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Black Panthers in Philly: All the power to the mother fucking people! No power to the pig!
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It's nice of him to put the massive suppressor on it.
To help with the noise pollution.
I know suppressors don't make things silent, but a 12 ga is pretty loud and you might not always have a chance to put on ear protection so maybe it's a compromise to help with hearing?
I suspect it's for intimidation.
"Tacti-cool" gear.
But he said he wanted to have a bigger gun than the other guy, and this is a great way to do it.
I just did a quick Google and didn't find any instances of Black Panthers ever opening fire on cops.
Obviously that's barely research but it's good odds that it happened few enough times that it will take more more than 30s to find.
To be clear, I'm on their side. I think adding peripherals to the guns to make them more intimidating is the exact kind of thing that will work on bullies.
I just was entertained by it all. Getting down to the level of "big gun scarier than small gun" because they're trying to communicate to really dumb, macho assholes.
Could be taken to mean that they’re actually effective, and none of the pigs were ever brave enough to fuck with them. Optimistic interpretation, anyway. I’m hoping that’s the case and it’ll still be true today, fingers crossed.
That's a flash suppressor. It doesn't make the gun quieter but if you're in the dark, it makes it harder for your target to see the muzzle flashes and zero in on you.
That does lend some credence to the idea that it's just there to make the gun bigger.
Presumably the aim is that the gun doesn't even get pointed at anyone, let alone fired.
No side wants that gun to get used. It's there for intimidation and messaging, and by Jove it's doing just that. We need more organized groups observing with their 2nd Amendment rights.