Since Trump’s election, gun groups catering to progressives and people of color report a surge in interest as they look to defend themselves in a country that, to them, feels increasingly unstable.

  • Krompus@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Slingshots are an effective deterrent, extremely compact. Get one with a forearm brace for increased stability. Best to use spherical ammunition (ball bearings, marbles), but pebbles will do in a pinch.

    I shot a recurve bow for a decade. With a moderate draw weight and sharp arrowheads they can be lethal. Takes much more practice, strength and patience than a gun. You can attach fur to the bowstring to make it quieter. Impossible to conceal, and quite conspicuous.

    Compound bows and crossbows are even more lethal with great precision and range, but louder and heavier.

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      47 minutes ago

      I tried to order a slingshot and ammo on Amazon to send to my son, but it wouldn’t send it to his state (NY). So I sent to myself, and I sent it to him.

      I doubt slingshots are lethal, but they can cause damage, and they’ll hurt real bad, enough that a barrage of them could make a bad character pause. Even just having them pepper the street around the target would be enough to back them up.

      What if citizens started carrying slingshots everywhere, and using them? Imagine if ICE was trying some shit in the street, and they were barraged by slingshots from apartment windows all around them?