To me it looks like a bunch of what we call Roman candles bunched up together, they're like tubes that will fire maybe between 10-40 shots depending how big they are (I assume these are the biggest ones they could find and like maybe 10/12 of them together).
It's more effective in an area where police's response to a perceived threat (real or imaginary) is to shoot first, perspire later.
Not to take anything away from this particular instance. It's rad and inspiring as hell. However, I fear that, were I to try this at any protest in my area, I would be forcibly aerated in short order.
Could be doomerism has a hold on me this afternoon, but, if anything, this post makes me despair that any effective protest in my country (i.e. something with enough teeth to make oligarchs take notice) will be met with deadly force employed in the name of "restoring order", and the whole political and media apparatus will jump through hoops to frame the story as, "well, we all applaud protestors for making their voices heard, but they didn't follow our clear directions, and therefore they brought their fates upon themselves."
In this type of situation it really doesn't. Shooting at the cops, even with fireworks, will get you lit up. He'd be dead before the second firework went out of his launcher.
In didn't see this in the news. It's freaking awesome. I think it doesn't need to be that fast to be effective. Plus slower would last much longer. And if they had a few in different locations it would be way more interesting too. As is, this is probably some of the best self defense I've ever seen.
They had an election recently which was not free and fair, high evidence of vote manipulation, ballots being burnt, people getting beat up and payed at polling states, which led to the pro-Russia party pulled off a suprise “win”.
The president elect told people that they won't "need" to vote anymore after this election because he'll "fix" it. They've been saying exactly what they're planning on plain English this entire time. So yes, it'll be interesting when the next election rolls around.
This is America, we have miniguns. Yes, they are $800,000 and there are only 12 that are civilian transferrable after a 9-18 month application process, but we have them.
Edit: I origionally said "gatling gun" and corrected it to "miniguns". You can buy a gatling gun(hand crank) with only the standard background check in most states for like $5k, but the 12 miniguns need all the cost and hoops. Might as well add there is one mk19 40mm automatic grenade launcher for sale at around $500k; I have heard there are more than the one, but it wouldnt be more than 6.
Twelve units total, due to the unique way in that the law is structured via the rather Orwellianly named "Firearm Owners' Protection Act." Only machine guns of any type manufactured before the law itself was enacted on May 19, 1986 are eligible for transfer and civilian ownership. That means that the available selection is not only fixed but shrinking, and every single transferable machine gun of any type instantly became an incredibly expensive collector's item.
Yes. The ATF's interpretation of this is that a "machine gun" is anything capable of firing more than one shot with one trigger pull. Making your trigger electrical or electronic does not circumvent this and, in fact, is how miniguns actually work -- being motor driven.
They're designed to be mounted on vehicles. The canard about them being man-portable is just that; it's a fabrication made up out of the whole cloth for the Terminator/Predator movies. The "mini" in "minigun" came from the M134 which is chambered in 7.62×51mm, and is specifically a reference to it being smaller than the M61 "Vulcan" gun which was chambered in 20mm.
For 2, based on the Supreme Court's recent very flawed ruling on bump stocks, I would assume you could make a mechanically actuated trigger that lifts itself up each round fired in such a way if you're still putting pressure it will fire again. That's how a bump stock works. I'm curious how far that could be pushed. Can you have a motor repeatedly pull the trigger? I assume probably not, but it's not much different than a bump stock.
What you're describing is a "reset trigger," more or less, and they are indeed legal.
You could also just make a crank operated gun. Those are legal, too. The key is you have to keep turning the crank to keep firing. Your continued action is necessary.
The ruling party, recently reelected in a fraudulent election has declared that EU accession talks will be stopped until 2028. This has stoked ongoing protests over election results.
What's sad is that the protests won't accomplish anything. The criminals running corrupt elections do not care about the will of the people (obviously), and they're fine enacting a police state.
That's a bit beyond protesting, and it's really the only way to deal with corrupt governments. Props to them for refusing to be subjected to injustice.
Since some bootlicker decided to downvote that, I'll add that they also tried cremating remains without consulting with family members, screwed that up, and admitted it not too long after the apology.
City officials said that remains from the 1985 bombing, which were believed to have been cremated without the family’s permission, had apparently been saved in a box in storage.
Note that second article linked goes on to state the bones were cremated as it predates their discovery that they had failed to actually perform the cremation.
Thomas Farley has resigned as Philadelphia’s health commissioner due to his involvement in the mishandling of remains of the victims in the 1985 MOVE bombing.
His departure comes less than a month after news broke that a set of remains, thought to be 14-year-old Tree and 12-year-old Delisha Africa, were held at both the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University for decades and studied by their anthropology and archaeology departments, without the Africa family’s knowledge.
