Tactical Excess?

[L84CABO]

I've had it. Honestly.


My patience with the trendy tactical BS has run out. Let me be clear that training has its place; but people running around a field with MOLLE gear, body armor, and mag pouches with an AR and a drop leg pistol holster are only training to prop up their egos.

There's nothing wrong with having fun at the range, but calling it "training" is doing a disservice to the actual activity. Rifle skills have nothing to do with concealed carry of a pistol under a cover garment. If the government's not in the picture in your neck of the woods, packing up and leaving makes more sense then hunkering down with an AR15 while your family plays backstop.

O, the world's ending and all is collapsing around you? OK. Good luck convincing whoever's operating the last evacuation vehicle to let you and your tacticool gear in. I imagine that convo's going to break down to "come on in, but leave the AR and mags outside".

Otherwise, I hope you can stuff that 500lb safe full of guns on your back for the 100 mile march out of town on foot!

The REAL, actual SF people who use this stuff for a living can do it because they're trained for MONTHS at a time on the US taxpayer's dime. Not 5 hours every month in a field with surplus store ammo. Furthermore, those skillsets exist for one purpose-efficiently murdering the enemy. Not paper targets on a one-sided range.

The person with a single handgun, monthly range practice, and a well rounded education in field medicine with a gym membership will survive a WROL situation a lot longer then some wannabe ninja with a $3000 AR15 and a Special Ops fetish.


Then, when someone does take the tentative steps into gun ownership, theyre bombarded with overwhelming BS about "getting off the X" and "tactical manipulations" . And then gun owning folk wonder why uninitiated people think we're nuts. I can barely comprehend this attitude, and the soccer moms of America will DEFINITELY not like the idea of folks in the woods playing Army with actual rifles. The latter point matters, because the Bambiist soccer moms' votes count equally as much as yours do on Election Day.
Rant over.

Awwww...I think somebody just needs a hug.

Seriously OP...THIS is what gets to you? You know what gets to me? All the corrupt politicians trampling our rights at every turn and running this great country into the ground.

I'm happy to see people exercising their 2A Rights. They're having fun. They're not hurting anyone. And any trigger time is good time. I'd much rather see someone going a little over the top on the tacticool stuff but getting out there, than those that buy a gun and shoot it twice a year. And the fact that this upsets you so much...well...that's just an added bonus

Live and let live

[epilepticninja]

The irony of this post from someone with 5.3K posts in 18 months isnt lost on me

I noticed the same thing. Someone needs to step away from the computer for awhile.

[mif_slim]

Thats what you call a true keyboard commando

[-hanko]

I'm tacted out. You jealous?

You're kidding?

Tactical is what you DO, not what you wear or attach to your weapon.

-hanko

[Never Convicted]

"Awwww...I think somebody just needs a hug."

[Ibefuz]

Those LA Police gear pants are the best bang for yiur buck IMO. I have 2 pair for when i go shooting on blm, theyre a big step up over jeans in the comfortablity, utlity, and movement departments. pkus the make my butt look nice!

[pitbull30]

I like wearing these to the range....am I am mall ninja?

http://www.lapolicegear.com/basic-operator-pant-elastic.html

[IMG][/IMG]

Way overboard buddy. Holy facepalm. Do you keep the tactical bacon kenshinoro2007 is talking about in those pockets?

Just screwing with you.

[pitbull30]

plus they make my butt look nice!

Ok I'm done with calguns this morning.

[Mr. Magoo]

For $20, I think I need a pair of those.

[Mute]

I generally don't care what people choose to do with their time and money as long as they are not unsafe with their firearms.

[seal20]

[NiMiK]

This is kind of asking why do people dress up in super hero outfits during comicon but have no special powers? Because they can and its their money.

[bubbagump]

All I gotta say about that is...

[CK_32]

You mean.........


Like this lol?




I got blasted by YouTube commandos when I said -

"Cool video, a little over the top on the tacticool but still a well made video"

[biglou]

It is a really cool tactics video. Can they do that when someone is shooting back though?