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ID: Photo of a pink felt heart on a slightly paler pink background, overlaying is stylised text: "make the world a better place punch a nazi in their face"

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[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

it takes something huge to break through that kind of thinking [...]

nah, a 9mm will do just fine

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, on an individual basis.

You need something with a bit better ballistics, and nore versatility than the typical 9mil platform, which is often a handgun. For effective large scale efforts, you'd be looking at something like 7.62, 5.56, or even the old reliable 308. Hell, if you don't mind going with something that's less widely available in terms of big stockpiles, the field is wide open.

Tbh though, if it's handgun only, I'm still going .45. Yeah, you lose capacity, but you gain in effective force delivered.

9mm would be more for burner use against single targets for sure. Easy to get, and easy to get cheaply, so easy to toss.

The fuck did you think I was talking about? When I mean huge, I mean taking care of the nazi problem period.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

well, in ex-Yugoslavia you afaik still got plenty of 8mm mouser for all the neo-ustashe and /-chetniks

(it was also more of a joke remark lol)

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

Heh, I actually have one of those. They aren't cutting edge, but you slap a decent scope on one, and it'll get the job done.