Originally published at: The Houthis are selling machine guns on Twitter. They even have blue checks. - Boing Boing
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What, not even “
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Could X not even afford to keep that up?
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Well, you wouldn’t want to buy weapons from any rando on the internet.
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“GUNS! WHO WANTS TO SELL ME A GUN!”
— Jim Jeffries
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Are the Houthis selling or buying? A “premium quality…Yemeni-modified AK” might be more appealing than a Rolex to a Houthi official looking for a status symbol he can appreciate.
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I may clutch my pearls!
Imagine, just imagine, if Western governments were supplying weapons of mass destruction willy nilly to autocracies murdering civilians in that part of the world.
Just imagine!
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I’ve long since given up on the fanbois to explain this sort of thing away as another brilliant move by Atlas the Modern Edison. At this point even most of them know he’s a bumbling clown.
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Can you get a Yemini AK with a Louis Vuitton sling? Asking for a friend.
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I have to say there’s something profound about that image. The gold is beautiful, the Vuitton decoration is stylish (well, stylish-ish), and the whole thing reeks of death.
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That money is wasted on the rich?
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machine guns are perfectly legal.
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Full auto pistols are one of those things that are “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”- unless you are able to keep the recoil under control, all you are doing is throwing money (in the form of lead, brass, and gunpowder) around and being a major hazard to everyone in a mile of where you are pointing it.
the UZI? the MAC-9? those had folding stocks and either straps or handles to help control muzzle climb and recoil.
This will likely get appealed up to the US supreme court, and Bog only knows where it’ll go from there- hopefully somewhere sane.
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I wish they showed some screen caps at least of such ads. Are they sponsored ads or private users selling guns?
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"Since then, a seven-year military campaign led by neighbouring Saudi Arabia failed to remove them, while the country descended into civil war. "
IIRC this shows how horribly inept the Saudi military is, and it is by design. Because it’s a monarchy, they can’t really risk competent, charismatic leaders that aren’t part of the family (for fear of a coup). So you got cousins in charge and they aren’t very good. 
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has as embedded xcretion of a brace of automatic pistols. nothing as evocative as an AK, though
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Whelp, I guess it’s nice to know that “worst people on twitter” is truly an open, competitive primary.
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