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CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the amount of guns someone has?

What makes 23 different guns better than one good one? I can see the point of having like two, in case the first jams, but based on my (limited) experience I would much rather have a single HK416 than a dozen of anything else.

Also with fewer guns you need fewer ammo types (unless you for some reason have 23 guns with the same ammo, which to me makes even less sense).

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aidan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the number of guns someone has?

Can be one of several things, or usually a combination:

to show how prepared they were

to imply the person was crazy because they had that many guns

to imply people having that many guns somehow itself makes them more dangerous

A lot of it is just rhetoric
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phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
He brought all those guns to the hotel room he shot from. I imagine it was so he could shoot as many rounds at the crowd with out the need to reload.

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- skyspydude1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  But that really makes no sense. Unless you have them all set up in a row pointed exactly where you want, you’re probably not even saving half a second vs reloading. The old “switching is faster than reloading” thing doesn’t apply nearly as much when you’re at a static position and can have all your mags out in the open at arm’s reach.
  
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  - OpenStars@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Except they can jam up - otherwise as you said it would be better to reload one than to switch?
    
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skyspydude1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Because it grabs attention and sounds scary, which really what media outlets care about. My other favorite is when they talk about someone having being caught with “hundreds of rounds of ammunition”, which clearly indicates that’s how many people they were planning on murdering, and isn’t just a pretty typical range day, or in the case of reallly common stuff like 9mm, 22LR, or even 223, can literally be a single box of ammo.

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