this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2024
1173 points (95.6% liked)

Political Memes

5605 readers
588 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
1173
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by FlyingSquid to c/politicalmemes
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Sarmyth 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Olympic shooting has nothing to do with shooting of any other kind. The guns are custom made. Unless you are speficially training for the Olympics you'll likely never handle such a "weapon". I think using these guns is the equivalent to a running being able to use spring blades. I am not a gun owner but it feels like a pointless sport as done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

No, that is not true, these are fundamentally single shot bolt action rifles. Maybe like a race bike to a normal street bike. The additional precision and adjustability are no use to a normal shooter but they are not more complicated to handle.

[–] Sarmyth 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

doesn't look similar to me at all

Doesn't look like a similar firing experience to me.