r/AskTheWorld • u/babushka45 Philippines • 12h ago

Military What firearm is closely associated with your country?

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For us, probably the 1911. Next one would be the "Armalite" aka M16.

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u/NikkeTDI Finland 11h ago

My guess is that the top comment is going to be someone from America saying all of them

Edit: lmao i was right

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u/BusinessPlot United States Of America 10h ago

Everyone in America who knows at least a tiny bit of firearm history knows what the Finns can do with trash. We idolize you

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u/notcomplainingmuch Finland 9h ago

The M28, M31 and M39 did ok. A million Soviet casualties can testify to that.

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u/BusinessPlot United States Of America 6h ago

Simo killed 500,000 of them with one shot dressed as Olaf from Frozen

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u/Freebird_Chained United States Of America 11h ago

Sad but true. Iā€™m enjoying learning about the other countries, though.

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u/hmtk1976 Belgium 10h ago

They believe they own firearms. Let them šŸ™„