https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/your-dead-5-deadliest-military-rifles-...

The young yuppie posers who work in this publication saw nothing wrong with the tagline or the photograph.   This means the writer, the proof reader, the editor and the publicist ----- none of them has ever fired a gun in their lives.    All they know is that guns shoot cartridges, right?



Scroll over to the far right to see the projectile in stop motion

And what is with the large laser device aimed straight at the front sight post?

If they are that Totally Full of it, I can tell Android not to show items from National Interest in my news feed in the future.

It's a real photo... the shell is an eject.

This fake-looking Air Force photo is real and totally amazing
https://www.businessinsider.com/this-fake-looking-air-force-photo-is-real-and...

Serowbot wrote on 07/30/19 at 10:25:20:



Hmm - how about that?

Good get Sero!

Ok, so still now --- what is with the rather large laser device aimed right at the front sight post?



Here is a debunk of the original picture.   Liberal minded folks really do think guns shoot cartridges, really they do.   But where are the rifling marking located on the cases I wonder.





https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/air-force-m4-carbines-fire-empty-brass/



Of course, in this case it wasn’t the entire cartridge, but just an empty case. Which means it could potentially be a legitimate photo, right? An ejecting case caught on camera in just the “right” place?

Ha! Come on! Get outta here. No freaking way.

Why? Well . . .

• No visible gas from bolt carrier or muzzle
• Shooter’s finger is already off the trigger, which is certainly possible but awfully quick
• Brass looks suspiciously clean
• Brass has no apparent tempering discoloration, which is very obvious on nearly all 5.56 NATO. Even in photos where the brass is much blurrier than in this photo.
• This M4 has to be over-gassed to eject a case at, what, like 1:00?
• You’re telling me that case is flying, spinning, and flipping through space and crosses the plane of the barrel just as it happens to point directly down range precisely as the photo is taken?
• I mean come on, seriously?

And maybe he did photoshop it, realized later that what he did could land him in a world of trouble, and then made up the story that it was just a million to one lucky photo to keep him out of Leavenworth.

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avatarTomC says:
October 2, 2018 at 15:59
THAT seems actually more likely than the one in umpteen bazillion odds of the shot being real. The “proof” that he can display the same photo on the screen of his camera proves nothing more than that he knows how to load a memory card into the camera.

Sorry, Airman, but I’m still not buying it.

Some other M4 Carbine pics:











*edited*
I have it on good authority that the top piece is a PEQ laser (infrared and regular) and the tan piece is a flashlight on the bottom pic.

On the OP, the PEQ is at the beige piece and the scope is obvious.

Mystery solved.

Back to the OP; regardless, how would the spent brass get ahead of the muzzle of the barrel?

Best regards,

I've had a few go down my shirt...
Never knew I could dance like that...

From the 2nd pic, the firing position is echelon right.
So I would assume the standard direction for many weapons is 1 to 3 o'clock.
It's not nice to drop hot shells on your buddies.