Does this count as collusion? . . . Donald Trump approves deal for US to sell sniper rifles to Ukraine, angering Russia
The Trump administration has approved the export of lethal small arms including a multimillion dollar sniper rifle deal, ramping up its support for Ukraine in the simmering conflict with Russia-backed separatists.
Moscow condemned the move as likely to escalate violence.
Uh huh.
…The Washington Post reported that the state department had approved a license for the $41.5 million commercial sale of .50 caliber Barrett M107A1 sniper rifles and ammunition to Ukraine. During a trip to eastern Ukraine this week, soldiers told The Telegraph they were outgunned by separatist snipers.
And Foggy Bottom says it’s really no big thing.
The state department said on Wednesday it had approved a license for US manufacturers to sell .50 caliber firearms and smaller weapons to Ukraine, including assault rifles, combat shotguns, silencers, military scopes and flash suppressors. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the license was “nothing new” since Ukraine has previously purchased small amounts of such weapons.
This Trump administration is just moving forward on action Congress authorized three years ago, but the Obama administration blocked.
The US congress authorised the export of lethal defensive weapons to Ukraine in a law signed in 2014, but Barack Obama’s administration refrained from delivering the arms. The US government is still not directly supplying weapons to Ukraine, and the export of the much-sought Javelin antitank missiles has not been approved.
One step at a time.
In the old days Winchester super mag number 4 lead for ducks 2 s for geese.
I could see myself with two of these, marching against an army of milk jugs.
A properly set up Mosin Nagant M91-30 sniper rifle is as deadly as anything we could sell them. And they have been proven in battle!
It’s not the quantity of shots you get off, it’s the accuracy.
Obscure? I have some weird .22 that is billed as a bolt action AND semi auto, I’m not sure what exactly it is.
Oldest is my 1927 Mosin Nagant, followed by my Winchester 68. I’m not sure how old it is but it doesn’t have a serial number on it so I’m guessing pre 1934.
1847 Springfield Artillery Musketoon. I haven’t fired it since before I got married, and I’ve been married for fifty years.
Probably my styr-mannlicher that, as far as I can tell from research, is a WW1 era model. Its pretty beat up, as if it was actually used in the war. Possibly was in both world wars. The straight pull bolt makes it obscure to me, at least.
With the exception of a Jennings J25 pot metal POS and a 1981 Mossberg 500 ADP 12 gauge, everything else I have is no older than 4 years. Most are in 2 years or younger.
Remington Model 14 in .30 Remington. Ammo costs $2 each, or you can get empty shells for $1 each. It was my great-grandfather’s horse-back hunting rifle.
Brown Bess with about 40% original GR Tower parts, 40% arsenal refit parts from mid-19th century, 1970’s replacement barrel and screws from a Japanese company and some 21st Century color-matched epoxy keeping the wood together. Not original, but I can shoot it with a clear conscience.
Oldest all original firearm would be a 1944 Aussie SMLE or 1944 Enfield revolver in 38 S&W.
1903 Colt “Hammerless” pistol manufactured in 1921. It was my grandfather’s.
Yeah, don’t run after bikers.
Used to live there, Mr Dick Wanger is just like the rest of them. For some reason, Floridians run and yell at people speeding through their neighborhood. One time I wasn’t even going that fast, like 25 (maybe 30) in a 15 because I was delivering a pizza, and two rednecks were yelling at me to slow down while drinking beer on their porch.
Liberals never “think” through anything because they are incapable of logical, rational thought. They were all born deformed. God bless their poor little souls.
Mauser Model 1934 my grandfather liberated from a Japanese officer in the Phillipines.
A pair of .41 caliber deringers, belonged to a long-gone relative who reportedly was a gambler and wore them in his vest pockets. I have no ammo but hear it can be found. I believe they are rimfire.
Not much longer until the Left pollys decide we need a cooling off period for speech, cause, muh hatespeech bs. Nonsense state, nonsense politics, nonsense.
This is a good article and cuts to a major problem here… I’m not sure how it is solved except to very publicly shame companies that decide to save a couple of pennies on each gun and sue the pants off them when someone gets hurt.
The problem is that, on the aggregate, their shareholders (public or private) probably are happier to have the couple of pennies than an actual drop-safe gun.
By restricting the availability they have increased the price, and made ammo more attractive to thieves. Gone are the days of securing guns in the safe and ammo on shelves. Now thieves will target gun owners for their accessible ammo, even if they know the household’s safe is effectively unbreachable.
Michael Savage is a douche bag. He’s pro-gun, then anti-gun, pro-Trump then anti-Trump…Alzheimer’s has set in on this freaking idiot scumbag maggot.