Farley said that it was standard procedure for autopsies by the Medical Examiner’s Office to retain “certain specimens” for possible future investigations, prior to releasing the remains to the family. After investigations are completed, the specimens are disposed of, without the knowledge of anyone outside of the Medical Examiner’s Office.
“Believing that investigations related to the MOVE bombing had been completed more than 30 years earlier, and not wanting to cause more anguish for the families of the victims, I authorized Dr. Gulino to follow this procedure and dispose of the bones and bone fragments,” Farley said. “I made this decision on my own, without notifying or consulting anyone in the Managing Director’s office or the Mayor’s office, and I take full responsibility for it.”
AND, here is a link to the 35 years overdue apology for the bombing, which I should have included in my prior comment:
This guy holds the line.
Now combine them and call the wielder Captain Protest
Captain Praxis.
Captain Praxis, fighting the good fight from their basement. Lecturing in theory with no idea how to apply the theory to real life!
Sounds like average french
Damn, is that a photograph or just a still from a video? If someone caught that as a photograph, it's stunning. Very impressive.
IM FUCKING INVINCIBLE
it costs $400,000 to fire this weapon for 12 seconds
Oh my God... who touched Sasha!?!?
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Still not comparable to military ammo costs
I ain't got time to bleed.
How in the fuck does it keep going like that?
To me it looks like a bunch of what we call Roman candles bunched up together, they're like tubes that will fire maybe between 10-40 shots depending how big they are (I assume these are the biggest ones they could find and like maybe 10/12 of them together).
Have used these before for displays and they are good https://www.cubefireworks.com/en/product/gatling-roman-candle-barrage-300-shot-888
The link posted as a reply seems to be dead but you can buy them here and it has a video demo, looks like you’re not supposed to hold them.
Here
Behold! The Gatling Barrage!!
Nice. Thx
Only $25? Fuck yeah
£25 so $31.66, but still a nice price.
In the USA the cops would’ve shot that guy after the 3rd firework.
I was wondering how he wasn’t shot yet as I thought it was Georgia in the US.
Soon, that Georgia wants to join the EU, too.
The other one. You know, beeches not peaches.
Nah they would've eventually given him a cabinet position.
Depends on the colour
Cops: "We have a firehose!"
No, this is a fire hose.
Thats the type of human I want to be in the trench beside me.
Be the change you want to see...
That is fucking amazing. Bravo.
Finally, a weapon to surpass metal gear.
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I heard this comment.
Visually impressive and to an enough degree even the anti-riot forces felt necessary to turn the water cannon on the individual.
A: Fucking impressive, holy shit. Good on them for having a plan that day.
B: I thought that was a fucking battleaxe in the foreground for a moment there.
Jesus tap dancing Christ. That’s simultaneously one of the coolest and most insane things I’ve ever seen. It just kept going!
Now that's how to protest. Make the police sweat. They should fire a few strobe rockets overhead for effect.
It's more effective in an area where police's response to a perceived threat (real or imaginary) is to shoot first, perspire later.
Not to take anything away from this particular instance. It's rad and inspiring as hell. However, I fear that, were I to try this at any protest in my area, I would be forcibly aerated in short order.
Could be doomerism has a hold on me this afternoon, but, if anything, this post makes me despair that any effective protest in my country (i.e. something with enough teeth to make oligarchs take notice) will be met with deadly force employed in the name of "restoring order", and the whole political and media apparatus will jump through hoops to frame the story as, "well, we all applaud protestors for making their voices heard, but they didn't follow our clear directions, and therefore they brought their fates upon themselves."
Holy fuck how much Ammo has this thing?
"yes"
Fuck yea
Idk what they're fighting about, but I pick that guy's team.
Russia has infiltrated Georgian politics and is suspending their bid to join the EU.
Oh shit.
If it was an incoming firework ban, I don't think the authorities would see this as a good case being made.
Based protestor. The hero we need, but don't deserve.
I wonder how an American protestor with a fireworks gattling gun would be handled
If they are white, and trying to steal grazing lands? Nothing.
If you are protesting the abuse of the state? You get shot.
Probably depends on protesters skin color
In this type of situation it really doesn't. Shooting at the cops, even with fireworks, will get you lit up. He'd be dead before the second firework went out of his launcher.
Bro is essentially shooting a flamethrower. It would not end well for him, or anyone near him, because of the automatic smoke screen effect.
Too bad psycological damage isn't counted on scoreboard
Right, not to instigate violence but people need to go to the hardware store and buy some pipes and get crafting
Average German New Years celebration. Actually quite tame.
Average french tuesday
In didn't see this in the news. It's freaking awesome. I think it doesn't need to be that fast to be effective. Plus slower would last much longer. And if they had a few in different locations it would be way more interesting too. As is, this is probably some of the best self defense I've ever seen.
