http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGG0bfYiV8
[NB: This post has been updated to reflect reality.] “The British-made AS-50, accurate from a distance of 20 football fields, is made for British Special Forces and has been used by Navy SEALs,” foxnew.com reports. Be as it may be, no. The gun in the video is a Chinese knock-off. But that doesn’t stop Fox from pursuing a good if fictional story. “Even if the rifle is a cheap knock-off of the AS-50, it has raised questions about who is supplying such devastating hardware. . . . The video, showing jihadist rebels of the ‘Descendents [sic] of the Prophet Brigade‘ firing one of the world’s most effective sniper rifles, should be cause for alarm,” said David Reaboi, of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy . . .
“We don’t know who has been supplying this group (or the myriad others) with these weapons [the Chinese?] but, given the jihadist ideology of these groups, it’s only a matter of time until they’re turned on Americans or our allies and interests.”
So even if we didn’t supply a $10k (retail) Accuracy International rifle in some roundabout or direct way to the Syrians, we’re sending them other weapons, no?
The Free Syrian Army has been receiving weapons from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey – all close allies of the U.S. But the U.S. has repeatedly stated that it has sent no weapons to the opposition forces.
Directly. Sent no weapons to the opposition forces directly. Because that would be wrong! What are the odds?
A rubber tree? The bullet bounced back and hit him? That tree don’t take sh!t from nobody.
Was he hunting in the Petrified Forest?
Look closely, I’m thinking that’s a Chinese M-99 rather than an AS-50…
-Cranky
Here’s another vote to ending the ridiculous use of the phrase “slave state”.
The only people who are going to approve of it are the already converted. This type of rhetoric only turns off the people we need to be reaching.
This is a 2A site, so I’m happy to leave religion out of it, but what I don’t understand are the absurd comments such as totenglocke makes about Christians. For example,
Totenglocke says:
April 4, 2013 at 22:03
[ snip]…Santorum and Huckabee (I think) were ranting the other day about how Libertarians / Ron Paul supporters are morons and that the Republican party will never give up fellating Jesus and trying to legislate the Bible… [ snip]
What does this even mean and why write it? I know hundreds of Christians, none of whom has any interest in your bedroom antics or in thumping you with the Bible. It is easy and useful to criticize Repubs without making gratuitous comments like this.
Southerners ought to worry more about heart disease than some FBI laden invisible empire.
This is why MOM (O’Malley) brought in extra casinos….to fill the revenue gap. This state is becoming more and more like a herd of sheep and that’s what they want.
My first thought when I watched the video was that if someone pointed a shotgun at me, I would do what it takes to get out of the way of its business end (regardless of if it is loaded only with “pellets”.) That the players barely flinched, let alone didn’t even move out of harm’s way with a gun clearly aimed at them speaks volumes about the attitude of the players.
Who is John Galt?
Yet again the “system” failed. So this time let’s do it harder and make it bigger. Right, got it.
Gun grabbers know that it would just take another 20 dead children to enact a country-wide confiscation… so watch for one in April. They are not above dancing on graves to push their agenda – and it’s not much of a reach for them to actually cause the death that they pretend to be trying to protect us from. All you have to do is read the comments at the HuffPo.
If I hear “common sense” again I’m gonna grab a plastic fork and go Hunter Thompson on them…
The thing that struck me was the training environment they chose…among buildings and cottages, ya spose they put the ‘range hot’ flag up?
That is the cheap knock-off Chinese M99.