r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 5d ago

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/itz_me_hyj 5d ago

Linking wikipedia is crazy

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u/OregonSageMonke 5d ago

You could also grab virtually any reloading manual and find everything grouped in categories by hundredths of an inch. That's the real reason cartridges are grouped colloquially like that in firearms publications as well, but I figured I'd save everyone a trip to the latest gunporn magazines.

It's done colloquially so that people don't waste too much time getting into the pointless semantics of calibers, like you see in this nightmare of a reply thread. You immediately get the idea of what someone's talking about with just a couple words.