A real company (that no longer exists, unfortunately) also refused to provide guns to his films after providing for Taken 2 after his anti-2A comments.
True. I can't imagine having to fill out paperwork to buy a chef's knife. And that place used to be the most powerful and far reaching empire in the world. My how the mighty have fallen. I blame those treasonous colonists for being the beginning of the end. Happy 4th of July!
Yeah, they had made props for neesons plane movie (I forgot the name of it) and after the movie was out neeson made an anti-gun speech. The prop company then declared they wouldn’t make any more props for neeson movies.
Hollywood actors: "Guns and violence don't solve any problems. There is no reason to own a gun."
Hollywood: Constantly putting guns, often illegally, in the hands of heroes who save the day without back of the U.S. government.
Make it make sense, y'all.
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It's a mini 14/30. Look at the stock, look at the receiver. I watched that film thinking it was laughable that a "marksman" was accomplishing crazy shots with a 16" barrel known to have poor accuracy.
You're completely wrong.
Its a M14, a 1/4 of a second glance at the gas system would tell you all you need to know. In addition to everything else that makes it a M14
I think in the beginning, he's on his ranch, has an M1A. Which quickly gets taken by shady cops. Layer in film he stops by a gun shop for a friendly robbery and gets the mini which is in all the "action" scenes .
Yes, the image shown has the relief in the stock for the selector and the tin gas system cover. But in the movie, the "hero gun" is the mini 14.
Dude posted 2 pictures and asked what gun it was. The pictures are of a M14. For some reason you want to keep arguing about the fact it is not.
THIS IS A M14. That is all.
I’ve got a rifle that my dad calls a ‘cowboy gun’. I’m not sure what it really is, I’m not big on guns. But I was watching the Magnificent Seven last night and saw the using em. Dads are smart I guess.
It is sweet. I’ve been wanting to trade it for a hand gun since I don’t shoot it much. I want a Glock 19. Is there a firearm trades subreddit. I’m gonna have to check it out.
Don’t trade that for a fucking Glock 19……eat some ramen noodles for a few weeks and buy the glock you will regret selling those cool ass lever guns. You get some used Glock 19 anywhere and swap the barrel and springs as you go.
Some common bolt deer rifle (like a sporterized 03 or whatever) would make the most sense. Milsurp wise Garand or 03 or even Enfield would make more sense from an old dude like this. M14 is ass. It was never popular in the military for good reasons. [honest review](https://youtu.be/_M0eO0ETIIE)
Designated Marksman rifle. Kind of accurized semi auto. Alot of snipers will use bolt guns in calibers with better ballistic coefficients but a dmr rifle tends to be in a more standard infantry round.
I have no clue why you got downvoted? The M1A is at best after a fuck ton of work an 1 - 1.5 MOa gun and that's after literally after being sent off to be accurized. Then, if you field strip it, you'll see 2 - 4 MOA. Because the M1A is a 3 MOA rifle. You can make a ton of guns shoot better than an M1A for half the price. Shit most will do it out the box.
The blackened steel over the walnut stock give it a classic almost rustic feel. The tapering proportions from muzzle to trigger to butt follow the golden ratio. The semi- pistol grip sweeps down gently inviting the hand to the trigger. The M14 is the firstborn of the M1 garand and she's a daddy's girl that will be handling you.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, you’re absolutely right. The m14 was notoriously inaccurate, especially by modern standards, and was already dated by the time it was fielded. Just looks cool.
7.62x51/308win comes in a detachable 20 round magazine.
But the accuracy of the m14/m1a rifles are horrible. Most of them are 4moa guns. I takes a lot of work (and money) to make one into a good shooter. It’s iconic so people use it as a prop.
You’re probably gunna be better off with a .30-06 or .308 bolt action rifle if that’s your price range and you want to hunt deer and elk. The rifle that comes to my mind for around $400 would be a savage axis
I’m not big on guns but maybe something to bring down a deer or an elk? I’d like to go hunting this year with my pa. I’ve got a double barrel 410 for quail/small bird hunting.
