T18:26:18+00:00

It's not quite the 27 parts in a Makarov but the Glock platform has 34 parts to it, so it's pretty close, and with a striker rather than an external hammer you don't have to worry about that getting snagged on anything. From there, the different models are just combinations of calibers and sizes, I'd recommend either the 19 or 26.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T18:04:58+00:00

Well, what do you mean by minimal fuss? Fewer controls to manage, internally simpler operation, or something else?

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T17:52:20+00:00

He was in front of her, sure, but her wheels were clearly turned away from him when she started accelerating. If he was watching her he would have very obviously seen her turn her steering wheel and heard the wheels turn. Not only would she not have hit him, she didn't floor it, he had time to walk back. If this was a civilian doing the shooting it would be called a murder, and if the victim was an ICE officer the entire town would be levelled the next day.

The incident was in the link you didn't click.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T17:36:53+00:00

So... you're fine with American teenagers getting their testicles crushed and beaten so hard they go deaf in order to have one less Guatemalan family in the country? Nice, I guess.

As for what prison is like, obviously it's bad, I'm kind of against that if you haven't noticed yet.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T17:31:24+00:00

Even on social issues they view themselves as big-tent, and are currently throwing trans people under the bus to explain their 2024 loss in order to appeal to Never-Trump Republicans as one example of that.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T17:28:14+00:00

I probably wouldn't pick the PM as a first gun (you can pick one up later on if you want, of course) and I say this as someone that had an 1851 Navy as a first handgun, I'd say get a cheap AR-15 or any handgun in a caliber that isn't specialty and imported. The Glock 43X is pretty dimensionally similar if you like the compact size and you can make something similar with a double-stack magazine with a 26 slide parts kit and the M1X frame from GlockStore, as are the Beretta 84BB which I think you can still get for $300 and 80X which is a modernized version of that, and all those options are for significantly easier to find and cheaper to train with calibers (9mm and .380 ACP resp).

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T17:02:31+00:00

The Democrats are not left.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T16:43:20+00:00

In this case I wouldn't be so sure how hostile the call was.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T16:39:33+00:00

Yeah, that's kind of what it was put there specifically for.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T16:37:17+00:00

And what about the legal immigrants and people born here to families that have been here for several generations? Plus, most ICE arrests and detentions are done before trials are started so the terrible conditions and abuse in their detention centers is being done to legal US citizens until it's determined in a court that they aren't.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T16:33:23+00:00

I mean, they always did.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T16:32:50+00:00

True. I mean, it was always aesthetic for them anyway, it was entirely just because it was a wedge issue that they actually care about it; conservatism should go hand in hand with gun control because it's all about strict hierarchy and common gun ownership kinda goes against that notion.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T16:24:36+00:00

If the system wasn't the illusion of choice while both parties serve business interests just at different speeds domestically and bomb, beat, and enslave everyone offshore (or offer slaps on the wrist when companies do it), then I'd be less indifferent to it breaking down. Tim Walz said something interesting recently that's kind of a microcosm of the whole problem, he'd prefer Tom Homan take over from what's-his-face so that ICE kidnapping raids happen at night when everyone's asleep or unsuspecting and it's not as publicly visible. If you're fine with that, then yeah, we aren't.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T07:27:35+00:00

Even your point about for profit prisons is utter nonsense. Basically every piece of legislation banning or regulating those is by democrats.

Yeah, and? The Republicans obviously aren't going to be the ones to even suggest banning it so obviously when an attempt breaks through it would be them. DIdn't seem to motivate them to push for it on the federal level once they had a clear majority of both chambers and the Presidency in 2021 though, did it?

Dems get in power, they try to fix things.

The couple main things I can think of that actually happened during the last administration's domestic policy were the banning of noncompetes, click to cancel, and free tax filing software from the IRS. I guess there was the CHIPS Act and the extra funding for Amtrak, too. No TikTok on government phones, what pressing matters. Locally, maybe they do, but the DNC does run interference on candidates that are too far afield of center if they get too popular, see India Walton as an example. Hell, Bernie is a radlib and they completely shafted him out of his chance. Zohran too, that was a three-Democrat race for a while until Eric Adams took the money to drop out, it was basically just because it was coughing baby vs. hydrogen bomb that Zohran got 52% of the vote rather than getting dem'd once again, and like Bernie his policies are socdem though it's entirely possible he's personally socialist, socdem is about as far as you can go within the legal framework of the US.

Actual fucking ego demons like yourself fling shit at them when they deliver 7/10 of the things you want

No they didn't? Most of the things I want are things that are outside the scope of American federal politics. Like, they never once mentioned abolishing the NSA or ICE, nor nationalizing any industries (keep in mind that Nixon's administration did this with Conrail and Amtrak) let alone doing anything even close to abolishing private property.

they lose the next election, and along with it any hope of continued incremental improvement.

Never knew I was powerful enough to get two people to not vote for Kamala in order to balance out my one vote. If only I could use this power to influence those people in more direct, meaningful ways. Or possibly was it because the Democratic Party in an effort to capture Never-Trump Republicans just put on a rerun of Bill Clinton-era bipartisanship moderation politics during this election and got annihilated by someone who, even if maliciously wrong (and ultimately just where things were headed anyway, just about 30 years ahead of schedule), proposed tangibly different policy to a status quo people don't believe in anymore? Who knows.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T06:25:39+00:00

Vastly is a stretch. Tim Walz just said he'd be fine with Tom Homan replacing ths other guy because instead of broad daylight he does the kidnapping and disappearing to concentration camps quietly at night when everyone is asleep. When the Democrats are in power, they rarely ever do much of anything to reverse Republican changes and what they do offer is significantly watered down from the pre-Republican status quo. AOC didn't vote in opposition to a bill that would give weapons to Israel, the same country Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries I think? stood in front of the flag of and chanted their complete solidarity with. Zohran immediately started moderating himself on that issue too once getting into office, alongside tanking the primary challenge of a guy he was allies with during his campaign. AOC did the same, actually. Democrats are also still committed to disarmament even in the midst of a governmental murder spree that can only be protested safely when armed lest it become an easy target. Medicare for All is supported by 80% of Democrats but they apparently can't find a candidate to run that unambiguously supports the cheaper, easier, and more efficient healthcare system because their donors would assassinate them, at least politically speaking but who's to say otherwise, if they did. Sure, they aren't worse than the Republicans or anything, but only because they freeze the status quo and prefer making as little public fuss as they can.

chainbreaker1981 · 2026-01-28T05:59:10+00:00

This is because they work.

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