John Moses Browning’s gun fact dump

The Colt/Smith and Wesson Model 1917

This particular revolver is chambered in .45 ACP, an automatic cartridge first created for Colt pistols, hence ACP standing for Automatic Colt Pistol. Then why is an autoloader cartridge in a revolver? The 1917 exists because when the U.S. entered WW1 in 1917, Colt could not manufacture enough 1911 pistols to supply them. So what the military did is they turned to the two main revolver manufacturers, Colt and S&W, and had them make a revolver in .45 ACP. They wanted it in the same cartridge as the main 1911 to make sure the supply line would get too complicated, but .45 ACP, being a semi-auto cartridge, does not possess a protruding rim to hang in the revolver cylinder. So what they did is they created the half-moon clip. Each would hold three rounds, and the cartridge would snap into the clip, and the clip would act in the place of the rim. The revolver is used by Wardaddy, played by Brad Pitt, in the 2014 movie Fury. 

really good advice to use on A New America. I’ve got the MLO stats buffed and they are just fucking the hell out of me. They’re bending Judge over and just clapping that shit with maximum efficiency and velocity 

The Tokarev TT-33, the Soviet’s early-mid 1900’s FN 5.7.

The Tokarev TT-33 holds 8 rounds of 7.62x25 Tokarev and appears to take some aesthetic design cues from the 1911. With an 85gr bullet out of an 11.75 inch length barrel, you can expect a velocity of around 1850fps, although, of course, out of the Tokarev TT-33’s approximately 4.6 inch barrel length, expect much lower velocity, about 1500-1600fps. With a 40gr projectile out of a 4.8 inch barrel, 5.7x28 achieves around 1800fps, being a more modern, lightweight bullet design. 

