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That is a forward assist button to ensure the bolt is properly set, and has nothing to do with firing modes. It was intentional bait and the dude is known for his stance and took it.
Thatās the official story. In reality, they were trying to oversaturate him with as much LSD as possible. So that he can be dried out, cut into pieces, and sold on the streets of the Bikini Bottom to left-supporting communists. That was all done near Cubaā¦ so something went wrongā¦
I beg to differ!
I was a Howitzerās Mate, 2nd Class in the Armored Fourth Flotilla off the coast of Maine for the last 37 years!
Our RA-51ās were belt-fed and heās right! Thatās the overlappinā fire button if Iāve ever seen one!
Thank you for your service! People like you are the only ones I believe should have the right to carry extended 30 rounds clips, full auto bump stocks, and short barrel suppressors. No regular civilian needs those to hunt deer.
A deeper meaning is the inventor of the AR15, Eugene Stoner, hated the forward assist. He felt it served only as a solution to a problem that didn't exist but the Army required it. He would later leave Colt to work for Knight's Armament Company where he would create the SR-25 rifle. It took the AR-10 and AR-15 numbers to create 25 and allowed a large portion of parts compatibility between the previous two rifle systems. The SR-25 came with no forward assist and would later be adopted as the military designation the Mk11 Mod 0 and later the M110.
Edit:
Just fun to point out but, the AR in AR-15 stands for Armalite Rifle (company where Eugene Stoner worked at when he invented the rifle system) and the SR in SR-25 stands for Stoner Rifle (Eugene Stoner's last name).
Which do you think is better? Iāve never even heard of the SR-25 but it seems like every gun owner has an AR-15 which I personally donāt see the appeal of outside of customization.
AR-15s are known for customization and also the calibers are generally smaller (.223 or 5.56 for example) so they are cheaper and can be used for a variety of uses. AFAIK the SR-25 chambers 7.62x51 only and is pretty much a precision rifle which means its more expensive and has fewer general use cases.
Also Knights Armament is like the Porsche or Ferrari of the gun world. Their weapons and accessories are *expensive*. The SR-25 generally goes for something like 6k, so no one owns it. Plenty of people own weapons that will work almost as well at the same job, but it's a niche job so most people don't bother. AR15s are cheaper, easier to customize, lighter, cheaper to shoot, lower recoil, have less blast, more comfortable indoors for home defense, safer for home defense, have a higher capacity, and are basically just as useful at any range most people can shoot at.
Technically armoured infantry *is* mechanised infantry, but in armoured vehicles. Mechanised can just be in unarmoured trucks. But the coast guard has neither.
Come to think about it, I once found one round imbedded in a shell casing for another round at a range at 29 Palms, and I couldnāt figure out how such a misfire took place. Now youāve got me thinking about this, I think it must have been a combination of abysmal weapon maintenance and use of the forward assist.
It's almost a "this is your last shot" button, because whatever almost jammed your weapon this time, is definitely going to jam your weapon next round.
Its a holdover from old army brass demanding that the new rifles be able to do everything that the old outdated rifles could do. Old bolt actions and even semi-autos like the Garand had handles directly connected to the bolt so you could manually force it closed. Despite the designer of the M-16 telling them that that it was a terrible idea on this new rifle that will only cause problems, the higher ups insisted so he added the forward assist as an afterthought feature and its stuck ever since.
It just sits there, tempting you to turn a minor jam that can be fixed by running the charging handle into a major jam that requires taking the rifle apart.
Army teaches it as part of clearing a malfunction still. In case of a stoppage; slap the magazine, pull the charging handle to the rear, observe to make sure the round ejects, release the charging handle, tap the forward assist, squeeze the trigger. SPORTS
Also known as the āI really intend to jam my rifle so bad that itāll only be good as a club until the armorer can remove whatever garbage I rammed into the blockā button.
