Why are all the Russian comments saying the Soviet announcer has such a clear voice? Is there something different about how current Russian is spoken? I only know like 5 words of Russian so I can’t tell a difference.

There’s an episode of Enterprise, I don’t remember which, where Captain Archer is represented by a Klingon lawyer. They talk about stuff, since at this point human diplomacy with Klingons is almost non-existent. I remember the lawyer mentions that the warrior caste taking so much power is a somewhat recent trend, that Klingon society used to be more diverse.

This goes along with what you see in Star Trek VI, where Klingon society is crumbling due to internal tensions.

It’s a 1943 Norman Rockwell painting entitled “Freedom of Speech”

Yamagami (the assassin) claimed to have made the gunpowder himself. I’ve read speculation that he made it from black powder sourced from fireworks. I remember he said something about “drying” his powder, so he possibly was trying to dehydrate black powder he got from really shitty sources. He could have also been sourcing potassium nitrate from…somewhere. Some people who make homemade explosives will extract KNO3 out of soil fertilizer.

They weren’t shells, but rather, the pellets and powder were sealed inside the barrels themselves. Probably to protect against moisture, since even the slightest amount of moisture makes black powder difficult to ignite (look at the history of flintlock guns refusing to fire in the rain). Not sure where Yamagami got the pellets, but he could have easily DIY’d some little metal balls, since that’s all they are.

Same as any other gun except with an electrical charge igniting the powder rather than a firing pin hitting into rimfire/centerfire cartridge. The trigger completes a circuit with the battery, which ignites the powder and sends the pellets shooting down the barrels. From diagrams it looks like the doohickey wasn’t designed to be reloaded.

Guns with electrical firing aren’t unheard of though, they’re just more common in things like very large guns like artillery or guns on a fighter jet. The famous M61 vulcan cannon for instance often has electrically ignited primers.

This shooter missed 8 shots from 400 feet? What? Was this a smoothbore muzzle loader or something?

I’ve hit targets 400 feet away with a revolver, goddamn

I don’t give a fuck, they can send however many guys they want after me. I’ll beat the shit out of all of them Kazuma Kiryu style.

if my posting is so powerful a bunch of loser feds come after me in oakleys and tac-vests then I’ll be proud

liberals are probably tripping over themselves to wish Trump a rapid recovery, right

Oh what? There was a PC game from 2000 with that same title. Check it out, it’s on GOG

I thought I was the only person who ever played it! Now there’s a remake? This will be awesome, but depends on the style of game it is? Empire of Ants was an RTS kind of thing, but if this turns out to just be some kind of Ubisoft style open-world thing it’ll be disappointing. I’ll still play it though because ants rule.

shooter took several half-measures. Used a low caliber firearm. Didn’t aim for Trump’s torso.

Just poor showing overall. They should have called you, Mike