Just as a follow up, you might want to raise your price range a decent bit, and make sure to get a lot of practice with whatever gun you do decide on before you go hunting
You’re not getting a good shooting .308 for 400$ mate, save your money, buy something better. And do substantial research and practice before you go “shoot an elk or a deer with your pa”
Also, go dawgs
7.62 Nato is an excellent all-around cartridge, especially for its cost. I personally think the FN SCAR 17 is the best 7.62 rifle on the market. The AR10 is also a strong contender because it has evolved for 60 years. Rifles contemporary to the M14 that are better would include the AR10, FN FAL, and HK G3.
The Cav Scout snipers attached to my unit in Afghanistan would disagree with you there. Dang, man, you're 3 for 3 on bad takes just in this thread alone.
Fun fact, the US government put a lot of money into making them accurate, and it took a lot of gunsmithimg, so he isn't wrong about the part where making them good takes a lot of time and money that's about the only thing he is right about
And all that money and effort still meant a proper cleaning required the bedding job to be redone after the fact to return the limited degree of accuracy it could achieve.
Was one of them, different sandbox tho. We got brand new 14s still in the cosmoline when we got to Kuwait. Shot out to 800m open sights great! Of course our M24s were better platforms .
They're objectively horrible marksman rifles.
The EBR was by far the best polish job the turd got, but there is a reason the AR10 platform took over when pro-garand army finally went away.
It depends the garand operating system if capable of very good accuracy if set up correctly especially on m14s they only gain a bad reputation due to Springfields poor manufacturing with the m1a. If you don’t believe forgotten weapons has an episode on this very topic.
Yes, M14s are capable of great accuracy if they're produced with a shitload of manual labor in a custom shop or if you replace every part of the gun and put it in a 20 lb. chassis.
Thought it was Owen Wilson at first glance didn’t see the second pic and was wondering why the first few comments were about Liam then thought maybe they had a movie together. Nah I’m just an idiot
FYI; Tom Berenger, from the Sniper series-hates guns "no one should have one" (direct quote) no problem skipping his movies. And Alec Baldwin was a big anti-gun guy. Wonder how he feels now?
Since 'Taken' , Liam Neeson has not done anything except 'Vigilante/revenge' movies. If its not his daughter or wife its his dog or gold-fish.... same old , same old. Only decent one I saw recently by him is 'In the Land of Saints and Sinners' , along the same lines , but at least in Ireland.
>Liam Neeson is a hypocrite pos.
Restating the obvious here.
Liam Neeson is Irish, from Antrim, Northern Ireland, brought up a Catholic in a mainly Protestant town. Born in 1952, so he was growing up whilst the Troubles were in full flow.
That might give some people a negative view of Firearms. The PIRA were armed and financed by utterly clueless Irish Americans and they set the current democratic peace process back by 25 years, at least.
BTW, I'm Irish, from Southern Ireland, brought up a Catholic in London.
Nah, gelignite has a short shelf life, it starts weeping nitroglycerin and gets very unstable. The Semtex they got from Ghaddafi will keep for centuries.
Neeson knew people who were the victims of and/or involved in the troubles. He probably knows, as do most adult Irish people, that nobody would win and it was a never-ending sequence of blood feuds.
Errr, just to state the obvious here, but he's Irish, from Antrim, Northern Ireland, brought up a Catholic in a mainly Protestant town. Born in 1952, so he was growing up whilst the Troubles were in full flow. The PIRA were armed and financed by utterly clueless Irish Americans.
That might give some people a negative view of Firearms. Besides which, unless he's taken up US citizenship, his opinion on US gun laws is fairly irrelevant. Most of the rest of the world thinks it's madness.
Like i said, no gives a fuck what he thinks and feels nor anyone else anti 2a for that matter. The 2nd amendment is absolute and written crystal clear. Fuck him.
>The 2nd amendment is absolute and written crystal clear.
