Yes it can! – this jacket is totally based off of jackets that actually existed/were made and worn by members of the armed forces! I think it was mostly WWII flight jackets, but I could be wrong there. Example!:
I swear I’ve seen ones with the rifles on like in the art, but fuck if I can find one now.
what i’m getting at here, though, is that you can totally headcanon the howlies having coats like that/buck and steve making coats like that for themselves in the modern era/making one for cosplay because fuck yeah reasonable plausibility
THEY ABSOLUTELY ARE RIFLES, AND Y’ALL ABSOLUTELY GOT IT RIGHT I WAS GOING FOR A WWII TROPHY JACKET FEEL
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