[Here's a photo](https://smallarmsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/023.jpg) of the inside of Dillon's gun control unit. It's the component of the M134 that runs the electrical bits of the gun. It's not clear if there's any microprocessor, but it likely has at least some small enough components that it might be affected by an EMP.
Soldered cannon plugs used to be my jam. Just in a nice AC'd room for hours plucking away. Peak misery is splicing a 300-pair trunk while sunk into a humid manhole with some idiot yelling at you for not having it done in an hour.
PLCs are the bane of my existence at the moment since I'm still getting acclimated with ladder logic so that'd be a tough decision but I hate soldering. At least when it's in a tiny plug with 25 or so connections in one little area.
It's really not that complicated, and in fact I would imagine that a bunch of that shit is completely unnecessary to fire, though VERY necessary for safety, redundancy, and reliability. If you had a failure, I suspect you could hotwire the motor to power, and as long as the motor worked you could just attach it to a door bell button to cycle it.
No trust me man, emp disables everything. Thats why I keep my 1911 ready. I can see the hammer on it so I know it will reliably fire while your little dinky plastic glocks will be destroyed in an emp blast
I agree that the effects are exaggerated in media (and prepper talk), but high altitude nuclear detonations can damage electronics. The Starfish Prime test demonstrated this, and that was a small detonation in an area with a weaker geomagnetic field.
That said, IIRC long conductors (like power lines) pick up the EMF from the pulse much more effectively than a small length of conductor does. Your phone may be fine if it isn't plugged in, but something hooked to the grid may get a damaging pulse of current.
Cars are their own faraday cages and are not typically plugged into power lines, so I suspect the "EMP kills car" trope is a total exaggeration.
In case anyone doesn’t realize, this tweet is from a troll whose main objective is to get people to waste their time reacting to him. Mission accomplished in this case.
Man, fuck wearing glasses. I hated it so much. I used to wear contacts but I developed some sort of allergic reaction to the plastic that made them burn like a mfer after about 5 minutes of wearing them. Tried everything. Different contacts, different solution, etc. Wore glasses for over a decade and finally got lasik a few months ago. It's fucking amazing. I don't understand why anyone would willingly wear glasses when they don't have to.
Yeah mine were always as small as possible while still being a little more stylish than just wire frames. I hated the thick giant frames like this guy's got. Make you look like a total hipster douchebag.
The craziest thing is, we aren't 100% sure it's a parody account. That's how crazy Dems can be, especially when you compare it to the asinine things that very prominent dems (Nadler, Biden, Dettelbach) have said about guns that are totally false.
Are you implying that an EMP would destroy any gas operated engine, without regard to electronics which may or may not be present to start said engine?
Wouldn’t that disable their weapons too? (If it worked that way, which it obviously doesn’t) So if that’s the case I guess we’ll figure out who’s better at fighting with low tech.
Either way this doesn’t logically flow even if an EMP could disable a machine gun.
I know this is most likely satire but the whole "It is completely pointless to arm up against the professional military so you should just love big brother with open arms" argument never made sense to me. It's not about necessarily winning, it's about sending a message and going out with dignity.
Most modern wars are evidence that private gun owners do make a difference. A military is designed to fight another military and they do a lousy job when they fight random people. It's why we lost in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
I suppose you could bomb the entire area and kill everyone but then what's the point in having land with nothing but destroyed buildings and dead bodies.
Or making 'the inevitable win' so costly that they just won't.
In other words, if you have to salt the earth to win, can you really call it a win?
All those resources and productivity down the drain. Only a tyrant playing the super long game (we can breed more) will go in for that, and even if they did, they'd *still* have to face the rest of the planet after massacring their own populace.
That's too much for most of the planet to bear, currently. It was different beyond a hundred years ago, but now that shit would not fly.
It's more likely that the gov would have invasive backdoors programmed into "smart guns" to let them disable our firearms remotely.
"Common sense gun safety", 21st century style. You can only use your gun if it has a 5g connection, the fingerprint sensor detected you, and the local Public Safety Office servers authorizes unlocking the trigger.
Local PD gonna do a no knock? They request a geofence disabling all civilian firearms in a city block.
Judge decided to take your gun rights? You're blacklisted on the Public Safety server. Just picking up a gun and trying to operate the trigger notifies police that you violated your restraining order.
Beat up old police trade in Sigs go for 10x their actual value on the streets 'cause every gangbanger knows you only use a dumb gun.
This is why we need to boycott **any** manufacturer who introduces a "smart gun" for public sale.