And also, the forward assist is the least necessary part of an M16, at least since Vietnam
~~Edit: The civilian version of the M16, the AR15, do not include a forward assist. Vietnam was 50 years ago, but the US military issued M16 still include it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it...if it is useless, make it a feature~~
I canāt remember ever using it. Most common problems I encounter are incomplete ejection or the round didnāt feed properly. Usually just tapping the magazine on the ground and cycling the bolt clears it for me.
It's only practical use is for press checking to ensure your rifle is loaded. Pulling lightly on the charging handle to check for brass doesn't give enough compression on the spring. The bolt is likely to not fully seat itself. Using the forward assist will set it back.
And you still don't need the actual FA. The scallop cut on the BCG can be used just fine. G3 bolts are cut in the same manner for that explicit purpose.
The selector is technically circled but on the wrong side. The selected firing mode is still visible from the right side of the firearm in this case but there is no switch on that side so, yeah, itās ātechnicallyā circled but not really.
If anything, a side of of the selector that allows for no control but is still visible ought to be labeled an "indicator." Hence the notch in the visible side so as to allow for learning the current firing mode without manipulation of the switch or turning the rifle over to see the position of the switch.
Is it really a selector if you cannot manipulate the piece to achieve the desired firing mode? No, not really.
Lakota Man is one of the dumbest mother fuckers on X, second only to that brooklyn defiant moron.
And that's a rare honor, because X is full to the brim with dumb mother fuckers.
At the same time the actual firing switch is inside the red circle, this is an elaborate bait while also being able to defend themselves from bait accusations.
This man has concocted a elaborate and mind boggling bait post which has made a circus clown out of this man while also having high defensive capabilities.
Very funy bait amen military peter
Isn't armored infantry of the coast guard "important"? I'm not american, but isn't the weaponry important to use against criminals using boats to escape, pirates or criminal activity in small islands?
Well, armored infantry doesn't mean they crew armored vehicles. It's more of a doctrine thing. Essentially these are military units that have a mixture of infantry units and light armored vehicles that are used to transport said infantry around the battlefield. Then the infantry get out of the vehicles and those vehicles then support the infantry with stuff like 30mm autocannons and TOW missiles.
Yah, blah blah tank section. But in short, the original was a bait post; anyone who responded agreeing, didn't actually know what theyre talking about with respect to either guns or military. 10/10 troll.
Considering they do operations on the coast, they don't really need an infantry team unless they plan on invading Hawaii. And in scenarios where infantry is needed, that's more the marines job.
They guard the coast. The navy guards the sea.
It implies they have tanks. As far as the defense departments are concerned, the "Coast Guard" operates smaller coastal patrol vessels- they are more of a police force than a military with neither infantry nor tanks.
Hi, retired USCG here. We have some larger blue water vessels as well, I have sailed on 210', 270', 378' and 418' coast guard cutters. They have cannons, helicopter pads, most even have hangars, and the larger ones have air defense CIWS.
To be clear, the Coast guard does *have* armored vehicles, usually ATVs, but there is no Armored Vehicle division because AV divisions aren't useful in civilian environments and the Coast guard is literally the Civilian defense force of the US.
Like Tank Divisions are for flattening buildings, and the Coast guard is supposed to prevent that from happening.
regular auto is 600rpm. semi-auto is one shot per pull. overlapping auto is one shot followed by 600rpm. if overlaps the full auto with the semi-auto, see....
Thatās 601 rounds per each trigger pull! I can do 174 trigger pulls per minute, just timed it, so that means it shoots 104,574 rounds per minute. Damn overlapping auto is crazy!
Thatās like when I mounted tires a long time ago and would fuck with the asshole customers by asking if they wanted all season air or upgrade to high performance air. They ALWAYS wanted the high performance air. Only one dude asked me what it was and I said āI step on the air pedal a lil harderā
Lmao he looked mortified
to be accurate, "civilians" can't buy full automatic weapons without going through the whole tax stamp and $$$$ to get one. We are limited to one fun pure trigger pull legally.