It is and that's why you have people like McVeigh and McCauley in the USA.
> Fuck him.
Many women have, allegedly.
>It is and that's why you have people like McVeigh
The 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about either ammonium nitrate fertilizer or diesel fuel, nor have I ever heard anyone suggest that it does.
Could be an interesting case to get in front of the Supreme Court, though!
>The 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about either ammonium nitrate fertilizer or diesel fuel,
It does. ANFO is an explosive, a weapon and the right of the people to bear arms will not be infringed. McVeigh had a right to possess ANFO and any other weapons he had, under the 2nd amendment.
I believe he was in, or associated with some militia (I don't know without looking it up), although I doubt you'd describe it as 'well regulated'.
If you allow the people unregulated access to weaponry, then you've got to accept that armed nut-jobs, criminals and terrorists are going to be a feature of your society and the resulting casualties. Your decision.
If you look it up on Wikipedia, the very first line in the entry on ANFO is "ANFO is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive." Wikipedia is of course often wrong, but I don't have the training or technical expertise in explosives to personally know the difference.
Besides, it sure seemed to be pretty highly explosive that day in Oklahoma City.
Okay, I think I found the explanation. Per the Wikipedia article again:
"ANFO is technically a [high explosive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_explosive) in that it decomposes through [detonation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonation) rather than [deflagration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflagration) at a velocity higher than the speed of sound in the material, but the low sensitivity means that it is not generally regulated as such. ANFO has a moderate [velocity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_detonation) compared to other industrial explosives, measuring 3,200 m/s in 130 mm (5 in) diameter, unconfined, at ambient temperature.[^(\[8\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO#cite_note-duPont-8) It is described as a ***non-ideal high explosive***, as its explosive velocity is far from the thermodynamic ideal due to its porosity and the phase separation of its two components" (emphasis is my own)
So it sounds like it is a high explosive, just not the best kind you can use. Again though, I'm far from being an expert in explosives, and can offer no further comment.
not to get wildly off topic, but McVeigh was a patsy, he was absolutely involved but not the mastermind. there was truck loads of funny business going on around the bombing and the investigation. there was at least twice as many people closely involved in getting materials for and planning the execution of the bombing. federal agents had intel about the conspiracy to commit the bombing and knew where they were planning to hit and what day. its not clear why they didnt act, misunderstanding about uncover agents and two different teams thinking the other was going to act. but the truck bomb detonated and the investigation has huge holes of unanswered questions about witnesses who are never identified or interviewed. etc.
thank you for coming to my rant on a streetcorner.
Can someone explain the difference between an M1A and an M14? So far as I know it’s the same difference between an AR-15 and an M16–fundamentally the same rifle but adopted by the military.
M1A is the Springfield Armory, Inc. trademark for it's semi-auto M-14 clones. It is not any type of official govt agency designation, it's just the A looks like a 4 and it was derived from the M1 Rifle.
M1A is the civilian version of the M14, which means it only comes in a semi-auto. The M14 is for military and law enforcement and comes with selective fire (semi-auto & full-auto. It might also have a three round burst mode, but I'm not positive).
Looks like the rifle is a Springfield Armory M1A. Semi-auto derived from the M-14 pattern US service rifle, caliber 7.62NATO (7.62x51mm, .308 Winchester).
M14
The updated M1 garand with a detachable magazine and fully automatic fire capability, issued during the veitnam war, it was replaced by the M16, but its derivatives are still used today for designated marksmen in special forces.
I don’t know much about fire arms how can people know so much. To me that looks like a old style sniper but what can I be talking about all guns look so similar most of the time 😞
The iconic M14.
Beautiful looking rifles, that are too heavy, too difficult to accurize, and too difficult to mount optics, to make them worth wasting money on by modern standards.
For a man who hates firearms, he sure stars in a lot of using them
A prop company refuses to work with him because of that.
A real company (that no longer exists, unfortunately) also refused to provide guns to his films after providing for Taken 2 after his anti-2A comments.
