Okay. So, thread time. This picture has been making me irrationally angry all day. Beyond the shitty trigger discipline and muzzle awareness. Beyond the fact they forgot their boat shoes. Going to indulge my inner gun nerd for a second. 1/

Captain Dockers here is brandishing an AR-15 pattern rifle. Yes, the scary gun. However, it's what the gun isn't that's a dead giveaway to people like me. First, you need to understand that the AR platform is as popular as it is because of adaptability. 2/

Hunters, sport shooters, and people concerned with home defense can all pick up an AR lower receiver and load out a gun uniquely tailored for their application. The AR, properly customized, excels at all of them. 3/

Admiral Barefoot here has done none of that. The weapon in his hands is as bone stock as an AR can be. 70's iron sights, fixed stock, factory foregrips. It's the sort of AR you could buy off the shelf for $400 at Walmart until last year. 4/

It's not meant to do... anything. It's a show piece. Something he can whip out to his lawyer friends who also know fuckall about guns to show off like a 16.5 inch penis extension. 5/

The factory stock is too long for his short-ass arms. He needs an adjustable stock for it to fit his frame, but he doesn't fucking know that because no one has ever taught him about proper trigger pull length. 6/

It's a prop to be used in his theatrical, performative, privilege signaling. Nothing more.

It's still very dangerous, believe me. I'm sure it's loaded with live rounds to compensate for the blanks he's been shooting at his wife for the last ten years. 7/

But what's made me so angry is the fact he now gets to be the face for white gun ownership in America, when he's no more qualified to be than if he was a t-ball player on the cover of RBI Baseball 2020 for Xbox.

RANT OFF! 8/8

Oh and JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I missed this part because it looks normal to me so I had a blind spot.

He's holding it in a left-handed grip. It's not a left-handed gun. You shoot a stock righty AR left handed and it will throw hot brass directly in your face.

I know. I'm a lefty.

Have a real good friend who let me shoot their M-16A2 mockup. Identical to this gun. Every shot threw flaming hot brass directly into my nose and cheek.

Motherfucker has either never fired that gun, or he's never, ever been taught how to hold a fucking rifle.

Goddammit I hate 2A cosplayers...