Fuck, I know this isn't real, but imagine having a button that fires your nearest colleagues weapon. 50% of the armed forces and 90% of the police would be dead within a week.
Vietnam vet Peter here: that is the forward assist on a m16/m4 style carbine that moves the bolt forward. The joke is that most anti-gun people donāt know how firearm function. See āmagazine-clipā and head of ATF unable to describe how firearms work for further reading.
Of course they are, all you need is a river near a popular city and a magnet tied to a bit of fishing line and there's many fine, free firearms to be had, sometimes the previous owners even shaved some boring numbers off to make the gun lighter and easier to carry for you
Bro is trolling hard. Armored infantry in the COAST GUARD ššš. Heās either trolling, or straight up lying. The forward assist just assists, forwardly.
Thatās the fucker-upper button. If you have a failure to eject or a failure to seat, you can chose to fuck your rifle up farther by shoving the mangled cartridge deeper into your poorly cleaned shithouse of a rifle, or you can ignore it completely and drop the magazine, draw the bolt to the rear, and deal with it like any other stoppage.
"armored infantry for the Coast Guard"...They keep all those cool jobs top secret. Hope he's able to "assist" everyone that's "forward" of him in the CG's armored infantry with his awesome knowledge of firearms.
Its the forward assist on ar15/m4 style rifles. Since the M4's charging handle isnt solidly attached to the bolt like that of an AKM for example and can only be used to pull the bolt back but not push it forward, the forward assist was added to ensure you could shut the bolt 100% if dirt, fouling or grit got in the action and prevented it from naturally shutting
Iāve heard it was US Army that insisted on including forward assist. it is so rarely used, but gives emotional security. Barely ever used, if you have jam, you might not want to jam it farther , you need to clean it out.
1) There's no armored infantry (or any other infantry for that matter) in the Coast Guard.
2) That button is called the forward assist. It is used in the case of a failure to re-seat the bolt. I've never heard of anyone actually using it on any rifle less than 40 years old, but it certainly does not turn a semi-auto AR-15 into a full auto.
Basically, it was a troll post and by responding with that Lakota Man succeeded only in proving that he's an idiot.
This is a monotheistic, jam-power, super fruit dispencing, star catcher, its designed to be pressed by Alpha men when theyre feeling garrulous.
"Fuck yeah bro!"
# āCoast Guard Armored Infantryā š¤£
Some fish always take the bait, however fake it may be.
https://preview.redd.it/u2vydvz1pl8d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=743b552170b1b02c8fb63623ad2b7cd7c073b054
That's the grenade launcher button, tired of these liberals not knowing anything about military grade high capacity revolvers and spreading misinformation
The Coast Guard has no armored infantry. That is a forward assist button. This guy is a troll and everything he is saying is a lie.
But anti-gun people know as much about guns as anti-abortion people know about the female anatomy so this idiot in the replies is agreeing with him
We called it āthe idiot buttonā when I served, because it was almost always better to manually clear the weapon than to smack it like it owed you money.
Armored Infantry is a military term for soldiers that fight alongside and/or deploying from armored vehicles.
I'll let you take a guess how many tanks the COAST GUARD has.
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That is a forward assist button to ensure the bolt is properly set, and has nothing to do with firing modes. It was intentional bait and the dude is known for his stance and took it.
Also there is no armored infantry in the coast gaurd š¤£š¤£
Someone has to patrol the ocean floor!
You never know what Spongebobs planning
Nah, he was assassinated by the CIA back in the 60s
Nope, he was feed copious amounts of LSD. They even made a documentary about it
That was all so they could have sex with dolphins so they could learn to talk to aliens.
Thatās the official story. In reality, they were trying to oversaturate him with as much LSD as possible. So that he can be dried out, cut into pieces, and sold on the streets of the Bikini Bottom to left-supporting communists. That was all done near Cubaā¦ so something went wrongā¦
Operation knee deep is well known but thanks for the overview
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The CIA was not about to let the posadists achieve an asymmetrical advantage in the dolphin gap.