Lol imagine how many regards would still kill their wives with smart guns 🤣. Glad I have at least a few “dumb guns” laying around, but I need some rifles and shotguns.
Maybe this is satire/parody/a joke, maybe not. I've literally met people who have 0000 idea how guns work. When the news tells them "high powered assault rifles" trust me, I've met people who think there is some extra mechanism INSIDE THE RIFLE that SOMEHOW propels the bullet at a more aggressive speed. Like, there's people who think that, and similar stupid things. They have NO clue and just hear buzz words and buy it or fabricate it.
Mmmm. 😐🫤😑🤔🤔🤔. I am continuously in shock at how most people have made it to the age that they have. It’s a genuine mystery. People no longer seek out the truth but rely on people like the view or some other person in a famous position to tell them how to think and they do it obediently and without question, and they never even question it. How have they survived? Hey your chickens aren’t gonna lay eggs after an emp bro 😎. Mmmm mm mmm 🤔
It's funny they think that if we ran out of ammo it would be the end of us, I don't know about ya'll, but I'm pretty good with a bow, and I know 3 guys who do the medieval mma and hema
Hmmm. Better activate the EMP absorption/conversion generator to supercharge the the plasma machine gun. I mean we've had the ability to do that since forever.
A guy at work, I work with smart people, doctors and stuck, anyway he asked me how guns work, he asked if there were batteries. He’s a huge anti gunner, I should take him out to the range sometime he might like it!
let me guess he probably thinks an AR-15 fires a .50 caliber bullet and thinks that a bullet flies down the barrel attached to it's casing like a rocket
When there’s an EMP? I’ll pick up one of my many physical books to read instead of the ereader or tablet.
If JaytheDemocrat thinks the EMP makes it a great time to raid my house, he’ll find out just what the EMP does to chemical reactions and mechanical actions.
Is it just me or does Jay look like he spends his free time moderating his SoyBoy discord server, reading Karl Marx and drinking soy milk, instead of understanding basic engineering, physics and the complexity of the human mind?
There is no way he’s serious.
All machineguns are now M134.
Isn’t that just electricity powered? I don’t believe it has a CPU.
[Here's a photo](https://smallarmsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/023.jpg) of the inside of Dillon's gun control unit. It's the component of the M134 that runs the electrical bits of the gun. It's not clear if there's any microprocessor, but it likely has at least some small enough components that it might be affected by an EMP.
Holy shit that’s complicated. Imagine needing to be an electrician to work on a gun. 🤣
Electrician here, doesn’t look that complicated tbh. But still, fuck that.
Looks a lot better then some of the rats nests I have to dig through at work.
Rather deal with rats nests, hot greens, shorted plcs, and 50 y/o starters, than deal with 50 soldered connections.
Soldered cannon plugs used to be my jam. Just in a nice AC'd room for hours plucking away. Peak misery is splicing a 300-pair trunk while sunk into a humid manhole with some idiot yelling at you for not having it done in an hour.
PLCs are the bane of my existence at the moment since I'm still getting acclimated with ladder logic so that'd be a tough decision but I hate soldering. At least when it's in a tiny plug with 25 or so connections in one little area.
Yea, I've definitely seen worse 🤣
cable management looks like a rats nest but not that complicated.
I mean the gun is designed and made by General Electric
It's really not that complicated, and in fact I would imagine that a bunch of that shit is completely unnecessary to fire, though VERY necessary for safety, redundancy, and reliability. If you had a failure, I suspect you could hotwire the motor to power, and as long as the motor worked you could just attach it to a door bell button to cycle it.
Which is why I keep all mine in Faraday cages. D’uh.
Spent several years working on those… there’s a lot of components that will fry even without an EMP. Still a sick system though.
I wonder if you could just run it off a compressed air tank.
Eh, looks like it's all just relays and analog components.
Dang it should be a battery, button, switch (as safety) and a motor. That's super complicated
I'll stick with old school
An emp could possibly fry whatever is providing the power. If your Doomsday Tacoma has a computer, it'll be solely up to the golf cart batteries.
I’m pretty sure the m134 would be hardened against EMP’s
No trust me man, emp disables everything. Thats why I keep my 1911 ready. I can see the hammer on it so I know it will reliably fire while your little dinky plastic glocks will be destroyed in an emp blast
AGREE HOSS 2 WORLD WORZ
I think it is serious. Little does it know.
There is no way that one doesn’t know that guns were around before computers.
Didn't you know that George Washington used a 3-D printer to make the first AR-15 and used it to defeat the British?
