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Veteran used vest, military-style rifle in sniper slayings
Associated Press ^ | Jul 9, 2016 9:41 AM EDT | Will Weissert and Nomaan Merchant

Posted on 07/09/2016 7:27:34 AM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Azeem

***It’s also a club or spear, if needed.***
I’ve always laughed at the politicians who screamed about bayonets on rifles.

Once the rifle is empty all you have left is a three thousand year old club with a short pike on one end.


61 posted on 07/09/2016 8:58:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: GreyFriar

Ah yes these days the Resevists do get deployed. Thanks for clarification.


62 posted on 07/09/2016 9:05:19 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: Azeem

The price point of sks rifles is not too bad yet, either. I recommend a tactical shotgun to most of my urban friends. Usually good to 100m with slugs and sights, and very fast and effective at close range with buckshot. And if they find the recoil of the 12 guage too much, a 20 guage works pretty good too.


63 posted on 07/09/2016 9:07:36 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: Azeem

>>The Taliban thinks the Enfield is a military rifle. Like the Viet Cong, they use whatever they can find.

The Enfield is a military rifle.


64 posted on 07/09/2016 9:14:10 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: NFHale
"It always goes bang, no matter what ammo you run through it."

Be careful with that statement.

We "salted" so much booby-trapped 7.62X39 ammunition around Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during the Vietnam War that some of it is bound to still be around.

To this day, I still won't fire an AK-47 or an SKS unless I first carefully inspect the ammo's head-stamp.

65 posted on 07/09/2016 9:16:05 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: pabianice
Go bounced out of Afghanistan for sexual harassment.
66 posted on 07/09/2016 9:25:40 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: Drew68

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They are trying to claim the SKS is a military-style rifle? It’s also not a sniper rifle. The 7.62x39mm can barely hit anything over 200m unless you have good optics and a proficient shooter, which his Army buddies says the shooter was not (unlike the guys at AKOU who can shoot).

Five dead and seven injured cops say differently.
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Are we still presuming he acted alone here? 5 D & 7 I doesn’t mean Johnson was the sole trigger-man...Unless I’ve been slow on the news/data feed reading.


67 posted on 07/09/2016 9:26:55 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Azeem

An Enfield is an effective battle rifle.The MK VII ball load is horrendously deadly.


68 posted on 07/09/2016 9:30:26 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: DJ Taylor

True enough.

Most of the ammo I buy is newer manufactured Tula, or Golden Tiger.


69 posted on 07/09/2016 9:30:54 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Olog-hai

Headline should read

Black Panther Democrat who voted for Obama.....

Black Panthers go from white voter intimidation with billy clubs....to murdering white police officers, all in the span of 8 years.

BHO is the devil.


70 posted on 07/09/2016 9:32:28 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty (TRUMPNADO Congrats Brits on your Independence Day June 23,2016)
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To: TheConservativeParty
BHO is the devil.

He's in Warsaw now doubling down on promoting a race war.

71 posted on 07/09/2016 9:34:22 AM PDT by Stentor (Free the Rosenbergs--Oh wait. Nevermind.)
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To: Stentor

No one but Hitler has done more world wide destruction than O’Muslim.

May he burn in hell.


72 posted on 07/09/2016 9:39:10 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty (TRUMPNADO Congrats Brits on your Independence Day June 23,2016)
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To: TheConservativeParty
No one but Hitler has done more world wide destruction than O’Muslim.

I have thought that theories about him trying to create the conditions for declaring a state of emergency were tinfoil, but his words and actions are making me change my mind.

73 posted on 07/09/2016 9:45:22 AM PDT by Stentor (Free the Rosenbergs--Oh wait. Nevermind.)
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To: Olog-hai

I have never seen a military style rifle that is “semi automatic” these days. They are all select fire with full auto being one of the selections.

If it is “semi automatic”, it sure the hell isn’t military style. It is civilian sporting style. Not military.

The media jackwipes lie again. All they can do. But the didn’t INTEND to lie, so...


74 posted on 07/09/2016 10:06:41 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: Stentor

I agree. He all but ordered for those officers to be killed.
I was astounded as I watched Thursday night on Fox as the sniper was active,,,to see on the news “crawl” at the bottom of the screen, quotes from a few hours earlier of Obama’s anti-police remarks. So, as the murdering black panther Obama voter was hunting white people, the words of the usuper were moving across the screen telling us what a bunch of racists we are. Un freaking believable. He loves every second of this misery he’s heaped on us for 8 years.

Lately I can’t even get to sleep at night. My husband tells me to just ‘clear my mind and sleep’ like he does. I just can’t.


75 posted on 07/09/2016 10:24:55 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty (TRUMPNADO Congrats Brits on your Independence Day June 23,2016)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

My 1953 ex Red Army SKS is stock and strictly semi-auto. I think the initials SKS stand for semi-automatic karabine, Simonov.


76 posted on 07/09/2016 10:57:14 AM PDT by Trumpocrat (Yeah, 4th post)
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To: Trumpocrat

Samozaryadnyj Karabin sistemy Simonova


77 posted on 07/09/2016 11:01:02 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: NFHale

Stay vigilant. I think this is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.


78 posted on 07/09/2016 11:44:37 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Olog-hai

“What is the AP trying to do by making “Veteran” the first word in the headline?”

And why are they dragging poor JFK into this?! What an evil bunch of bastards the MSM are!


79 posted on 07/09/2016 1:35:26 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Azeem

I was confused by the video of Johnson shooting from behind a pillar multiple bursts with one hand with little noticeable recoil.


80 posted on 07/09/2016 2:16:57 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (If you like your part-time job, you can keep your part-time job. Vote Bolshecrat.)
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