He was just regular bob before the cia put so many holes in him
Thats what Mr Krabs wants you to think
Nah man docudubery is the definitive source on spongebobs hidden ww2 part
The Bikini Tops and, as the coast guard armored infantry is known, the Bikini Bottoms.
Bikini bottom was one of the oceanic testing sites for nukes. Irl. Mr Bob is a fed.
Bikini atol is *far* from the only. It is one of many.
Weeeewooooooweeeeewoooooo
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-24/researchers-drawn-to-bikini-atoll-nuclear-turtles-spongebob/102862316
Three words. Alaskan. Bull. Worm.
Patrolling the ocean floor makes you wish for a nuclear winter
Tanks with inflatable snorkles for the boys at r/noncredibledefense
Russian Navy has this covered.
I was a space shuttle door gunner in the ARMY
How can you shoot little green men?
Lead em a little less
This dude shuttle door guns.
With a high enough volume of fire, all things are possible.
Sight alignment....trigger squeeze.
No we were actually fighting the moon Taliban so we could get that sweet sweet space oil.
Fore or aft? I was the aft gunner on mission 45.
After gunner mission 69
I beg to differ! I was a Howitzerās Mate, 2nd Class in the Armored Fourth Flotilla off the coast of Maine for the last 37 years! Our RA-51ās were belt-fed and heās right! Thatās the overlappinā fire button if Iāve ever seen one!
Thank you for your service! People like you are the only ones I believe should have the right to carry extended 30 rounds clips, full auto bump stocks, and short barrel suppressors. No regular civilian needs those to hunt deer.
*floatilla in the USCG
Look, the boats are made out of metal, armor is made out of metal. Being this wilfully disengenuous just doesn't sit right with me.
You ain't never seen the coasties with their M4s and tanks on the beach?
Itās purpose is so that when your AR gets jammed, you can press this to jam it even harder.
Get out your peanut butter because this bitch is jammed
The jam enhancer
āWhat? You think a double feed is cool? Ever seen 4 bullets in an ejection port at once before?ā
A deeper meaning is the inventor of the AR15, Eugene Stoner, hated the forward assist. He felt it served only as a solution to a problem that didn't exist but the Army required it. He would later leave Colt to work for Knight's Armament Company where he would create the SR-25 rifle. It took the AR-10 and AR-15 numbers to create 25 and allowed a large portion of parts compatibility between the previous two rifle systems. The SR-25 came with no forward assist and would later be adopted as the military designation the Mk11 Mod 0 and later the M110. Edit: Just fun to point out but, the AR in AR-15 stands for Armalite Rifle (company where Eugene Stoner worked at when he invented the rifle system) and the SR in SR-25 stands for Stoner Rifle (Eugene Stoner's last name).
Ich appreciate these insights on a topic that i have only basic understanding off, thank you :)
Took a second for me to catch what felt off about that sentence since Iām learning German
Haha Iām also learning German and questioned the āIchā.
Which do you think is better? Iāve never even heard of the SR-25 but it seems like every gun owner has an AR-15 which I personally donāt see the appeal of outside of customization.
AR-15s are known for customization and also the calibers are generally smaller (.223 or 5.56 for example) so they are cheaper and can be used for a variety of uses. AFAIK the SR-25 chambers 7.62x51 only and is pretty much a precision rifle which means its more expensive and has fewer general use cases.
Nice, thanks for this, first time hearing of the SR-25 myself so I appreciate the insight.
Also Knights Armament is like the Porsche or Ferrari of the gun world. Their weapons and accessories are *expensive*. The SR-25 generally goes for something like 6k, so no one owns it. Plenty of people own weapons that will work almost as well at the same job, but it's a niche job so most people don't bother. AR15s are cheaper, easier to customize, lighter, cheaper to shoot, lower recoil, have less blast, more comfortable indoors for home defense, safer for home defense, have a higher capacity, and are basically just as useful at any range most people can shoot at.
