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   Message 52,662 of 54,497   
   Spartan613 to Dev@null.net   
   Re: The reality of the deaths due to gun   
   11 Apr 13 16:03:35   
   
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   From: nospam@buggeroff.com   
      
   "GOP_Decline_and_Fall"  wrote in message   
   news:2ticm8dmam74dm4gf7h2kl207n2slrl9qh@4ax.com...   
   > On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:15:28 +1000, "Spartan613"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
      
   >>> It's a rifle.   
   >>   
   >>Good to see you can follow orders.   
   >>   
   >>The Ruger Hush Puppy started life as a pistol based on the Ruger target   
   >>pistol and employed by US troops in Vietnam to eliminate sentries and   
   >>dogs.   
   >>   
   >>The 10/22 rifle was a later invention. Highly accurate at short to medium   
   >>range (easily capable of putting a round through the open slit of a tank   
   >>driver's hatch, and very difficult to detect the firing point. Especially   
   >>when using sub-sonic ammo. (Counter-sniper sensors require a sonic "crack"   
   >>to localise firing points).   
   >   
   > A WW1 or WW2 tank perhaps.You need to update yourself.   
      
   No, you need to acquaint yourself with reality, not jut what you glean from   
   wikipedia.   
      
   > A modern tank driver has a video monitor not an open slit to look   
   > through.   
      
   No shit. Sherlock?   
      
   Doesn't mean they don't open hatches and get a better view when they need   
   to.   
      
   --   
   "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not   
   want merely because you think it would be good for him".   
      
   Robert A. Heinlein.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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