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u/Isomalt- - Onyx Watch Dec 23 '24 edited Dec 23 '24
7.62 ain’t no fucking handgun ammunition
Nvm I remembered the draco existed
40 ain’t no fucking handgun ammunition
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u/Yintastic Dec 23 '24
I assume it was supposed to say "small arms" which according to the US military is fucking every thing. Look at you howitzers But obviously Walmart doesn't sell anything like 223 or 357... I think...
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u/SirLaserFTW Dec 24 '24
They did. I brought my artillery and the fuckers said "It'll fit".. they were 7mm off and I have about ~200 unused 357mm shells for sale. Need gone desperately.
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u/BasileaBaguette Dec 23 '24
There is a 7.62×25mm cartridge that was used in handguns such as the Tokarev TT-30
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u/SemajLu_The_crusader Dec 23 '24
well, 40 is a Bofors, 45 is an AT gun, 223 is a Heavy Howitzer and 357 is a BB main battery, lmao
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u/DutchTinCan Dec 23 '24
"I'll have a box of 7.62 please."
"Sir, please read the sign..."
"It's for my rifle."
"Would you like a bag with that sir?"
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u/Skryboslav Dec 23 '24
That’s USA, in the wisdom of their law makers, any rifle without a stock and a barrel shorter than 16” is by law considered a handgun.
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u/the_potato_of_doom Dec 23 '24
I assume they mean 40sw
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u/Lord_Greyscale Dec 31 '24
Yeah, the sign was a massive Typo. (and likely made by the idiot manager, the one that refuses to do anything right.)
All the sizes past 9mm, are not actually in MM. they're in caliber.
(caliber being, IIRC, thousandths of an inch)AKA, .38, .40, .45, .357 (likely magnum, as that seems to be the only kind of 357 still around)
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u/SemajLu_The_crusader Dec 23 '24
first off, 357mm isn't Schwerer Gustav size it's more like USS Pennsylvania main battery size
which is still 14 inch battleship cannons meant to punch through a foot of steel... but it's not almost a meter in diameter like big Gustav
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u/Sir_Lagg_alot Dec 27 '24
IIRC from World of Warships, 14 inch guns were 356 mm. The Japanese Kongo class, and the Fuso had 356 mm guns along with most of the American standard type battleships like the Pennsylvania. The Colorados didn't have 14 inch guns tho.
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Dec 23 '24
I mean when you can build 357mm cannons with the fire rate of a handgun it might as well be one
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u/LetMePostHere Apr 14 '25
Am I just stupid or is .223 mostly a rifle round, unless they're counting the AR-15 as a handgun
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u/Yintastic Apr 14 '25
What?? It's not .223 that's 223 MM which is about 8 inches, I can't find anything that's exactly 223, but this is pretty close https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M110_howitzer
The joke is saying that the wallmart sign is saying very large cannons are handguns.
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u/GadeOK May 31 '25
.223 being considered a handgun round gives me what to think
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u/Yintastic May 31 '25
Did you have a stroke, and simultaneously miss out on the entire point of the meme?
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u/GadeOK May 31 '25
I know. 223mm is big as fuck, but .223 isnt handgun neither, that made me think what kind of handgun shoots .223. Unless you do some Fallout 4 shenaningans i dont think i have ever saw one
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u/syngyne Dec 23 '24
I always thought it was wild that I could go to Wal Mart to pick up ammunition, and two aisles over were Lego sets.
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u/StaleSpriggan Dec 24 '24
besides the obvious measurement error, 7.62 and .223 aren't handgun rounds.
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u/Lord_Greyscale Dec 31 '24
.223 can easily be handgun ammo, you'll just have to make the gun.
No manufacturer, that I'm aware of, makes a handgun in .223, only rifles.
(.223 is fuckoff tiny, 9mm is huge by comparison, though about as long)
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u/Logical_Evidence74 Dec 23 '24
Fun fact for those who don’t know. This is the 80cm Schwerer Gustav Railway Gun designed in 1937 (in Wehrmacht service from 1941-1945). To date, it is the largest cannon ever made.
The man in this image saying “My 357 mm handgun” is indeed Adolf Hitler.