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Americans Compensating for an Actual Personality.
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Starting back to front, left to right, looks like they have a G3 with buffer tube adapter and standard cheap adjustable stock, Paratrooper FAL, M16A2, M16A1, M60, Uzi, and Thomson Submachine gun.
The designs are old enough to where they could be legal pre-ban machine guns but those are insanely expensive to own ($10k+ each minimum) but considering they're in congress and have an M60 (even semi-auto only is expensive), they're probably extremely rich.
I support people responsibly owning firearms and they are handling them safely (open chambers, no magazines, safe direction, fingers off triggers), but this still looks very bad for a congressman.
It's also just a really really weird Christmas photo regardless of who is taking it.
I need someone to edit out the guns so it just looks like a bunch of weirdos pointing in different directions.
Fully automatic firearms are actually ready to fire specifically with an open chamber. Closed chamber is considered safe with an open bolt rather than the inverse.
Seriously : I expected this was a joke picture and if not, just some exgremsitst having some fun... You're telling me this is a congressman???