There’s no doubt that the explosion in first person shooter games has done more to increase firearms ownership among younger people than just about anything else. It’s the reason that we have the current “tactical chic” going on with clothing and bags, and one of the reasons that the AR-15 and other rifles are as popular as they are. Everyone seems to want to look like the cool guys from the video games. Which is how I justify to El Jefe that I’m posting this 17 minute long trailer for Battlefield 4. The graphics look amazing, and they appear to be following on their Battlefield 3 success in including a single player campaign (instead of only multiplayer, like the first half of the series). Despite the complete failure that was Sim City, this might actually get me to spend money on an EA game again.
In Soviet Russia… oh, wait…
Here in the DPRNJ we need to do that to buy a long gun (which includes BB guns, by the way. You actually have to fill out a 4473 and Certificate of Eligibility) or any kind of ammo. Not saying it’s right, but NY isn’t the worst state.
I didn’t play it, but I was tempted to pick up Battlefield 3 for one reason: Sound.
The sounds in that game are amazing. There had never been a video game that sounded that much like what I had experienced in the Marine Corps. The crack of bullets flying by from rifles too distant to hear clearly. The deep “thunk” of rounds impacting armor. The sound of the M16 as it fires in semi-auto mode. (That sound brought the smell back too, and I could remember that distinct odor of gunpowder and burning CLP.) Many of the sounds are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. It sounded awesome.
Anyway. I figured if they could do that well with the sound, they paid good attention to detail and probably made a pretty good game. The most realistic ever. It was really tempting … Then I remembered how long and tedious a real battle is, and I decided I didn’t want realism. So I went out and picked up “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” instead. Battles are best experienced in 10 minute non-stop-action doses.
I’m sure Battlefield 4 will be great. I’m also sure I still won’t be buying it.
They probably just wanted an autograph.
More importantly, can TTAG review the UTS-15? I’ve heard everything from “crap” to “gotta have one…”
Only thing better is if answered the door with his t-shirt “I Piss Excellence!”
Once again since it disappeared into the ether…
RF, It’s actually HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
It didnt occur to anyone else that Battlefield 4 is being released this year at the same time as the new xbox and ps4? Odds are they will look very similar to this preview on the next gen consoles. Cant wait.
“HOGSWAT” – Love it. A small-business entrepreneur making a buck by taking care of a problem, and providing a service to the farmers and some great hunting to the customers. I bet this video had the anti-hunting/anti-gun types wetting their panties.
As an aside on the “do you NEED an AR-15 to hunt hogs?” question:
It is the Bill of RIGHTS, not the Bill of Needs.
Go to the March 2013 issue of Imprimis magazine on the Hillsdale College web site for an article by Edward J. Erler (California State University, San Bernardino) titled “The Second Amendment as an Expression of First Principles”. [www.hillsdale.edu/news/mprimis.asp]
“Each person who consents to become a member of civil society thus enjoys the equal protection of his own rights, while at the same time incurring the obligation to protect the rights of his fellow citizens. In the first instance, then, the people are a militia, formed for the mutual protection of equal rights. This makes it impossible to mistake both the meaning and the vital importance of the Second Amendment: The whole people are the militia, and disarming the people dissolves their moral and political existence.”
“Furthermore, the Declaration specifies that when government becomes destructive of the ends for which it is established—the “Safety and Happiness” of the people—then “it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” This is what has become known as the right of revolution, an essential ingredient of the social compact and a right which is always reserved to the people. The people can never cede or delegate this ultimate expression of sovereign power. Thus, in a very important sense, the right of revolution (or even its threat) is the right that guarantees every other right. And if the people have this right as an indefeasible aspect of their sovereignty, then, by necessity, the people also have a right to the means to revolution. Only an armed people are a sovereign people, and only an armed people are a free people—the people are indeed a militia.”
Cast that in bronze, and hang it over your gun safe: “Thus, in a very important sense, the right of revolution (or even its threat) is the right that guarantees every other right. And if the people have this right as an indefeasible aspect of their sovereignty, then, by necessity, the people also have a right to the means to revolution.”
THAT is what ARs are all about. Not hunting, not “sport”, not “gun collecting”. They are about the “ultimate expression of sovereign power … the means to revoluton.” If that bothers you, move to Europe where you can be a comfortable subject of the state.
BATFE= Bunch of A-holes Targeting Friendies without Explanation. Keep up the good work guys, glad you got to earn a few extra bucks and take your toys out for a play-date on our dime….
The Truth About Games?
I still play B2 2.0 single-player rarely when I have so much freetime I actually get around and become bored enough to playing a game on a pc. I haven’t played B3 and I won’t be playing B4 but I’m sure they are great. I will instead be actually shooting real guns with most of my freetime.
Most of you must be console kids because no pc person would ever be buying or supporting EA. Screw EA.
Welcome to the world of unintended consequences.
Looks like Kingsley is channeling his inner Conan.
Simple.
Police use guns when they protect the public, they aren’t labeled criminals.
Soldiers carry guns when they protect against invading forces, they aren’t labeled criminals.
But law-abiding citizens (including former police and veterans) are having legislation forced upon them that brands them criminals for wanting to stay protected in certain locations (gun free zones) and for owning particular firearms.
Does that make sense to you? Guns aren’t a new invention. They’ve been around for hundreds of years and operated safely by responsible and mature children and adults. Suddenly now, because of the actions of a few crazies and criminals, owning a specific type of firearm labels you the same as them? How would that make you feel?