So it starts somewhere in the 1980s in the American Midwest. David Beaumont is born. He enlists in the United States Armed Forces at a y**ng age, and fights in the Middle East, supposedly in the Global War on Terror, because he says “We were just k*ds. B*ys in the desert, what can we do? I have no idea what we’re doing there. I don’t even know where they are now.” in his apartment post S-Rank of A New America looking at photo. Following his service, Beaumont joins the Chicago Police Department, where he became a SWAT officer. In 2017, the Chicago Nightclub Ma**acre occurred, where Beaumont’s entire squad was k***ed, and he was left severely injured, mentally and physically. After his last surgery, his wife, Elizabeth, suggests he goes to Nevada to “find himself.” Elizabeth is heavily suggested to have been a government plant, more on that later. Her suggesting he goes to Nevada suggests Beaumont had eyes on him before the Chicago Nightclub Ma**acre, and I’m thinking that it might have actually been orchestrated, the ma**acre, to break Beaumont down so he could be rebuilt in their image. A blank slate, of sorts. So anyways, Elizabeth disappears without a trace. Government plant. Beaumont goes to Reno, Nevada, transferring to Reno Police Department, where somewhere along he is absorbed into the Mariposa Leaf Project, the in-game version of MK Ultra, where Beaumont is engineered to be the perfect super soldier. He is the second cohort, as the first attempt of this produced the MLO, present in A New America. Crazy, government obsessed militants. Beaumont is assigned “Gamma-One.” Sometime in Nevada, he meets a friend named Evan who promises to “Never lead him astray.” Evan is also a government plant. Beaumont is subjected to memory compartmentalization and mind re-wiring, to suppress memories of his experiences in Nevada, give him lowered empathy, blunted startle response and negligible cortisol spike under stress, heightened situational awareness and psychological steadiness under simulated stress, all benefiting his combat. During Nevada, Beaumont is also said to have participated in top secret, clandestine operations. After Nevada, Beaumont is fast tracked to D-Platoon commander, sparking suspicion among colleagues. He is planted as a sleeper agent, surveilled via a hidden surveillance room built into the LSPD headquarters, discovered during renovations, but by then, long abandoned. The missions start slow, initially with a gas station robbery, but exponentially speed up, with one mission, Neon Tomb, directly mirroring the 2017 Chicago Nightclub Ma**acre, believed to be a test of the MK Ultra trauma suppression. Beaumont’s planting as D-Platoon commander is confirmed with a transcript between two agents found in Carriers of the Vine, also confirming his status as Gamma One. Gerard Scott in A Lethal Obsession also knows Beaumont to a certain extent, suggesting some past in common, possibly in the Mariposa Leaf Experiment. A surveillance room is also mentioned in this transcript, believed to be the room discovered in headquarters. Sorry if things are kind of trailing off now, I’m saying this as I go. After the Elysian Hotel mission, others within the LSPD grew suspicious of Beaumont, and launched a secretive investigation into him, notably into how many incidents occurred only with Beaumont in close proximity. This is later revealed to be deliberately orchestrated by the MLO to test Beaumont, and ultimately lead him to his final test in the A New America mission. During a New America, you are presented with a choice. In the final room, the court room, lies the triggerman. You can either save the day like a good boy and disarm the boom booms, or you can purposely detonate them. They lead to separate endings, and it is currently unclear as to which is canon. Likely both are equally. If you disarm, you end up in Beaumont’s apartment, which is across the street from a strip club and is quite small, which makes you wonder where this guy’s paycheck is going. There is documents and notes all over the walls, suggesting Beaumont has been trying to uncover his past on his own. Some documents are also there given to him by those who were suspicious of him in the LSPD. Because he disarmed the boom booms, the suspicion is relieved, and the documents are forwarded to him to aid in his personal investigations. A watch is also gifted to him by his team as an apology. If you detonate, you are brought to federal prison. This is where The Man In Green Gloves is most notable. He is believed to represent a third organization. A secretive high society. A crude drawing of Elizabeth is scratched into the wall of Beaumont’s cell, and when interacted with it, Beaumont will say “symbols, images, it all pours in, flowing in my head like running water with no words. You were always good at masking, weren’t you? Not like it was me putting on a brave fucking face. Were you even fucking real?? Was any of this real? Did you just lie to me the whole time, like everyone else? Everytime I tried to remember your face, it distorts in my mind. Who even were you??” (He’s fully fuckin lost it by now.) The Man In Green Gloves (yes that is his canon name in the subtitles) will come to visit Beaumont in prison. Not sure when or what triggers his entrance, but it happens. The full interaction goes as follows. “Mr. Beaumont… a pleasent evening to you. You will never know my name, and no one would believe you if you spoke it. The cameras, the guards- gone. There are no witnesses to our moment. I find it curious how a man such as yourself can emerge unscathed in scenarios where others would break. Within those eyes, I see you’ve navigated every corridor of your mind, praying and hoping for an exit. Yet those above you rearrange the halls. And you were made to heel on command, and they called it destiny: your job, their ‘experiment.’ There is no map, David, no prophecy, no grand vision for America; only the cartographers, those who draw the borders of the possible, they craft the reality that’s around us. The USIA’s (c-word I can mention here) of the first and second cohorts worship mere symbols. They are zealots. So crude, and yet so graceful. Energies wasted on endless wars, fighting to transmute the ruins of the USIA’s failure to build anew. Those puppets that you call the USIA, who merely crunch variables. They try to twist the fabric of reality with tools unworthy of the material they have no right to possess, let alone even have access to. Both are bound, ensl***d really… by belief. But you… you dangle on the precipice of something.. rarer. What I offer- what we offer, is authorship. To move beyond agency, beyond choice. Freedom. Those faceless flower children, nothing more than mind-broken test subjects meant to absorb you into their collective, whilst the USIA intended to remake you in their own image. And now both and poised to succeed, all depending on who gets there first, of course. I see.. that their plan is already in bloom. Ever looked in the mirror? If you reject me now, they will lay claim to you. You will be their vessel, David. I did not come to save nor k*ll you. I came to ask: are you ready to no longer be?” Beaumont will respond “Yes… yes I am.” To which The Man in Green Gloves will end with “A wise decision, Mr. Beaumont. Step through with me, there is no light here.” 



yeah so beyond sleeper agent shit now, this is way above that. The Man in Green Gloves is also supposedly a 5’11 Asian… if that’s of any importance after all of that. Amazing lore. 

TEST TEST TEST MK Ultra

Let me ask you sumth man WHAT ARE THE TRIGGER WORDS THAT QUEUE SHIT FOR MODERATOR APPROVAL? I WROTE LIKE 500 WORDS ABOUT THE READY OR NOT LORE AND THAT SHIT IS QUEUED.