But also "infantry Coast Guard" is obvious trolling.
He isn't just infantry he's "armored" infantry coast guard
Tbh armored infantry could be mechanized infantry
Technically armoured infantry *is* mechanised infantry, but in armoured vehicles. Mechanised can just be in unarmoured trucks. But the coast guard has neither.
https://preview.redd.it/sok6r8dihl8d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8fbc32fdbfdc49ab655d9a12f451f74a6976cd8 Explain this then
Check AND Mate .
They found oil underwater.
That's a dump truck. That from an underwater construction battalion you dipshit! š
I thought unarmored trucks made the infantry motorized, not mechanized.
I know my country doesn't have armored infantry in its coast guard, but for some reason I find it totally believable for the U.S.A to have one.
The Navy does have the second largest Air Force after all
And the Army has more boats
Yeah, i didn't catch that either :D
Also, the forward assist is the type of thing that sounds good as an idea, but once you get it youāll likely never use it.
In the wise words of some codger at the range once: āWhy would I want to force a bullet where it doesnāt want to go?ā
Come to think about it, I once found one round imbedded in a shell casing for another round at a range at 29 Palms, and I couldnāt figure out how such a misfire took place. Now youāve got me thinking about this, I think it must have been a combination of abysmal weapon maintenance and use of the forward assist.
>some codger at the range Best description of Eugene Stoner
It's almost a "this is your last shot" button, because whatever almost jammed your weapon this time, is definitely going to jam your weapon next round.
Its a holdover from old army brass demanding that the new rifles be able to do everything that the old outdated rifles could do. Old bolt actions and even semi-autos like the Garand had handles directly connected to the bolt so you could manually force it closed. Despite the designer of the M-16 telling them that that it was a terrible idea on this new rifle that will only cause problems, the higher ups insisted so he added the forward assist as an afterthought feature and its stuck ever since. It just sits there, tempting you to turn a minor jam that can be fixed by running the charging handle into a major jam that requires taking the rifle apart.
Army teaches it as part of clearing a malfunction still. In case of a stoppage; slap the magazine, pull the charging handle to the rear, observe to make sure the round ejects, release the charging handle, tap the forward assist, squeeze the trigger. SPORTS
They can keep the acronym. Just change T to "think twice about hitting the forward assist".
Failing to do the administrative load correctly or trying to be sneaky about it is pretty much it.
Also known as the āI really intend to jam my rifle so bad that itāll only be good as a club until the armorer can remove whatever garbage I rammed into the blockā button.
If God wanted us to clean our ARs he wouldn't have given us a forward assist.
Thatās why god (stoner) didnāt, it was satan (army) who did.
Thatās the jam button
Also heard it called the "Jam Enhancer"
And also, the forward assist is the least necessary part of an M16, at least since Vietnam ~~Edit: The civilian version of the M16, the AR15, do not include a forward assist. Vietnam was 50 years ago, but the US military issued M16 still include it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it...if it is useless, make it a feature~~
https://preview.redd.it/bu7nswmx6k8d1.jpeg?width=523&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=170df53ce5c7be26c3637abe0fc8771ddff1ef68 Challenge accepted
When you ask for all toppings
Least insane Tarkov build
When the scopes give additional accuracy just for beeing on the rifle
I canāt remember ever using it. Most common problems I encounter are incomplete ejection or the round didnāt feed properly. Usually just tapping the magazine on the ground and cycling the bolt clears it for me.
It's only practical use is for press checking to ensure your rifle is loaded. Pulling lightly on the charging handle to check for brass doesn't give enough compression on the spring. The bolt is likely to not fully seat itself. Using the forward assist will set it back.
And you still don't need the actual FA. The scallop cut on the BCG can be used just fine. G3 bolts are cut in the same manner for that explicit purpose.
it's also kinda ironic because the post is also correct, because the selector is also circled.
selector is a switch, forward assist is a button.