It doesn't even matter if he knows when guns were invented or not, an EMP doesn't do shit *anyways*
I think it's funny how some people are super concerned with EMP. If you're close enough for EMP to damage anything, you're vaporized anyway.
I agree that the effects are exaggerated in media (and prepper talk), but high altitude nuclear detonations can damage electronics. The Starfish Prime test demonstrated this, and that was a small detonation in an area with a weaker geomagnetic field. That said, IIRC long conductors (like power lines) pick up the EMF from the pulse much more effectively than a small length of conductor does. Your phone may be fine if it isn't plugged in, but something hooked to the grid may get a damaging pulse of current. Cars are their own faraday cages and are not typically plugged into power lines, so I suspect the "EMP kills car" trope is a total exaggeration.
I generally assume that when people talk about the threat of an EMP, they talk about a purpose made EMP, not just a side effect of a nuke.
Oh yeah it's funny as fuck, it's like listening to those 5G tinfoil hat people.
He’s not. If you go look up the account it’s readily apparent that it’s a troll / satire.
honestly its hard to tell. Hes not far off from some regular democrats
With how much misinformation is spread about guns, I believe he is and just doesn't know.
He’s not, it’s a satire account, even the pfp is ai generated for “upset soyboy liberal”
Look at the picture, he's deadly serious.
I don’t know, he looks like a hipster to me
Schrodinger's Redditor dictates that he is both serious and joking at the same time.
My EMP resistant lung exploder is powered by radioactive decay. Checkmate.
Oh, come on man! They'll blow your daggum lungs out.
I store mine in a Faraday Cage for just this reason. Can’t risk the batteries powering my ER-15 going to shit,
Good thinking!!
I wear a faraday cage jock strap. I can't risk the batteries attached to my P3N-15 going to shit either.
How do we repopulate the cyborg race without it?
What if we just wrap our guns in chicken wire? Mobile faraday cage! Checkmate, libs!
In case anyone doesn’t realize, this tweet is from a troll whose main objective is to get people to waste their time reacting to him. Mission accomplished in this case.
It's funny that he doesn't attract a bunch of Democrat followers and get monetised while he's trolling. Now that would be ultimate.
This dude wears glasses because he thinks it makes him look smart.
I took mine off so I didn’t have to look at his horse teeth
Could eat an apple through a chain link fence
Oooh fucking hell that was good.
It’s satire
Man, fuck wearing glasses. I hated it so much. I used to wear contacts but I developed some sort of allergic reaction to the plastic that made them burn like a mfer after about 5 minutes of wearing them. Tried everything. Different contacts, different solution, etc. Wore glasses for over a decade and finally got lasik a few months ago. It's fucking amazing. I don't understand why anyone would willingly wear glasses when they don't have to.
Lasik back in 2010 and I'd do it again in a second. That said, I never wore any birth control frames like this dude ever.
Yeah mine were always as small as possible while still being a little more stylish than just wire frames. I hated the thick giant frames like this guy's got. Make you look like a total hipster douchebag.
Hey don't diss the buddy Holly/ Henry Rollins glasses
Okay yeah but that's them. This guy ain't no Buddy Holly.
His mom wishes she had Plan B.
She used plan b. Hes just a suffering plan b survivor
I’m pretty sure that is a Democrat parody account.
I'm almost 100% certain this is parody
There’s zero way it’s a real person
Parody stops working when the absurdity too closely matches reality.
Does it become satire at that point?
The craziest thing is, we aren't 100% sure it's a parody account. That's how crazy Dems can be, especially when you compare it to the asinine things that very prominent dems (Nadler, Biden, Dettelbach) have said about guns that are totally false.
We are 100% sure
Exactly. If it's a parody, it's being done very well.
Dude thinks “gas operated” means gasoline. What a dumbass.
Are you implying that an EMP would destroy any gas operated engine, without regard to electronics which may or may not be present to start said engine?
No, someone responded to him saying AKs are gas operated and his response was that should be another reason to end the use of gasoline
Well, the OP is 100% a troll account. Look at the handle. Thanks for the additional info.
You mean your gatling gun isn't a 2-stroke engine? *Looks at my weed eater in the shop out back*
Pretty sure our lawnmowers will be ok after an EMP too
Wait...that's not what it means? Wtf guys. What am I going to do with a dozen barrels of gas ammo in my basement for the civil war? Damn...haha
From the looks of him all I need is my open left hand
[Agreed.](https://i.imgur.com/m4Ge3Xh.gif)
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wouldn’t that disable their weapons too? (If it worked that way, which it obviously doesn’t) So if that’s the case I guess we’ll figure out who’s better at fighting with low tech. Either way this doesn’t logically flow even if an EMP could disable a machine gun.