Know who’s having the biggest laugh about all this? Criminals. Because none of this unconstitutional legislation is affecting their activities and they’re watching this big circle-jerk with a big smile on their faces.
Yet again, Dear Leader proves that his only solution is to disarm the entire population rather than deal with the root cause of incidents like the Sandy Hook massacre!
The problem is our leadership in this country thinks that they are supposed to rule by feelings, BULLSHIT!!! I was proffessional fire fighter and responded to hundreds of people seriously hurt by all kinds of things. In training they told us to switch off emotion, and react to the problem first. Feelings were for back at the station house. When ur on scene emotion will not help anyone!! You have to be able to switch it off to be able to save lives. We didnt elect a President to be our father, im sure we all have fathers already, we pay him to run are country!! Emotion is a personal thing that has no place in leadership rolls!! Our president is an assclown that preys on peoples emotion to further his pollitical career! Example, I roll up on a drowning victem here in FL, as a fire rescue paramedic, the first thing we did was get the emotionaly distrot parents out of the way, so we could work on their son. Im not being mean, in fact the oppisit. You see the paents screaming and crying isnt going to help us revive the child, in fact it could cover up breath sounds and faint pulse’s, not to mention when we revived this little guy he was not sure what had happened to him. And screaming crying parrents would only upset the child further. After stablizing him enough for transport, I would then pull the parrents aside and let them know hes going to be ok, but i need one of you calm to ride with us to the hospital. Calm is the key. If your emotional it can lead to mistakes, and mistake cost lives. After getting their son te hospitals ER, I always told the prrents you did the right thing, and because of that your sons alive. Theres a time and place for feelings, when your trying to revive a 5 yeald boy that was discovered in the bottom of your pool, is not one of those times for the rescue workers. Nor is it the Presidents place in his office, you dont see him getting this eotional over all the boys coming home in body bags from the war!! Becase he realizes thats not his place either, its the families and friends of that man or women who gave their life for the FREEDOM HE’s TRYING TO SHIT ON!!! He’s clearly the worst President this countrver had!!
If he pointed his finger like that in school, he’d be expelled. Pardon me if a point a finger back at him — just not that one.
Truly a beautiful gun!
If this website has trained ONE mantra through my thick skull, it’s that I should never have my finger on the trigger of a gun until I’m ready to fire. How many IGOTD awards have been released for that heinous crime? Now I’d be quick to apologize for critiquing Mr. Dumm if he WAS just about to fire that beautiful weapon, but I can hardly believe he was firing an unsighted .308 without hearing protection inside what looks like a (fortified) office building.
Sure, sure, it’s a bolt-action, and those NEVER accidentally discharge, right? I guess we’ll forgive Mr. Dumm this time. After all, I wouldn’t want to argue with him within 600 yards. 🙂
Blanchard may want to check the MD laws regarding publication
of state documents. I would think that if one could prove that the
forms were not available they could have a judge rule it must be
made accessible since it’s a public document. Just a thought.
Part of the reason gamers get so defensive is, just as gun owners tend to cringe and lose patience whenever phrases like “control”, “common sense”, and “I support the Second Amendment, but…” pop up in conversation, gamers are used to getting stigmatized and demonized. Whether is was being declared Satan-worshiping occultists for playing Dungeons and Dragons, weathering cries of being pasty-faced anti-social dorks on the verge of mass murder, or the assumption that anyone with an X-Box Live account is a pre-pubescent rage monster, gamers get a lot of grief, most of it undeserved. Just as there are tools at any gun club you can speak of, there are little asshats who send me rather unflattering X-Box Live messages describing me and my ancestry. Just as murderous gun owners that do nigh-unfathomable acts are the distant outliers among gun owners, murderous gamers that do nigh-unfathomable acts are the distant outliers among gamers. We rightly get pissed when lumped together with murderers, same as gun owners do. Do not be surprised when you touch a nerd, err, nerve when you paint with broad brushes.
As to the claim that gaming culture is a myth, I’ll be polite and say that does not line up with my experiences, nor those of the friends I game with, nor those I have met at conventions, nor those I discuss various gaming topics with online. Just because a game is single-player doesn’t mean I don’t have awesome achievements (small “a”) or tall tales to tell my friends. Tabletop gaming and pen-and-paper RPGs, genres alive and well today, pre-date the advent of computers and required, then and now, groups of people to come together around a table and roll some d6s, tap some mana, or rush some corn. Back in the 80s and 90s, sales of video games were heavily dependent on word of mouth. That exploded with the Internet coming into its own. The development of marketing and advertising departments in the industry may have had a slight impact, too. (That was an understatement, by the way). Yes, the signal-to-noise ratio may suck, but gun culture has been rightly described as a grade school rumor mill, too. Not everyone on here is a Medal of Honor recipient, an IPSC Grandmaster, or a professional gunsmith of many decades.
I’d also say that the 60,750 attendees of the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo in Washington State (http://news.bigdownload.com/2009/09/12/exclusive-pax-2009-brings-in-60-750-attendees/) would disagree about gaming culture being non-existent. Oh, and the attendees of the second PAX convention that was held in Boston this last weekend may have some opinions, along with con-goers at the other two PAX conventions (http://east.paxsite.com/).
They planned a raid on his property when he wasn’t there to defend himself….that’s also weak of the ATF
I got the savage 22 wmr in this model and I don’t have one complaint about the gun! It shoots great, feels great , light , and I love it!!! I give it 5 stars