Take a good look, kids. Don’t flinch. Don’t avert your eyes. Bullet setback is real, and it could be happening in your very own neighborhood as we speak.
“Impossible!” you say. “My community is free of hippies and bullet setback! It could never touch our halcyon lives of quiet desperation!”
You’d be wrong. Dead gun wrong. See Timmy with his new 1911? Look how shiny it is! A wholesome, all-American boy with his all-American gun! But watch as Timmy loads up a magazine and slaps it into the pistol to “function test” it. He dry-cycles the ammunition by racking the slide to chamber and eject each round. Sure, it looks “cool,” but it’s a tragedy waiting to happen.
The sad truth is, Timmy’s in bed with Communism. The Reds want him to have a negligent discharge! If they can’t succeed at that, they’ll make darned sure he has a case-head blowout at the range, just like the one pictured above. Continued...