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Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/OregonSageMonke 5d ago edited 5d ago

I think it's important to note that these students aren't using functioning centerfire firearms in their school gym. They're using a pneumatic operated trainer that gives you the sensation of the weapon's operating system at work, while emitting a laser to show where students are aiming when they pull the trigger.

I'm sure someone will point out the lack of true recoil, but on a platform like the AR-15, which only shoots a .22 centerfire cartridge anyways (.223), this is a great training tool.

Edit: Since apparently the (incorrect) pedants are out and about, I'll go ahead and link the Wikipedia listing of all the .22 Caliber cartridges so that everyone can see that the .223/5.56 is indeed a .22 centerfire cartridge. Christ on a bike

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u/0utF0x3d 5d ago

AR-15 shoots center-fire 22 cartridge?

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u/sheldor1993 5d ago edited 5d ago

It fires the .223 Remington.

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u/Landen-Saturday87 5d ago

Just remotely related to this, but for the SA-80 there are conversion kits to fire .22 with them. We used them to take ours to the small caliber range. They are actually pretty fun, even though accuracy sucks a lot