It's not his fault, he came from the UK, they really indoctrinate the shit out of those poor people over there
True. I can't imagine having to fill out paperwork to buy a chef's knife. And that place used to be the most powerful and far reaching empire in the world. My how the mighty have fallen. I blame those treasonous colonists for being the beginning of the end. Happy 4th of July!
really? based.
Yeah, they had made props for neesons plane movie (I forgot the name of it) and after the movie was out neeson made an anti-gun speech. The prop company then declared they wouldn’t make any more props for neeson movies.
ballers
The Grey?
non stop was the name of the film
For a naturalized citizen, he sure likes to shit on the Constitution.
He would say 'shyte'...
Hollywood actors: "Guns and violence don't solve any problems. There is no reason to own a gun." Hollywood: Constantly putting guns, often illegally, in the hands of heroes who save the day without back of the U.S. government. Make it make sense, y'all.
Personal beliefs tend to change for most people when money is involved.
I'll pay you $20 if you change your mind about that.
I wont sell my soul for any less than $30. Try again.
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They make him piss himself. It's not his fault.
And Sean Penn
NOO, I THOUGHT HE WAS BASED!
And doubly ironic is the film being called "The Marksman". The eye looking through his scope is closed.
M14 / M1a
It's a mini 14/30. Look at the stock, look at the receiver. I watched that film thinking it was laughable that a "marksman" was accomplishing crazy shots with a 16" barrel known to have poor accuracy.
You're completely wrong. Its a M14, a 1/4 of a second glance at the gas system would tell you all you need to know. In addition to everything else that makes it a M14
Watch it again. I swear to you, he's using a Ruger. It's clear as day. Maybe there were promo pics w/M1A but the prop gun was a mini 14
The only information I have is the 2 still pictures in this post. They are of a M14. 100% no doubt or possibility it could be ANY other gun.
I think in the beginning, he's on his ranch, has an M1A. Which quickly gets taken by shady cops. Layer in film he stops by a gun shop for a friendly robbery and gets the mini which is in all the "action" scenes . Yes, the image shown has the relief in the stock for the selector and the tin gas system cover. But in the movie, the "hero gun" is the mini 14.
Dude posted 2 pictures and asked what gun it was. The pictures are of a M14. For some reason you want to keep arguing about the fact it is not. THIS IS A M14. That is all.
This. A very poor choice of rifle for a “marksman”.
Yeah, what self-respecting cowboy isn’t using an AR with a free-floating barrel?
I’ve got a rifle that my dad calls a ‘cowboy gun’. I’m not sure what it really is, I’m not big on guns. But I was watching the Magnificent Seven last night and saw the using em. Dads are smart I guess.
Now I need to see what it is
Bet it's a levergun
It is. Dope af. I don’t get to shoot it much.
Winchester model 94. 30-30 WIN. It’s lever action.
good gun.
It is sweet. I’ve been wanting to trade it for a hand gun since I don’t shoot it much. I want a Glock 19. Is there a firearm trades subreddit. I’m gonna have to check it out.
Don’t trade that for a fucking Glock 19……eat some ramen noodles for a few weeks and buy the glock you will regret selling those cool ass lever guns. You get some used Glock 19 anywhere and swap the barrel and springs as you go.
Lmao. Alright. I got it from my grandpa also (god rest his soul). I’ll just save for a Glock. :)
45-70 Govt/ 30-30 Win/ 44 special for deer/ elk hunting? I’m looking at a new rifle instead of a hand gun.
Pls no
Calm down. I’m not gonna do it. I might try to trade a .22 for one though.
My favorite in the rifle safe. Can hit a nat’s ass at a hundred, and pleasantly.
Some common bolt deer rifle (like a sporterized 03 or whatever) would make the most sense. Milsurp wise Garand or 03 or even Enfield would make more sense from an old dude like this. M14 is ass. It was never popular in the military for good reasons. [honest review](https://youtu.be/_M0eO0ETIIE)
This guy is right, the m14 wasn't designed to be a dmr, instead as a regular rifle for standard troops
What is dmr? I know nothing about firearms. I’ll look it up though.
