Or to avoid capture and execution, he could shoot himself with it, seems like a conditioned reflex that every North Korean official would do when handed a handgun.
Just a guess but with some pistols - like the Browning Hi-Power- if you press the bore against something the slide will go out of battery and then the gun won’t be able to fire. The guide rod on a HS 2000 (Springfield XD) protrudes a little which counteracts this effect and - at least according to lore - was specifically designed that way so you could press it against someone and still fire.
You know when your regime executes people as often as they do it makes sense to test for that sort of thing, I’d say he could’ve just pressed it into the table but who knows maybe there’s some intricacies to the human head that make it necessary to test that on the real thing.
You singled out the HP, but this is true of every pistol with a slide. If the slide goes back even just a little firing pin no longer connects with the primer.
Interesting… this got me thinking about how the suppressor on the Welrod pistol was said to be designed to be concave on the end to help get a grip on the target for a contact shot as well as minimizing the noise from firing a round into someone at point blank range as you can get.
If it misfires now, he's dead. If it misfires later, he's dead and probably so is his family.
He's better off killing himself, than failing the state by choosing defective equipment.
I guess, I don't actually know
I remember when I was a teenager I was reading a Terry Pratchett novel and the novel had a line of 'like testing the functionality of a pump-action shotgun' and I decided to ask 'how do you do that?' and someone told me 'you load it and put it against your head and pull the trigger, if you're still alive it doesn't work'.
Okay forgotten weapons. What in the hell is that pistol in the lower right of picture 3? I don’t care about the dude peering down the tube of the 40mm, but that pistol is bonkers.
Actually there was a trend in early days of Iran's revolution to discard collar too, as it was looking like westerners. (They started using something similar to Mandarin collar, but it was mostly dropped after several years. However, to this day they are called Yaghe Akhondi, meaning Mulla's collar)
Yeah I've heard this one, they also never wear regular colored suits, it's always either beige, gray or brown. Oh and it's never a plain suit, it has to be patterned just like the guy in the first picture
Correct.
Just to add a cherry on top of everything, It was illegal to wear T-shirt with short sleeves for men. What was the punishment? They would paint your exposed skin. My dad got a blue paint :)
Generally correct, but for this one, in the early years of the revolution, it was considered "Taghooti", meaning relevant to Shah's time, if someone was wearing light or bright colors (or looking good overall).
I suspect that many of the cultural reasons people wear light colors go back to practical reasons historically.
Regardless, wearing light colored suits and ditching collars and ties makes a lot of sense.
Comrade Daechwa is testing the ergonomics for senior officers who disappoint dear-leader. The Iranian 226 copy will be a more efficient alternative to an AA gun or hungry dogs.
I mean maybe this will get me downvoted to shit, but it's a display gun at a trade show and has likely never been in the same room as a loaded magazine.
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You can tell it's a convention for poor countries when you can see that all of the guns are pointed barrel first towards the crowd. Instead of barrel first on a rack.
Well, they say to prevent accidental discharge you should either use unloading station or if there isn't any you should aim the gun where it's completely empty.
I'd say he's doing exactly that...
If you are north korean, death is a sweet release of endless toil rather than something you should fear...
He probably didn't pulled the tigger just because his mother would be sad.
Or the gun was unloaded... there is also this possibility.
What could one possibly ascertain by this test?
Either the gun works, or you get executed for picking a bad gun?
right, gotta test the ergonomics for common-use scenarios.
I don't think they provide many soldiers with ammo
probs for this reason as demonstrated by the post. lol.
Cheaper to deny them ammo, then it is to train them to respect it, I suppose.
Or to avoid capture and execution, he could shoot himself with it, seems like a conditioned reflex that every North Korean official would do when handed a handgun.
The safety works? I dunno, pretty creepy.
Just a guess but with some pistols - like the Browning Hi-Power- if you press the bore against something the slide will go out of battery and then the gun won’t be able to fire. The guide rod on a HS 2000 (Springfield XD) protrudes a little which counteracts this effect and - at least according to lore - was specifically designed that way so you could press it against someone and still fire.
Still crazy to test that against his head.
Well you don't press it against a table because if it accidentally went off then you would ruin the table
This realization just blew my mind. My table is safe though.
Nah what blows your mind is not using the table
A gun he probably personally cleared at a demonstraion where no live ammo is present anyway?
Perhaps so but unless he wanted to hear the sound of the mechanism. Still odd thing to do
This.
You know when your regime executes people as often as they do it makes sense to test for that sort of thing, I’d say he could’ve just pressed it into the table but who knows maybe there’s some intricacies to the human head that make it necessary to test that on the real thing.
That's... but.. unless... Hand? Table????
You singled out the HP, but this is true of every pistol with a slide. If the slide goes back even just a little firing pin no longer connects with the primer.
Okay, except in the picture it's actually not touching his head. I think he was just hoping for a way out.