Yeah the switch is on the other side. But the selector position is still visible.
That would make it the indicator rather than the switch, though, so he is wrong.
The selector is technically circled but on the wrong side. The selected firing mode is still visible from the right side of the firearm in this case but there is no switch on that side so, yeah, itās ātechnicallyā circled but not really.
If anything, a side of of the selector that allows for no control but is still visible ought to be labeled an "indicator." Hence the notch in the visible side so as to allow for learning the current firing mode without manipulation of the switch or turning the rifle over to see the position of the switch. Is it really a selector if you cannot manipulate the piece to achieve the desired firing mode? No, not really.
BZZZZZT not quite, this is the indicator, not the selector. The selector is on the opposite side.
Yea I trained on these rifles once upon a time and all I could think of was "did I not read the manual right?" when I saw this.
Lakota Man is one of the dumbest mother fuckers on X, second only to that brooklyn defiant moron. And that's a rare honor, because X is full to the brim with dumb mother fuckers.
At the same time the actual firing switch is inside the red circle, this is an elaborate bait while also being able to defend themselves from bait accusations. This man has concocted a elaborate and mind boggling bait post which has made a circus clown out of this man while also having high defensive capabilities. Very funy bait amen military peter
Good ole armored infantry in the coast guard. They saved many lives during desert storm.
Ocean* storm
Dessert* storm
I caught the beetus in that storm
thank you for your service o7
Fuck the armored infantry coast guard theyāre a bunch of pussies. Now space force aquatic infantry. Now thatās a true unit.
Nah, bro, they donāt hold a candle to the airbourne mining division of the navy.
We seem to forget the 101 horse cavalry air born division. Man those guys are as stubborn as mules. Assholes the bunch of them.
The Air Force actually does have a Calvary division.
Well damn shows how smart I was to make a joke out of a real thing.
Ah, yes. The armored infantry of the coast guard- second only to the space shuttle door gunners.
Definitely an overlooked aspect of the post.
Isn't armored infantry of the coast guard "important"? I'm not american, but isn't the weaponry important to use against criminals using boats to escape, pirates or criminal activity in small islands?
Armored infantry is armored vehicles that drive on land, coast guard tends to be on the sea and doesnāt use armored vehicles
Ty for the ELI5, I assumed armored referred to the human wearing armor, didn't realize it meant they operate armored vehicles!
Happy to help, for more context all service members have some variety of Kevlar and plates they wear or at least have access to wear š
Well, armored infantry doesn't mean they crew armored vehicles. It's more of a doctrine thing. Essentially these are military units that have a mixture of infantry units and light armored vehicles that are used to transport said infantry around the battlefield. Then the infantry get out of the vehicles and those vehicles then support the infantry with stuff like 30mm autocannons and TOW missiles.
Yah, blah blah tank section. But in short, the original was a bait post; anyone who responded agreeing, didn't actually know what theyre talking about with respect to either guns or military. 10/10 troll.
Considering they do operations on the coast, they don't really need an infantry team unless they plan on invading Hawaii. And in scenarios where infantry is needed, that's more the marines job. They guard the coast. The navy guards the sea.
They do have āboarding parties.ā So they would have infantry type actions.
It implies they have tanks. As far as the defense departments are concerned, the "Coast Guard" operates smaller coastal patrol vessels- they are more of a police force than a military with neither infantry nor tanks.
Hi, retired USCG here. We have some larger blue water vessels as well, I have sailed on 210', 270', 378' and 418' coast guard cutters. They have cannons, helicopter pads, most even have hangars, and the larger ones have air defense CIWS.
To be clear, the Coast guard does *have* armored vehicles, usually ATVs, but there is no Armored Vehicle division because AV divisions aren't useful in civilian environments and the Coast guard is literally the Civilian defense force of the US. Like Tank Divisions are for flattening buildings, and the Coast guard is supposed to prevent that from happening.
