30 Rounds of Me(h):

When one reflects upon the greatest evils and atrocities in human history the question that one is inevitably moved to ask oneself is: What can the human race do to prevent such things from ever occurring again? The answer to this question for many on the modern political Left is that we must eliminate what they refer to as "hate". Now all decent human beings should always seek to marginalize true hate, but that is not the proper answer to the question just posed. Hate is always present in every time and place (and quite honestly it always will be) but the greatest atrocities in history are not present in every time and place. They appear when they are provided with the right opportunity with the right formal conditions.

And so now a second question has emerged. What are the formal conditions under which they occur? We will mention two. The first condition is the loss of individual liberty and the concentration of political power. Historically, evil has been greatly limited in the degree of damage it has been able to bring about as long as it has been confined to private individuals and groups. It has been within the context of highly concentrated political power that the greatest human atrocities have occurred. The second condition is a social environment in which human beings are seen as members of groups rather than as individuals. It is much more important to avoid a convergence of these two scenarios than it is to attempt to banish all hate from the world. And we must remember something else about the greatest evils and atrocities of history. They are almost always themselves carried out in the name of opposing "evil" or some perceived threat. This is typically the justification.

So when the Conservative sees the modern Leftist push for increasingly more intrusive government and greater concentrations of power (including through the manipulation and control of big tech companies), when he sees individual expression and liberty curtailed (in the name of supposedly "righteous" causes) and when he sees the push to view human beings not as individuals but as members of groups (Critical Race Theory) he contends that this is not the direction that a wise reading of history would recommend for us.

Security exfiltration & Transport (SexT)

During the L. A. Riots back in 1992 the LAPD fucked off to protect the wealthy communities while the poor neighborhoods were left to their own devices. Many Korean shop owners got guns and defended their stores from the rooftops. In recent years they’ve become known endearingly as the “Roof Koreans”.

The answer is "that's how this character's suit looks in the comics".

Still not a fan though.

Forged homework of rifle design. If you are a military power in the last 40 years who's wanted to get a new rifle design but you don't want to actually do any of the hard work in developing your own indigenous design, you steal from the AR-18. Switch some bits around and call it your own. Give it FDE furniture and a caliber upgrade to 7.62 NATO, give it polymer furniture and in-build optics with a dot sight, give it a bipod and rifle grenades because your nation is barred from actually taking place in any wars so you still think those are good ideas, all of these guns take something or most things from the AR-18.

It is 1963 and ArmaLite has made a terrible mistake. While they had developed the AR-10 and AR-15, they had sold the rights to the designs to Colt and other companies. It made sense given what they were at the time. ArmaLite was a wing of Fairchild Aircraft mostly focused on R&D, they didn't have the facilities, budget and other requirements to fully devote to the AR-15, especially when a company like Colt was able to buy up. However, because of selling the AR-15 out and the AR-15 becoming a sales success, Fairchild decided to spin them loose in hopes of another buyer capitalizing on the dream team within. And so they needed a new rifle to sell, one that was seperate from the AR-15. Thus the AR-18 was developed, intended to be sold cheaply by its use of stamped sheet metal components in comparison to the forged aluminum of the AR-15. Which was great for third world nations to use to buy and make their o-.

No one bought it.

Yeah the big issue with the AR-18 was trying to swing against Colt, and also dealing with how the US was flinging M16's at whoever asked nicely. And by the time the rifle was done with constant tweaking by 1969, the AR-15 had REALLY become set as the de-facto 5.56 rifle of choice. There would be some success in sub-contracting the gun's production to Howa and Sterling, and the obvious IRA connection, but the rifle would fade away. ArmaLite would stop most operations in the early 1980's, leaving total production of original AR-18's, both the AR-18 and AR-180 at around 22,500~ units combined.