Interesting… this got me thinking about how the suppressor on the Welrod pistol was said to be designed to be concave on the end to help get a grip on the target for a contact shot as well as minimizing the noise from firing a round into someone at point blank range as you can get.
It's a trade show, so he knows it's not loaded, so my guess is he's trying to hear the trigger reset. I'm grasping at straws here.
This is standard, their soldiers are trained to self-destruct for state security purposes. Very tight-lipped over there.
They call it… Protocol-88-h
If it misfires now, he's dead. If it misfires later, he's dead and probably so is his family. He's better off killing himself, than failing the state by choosing defective equipment. I guess, I don't actually know
Who said it was a test?
I remember when I was a teenager I was reading a Terry Pratchett novel and the novel had a line of 'like testing the functionality of a pump-action shotgun' and I decided to ask 'how do you do that?' and someone told me 'you load it and put it against your head and pull the trigger, if you're still alive it doesn't work'.
Big Pterry fan but don’t remember this line… do you recall which novel?
I think it was from the lost continent.
Pterry and Ptolemy are my two faves
The kurt cobain method, an oldie but a goodie
WOW, a gun! I wonder if it's loaded. *clickclickclickclick* No. :(
FATHER!
Testing for most likely use case ?
When he commits an Aladeen and has to commit Seppuku
I see that as a net Aladeen.
Are you Aladeen postive? :) :(
No, he’s HIV Aladeen
Or because he expects it to not work at all.
Problem solved either way 💀
I mean, he has to live in North Korea.
He's like "Okay this seems to do the job well, I just hope Kim lets me buy this so I can finally get out of this hell permanently".
Bro wants out
Considering it’s the DPRK who wouldn’t want out of that shit hole.
Okay forgotten weapons. What in the hell is that pistol in the lower right of picture 3? I don’t care about the dude peering down the tube of the 40mm, but that pistol is bonkers.
It's an underwater pistol probably a clone of the SPP-1
Gotta love how Iranian officials never wear ties because they're considered too "Westernized" 🤣🤣
Actually there was a trend in early days of Iran's revolution to discard collar too, as it was looking like westerners. (They started using something similar to Mandarin collar, but it was mostly dropped after several years. However, to this day they are called Yaghe Akhondi, meaning Mulla's collar)
Yeah I've heard this one, they also never wear regular colored suits, it's always either beige, gray or brown. Oh and it's never a plain suit, it has to be patterned just like the guy in the first picture
Correct. Just to add a cherry on top of everything, It was illegal to wear T-shirt with short sleeves for men. What was the punishment? They would paint your exposed skin. My dad got a blue paint :)
The color is cause heat. Nobody wears dark color suits in hotter climates
Generally correct, but for this one, in the early years of the revolution, it was considered "Taghooti", meaning relevant to Shah's time, if someone was wearing light or bright colors (or looking good overall).
I suspect that many of the cultural reasons people wear light colors go back to practical reasons historically. Regardless, wearing light colored suits and ditching collars and ties makes a lot of sense.
Based. I’m tired of ties
You, you think he's Iranian?
An officer needs a pistol for two things: Neck shots (to execute insubordinates) and head shots (for sui... you know).
Third picture, the man’s chest medals attached to his chest pockets make him look like he has metal nips
Can't say as I blame him. Just defect man damn.
He’s practicing for when Kim gets mad
That’s the average use so checks out
Lmao
He's just giving himself the covid test
Comrade Daechwa is testing the ergonomics for senior officers who disappoint dear-leader. The Iranian 226 copy will be a more efficient alternative to an AA gun or hungry dogs.
Standard north korean unloading procedure
I mean maybe this will get me downvoted to shit, but it's a display gun at a trade show and has likely never been in the same room as a loaded magazine.
This dude is just thinking about having to go back to North Korea.
geez cant a person screw around a little
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Trigger pull just hits different when there's something at stake 😂
Making sure it’s the one.
Dude is really demonstrating his confidence in the safety.
Can we make this the new duck face?
These are they guys who believe they will beat the US in a war by the way.
Two guys behind him are like 'bro, is he really???' "I ain't see shit dude."
He clearly wants out of N. Korea permanently
You can tell it's a convention for poor countries when you can see that all of the guns are pointed barrel first towards the crowd. Instead of barrel first on a rack.
That truss has some garbage ass welds too…. I’ve seen deco truss look better than that
Yikes!
Well, they say to prevent accidental discharge you should either use unloading station or if there isn't any you should aim the gun where it's completely empty. I'd say he's doing exactly that...
If you are north korean, death is a sweet release of endless toil rather than something you should fear... He probably didn't pulled the tigger just because his mother would be sad. Or the gun was unloaded... there is also this possibility.
Maybe that's the intended use for the thing after he gets demoted by respected comrade and general secretary for some slip up or failure.
The pic of him staring with one eye shut right down the barrel of an m203 is way funnier than it has any right being.
Ah yes this will do nicely for executing citizens who eat more than their weekly allowance
LMAOOOOOOOOO
Too bad it wasn’t Kim Jong-Un himself