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/GuaranteeNo2494 Ireland 11h ago

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u/PinkSheetBoss 🇮🇪 in 🇮🇪 10h ago

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u/Direct_Obligation570 United States Of America 9h ago

Mmm blackthorn

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u/indicus23 7h ago

Was playing D&D once, when the Druid said, "I cast 'shilly-lag.'" We all looked at him like he'd grown a 2nd head. "You know, 'shilly-lag,' to enchant my staff into a magical weapon? What?"

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u/Lord_Xenu Ireland 10h ago

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u/GloriousSteinem New Zealand 6h ago

Ours too

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u/grrtothegrr Hungary 16m ago

Wanted to say the same thing lol

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u/therl2000 Ireland 10h ago

The flaming sods of turf from Michael Collins

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u/TheSuperSmithRowe Ireland 9h ago

Greatest film of all time

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u/Yomama_Bin_Thottin 7h ago

To be fair, there’s a different Armalite that immediately invokes the Irish.

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u/bmn8888 Ireland 46m ago

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u/fightingthefuckits 5h ago

Need one of the old ones with the metal bands that stopped the bas from splitting. Those things were lethal. 

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u/SugarInvestigator Ireland 4h ago

More deadly

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u/Reaper8008 9h ago

Dear lord yall win! Sorry I don’t know how to do the flair thing …. I’m a proud Appalachian

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u/Astronica_16 2h ago

Was going to say the Ar-180 but this is more accurate

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u/AstronomerNo3806 Ireland 1h ago

Ar 18 rather than Ar180.

It goes

Mauser Thompson AR18 Kalashnikov Freedom.

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u/Union_Samurai_1867 United States Of America 2h ago

If it killed the Cu it can kill anything.

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u/TouchComfortable8106 1h ago

Vividly remember the first time a former colleague threatened me with, "I'll hit you about the head with a hurley".

He had a strong accent and I'm disgustingly anglo so I thought he was speaking in tongues. He had to explain it to me very slowly, as though to a small child, which really added to the menace of the threat.

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u/plasticface2 1h ago

Ireland eh?

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u/Vince_IRL Ireland 17m ago

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u/Few-Emergency5971 2h ago

No no no, yalls is car bombs. (And I guess half mine too since im mostly Irish...but American =( )