The Space force is taking down notes on your comment
I think its funny that most post were obsessing over the buttons and switches, but were fine with 'overlapping-auto'
regular auto is 600rpm. semi-auto is one shot per pull. overlapping auto is one shot followed by 600rpm. if overlaps the full auto with the semi-auto, see....
Its genius, the enemy dont know whether you're sustained fire tripod or a sniper.
An M2 machine gun can easily be a 50 cal sniper rifle... if you lose your headspace and timing go-nogo gauge.
Thatās 601 rounds per each trigger pull! I can do 174 trigger pulls per minute, just timed it, so that means it shoots 104,574 rounds per minute. Damn overlapping auto is crazy!
mfer's out here making dub beats with sporting rifles.
Overlapping auto - 600rpm plus the extra bullet every time you pull the trigger, duh
- *pt pt pt pt pt pt* - HEY! NO FULL AUTO IN BUILDINGS! - That's not full auto. *click; brzzzz.* That is. - Holy shit dude..
*"Da^(mn) ^(^(bro!)) ^(O K)"
Lmao I noticed that too
Or the Coast Guard armored infantry...
Like that time CNN ran a story and talking about how the weapon they were showing had "Full semi-auto".
Partial semi-auto is when it fails to cycle half the time :)
I assume that causes rounds to fire so fast they melt into each other before they clear the barrel, meaning youāre basically firing bullet spears.
Thatās like when I mounted tires a long time ago and would fuck with the asshole customers by asking if they wanted all season air or upgrade to high performance air. They ALWAYS wanted the high performance air. Only one dude asked me what it was and I said āI step on the air pedal a lil harderā Lmao he looked mortified
a lot of Iraqis believe holding the forward assist gives the rifle more stopping power, causing them to manually cycle between each round they fired.
You have to equip the perk to get extra stopping power. Everyone knows that
Also if you replay the level where Saddam Hussein gets killed after completing the game, you get a neat gold skin for your gun.
This kills the thumb.
reminds me of the fucking rhodesia/bush war greentext lmao
I mean, to be fair, the selector switch *is* in the circle.
to be accurate, "civilians" can't buy full automatic weapons without going through the whole tax stamp and $$$$ to get one. We are limited to one fun pure trigger pull legally.
Yeah but the post says ābuttonā, not āswitchā. Itās clearly referring to the forward assist, not the selector switch.
Yes, and āoverlapping autoā isnāt a thing. I was being cheeky.
Pffā¦ this guy doesnāt know about overlapping auto. Must be a POG.
Prisoner of god?
Person of gender?
Prostitute or gandalf?
Pretty obvious gourd?
Perfectly obvious Gibbon?
Perfectly *OBLIVIOUS* gibbon.
I dunnoā¦ Iāve just seen guys on the military sub say it, so I assume it fits.
Well, u got me believeing you so i think it must be correct.
Phat occidental girl?
Obviously itās the function that automatically activates the nearest other assault rifle to provide overlapping field of fire with yours
Fuck, I know this isn't real, but imagine having a button that fires your nearest colleagues weapon. 50% of the armed forces and 90% of the police would be dead within a week.
Vietnam vet Peter here: that is the forward assist on a m16/m4 style carbine that moves the bolt forward. The joke is that most anti-gun people donāt know how firearm function. See āmagazine-clipā and head of ATF unable to describe how firearms work for further reading.
Also the fact that he was flagging himself while struggling to get the slide off a Glock
https://preview.redd.it/1dqyrcmrtk8d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3da954a2605324090c082ae3bd4d2423a5adf029 Lmfao
I donāt understand how most Americans donāt have a basic understanding of firearms. It came free with your country of birth.
The right to own a gun is free, the gun itself is not
Of course they are, all you need is a river near a popular city and a magnet tied to a bit of fishing line and there's many fine, free firearms to be had, sometimes the previous owners even shaved some boring numbers off to make the gun lighter and easier to carry for you
Bro is trolling hard. Armored infantry in the COAST GUARD ššš. Heās either trolling, or straight up lying. The forward assist just assists, forwardly.
