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JD Vance asks National Guard member if he can touch gun (theonion.com)

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Approaching cautiously after waiting for an opportune moment to pose his question, Vice President JD Vance reportedly asked a National Guardsman patrolling the nation’s capital Monday if he could touch the man’s service rifle. “Sorry to bother you, sir—is that thing real?” Vance said to a newly armed member of the Ohio National Guard on a D.C. street corner, adding that he was “a little scared,” but if it wasn’t any trouble, he would also love to feel the weight of the private’s M4 rifle in his hands for a couple seconds. [...]

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Might be AI or an object that was cut and pasted from another picture. And I would sooner rock an og 20 inch 1/12 twist.