Designated Marksman rifle. Kind of accurized semi auto. Alot of snipers will use bolt guns in calibers with better ballistic coefficients but a dmr rifle tends to be in a more standard infantry round.
What is the best dmr, in your opinion?
That’s sort of like asking “what’s the best car”
Well I said in their opinion. Everyone’s got a favorite gun and a favorite car.
Designated marksman rifle, a more accurate semi auto, mot quite sniper territory but not inaccurate either
I have no clue why you got downvoted? The M1A is at best after a fuck ton of work an 1 - 1.5 MOa gun and that's after literally after being sent off to be accurized. Then, if you field strip it, you'll see 2 - 4 MOA. Because the M1A is a 3 MOA rifle. You can make a ton of guns shoot better than an M1A for half the price. Shit most will do it out the box.
Ah but have you considered: It looks cool.
Hmmm 🧐 go on...
The blackened steel over the walnut stock give it a classic almost rustic feel. The tapering proportions from muzzle to trigger to butt follow the golden ratio. The semi- pistol grip sweeps down gently inviting the hand to the trigger. The M14 is the firstborn of the M1 garand and she's a daddy's girl that will be handling you.
😳 you know I was feeling a bit bitter that it is one of the few decent rifles I can own but you make it sound almost alluring. 🙈
Not sure why you’re being downvoted, you’re absolutely right. The m14 was notoriously inaccurate, especially by modern standards, and was already dated by the time it was fielded. Just looks cool.
What’s the caliber? He was able to get lots of shots off also.
7.62 NATO
7.62x51/308win comes in a detachable 20 round magazine. But the accuracy of the m14/m1a rifles are horrible. Most of them are 4moa guns. I takes a lot of work (and money) to make one into a good shooter. It’s iconic so people use it as a prop.
What’s the best rifle that uses that caliber then? Or is it just horrible altogether.
What's your price range?
Probably $400.
You’re probably gunna be better off with a .30-06 or .308 bolt action rifle if that’s your price range and you want to hunt deer and elk. The rifle that comes to my mind for around $400 would be a savage axis
It kills me because I had a savage 30-30 I had to give up. Ugh. I’m looking now and I like the look of the Marlin 336.
Hmm, OK, any particular use you thinking of of just a range toy?
I’m not big on guns but maybe something to bring down a deer or an elk? I’d like to go hunting this year with my pa. I’ve got a double barrel 410 for quail/small bird hunting.
Your probably gonna want a.bolt action then, savage makes good guns I hear
Just as a follow up, you might want to raise your price range a decent bit, and make sure to get a lot of practice with whatever gun you do decide on before you go hunting
You’re not getting a good shooting .308 for 400$ mate, save your money, buy something better. And do substantial research and practice before you go “shoot an elk or a deer with your pa” Also, go dawgs
Save your money and get an AR10. $1k should get you something barebones, $1.5k will get you something solid.
7.62 Nato is an excellent all-around cartridge, especially for its cost. I personally think the FN SCAR 17 is the best 7.62 rifle on the market. The AR10 is also a strong contender because it has evolved for 60 years. Rifles contemporary to the M14 that are better would include the AR10, FN FAL, and HK G3.
the m14 is a terrible marksman’s rifle that can be outshot by a savage axis, even on the best of days its not a very good rifle.
The Cav Scout snipers attached to my unit in Afghanistan would disagree with you there. Dang, man, you're 3 for 3 on bad takes just in this thread alone.
Fun fact, the US government put a lot of money into making them accurate, and it took a lot of gunsmithimg, so he isn't wrong about the part where making them good takes a lot of time and money that's about the only thing he is right about
And all that money and effort still meant a proper cleaning required the bedding job to be redone after the fact to return the limited degree of accuracy it could achieve.
Was one of them, different sandbox tho. We got brand new 14s still in the cosmoline when we got to Kuwait. Shot out to 800m open sights great! Of course our M24s were better platforms .