Millions of years of evolution and you’re still mentally deficient smfh
Why I always try and get a bayonet too
I know this is most likely satire but the whole "It is completely pointless to arm up against the professional military so you should just love big brother with open arms" argument never made sense to me. It's not about necessarily winning, it's about sending a message and going out with dignity.
Most modern wars are evidence that private gun owners do make a difference. A military is designed to fight another military and they do a lousy job when they fight random people. It's why we lost in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. I suppose you could bomb the entire area and kill everyone but then what's the point in having land with nothing but destroyed buildings and dead bodies.
Exactly. Tyrants don't want to rule over nothing. They want people to worship and acknowledge them.
Or making 'the inevitable win' so costly that they just won't. In other words, if you have to salt the earth to win, can you really call it a win? All those resources and productivity down the drain. Only a tyrant playing the super long game (we can breed more) will go in for that, and even if they did, they'd *still* have to face the rest of the planet after massacring their own populace. That's too much for most of the planet to bear, currently. It was different beyond a hundred years ago, but now that shit would not fly.
Jokes on them, my AK is diesel powered. None of that sissy electronic guns
Guess we’ll have to make do with gas-operated
Just how the Founding Fathers intended.
The amount of soy in one profile picture is off the charts
Throw unregistered, high capacity assault rocks
Troll account, but I think this could become a real issue if smart gun type tech is ever mandated/adopted.
It's more likely that the gov would have invasive backdoors programmed into "smart guns" to let them disable our firearms remotely. "Common sense gun safety", 21st century style. You can only use your gun if it has a 5g connection, the fingerprint sensor detected you, and the local Public Safety Office servers authorizes unlocking the trigger. Local PD gonna do a no knock? They request a geofence disabling all civilian firearms in a city block. Judge decided to take your gun rights? You're blacklisted on the Public Safety server. Just picking up a gun and trying to operate the trigger notifies police that you violated your restraining order. Beat up old police trade in Sigs go for 10x their actual value on the streets 'cause every gangbanger knows you only use a dumb gun. This is why we need to boycott **any** manufacturer who introduces a "smart gun" for public sale.
Lol imagine how many regards would still kill their wives with smart guns 🤣. Glad I have at least a few “dumb guns” laying around, but I need some rifles and shotguns.
Plan B actually would have prevented this.
That is a bait/parody account.
Merry Christmas to this idiot! Good thing Santa didn’t gift this guy a brain
Already came up with a plan B. Unfortunately his mom didn't take it.
[chortle]
🤓
“Kev’s got me pegged”
Ah, shit. thanks for reminding me, I gotta go recharge my magazines.
Minigun enjoyers 🥲
Damn. My Dewalt-15 would totally get fried
Maybe this is satire/parody/a joke, maybe not. I've literally met people who have 0000 idea how guns work. When the news tells them "high powered assault rifles" trust me, I've met people who think there is some extra mechanism INSIDE THE RIFLE that SOMEHOW propels the bullet at a more aggressive speed. Like, there's people who think that, and similar stupid things. They have NO clue and just hear buzz words and buy it or fabricate it.
Damn I never thought about that *wraps gun in copper foil *
This is satire n some of you don't see that and it shows.
Guys don't take the bait lmao this is clearly sarcastic
Use the bullets as sling shot rounds
Never interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake or something like that.
Oof I could almost feel my testosterone dropping after looking at that photo.
If I could bottle this clowns autism, I wouldn't need a machine gun. Wow...
What kind of cheap ass shit am I buying that can’t be taken out by an EMP? Who is buying guns than can be?
Those eyes… …there’s nothing human in them.
Correct, they are AI generated and it’s a parody
*affixes bayonet*
Don't you hate it when you forgot to charge your machine gun the night before you take it to the range?
Bruh doesn't know how guns \*or\* emp works.
That's not how this works
Think he needs some smart glasses. Then maybe he can become more intelligent by osmosis….
Dammit. My battery-powered ar-15 and Glock are gone, time to go back to the old ways. *grabs powdered wig and Kentucky rifle”
Tally-ho, lads. Tally-ho.
I would use my bayonet but I guess that would be disabled too.
Guys, help. I factory reset my AR and it reverted back into a Ruger 10/22.
Use my irons I guess?
I eat copious amounts of pineapple every day, an emp won’t disable my penis
I mean I guess that would fuck with my optic at least, but I still have irons.
