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   Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 02:20:56 JST Summertime for Zeon

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   @nugger @synapsid Gaston supposedly modeled the glock angle off of ergonomic studies using non-shooters. He wanted to find the most natural pointing form for the default, inexperienced, blank slate human.

   Add in the european tradition of highly raked grip angles - the luger was prized by literally everyone who ever beheld one - and it makes sense why it's so raked. Like any big split it's controversial because people accustomed to one set of muscle memory whine that they have to develop a new one for the second.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 02:20:55 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @nugger @synapsid no one shoots like Gaston, designs guns like Gaston, in a gunsperg match nobody wins like Gaston
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 03:10:22 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @BroDrillard @synapsid @BowsacNoodle @nugger It was too late, if they'd dropped it 10 years before it would have had a better chance. As it was it was just too big to hit the same market of weird freaks who love old guns enough to carry 380s

     and it went up against a horde of high cap pocket pistols

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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 03:10:23 JST BroDrillard

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     I can see what they attempted but it's not quite bold enough.
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     BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 03:10:24 JST BroDrillard

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     >If anything glock's greatest sin was setting the standard pistol template for 150 years to come.
     
     Imagine, if we could have variations on this instead.
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 03:10:24 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @BroDrillard @synapsid @BowsacNoodle @nugger WE DID AND YOU NUTSACKS NEVER BOUGHT IT

     WE WERE THIS CLOSE TO GREATNESS

     JUST LIKE 4 YEARS OF PRODUCTION AND THEY WOULD HAVE IRONED EVERYTHING OUT MAYBE

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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 03:10:25 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @BowsacNoodle @nugger @synapsid It's impossible to say he didn't get damn close to perfection, because if you look at the market literally every company is bragging about how they "changed the game" by.....copying every element that set the glock apart in the first place.

     IDK I don't get how anyone cares so much about it, I like their funky character differences much more than they could bother me. If anything glock's greatest sin was setting the standard pistol template for 150 years to come. Even the nerdy fave companies look and feel more like glocks than they do their original steel framed parents. Favela styling writ large

     People want different until kel tec offers a lightweight pocket pistol you gotta feed with stripper clips, then.....ew why isn't it a polymer 9 w/ glock mags?

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     Account: Firearms (gat@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 23:05:01 JST Account: Firearms

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     @sapphire @synapsid @WashedOutGundamPilot @nugger
     
     The things I appreciate the most about Glock is simplicity and safety.
     
     Several common designs have a striker block that is located at the tail. If striker were to break, its spring will easily slam the remaining section in the primer. But on Glock, the safety is out in front, ahead of the place where the spring applies force on the striker.
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 23:05:02 JST sapphire

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @synapsid @nugger tldr: everyone I’ve talked to that’s actually had to shoot someone with it swears by their glock
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     Summertime for Zeon (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 23:05:03 JST Summertime for Zeon

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     @nugger @synapsid I think gun nerds have a real problem overblowing minor concerns because guns at their core are such a simple thing. Compared to more complex hobby machines, they're boring, so guys have to obsess over the same 3 details when they don't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things.

     The car fags don't obsess over shifter/wheel shapes this much. Maybe it's just the "machines as appliances" versus "machines as hobbies" aspect that bugs me. Everyone thinks they need a gunslinger's pistol, but if we're honest with ourselves we're better suited for a conscript pistol.

     I understand having a preference but I'm not sticking my nose up at a glock for its european accent when it brings the track record. I can't think of a failure in all my range time watching people shoot their duty guns, and that ain't something I can say for the hk fags. Maybe I just don't care enough, or I've gotten over the supposed reflex of drawing a g19 and growled because I have it tilted up 20º over the horizon

     But you never hear anyone complain after shooting a luger, I tell yeh huwhat