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At this point we've only had finals for the events that use children's guns. I'm not really surprised that China would beat us at shooting children's guns. They'd probably win a tricycle race too.
TIL some people think there's such a thing as a gun for children.
if you told me they sell a gun specifically for children in texas i would absolutely believe it.
that state is fucking crazy
There’s a brand of 22 rifles named cricket that are specifically designed to teach children how to shoot they’ve got built-in safety locks that are a bitch if you lose the key
I was just in the bass pro shop in Memphis the other day, and I did in fact see light caliber rifles specifically marketed for children to use.
They do in California too. It's the whole country.
...i mean, i got my first BB gun in third grade and my first twenty-gauge in fourth grade, both youth firearms for christmas in texas; our semi-automatic twenty-twos were hand-me-downs from younger cousins in mississippi who'd graduated to thirty-thirties...
Well we do have frequent school shootings in America, so any gun that’s been used must be a children’s gun right? /S
This comment makes me sad
Aren’t you from Indiana? I just assumed y’all had free .22s for underprivileged children.
They probably did in most of Indiana, but I grew up in Bloomington and it's the evil librul leftie commie part of Indiana where a bunch of old hippies who are still hippies settled around the horrible liberal indoctrination center of Indiana University, so they only gave us water pistols.
Oh that makes sense. You were indoctrinated by the evil IU. Why I bet that Kinsey man taught you all sorts of left wing lies like that it’s more ok for a man to love another man than to love his rifle in an intimate way.
As a matter of fact, that is a thing that exists. I had a special child-sized .22 rifle when I was 5 years old. My parents kept it safely stored and allowed me to practice with it under close supervision. Sears made them, marketed as a "youth" model.
Well that's disturbing... imagine how many parents, especially today, wouldn't keep it safely stored or allow their kid to practice with it only under close supervision.
In theory, in a world where every gun owner was responsible, it wouldn't worry me. We don't live in that world.
Oh, I didn't realise there was a drone strike event coming up.
It could legitimately be an Olympic sport. Although they would need to disguise the name by calling it something like "precision drone-flying" where the goal is to drop a water balloon filled with paint onto a target or something
You're just making up a sport for the Ukrainians so they can get a gold medal
They've been through a lot, they should get something nice from it.
when do we get the zero V to altitude in X seconds competition, would love to see another streak eagle shenanigan occur.
What guns do you imagine they will shoot next? Are you expecting the event to be sponsored by Armalite? Do you think Kalashnikova will show?
I think OP was pointing out that several of the competitions use air guns, but conveniently glossed over the one with shotguns (which I'm sure OP will love to know, China got a silver medal...)
Also, the air guns they use are absolutely not for children.
It's like saying they throw a discus for children in that sport because it looks like a frisbee.
Shotguns. No, and no.
It'd be nice if they had a long range category with real rifles. Most countries are already uncomfortable letting their people have access to Olympic pea shooters, so I don't think we'll ever see 1000 meter shooting as an event.
You do know shooting sport guns are built specifically for shooting sports at the Olympic level, right? You seem to think power is more important than accuracy. I doubt any of the athletes agree.
But I'm sure there's some sort of "Redneck Games" or something where people use AR-15s with bump stocks and Colt .45s to target shoot. You should check YouTube.
I'm just not impressed with any marksmanship that maxes out at 50 meters. Regardless of how powerful a gun is it's not impressive to be accurate at such a short range. I don't care about how powerful the gun is, I just want to see it fling something far enough to be interesting.
Hahahaha why aren't you in the bloody Olympics then if it's that easy?
I'm sure we're all sorry that the world's best target shooters don't impress you. Unfortunately, no one took you into consideration when arranging the Olympics.
The world's best target shooters under a very specific and particular set of circumstances, usually indoors. It's like you're trying to insult me for not being impressed at the driving skills of the world's best indoor go-kart racers.
Like every single olympic sport can only be performed in a very specific and particular set of circumstances. What is this bizarre gatekeeping?
It's like if they wanted to have motorsports in the Olympics but they only did go-karts and 49cc motorcycles. The people who show up to compete will be talented, but they aren't driving F1 or MotoGP.
What do you mean? Why is more power in the equipment being used automatically better? Shooting is a test of accuracy. I'm sorry you see sports through such a boring lens but most of us don't. And in any case, that's just your opinion of what you are more entertained by - there's no need to disparage the sport and disrespect the athletes just because you're not personally interested in it.
Olympic shooting is so specialized and restricted that you can no longer claim its champions are the best in the world at the general sport of shooting.
Because more power is required to reach the distances where everything matters more.
Uh-huh. Do I really need to explain how one degree of error is a bigger issue at 1000 meters vs 50?
When OP is implying my tribe can't shoot I take it as disrespect and I'm compelled to belittle the competition itself in response.
You could equally say that the javelin is restricting throwing, and that javeline athletes can only perform in their specific area. Like yeah - no shit. It's a sport. It's like looking at darts and saying "it'd be better if they fired them from a crossbow at 200m". Like okay yeah maybe you'd find that more entertaining but that would be a different sport which you're welcome to go enjoy.
I'm not even sure what that means. Why does it "matter more"? Those in the athletic field of shooting have decided that this is best for a recreational shooting competition. Same as every other sport in the Olympics. Go watch something else if it doesn't interest you, doesn't make the sport bad or the athletes less talented.
No shit. But if everyone is shooting from the same distance then it's a level playing field so it doesn't matter and it's still a valid competition. There are different skills for different types of weapons and ranges.
It's a meme about the notoriously gun crazy country coming last in shooting. It's not that deep. And let's not even get into "my tribe" haha
No, I'm trying to suggest that if you don't like it, don't watch it. What's the point in telling everyone why Olympic athletes don't impress you?
I didn't watch it, but I did run across some bullshit on the Internet implying that the Chinese dominating ping pong somehow means the US can't compete at Tennis.
And because of that you decide to dunk on a bunch of athletes?
Yeah, absolutely. They're the world's best Candy Land players while we're playing Catan or some shit over here.
And I suppose you'd do much better than any of them.
I'm not going to win a cup stacking competition anytime soon either, but that doesn't mean I have to take it seriously as a sport and respect the competitors.
You have no respect for people with skills you don't have? Quite arrogant of you.
You know they hit about within a half inch circle at 55 yards. That is with iron sights and the weapon not supported! This is really remarkable. If my top of the head calculation is correct this is about 1 MOA. Better than the hardware error alone of older/ lower end guns.
It is still super boring to watch however.
Til 12 gauge double barrel shotguns are for children.
Big colourful bullets so little fingies can use them. It's basically a nerf gun!
When you say "children's gun" do you mean a gun for children to use, or a gun designed to use on children?
For children to use.
Maybe the army guys that the US sent over for trap shooting got lost on the way?
Or perhaps shotguns are for babies, and they only know how to fire rockets or something.
I thought American guns Are for shooting children...
No, they're for shooting ourselves when we've had enough of the crushing capitalism.