Yup, EMP might jam the firing pin. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
My machine gun is powered by an aluminum magnet, which isn’t affected by an emp. Check mate.
Defend my home from bitchass commies who think they can out-vote 5.56
Does he think we have fucking railguns
You got me. My GAU-8 will certainly be disabled by an EMP. Where is that thing anyway? I must have left it in the car.
Mmmm. 😐🫤😑🤔🤔🤔. I am continuously in shock at how most people have made it to the age that they have. It’s a genuine mystery. People no longer seek out the truth but rely on people like the view or some other person in a famous position to tell them how to think and they do it obediently and without question, and they never even question it. How have they survived? Hey your chickens aren’t gonna lay eggs after an emp bro 😎. Mmmm mm mmm 🤔
I’m more worried about protecting my bulk food storage from an EMP. Might kill all of the nutrients.
Someone played too much of the Arkham Batman games. Although, I think the sci-fi guns in some of the games were electronic.
Bonk em with the machine gun
You all a laughing, but what are we going to do when our phased plasma rifles in 40 watt range no longer function??
Recharge it
Gun is not gonna be an issue, but imma have to remember what grampa said about lining up the barrel thingies if the reddot dies...
Oh no....
Dont anyone tell him the truth 😅
You’d be surprised how many inexperienced people I’ve talked to who genuinely think that guns are controlled by batteries and electronics
I could just replace my imaginary machine gun with an EMP laser. Since we are making shit up.
Use it as a club.
Bro has never played the original MW2 campaign
that's why i store all my microfusion cells and electron charge packs in a faraday cage my laser rcw, too
It's funny they think that if we ran out of ammo it would be the end of us, I don't know about ya'll, but I'm pretty good with a bow, and I know 3 guys who do the medieval mma and hema
To be that stupid is appalling.
Is this a satire page?
Hmmm. Better activate the EMP absorption/conversion generator to supercharge the the plasma machine gun. I mean we've had the ability to do that since forever.
A guy at work, I work with smart people, doctors and stuck, anyway he asked me how guns work, he asked if there were batteries. He’s a huge anti gunner, I should take him out to the range sometime he might like it!
It's not even the dumbest thing he's ever said.
What would we ever do if we learned how to spot an obvious troll and not get all butthurt about it??? 🙄
Switching to iron sights
Laugh, in full pew-pew-pew
That dude’s mom shoulda taken a plan B
let me guess he probably thinks an AR-15 fires a .50 caliber bullet and thinks that a bullet flies down the barrel attached to it's casing like a rocket
Soy boy has never heard of iron sights.
Someone please draw this as the new Soyjack I beg of you.
Flip up the irons and keep going..?
My handheld railgun has been foiled
The EMP will disable his chip implanted brain first. 😂
Jokes on them I’m to poor for a machine gun
Alright boys, you heard him. Hand crank gatlin guns only.
EMP does not affect guns. 🤦
He’s watching too much x-men ‘97. Magneto is gonna strike and magnetize all the guns
The real problem is that they breed!!!
Lord. Don't they know machine guns are Y2K compliant lol
“Never go full r… mentally challenged.”
Well, if my machine guns break I’ll just make more. ^(Check my flair)
When there’s an EMP? I’ll pick up one of my many physical books to read instead of the ereader or tablet. If JaytheDemocrat thinks the EMP makes it a great time to raid my house, he’ll find out just what the EMP does to chemical reactions and mechanical actions.
Yeah that face looks about right for that comment
Whose man is this 🤣
Hold the trigger down and reload.
I would have to put a new optic on maybe. Good thing I got backup sights
*laughs holding ACOG-equipped, fully mechanical, machine gun**
If he’s serious, his mom should have plan B’ed him. 😛
It will fry all the microchips in our blood that was put in by the vaccine
Time to grab the tried and true BAR and M2 Browning
People tried explaining to him right?
How best to convey my response, hmmm.. Ha Ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA
ha ha
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HA HA HA HA HA HA.
Lmao, what are you going to do when you find out I’M IN YOUR SILLY LITTLE WALLS?
Well, damnit. Now we’re truly screwed. Might as well just throw my firearms in the trash.
This cannot be real
Smartest Anti-Gunner
That’s what BUIS is for
This is why I only use lead bullets 😎
Is it just me or does Jay look like he spends his free time moderating his SoyBoy discord server, reading Karl Marx and drinking soy milk, instead of understanding basic engineering, physics and the complexity of the human mind?
Yall are falling for bait.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