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I arm queer folks. “Live free or fucking die.” -JStark1809. YouTube channel full of weird advice and weirder guns. I stream, run a software company, and Rainbow Reload. And I am perpetually tired.
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Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules - guns fuck, or they suck. This week, we have a genuinely weird middle child of history, the CEAM Modele 1950B. Chambered in .30 Carbine, it is a development point between the STG-44 and the CETME Model C/H&K G3.

The profile view makes it abundantly clear that there is a lot of the upcoming CETME's lines built into the look. Specifically, this is the genesis of the "slap" charging handle.
The gun disassembles to similar pieces as a G3.
CEAM would be disbanded shortly after this and the pieces of what they were reformed into CETME, however the primary developer would quit during this process and start his own company - Heckler and Koch.
A round of .30 Carbine next to a round of 5.7 to illustrate the size differential. They're about the same size but the case is straightwalled and a little taller on the .30 Carbine.
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Holy shit: Un-fucking my lungs has been funded! AAAAA! I cannot tell y'all how much this means, thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who chipped in.

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Laura Loomer was apparently hanging out in front of Trump's golf course after the shooting, staring at her phone like the gig worker she just hired sent a message back saying he failed and she should burn her phone.

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So apparently they shot at Trump again.

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I really need your help to keep this channel's continuing on. I can't afford medical treatments I desperately need. And I can't keep the work going when I spend so much time scrambling for basics. If you can donate it would help keep my work going strong. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-queer...

Keep Queer Armorer's Mission Alive, organized by Finn Smith
Keep Queer Armorer's Mission Alive, organized by Finn Smith

Y’all, I need your help. I run a channel, Queer Armorer, I make educational content … Finn Smith needs your support for Keep Queer Armorer's Mission Alive

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Overheard walking past my window: "I killed a couple people in 'nam!" "No ... wait, really?" "Yeah! The 80's were wild!" I let out a single laugh so hard I hurt my lungs a little bit. Chat, was he shitposting? Was that a dark secret? Someone's world history is that bad? Some weird fourth thing?

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Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules - guns fuck, or they suck. This week, the TKB-022PM, a Russian prototype rifle platform. Developed in 1959 and field tested, it had a radical design but it was unbalanced, difficult to field strip, and stayed a prototype.

The later prototypes were converted to using a more modern looking polymer, which while looking strange allowed the guns to at least seem to make some sense with a modern eye.
The original prototypes used Bakelite, essentially an early not-wood-plastic-conversion-caustic-chemical process that were both well known for being incredibly hearty and capable while also generating horrible diseases among those who manufactured it.
The reloading process was novel and almost Kel-Tec like with it's ingenuity and complex thinking. See, the magazine being that far back means you don't have that much surface for the mechanism to catch, so there's a telescoping bolt where the bolt surface extends on arms, grabs, the next round, and as the arms close they eject the last shell which is just, like, chilling out on a tray below the action during this phase? It's legitimately a "huh .. yeah, sure that works, WHY NOT JUST SPIT IT OUT" kind of operation but using this mechanism DID allow for downward ejection in a tiny package in 1959, so take it as you will.
The gun was built both in 7.62x39 AND a new round, .220 Russian, which was designed alongside it. .220 Russian was a sort of kind of attempt to make 5.56 out of Soviet supplies, it took a 7.62 cartridge and necked the bullet down to a .22 in an attempt to make something deer-hunter sized. The gun didn't leave prototyping but the round made it's way into several other hunting platforms of the time.
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Fun fact: that technically isn't wood, that's Bakelite, or a Russian development of it called AG-4 which used fiber and a pile of noxious chemicals to make a resin like polymer.

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Hi there, and welcome to #FridayFucksorSucks, a weekly game with simple rules - guns fuck, or they suck. This week, the TKB-022PM, a Russian prototype rifle platform. Developed in 1959 and field tested, it had a radical design but it was unbalanced, difficult to field strip, and stayed a prototype.

The later prototypes were converted to using a more modern looking polymer, which while looking strange allowed the guns to at least seem to make some sense with a modern eye.
The original prototypes used Bakelite, essentially an early not-wood-plastic-conversion-caustic-chemical process that were both well known for being incredibly hearty and capable while also generating horrible diseases among those who manufactured it.
The reloading process was novel and almost Kel-Tec like with it's ingenuity and complex thinking. See, the magazine being that far back means you don't have that much surface for the mechanism to catch, so there's a telescoping bolt where the bolt surface extends on arms, grabs, the next round, and as the arms close they eject the last shell which is just, like, chilling out on a tray below the action during this phase? It's legitimately a "huh .. yeah, sure that works, WHY NOT JUST SPIT IT OUT" kind of operation but using this mechanism DID allow for downward ejection in a tiny package in 1959, so take it as you will.
The gun was built both in 7.62x39 AND a new round, .220 Russian, which was designed alongside it. .220 Russian was a sort of kind of attempt to make 5.56 out of Soviet supplies, it took a 7.62 cartridge and necked the bullet down to a .22 in an attempt to make something deer-hunter sized. The gun didn't leave prototyping but the round made it's way into several other hunting platforms of the time.
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I really need your help to keep this channel's continuing on. I can't afford medical treatments I desperately need. And I can't keep the work going when I spend so much time scrambling for basics. If you can donate it would help keep my work going strong. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-queer...

Keep Queer Armorer's Mission Alive, organized by Finn Smith
Keep Queer Armorer's Mission Alive, organized by Finn Smith

Y’all, I need your help. I run a channel, Queer Armorer, I make educational content … Finn Smith needs your support for Keep Queer Armorer's Mission Alive

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Queer Armorer
@queerarmorer.bsky.social
I arm queer folks. “Live free or fucking die.” -JStark1809. YouTube channel full of weird advice and weirder guns. I stream, run a software company, and Rainbow Reload. And I am perpetually tired.
655 followers82 following406 posts
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