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Did You Know Soviet Cosmonauts Carried a Bear-Killing Shotgun into Space?
universetoday.com ^ | Nancy Atkinson

Posted on 02/06/2015 3:13:37 PM PST by BenLurkin

“Having a gun inside a thin-walled spacecraft filled with oxygen sounds crazy,” writes Simpson, “but the Soviets had their reasons. Much of Russia is desolate wilderness. A single mishap during descent could strand cosmonauts in the middle of nowhere.”

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A TP-82 pistol depicted in a Russian manual. Via Wikimedia.
1 posted on 02/06/2015 3:13:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

It works on aliens, too. Just sayin’.


2 posted on 02/06/2015 3:15:14 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Everyone should have one.


3 posted on 02/06/2015 3:17:42 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
It was war.


4 posted on 02/06/2015 3:19:31 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: BenLurkin

Makes me think we shoulda had a harpoon gun, on the space capsules that landed in the ocean . . . .


5 posted on 02/06/2015 3:20:05 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: BenLurkin

Looks like a bear pisser-offer, to me.


6 posted on 02/06/2015 3:20:57 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: BenLurkin

I guess that was for personal defense. the Salyut was supposed to have a machine gun to protect them from unwanted guests; likely Americans flying the black flag, arrggh.


7 posted on 02/06/2015 3:21:02 PM PST by Liaison (qwesa)
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To: dead

Awesome


8 posted on 02/06/2015 3:21:34 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Definitely would qualify as a Curio and Relic...


9 posted on 02/06/2015 3:21:49 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: BenLurkin

Stow-Away Bears hitch rides all the time. The low oxygen environment just makes em a little sleepy.


10 posted on 02/06/2015 3:24:24 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: BenLurkin
bear funny photo: Bear Fishing Bear_Fishing.jpg
11 posted on 02/06/2015 3:26:04 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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12 posted on 02/06/2015 3:29:29 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote fraud solution: Stake, Rope, Sugar and Bullet Ants.)
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To: BenLurkin

MOM’S Against Cosmonaut Gun Violence will be making a statement shortly...


13 posted on 02/06/2015 3:33:48 PM PST by moovova
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Bear Killing Shotgun


More effective than an
Illudium Q36 Space Modulator!



14 posted on 02/06/2015 3:35:16 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: BenLurkin
We have the right to keep and bear arms.

The Russians have the right to keep bear arms.

15 posted on 02/06/2015 3:35:31 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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16 posted on 02/06/2015 3:36:21 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought Russians took pencil.


17 posted on 02/06/2015 3:38:30 PM PST by oblomov (White privilege: the contemporary left's way of saying "the Jews".)
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Pencils? Using one properly takes special training....

18 posted on 02/06/2015 3:43:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I remember reading that German bombers had as standard equipment, JP Sauer drillings. The idea was they could be used to hunt game if the bomber was shot down in wild areas.

I wonder if any were ever used for that purpose?


19 posted on 02/06/2015 3:46:07 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: BenLurkin

yes

but I read a lot


20 posted on 02/06/2015 3:47:36 PM PST by GeronL
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