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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 1h

Oh hey. They banned me from flying. *adds it to the list of shit from the last few weeks*

borgpup ✈️ SF 10/22-11/19 @borgpup.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 URGENT U.S. TRAVEL ALERT 🚨
Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 1h

We are at the “papers please” stage.

It doesn’t get less fascist or get better without several hard years. Stay dangerous and keep your community safe.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 2h

How to Zero a Rifle:

A basic but super necessary topic for people to get. If your zero is off your shooting won’t be straight and despite being queer this is the one time I’ll say not being straight is a bad thing.

youtu.be/OUeblyqKHQw

How to Zero a Rifle

YouTube video by Queer Armorer

youtu.be

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 2h

California just passed a ban on handguns that “can be converted to full automatic.”

They mean to ban Glocks. But I literally don’t know a semiautomatic handgun that CAN’T be converted to fully automatic with the right work applied.

Until it’s torn down it’s going to be bad for everyone in Cali.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 1h

We are at the “papers please” stage.

It doesn’t get less fascist or get better without several hard years. Stay dangerous and keep your community safe.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 2h

How to Zero a Rifle:

A basic but super necessary topic for people to get. If your zero is off your shooting won’t be straight and despite being queer this is the one time I’ll say not being straight is a bad thing.

youtu.be/OUeblyqKHQw

How to Zero a Rifle

YouTube video by Queer Armorer

youtu.be

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 2h

California just passed a ban on handguns that “can be converted to full automatic.”

They mean to ban Glocks. But I literally don’t know a semiautomatic handgun that CAN’T be converted to fully automatic with the right work applied.

Until it’s torn down it’s going to be bad for everyone in Cali.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 22h

Everybody’s favorite existential horror dressed up in a bad pikachu outfit.

Mimikyu just wants to be friends …

a cartoon character is laying on the floor with a broom in its mouth .

Alt: Mimikyu, trying to hold his own costume’s head up after it ripped

media.tenor.com

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules: guns fuck, or they suck.

This week, we have the Sedgley Mk 2. Also called the OSS 38, it is a single shot, smooth bore, .38 special pistol designed by Naval Intelligence specifically to commit perfidy (a war crime) with.

The gun, which looks like a mechanism strapped to the back of a normal work glove because, well, that's what it is for the most part.

The patent that demonstrates the firing mechanism as well as how it's expected to be used as a punch kill weapon.

The break open action swung open showing how to load a round.

The most famous use of one is in fiction, this is the gun that was highlighted by Inglorious Bastards. It should be noted that that was a work of fiction and there is zero evidence of one ever having been fired in the field.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 2d

Isn't one of the most copied versions of the 'music star does cool stuff but is tortured and eventually has to heal' genre LITERALLY A JOHNNY CASH DOCUDRAMA?

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

This feels like a truism about life.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure a non-zero part of the reason they stayed completely unfielded is anybody with legal training would look at the intended use case and go "hold on a second, buddy, you're about to commit a war crime," especially military personnel as it's one of the war crimes the US military cares about.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

These weren't purely theoretical!

About 200 were issued to US Navy personnel, most of which never left their boxes but that makes it beyond even a prototype and into what could technically be referred to as a properly adopted weapon with a military designation ("Hand Firing Mechanism, Mk 2.")

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

New video is up for Patreons.

It'll be up for everybody else Monday.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

So, it was literally designed for "perfidy" - the idea was, sailors would put it on when being boarded, approach with hands up, then as captors got close punch them in the face.

Which is also known as false surrender. Or Perfidy. Or you know, a war crime people have done time in the Hague for.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules: guns fuck, or they suck.

This week, we have the Sedgley Mk 2. Also called the OSS 38, it is a single shot, smooth bore, .38 special pistol designed by Naval Intelligence specifically to commit perfidy (a war crime) with.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 8d

Literally me:

Possum Every Hour @possumeveryhour.io · 8d

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 6d

Ok how’d they know, was it the shirt?

It was the shirt, wasn’t it?

A person with a shirt that has an AR on a rainbow flag holding a receipt saying they are 223’rd in line.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 6d

It is no longer reasonable to assume decency or honesty from any ICE agent.

Act accordingly. They will lie. They will cheat. They will steal. They will kill. All in order to hurt your friends and family for not fitting their broken definitions of what an American is.

Don’t play fair. ICE won’t.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

I REFUSED TO EDUCATE YOU WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS.

(chanting in the background: one of us, one of us, gooba gaaba we accept you, one of us, one of...)

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 3d

October is Trans Culture Month.

If you know you know, and if you do not I refuse to educate you please enjoy your bliss.

A trans girl licking a lollypop saying "Please let me into the pumpkin farm, I can be trusted around pumpkins."

A trans girl blushing and staring at a pumpkin.

Bridget walking to a pumpkin with the text "NO BRIDGET NO DON'T DO IT" on top

Bridget looking at a pumpkin at walmart. She is saying to herself, "Wow, I really shouldn't stick my penis in there. HOWEVER ..."

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 6d

Pinkscrubbing would work. Maybe acid pink washing too.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 6d

ICE agents will arrest people following all immigration laws.
They will arrest citizens.
They will lie about what happens. Under oath. Repeatedly.
And until you’re ready to start throwing rocks and hate their way every time you see them, they will continue doing that. They are the boot on your neck.

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe “whitewashing the pink washing?”

Because just the performative support is pink washing. Add to it dismantling ACTUAL supports in order to replace it with useless but very visible pink washing.

Poison Pink Washing maybe?

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Queer Armorer @queerarmorer.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like it’s worse when you have a system in place and then DISMANTLE it only to replace it with performative “donation streams.”

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