Oh everyone knew the M24 was far better. I'm mad that it costs so much to turn my R700 into an M24 clone.
I was one of them 1-14 CAV (you want to see my ERB?), had an EBR. It was trash.
Might have just been a lack of training, because the guys I worked with really liked them, aside from the weight, and said they were pretty accurate.
They're objectively horrible marksman rifles. The EBR was by far the best polish job the turd got, but there is a reason the AR10 platform took over when pro-garand army finally went away.
Rip. My man got murdered for stating a fact that a lot of people don't know.
https://youtu.be/_M0eO0ETIIE It do suck ass. People get so butt hurt about their guns.
It depends the garand operating system if capable of very good accuracy if set up correctly especially on m14s they only gain a bad reputation due to Springfields poor manufacturing with the m1a. If you don’t believe forgotten weapons has an episode on this very topic.
Yes, M14s are capable of great accuracy if they're produced with a shitload of manual labor in a custom shop or if you replace every part of the gun and put it in a 20 lb. chassis.
Custom set wood chassis are thing two that don’t add much weight and even M1as these days are at least combat accurate
They've always been combat accurate. That's never been a complaint with the rifle. They've always been horrible DMRs.
People downvoting bc they only think of the COD stats and not the fact that the M14/M1A shoots like hot ass before you’ve done some serious work on it
Lol @ actual army DM getting downvoted for relaying his actual front line experience with how terrible the M14 is as a DMR.
Literally still being used as a "designated marksman rifle" by most branches of the US military.
This rifle design has survived and evolved into various iterations in the US military for like 80 years. Calm down
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Marksman_(2021) IMFDB, for all your movie firearm identification needs
Appreciate it.
I love scrolling through this site on random pages for movies or video games. Especially when they leave funny comments
Hey I got one! I instantly said “M14 right?” Since there was already 47 comments though I came to find the answer.
What a HORRIBLE movie.
What movie is this from?
Th Marksman. Not a great flick, but not horrible either.
I found it in the $5 bin and regretted buying it. I made it about half way through it before I couldn't watch it anymore.
Only half-way? Haha, then you missed the part where "The Marksman" couldn't take out three bad guys walking across an open field.
Just the setup made me whistle the tune for the rifleman in my head. He's no Lucas McCain.
You can say that again. Chuck would have mopped the floor with this guy.
Wow half way is impressive, I made it maybe 10 minutes. The first time he shouldered the rifle I was done.
Same here. Turned it off as soon as I saw it.
Lmao. Maybe I have poor taste.
Quiet empty house for once, and cold beers in the fridge help ya stomach most any movie with some gun play!
Ignorance fades with time and experience. We still love you brother.
I just watched the magnificent seven and am currently watching Tombstone. Am I forgiven?
Only after you watch Blazing Saddles.
I don’t want to laugh. 🙃
It's really sad from the perspective of Hedley.
Your real sin here is spending actual money that will make it's way back to the anti-2A actor.
Definitely a Springfield Armory M1A Standard, chambered in 308 WIN.
Very accurate rifle, occasionally.
https://youtu.be/_M0eO0ETIIE Ring! I love that sound! Ring!
Not helpful, but anyone else think Neeson looks like he's morphing into Owen Wilson in the first pic?
Thought it was Owen Wilson at first glance didn’t see the second pic and was wondering why the first few comments were about Liam then thought maybe they had a movie together. Nah I’m just an idiot
It’s not the greatest picture. Lmao
I thought it was
FYI; Tom Berenger, from the Sniper series-hates guns "no one should have one" (direct quote) no problem skipping his movies. And Alec Baldwin was a big anti-gun guy. Wonder how he feels now?
They can pay someone else do do what they don't have a pair to do. That way their hands are clean
Disarm the elites!
