I'm rather new to the AR collecting / modding game. Shot them a bunch in the past but didn't own. Now I've bought 3 in last 5 months, and I'm really showing restraint to not have grabbed more. Soon though...
Like most of you I enjoy reading about them, checking out deals on them, and seeing pics of mods that people have made, tried, etc... One thing I've come to notice is that in probably 75-80% or better of the pics you see online (including many on this website) and even in print magazines the safety selector is set to "F" or "fire" on the weapon. Didn't somebody once say, "75% of the time it happens all the time" ?
I digress. Did I skip a class or something that this is "a thing" that folks do on purpose for some reason when photographing their AR's? If I only noticed a couple out of the literally thousands of images I've viewed I'd most likely write it off as the photographer just being forgetful or absent-minded. I just see that the overwhelming majority of pics have this condition, too many for them to all have been accidental.
Is this a cool thing? An "I'll show you, Big Government" thing? I enjoy a little bit of "tacti-coolness" as much as the next guy, but this seems kinda odd to me.
Now I'm certainly not Super-Serious Johhny Safety Guy by any stretch of the imagination (& if you are please don't respond to this thread because it's not REMOTELY anywhere related to my point and you need to start your own thread - this is a funny/weird observation toned post & not a "but the children could die" post). I just notice silly things sometimes, and I've noticed this so much lately that now it has me puzzled that there could be a reason for it that I'm just too dumb to figure out.
BTW, If it does turn out that I am too dumb to figure it out, please be kind in your responses
Like most of you I enjoy reading about them, checking out deals on them, and seeing pics of mods that people have made, tried, etc... One thing I've come to notice is that in probably 75-80% or better of the pics you see online (including many on this website) and even in print magazines the safety selector is set to "F" or "fire" on the weapon. Didn't somebody once say, "75% of the time it happens all the time" ?
I digress. Did I skip a class or something that this is "a thing" that folks do on purpose for some reason when photographing their AR's? If I only noticed a couple out of the literally thousands of images I've viewed I'd most likely write it off as the photographer just being forgetful or absent-minded. I just see that the overwhelming majority of pics have this condition, too many for them to all have been accidental.
Is this a cool thing? An "I'll show you, Big Government" thing? I enjoy a little bit of "tacti-coolness" as much as the next guy, but this seems kinda odd to me.
Now I'm certainly not Super-Serious Johhny Safety Guy by any stretch of the imagination (& if you are please don't respond to this thread because it's not REMOTELY anywhere related to my point and you need to start your own thread - this is a funny/weird observation toned post & not a "but the children could die" post). I just notice silly things sometimes, and I've noticed this so much lately that now it has me puzzled that there could be a reason for it that I'm just too dumb to figure out.
BTW, If it does turn out that I am too dumb to figure it out, please be kind in your responses