Hey Fake News! If y'all are covering so much on Ukraine, at least make the prop guns look real!
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So do they shout bang bang when firing?
Lol good one!
KEK! Even Monty Python was more realistic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=47y5bo8wtqM
Wow thats a bad video. As in really awful. Song isn't even that good. Although the bang bang parts were pretty good.
It sure seemed good back then 😂
Pew pew..!
Looking at the headline, it appears this story is about civilians taking up arms in defense of their home.
Recently, CNN ran a story about civilians training to fight Russia, and they specifically mentioned that civilians were training with mock wooden rifles. They had several pictures of them in the gallery, which you're welcome to verify yourself.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/europe/gallery/ukraine-russia-training-fadek/index.html
Dollars to donuts this screenshot is of CNN showing civilians training with those same fake guns in a story specifically talking about civilian training, based on the headline.
Based on this evidence, it seems less likely that CNN is attempting to falsely pass this off as a real warfighter and more likely an out-of-context screenshot of CNN reporting on civilians training with fake weapons.
Erm... doesnt the on screen gfx say FOX news?
Derp. Yes it does. My bad. I've been busy.
Either way, though, the meat of the argument stands. This is almost certainly a story showing civilians training, not attempting to falsely depict a fake war. At least not with this screenshot.
I'm curious, have you ever trained with a firearm?
Edit: See u/DextertheCat's comment below in the thread.
Yes. I actually have a couple of NRA marksmanship medals, although not anything impressive.
In response, I think you train civilians in preparation for an imminent invasion with whatever you have on hand. If you don’t have weapons on hand, then you use plywood models to practice movements and tactics as best as you can until the weapons eventually show up. No point sitting on your ass being terrified when you could be training.
You’re training civilians to go up against a nuclear-armed country in a fight you know you ultimately can’t win. You aren’t going to be picky as to how you train civilians knowingly volunteering for a suicide mission.
Wow. Typical leftist fashion, you defend CNN...when it's not even CNN.
Ha. Yeah, it was not my intention whatsoever, but I can’t really deny the optics.
May be, but A mock gun is no good in a real war.
This.
It's as if everyone here collectively chose to act like stock footage and training exercises aren't a fairly common thing. By all means it's worth talking about and how it relates to the given context (for example, the many cases where the media has historically pulled war footage from COMPLETELY unrelated battles/wars), but it's also not the end all of points. There are certainly valid reasons for stock footage or photo shoots, such as this very one above.
Facts matter - don't jump to conclusions without considering the context and surrounding information. Be open to having discussions on topics without calling every single person you meet with a differing opinion a shill. This entire forum is supposed to be for discussion, but as of recent times it's most commonly circle jerking it seems.
Kek!
Nyet! Rifle is fine!
Would somebody explain how the twist rate of a rectangle barrel works.
2 dimensional billets can't twist or they vanish
Meh.kinda but it has been done hexagonaly
Even in training, you use a weighted replica. During an invasion, such as what is being reported, we issue real weapons with a cleared chamber and an empty mag. It takes less time than making wood cutouts. All the way around, this is just plain odd. Anyone without experience training foreign military/militia wouldn't realize how odd this is, especially in an imminent invasion.
u/ARandomOgre
Anyone got a link to the footage?
Does anyone have a video link to the segment?
I assume they were discussing the training of civilians.
A little late for training.
With wooden fake guns?
Imagine seeding civilians with painted wooden guns to create a situation for the MSM to later say "They shot unarmed civilians!"
How could they fuck this up?
Nyet, AK-47 super easy to get, find on every corner with six tousand rounds go cheeki breeki
Last I heard was still under 100 USD too. Ammo may be extra.
African nations 68 USD with anti rise muzzle break.
It's good FoxNews is making sure we know all that is happening! :)
Training mock up
Maybe they're using stock footage from a training video?
I saw this footage somewhere last week and they said they were training with props.
Thats what gave it away? lmao the entire thing is a cardboard cutout
WTF?