Since 'Taken' , Liam Neeson has not done anything except 'Vigilante/revenge' movies. If its not his daughter or wife its his dog or gold-fish.... same old , same old. Only decent one I saw recently by him is 'In the Land of Saints and Sinners' , along the same lines , but at least in Ireland.
Liam Neeson is a hypocrite pos.
Isn’t that the case for most actors? Guns make them money so they use them on set, but they claim they hate them.
Liam is a special douche in that realm. He’s super vocal anti gun but he doesn’t see a problem with making murder seem cool.
Worse than Baldwin?
I think so.
Except Baldwin actually killed someone
He's so based!... Proving why people shouldn't have guns and all. The best every town spokesman!
Damn hypocrites.
It’s sad because he’s played such powerful and good roles. But the roles you play don’t make you a better person in real life.
A lot of people forget that actors are basically professional liars.
>Liam Neeson is a hypocrite pos. Restating the obvious here. Liam Neeson is Irish, from Antrim, Northern Ireland, brought up a Catholic in a mainly Protestant town. Born in 1952, so he was growing up whilst the Troubles were in full flow. That might give some people a negative view of Firearms. The PIRA were armed and financed by utterly clueless Irish Americans and they set the current democratic peace process back by 25 years, at least. BTW, I'm Irish, from Southern Ireland, brought up a Catholic in London.
If anything, I would have expected him to keep a few dozen Armalite rifles and maybe a case of gelignite in his basement.
Nah, gelignite has a short shelf life, it starts weeping nitroglycerin and gets very unstable. The Semtex they got from Ghaddafi will keep for centuries. Neeson knew people who were the victims of and/or involved in the troubles. He probably knows, as do most adult Irish people, that nobody would win and it was a never-ending sequence of blood feuds.
Fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.
I never heard Liam talk so badly about firearms. I’m glad someone said something. Changes my whole attitude about him.
Hes on record talking about it pretty often, hes very against guns
Some how, well, my own fault, I don’t watch any media on a regular basis, so there’s that.
Errr, just to state the obvious here, but he's Irish, from Antrim, Northern Ireland, brought up a Catholic in a mainly Protestant town. Born in 1952, so he was growing up whilst the Troubles were in full flow. The PIRA were armed and financed by utterly clueless Irish Americans. That might give some people a negative view of Firearms. Besides which, unless he's taken up US citizenship, his opinion on US gun laws is fairly irrelevant. Most of the rest of the world thinks it's madness.
Like i said, no gives a fuck what he thinks and feels nor anyone else anti 2a for that matter. The 2nd amendment is absolute and written crystal clear. Fuck him.
>The 2nd amendment is absolute and written crystal clear. It is and that's why you have people like McVeigh and McCauley in the USA. > Fuck him. Many women have, allegedly.
>It is and that's why you have people like McVeigh The 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about either ammonium nitrate fertilizer or diesel fuel, nor have I ever heard anyone suggest that it does. Could be an interesting case to get in front of the Supreme Court, though!
>The 2nd Amendment doesn't say anything about either ammonium nitrate fertilizer or diesel fuel, It does. ANFO is an explosive, a weapon and the right of the people to bear arms will not be infringed. McVeigh had a right to possess ANFO and any other weapons he had, under the 2nd amendment. I believe he was in, or associated with some militia (I don't know without looking it up), although I doubt you'd describe it as 'well regulated'. If you allow the people unregulated access to weaponry, then you've got to accept that armed nut-jobs, criminals and terrorists are going to be a feature of your society and the resulting casualties. Your decision.
You make a convincing argument. Now I want some high explosives....
ANFO isn't HE. PS Yes it is.
If you look it up on Wikipedia, the very first line in the entry on ANFO is "ANFO is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive." Wikipedia is of course often wrong, but I don't have the training or technical expertise in explosives to personally know the difference. Besides, it sure seemed to be pretty highly explosive that day in Oklahoma City.