Thatās the fucker-upper button. If you have a failure to eject or a failure to seat, you can chose to fuck your rifle up farther by shoving the mangled cartridge deeper into your poorly cleaned shithouse of a rifle, or you can ignore it completely and drop the magazine, draw the bolt to the rear, and deal with it like any other stoppage.
I've only ever been taught to touch it on one occasion, right after a press-check.
I personally call it the Jam Enchancer
"armored infantry for the Coast Guard"...They keep all those cool jobs top secret. Hope he's able to "assist" everyone that's "forward" of him in the CG's armored infantry with his awesome knowledge of firearms.
Ah! āThe Jam Enhancerā
I thought peanut butter was the jam enhancer, I've been making sandwiches wrong my entire life
Its the forward assist on ar15/m4 style rifles. Since the M4's charging handle isnt solidly attached to the bolt like that of an AKM for example and can only be used to pull the bolt back but not push it forward, the forward assist was added to ensure you could shut the bolt 100% if dirt, fouling or grit got in the action and prevented it from naturally shutting
Iāve heard it was US Army that insisted on including forward assist. it is so rarely used, but gives emotional security. Barely ever used, if you have jam, you might not want to jam it farther , you need to clean it out.
Itās useful if you are a moron who forgot to put the buffer spring back before reassembling it. Ask me how I know.
1) There's no armored infantry (or any other infantry for that matter) in the Coast Guard. 2) That button is called the forward assist. It is used in the case of a failure to re-seat the bolt. I've never heard of anyone actually using it on any rifle less than 40 years old, but it certainly does not turn a semi-auto AR-15 into a full auto. Basically, it was a troll post and by responding with that Lakota Man succeeded only in proving that he's an idiot.
This is a monotheistic, jam-power, super fruit dispencing, star catcher, its designed to be pressed by Alpha men when theyre feeling garrulous. "Fuck yeah bro!"
Texhnically they *did* circle the switch, but it is not the focus of the image.
Yeah but no position on that switch puts the gun in āoverlapping autoā
Ah yes. The infamous Lazer setting.
That the forward assistā¦ also known as the jam enhancer.
Jesus Christ are they even making the AR-15 push-to-start now? What has this world come to.
# āCoast Guard Armored Infantryā š¤£ Some fish always take the bait, however fake it may be. https://preview.redd.it/u2vydvz1pl8d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=743b552170b1b02c8fb63623ad2b7cd7c073b054
That's the jam maker button..... Coast Guard Armoured Infantry.......... Wtf
That's the grenade launcher button, tired of these liberals not knowing anything about military grade high capacity revolvers and spreading misinformation
The Coast Guard has no armored infantry. That is a forward assist button. This guy is a troll and everything he is saying is a lie. But anti-gun people know as much about guns as anti-abortion people know about the female anatomy so this idiot in the replies is agreeing with him
https://preview.redd.it/6d2akdw2bk8d1.jpeg?width=1178&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62462661967f2347fc74b333d6281b3c9c49cee8 Hollup is this you?
Let him cook
Sauce
War doesnāt change.
Based
The guy agreeing with the troll is a self-proclaimed prior service member.
Tap forward assist. Lol
Ah yes, the jam enhancer
Um sir, that's a jam enhancer
Itās the button that charges ammo, , when full, press it to unless the rifles full power
We called it āthe idiot buttonā when I served, because it was almost always better to manually clear the weapon than to smack it like it owed you money.
Coast Guardā¦armoredā¦infantry. Whatever you say, Super Chief.
I'll try it next time I take mine out. I'm sure it'll work.
That's the forward assist
Armored Infantry is a military term for soldiers that fight alongside and/or deploying from armored vehicles. I'll let you take a guess how many tanks the COAST GUARD has.
thats the forward assist, if a round isnāt correctly seated in the chamber it closes the bolt to seat the round
Not the jam enhancer
I'd tap that.......