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[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Is anyone replying in this thread a US military armorer? I'd love to know who gave him the weapon with the sight installed backwards. I was never allowed to touch an installed optic other than to sight it in. I was never in the US Navy, but in all my training I never got a class on anything but an iron sight for the M16, M4, and M9. How would someone who isn't a master at arms and probably qualifies on a weapon once, maybe twice a year going to know that someone else installed the sight on his weapon backwards? You don't even know that it was his issued weapon and not someone else's who also shot with it backwards.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How would someone who isn't a master at arms and probably qualifies on a weapon once, maybe twice a year going to know that someone else installed the sight on his weapon backwards?

Well, in the photo he's looking through it. You ever look through a telescope or some binoculars backwards? Scope supposed to make things bigger, not smaller, good clue. And tbf he should know that.

[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is a staged photo and that mag looks full so he probably just pulled it up quickly on command and started firing. Which would also explain his bad stock placement. He rushed for this photo op because everyone likes to look like a bad ass especially when there are cameras around.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the bad stock placement was more due to the terrible eye relief on a backwards LPVO lol.

[–] Whiskey_iicarus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Haha I think that could also be it.

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