THE WEEKLY AS-AC18
The Self Defense Advocacy Organization's weekly guide to news, politics, guns, home defense with new guns, gun culture, and the gun lifestyle.
October 10, 1938
POLITICS
A New Threat In Parliament! by Nader Jabal
The rising power of the nationalist parties in Parliament as of late has been an established trend and one that most members of the FSDAO have likely been aware of for months. There has been plenty of debating about whether they are necessary to secure provincial freedoms, or whether they threaten the existence of the Forenian democracy, but I write here today to alert every free and self-respecting gun-owner of a wholly new problem in politics. The Forenian Nazi Party has gained two seats in Parliament recently, promising glory and strength and power. But one need look only at its German predecessor to see the threat that the Nazis pose. In Germany, ever since they came to power the Nazi Party has been confiscating the guns of its citizens, enforcing old and symbolic laws in order to unfairly strip its citizens, especially its Jews, of their weapons. Were the Nazis here to get into power, they could interpret laws in their favor, and if they wanted to live up to their counterparts, you would shortly find your weapons stolen from you in much the same way. Look at the Horsekiller on your wall, or your SP 30 or your AS-AR34, or your Cascade, or your shotgun, or your Osprey, or your F14A, or even your Sorraia -- do you want them to be gone? Voting for the Nazis is a quick way to have that happen.
Put a rocket on it! by Fried Potato
Put a rocket on it! Comrades, I am to be invited to write to you today by the Forenian Self-Defense Advocacy Organization about the party I am a member of. Put a rocket on it! Our party will put a rocket on something if a rocket can be put on it, and our glorious engineering will be showcased by our flying through the air at breakneck speed while shooting flame backwards! I have a lot of experience putting rockets on things, like bikes, and I can say personally say that putting a rocket on things is one of the most satisfying things there is. It seems many Forenians agree, with our eight-seat mandate to put rockets on things! The put a rocket on it! party: vote for us, and we will put a rocket on things.
THE WAR
Accepting Sorraia Springs, by Lieutenant Fyodor Bogomolov
Recently, there has been something of a problem on the battlefields: we got a bad batch of Sorraias, and many of our guns are starting to need spare parts. That's why I would like to make a personal plea to the good gun-owners of the FSDAO. If you have any working Sorraia springs in your parts stocks that you would feel comfortable letting go of, we would greatly appreciate donations. Remember: Every spring donated is another few bullets we can shoot at the pirates, and a bolstering wave to the glory of the Forenian military!
GUNS IN CULTURE
Film Review by Isa Al-Muscati: Battle of the Embassy
My overall view of Battle of the Embassy is mostly positive, but I have some issues with it. Battle of the Embassy is an action movie by filmmaker and former Moskurg officer Usman Amjad, depicting the final battle of our last war and the turning point of the revolution, and Usman claims that the movie is based off of what he really saw at the Embassy.
The famous positives of the movie, and what have made it so successful, of course, is the sheer amount of budget spent on its prop guns and real guns, to make the sheer bullet-pouring action and fantastic machinery truly come to life; those of you who have read my reviews before probably know that I am something of a gun elitist, but this made even me grip the edges of my seat when I watched the film. The plot is also surprisingly well-written; Usman manages to make the protagonist's thoughts and actions understandable and even touching despite the chaotic whirlwind of the film's setting.
Despite the positives of The Battle of the Embassy, the movie greatly annoyed me with the ridiculous "military technology" it featured, like some sort of giant armor with balloons of all things, another set of giant armor too large to move, and a MK47 chambered with Horsekiller rounds that Usman seems to believe spun across the entire Embassy floor and killed multiple people. Usman's obsession with these bizarre, impossible pieces of technology marred my enjoyment of the film, and makes me doubt he was really present.
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Topic: Arms Race: Embassy (Read 31232 times)