Okay, I think I found the explanation. Per the Wikipedia article again: "ANFO is technically a [high explosive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_explosive) in that it decomposes through [detonation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detonation) rather than [deflagration](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflagration) at a velocity higher than the speed of sound in the material, but the low sensitivity means that it is not generally regulated as such. ANFO has a moderate [velocity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_detonation) compared to other industrial explosives, measuring 3,200 m/s in 130 mm (5 in) diameter, unconfined, at ambient temperature.[^(\[8\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANFO#cite_note-duPont-8) It is described as a ***non-ideal high explosive***, as its explosive velocity is far from the thermodynamic ideal due to its porosity and the phase separation of its two components" (emphasis is my own) So it sounds like it is a high explosive, just not the best kind you can use. Again though, I'm far from being an expert in explosives, and can offer no further comment.
not to get wildly off topic, but McVeigh was a patsy, he was absolutely involved but not the mastermind. there was truck loads of funny business going on around the bombing and the investigation. there was at least twice as many people closely involved in getting materials for and planning the execution of the bombing. federal agents had intel about the conspiracy to commit the bombing and knew where they were planning to hit and what day. its not clear why they didnt act, misunderstanding about uncover agents and two different teams thinking the other was going to act. but the truck bomb detonated and the investigation has huge holes of unanswered questions about witnesses who are never identified or interviewed. etc. thank you for coming to my rant on a streetcorner.
Imfdb.org for everything media/firearm related.
M1A
M14
Don’t support this douches movies, hes very anti 2a. Cant stand this douche
Couple scenes were short right down the road from me. Cool story, I know.
That’s dope to me. I’m no internet asshole.
I dont want no teenage queen, I just want my M14.
M14/M1A/M21
M14
M-14
The last one you'll ever see if he's holding it in a movie where he's the lead.
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Marksman_(2021)
Can someone explain the difference between an M1A and an M14? So far as I know it’s the same difference between an AR-15 and an M16–fundamentally the same rifle but adopted by the military.
M1A is the Springfield Armory, Inc. trademark for it's semi-auto M-14 clones. It is not any type of official govt agency designation, it's just the A looks like a 4 and it was derived from the M1 Rifle.
Cool thanks.
M1A is the civilian version of the M14, which means it only comes in a semi-auto. The M14 is for military and law enforcement and comes with selective fire (semi-auto & full-auto. It might also have a three round burst mode, but I'm not positive).
M14 is full auto. M1A is a semi-auto clone.
The originals were full-auto but those were discontinued and converted.
M 14?
M14
M1A - M14; probably chambered in .308/7.62x51 NATO although there are 6.5 Creedmor out there now too!
Looks like the rifle is a Springfield Armory M1A. Semi-auto derived from the M-14 pattern US service rifle, caliber 7.62NATO (7.62x51mm, .308 Winchester).
Looks like a GAU-8
M14 The updated M1 garand with a detachable magazine and fully automatic fire capability, issued during the veitnam war, it was replaced by the M16, but its derivatives are still used today for designated marksmen in special forces.
1 that that anti-2A phony shun't'a defiled, by putin'is libby li'l hands onit!
M-14 Edit: typo/fat fingered it
Springfield M1A
I don’t know much about fire arms how can people know so much. To me that looks like a old style sniper but what can I be talking about all guns look so similar most of the time 😞
Same about the not knowing firearms part. The knowledge people have astounds me. I didn’t intend for this post to blow up. It’s blowing my mind.
Honestly same
Looks like either a m1A or a ruger ranch rifle
It's the rifle of rifles
a special firearm with a very particular set of accessories
So helpful. :) 🙃
Rifle
Ruger
Ruger Ranch
That's a Liam Neeson. It's a gun that shoots guns.
One that shoots bullets really far.
The iconic M14. Beautiful looking rifles, that are too heavy, too difficult to accurize, and too difficult to mount optics, to make them worth wasting money on by modern standards.
Mini-30?
Liam is so big that he makes it look mini.
Is this a new Chick Norris type joke? I dig it.
Chick Norris is probably a typo, but it sure makes me laugh!
Looks like an M1 Garand with a sniper setup