Step Six, Mason! Wield a fist of iron!
Damn, I didn't know the Brotherhood of Steel operated in Georgia.
Riot hwacha
A song of fire and ice.
Wish we could hear it!
So I guess someone watched arcane and felt inspired to do a real version of Jinx's weapon...
Legend
Holy Hannah that is beyond cool. .stl?
Time to let Old Painless out of the bag.
Where can I buy one? Asking for a friend.
This is from Dead Rising 2
What are the protesters demanding?
The release of Serious Sam 5?
A free and fair election.
They had an election recently which was not free and fair, high evidence of vote manipulation, ballots being burnt, people getting beat up and payed at polling states, which led to the pro-Russia party pulled off a suprise “win”.
Give it a few more years and we’ll need our own gatling fireworks in the US. We’ve checked several of those boxes, just not on a large scale.
The president elect told people that they won't "need" to vote anymore after this election because he'll "fix" it. They've been saying exactly what they're planning on plain English this entire time. So yes, it'll be interesting when the next election rolls around.
This is America, we have miniguns. Yes, they are $800,000 and there are only 12 that are civilian transferrable after a 9-18 month application process, but we have them.
Edit: I origionally said "gatling gun" and corrected it to "miniguns". You can buy a gatling gun(hand crank) with only the standard background check in most states for like $5k, but the 12 miniguns need all the cost and hoops. Might as well add there is one mk19 40mm automatic grenade launcher for sale at around $500k; I have heard there are more than the one, but it wouldnt be more than 6.
Yes, but in America a crank operated Gatling gun (i.e. an actual Gatling gun) is legal at least on the federal level.
And quite easy and fun to construct at home. Just saying!
"I sure hope people dont attach a cheap drill to this totally legal crank powered gatlin gun" -ATF (probably)
Yeah, they don't like that one.
When you say there are only 12, do you mean models or units?
If someone adds a motor to the hand crank does it become an (illegal) minigun?
Isn't it weird that miniguns are the largest, heaviest types of gun possible.
For 2, based on the Supreme Court's recent very flawed ruling on bump stocks, I would assume you could make a mechanically actuated trigger that lifts itself up each round fired in such a way if you're still putting pressure it will fire again. That's how a bump stock works. I'm curious how far that could be pushed. Can you have a motor repeatedly pull the trigger? I assume probably not, but it's not much different than a bump stock.
What you're describing is a "reset trigger," more or less, and they are indeed legal.
You could also just make a crank operated gun. Those are legal, too. The key is you have to keep turning the crank to keep firing. Your continued action is necessary.
We need them now. Not for the elections, but you know.
No we won’t.
You mean it's already too late for that? You're probably right.
I mean we have guns here
Sounds like average election in Saint Petesburg.
The ruling party, recently reelected in a fraudulent election has declared that EU accession talks will be stopped until 2028. This has stoked ongoing protests over election results.
What's sad is that the protests won't accomplish anything. The criminals running corrupt elections do not care about the will of the people (obviously), and they're fine enacting a police state.
Georgian protesters overthrew its government in 2003. Take that for what you will
That's a bit beyond protesting, and it's really the only way to deal with corrupt governments. Props to them for refusing to be subjected to injustice.
A not corrupt election...
Ahh, nothing says "protest" like possibly burning down your neighbors' houses.
Does protest mean like, following the law and making everyone feel all comfy and warm inside? GTFO
If only there were some middle ground between peaceful ineffective protesting, and explosives. 🤔
Nah, that's just silly
There is, it's called fireworks and not IEDs.
https://publicintelligence.net/netf-fireworks/
Yep, the major difference between fireworks and an IED is how fast the charge burns.
They could use the water hose on the fire instead of the protesters
Philadelphia MOVE bombing
They apologized a mere 35 years later.
Since some bootlicker decided to downvote that, I'll add that they also tried cremating remains without consulting with family members, screwed that up, and admitted it not too long after the apology.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/us/philadelphia-move-bombing-cremation.html
https://whyy.org/articles/health-commissioner-dr-thomas-farley-resigns-over-mishandling-of-move-bombing-remains/
Note that second article linked goes on to state the bones were cremated as it predates their discovery that they had failed to actually perform the cremation.
AND, here is a link to the 35 years overdue apology for the bombing, which I should have included in my prior comment:
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/17/935886827/philadelphia-apologizes-for-move-bombing-from-35-years-ago
Get fucked brad
Aaaah shaddap, Bradley.
Hey everyone, another privileged asshole here to tell other countries how to be appropriate in their fight for their freedoms
Why do you have to come in and Brad everything up, Brad?
I'm sorry.
Yay fireworks! Boom boom BOOM! WHEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
That's better. Carry on.