YOU ARE DAMN LUCKY I COPIED THAT SHIT, I EXPECTED TO BE QUEUED 



YOU CANNOT OUTSMART JOHNNY BOY 

The carry handle on some AR pattern rifles isn’t actually a carry handle. It was a guard for the early top charging handle designs 

In light of the recent exposure of… those who disagree with the results of WW1/2… Here’s the gun that scared the Germans, the Browning Automatic Rifle.

mmmmmmm cool Russian guns 

Well I wrote something about the Winchester Model 1897, but it got flagged for moderator review and it’s still not here. APPARENTLY it’s flagged to talk about germany’s war crimes or something. Literally 1987

1978. Accuracy International is founded. Three men, Malcolm Cooper, Dave Walls, and Dave Caig, each bringing their own specialty to the table. Operating out of Walls’ garage in Portsmouth. Cooper, an Olympic gold medalist. Walls, a precision machinist and gunsmith. Caig, an engineer and toolmaker. Rather than the traditional manner of a wood stock, they elected to make the full receiver and screw it into green plastic stock halves, giving them a unique advantage in modularity and ergonomics. 

1982. Britain is in the Falklands War. The Brits are using a modernized Lee Enfield converted to 7.62x51 NATO (.308 Winchester). The prolonged water exposure and cold in the Falklands exposed major issues in the design of their rifle. The wood stocks trapped moisture causing warping and swelling, pressing against the free-float barrels, heavily affecting accuracy. The MoD initiated the Infantry Sniping Trials in the early 80’s to find a replacement. Out of a reported 17 manufacturers competing, Including Heckler and Kock, SIG Sauer and Remington (jesus shit), it was narrowed down to Accuracy International and Paker-Hale’s M85. The AI demonstrated higher durability and ease of maintenance. The Accuracy International PM achieved 0.5 MOA ten shot groups at 100 yards with 168 grain match ammunition, and maintained zero regardless of barrel temperature or environmental factors.

When Accuracy International submitted their rifle, they really had no intention of winning. They were basically pushed into it. The only profit they were really expecting was professional evaluation on their design and constructive feedback. However, their rifle was too good, and the Bri’ish gave them a contract for over 1000 rifles. This would usually be a major success. However, three guys in a garage didn’t exactly possess the capability to produce 1000 rifles in this timespan. Before the contract was to go through, the MoD required an audit to ensure industrial capacity, workforce and manufacturing facilities required for the order. This is where the funny story begins. The three men decided to stage the inspection. They rented out a workshop and transferred all their tooling, machines and rifles to there. Different parts of rifles were placed all around in different workbenches to sell the illusion of an active assembly line. When MoD inspectors arrived, they found the facility empty. When asked, the three men simply responded that all the employees were on their regularly scheduled lunch break. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Usually this would be hard to believe, the entire workforce going out for lunch at the exact same time, but they were reassured by the professional setup of the place. They then all went out to lunch to finalize everything, where the inspectors famously remarked that the whole inspection thing was really just a formality to ensure they weren’t just three blokes in a shed, completely unaware that these three men were, in fact, three blokes in a shed. 

However, this carefully sculpted illusion couldn’t be held up indefinitely. Once MoD realized that they were really three blokes in a shed, they mandated that they sub-contract to fulfill their obligation, with final assembly and quality control by Accuracy International. This emergency sub-contracting was a nightmare, as the sub-contractors struggled with the tight tolerances the three blokes had so passionately and precisely designed. Some dumbasses decided to cut corners and make un-authorized changes to make time, resulting in major quality failures. Realizing that these shitasses threatened to destroy the rifle’s reputation, Accuracy International cut ties. Accuracy International rapidly developed from three blokes in a shed to the actual professional manufacturer they lied about being prior. 

Now on the sterling toughness of the rifle, I am far too tired as of writing this to properly speak on this, so I encourage whoever is interested to look into this topic themselves. However I will talk on the AWP version. In the late 80’s the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration wanted a rifle optimized for sub-zero conditions. Accuracy International redesigned their platform, resulting in the Arctic Warfare rifle family. The Swedish demanded operational functionality in temperatures as low as -40. Normal bolt-actions would fail under these conditions, as moisture freezes inside the receiver, welding the bolt shut or preventing the firing pin from striking the primer. Consult Garand Thumb’s freezing pistol, rifles and shotgun tests. To address these functional concerns, AI cut long channels into the bolt that scraped away ice, packed snow, whatever during cycling. Controls were optimized for thick, unwieldy gloved hands, such as the thumbhole in the stock, bold knob, trigger guard and magazine release lever. A quick change barrel was designed to allow a quick field change within two minutes. Gas relief ports and improved striker seals were included to prevent water ingress and safely direct gasses away from the shooter in case of a catastrophic casing failure. The Swedish adopted the platform in 1991 as the Prickskyttegevär 90. Recognizing the superior resilience of this improved design, the British replaced their original Accuracy International rifle from earlier, designated as the L96A1, with the new rifle, designated the L118A1. Truly a majestic naming scheme. Theres more but im tired man