"Andrei, have you lost another submarine?"
Posted on 10/11/2022 7:33:15 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
An Army base in Washington state spent part of the long holiday weekend searching for a missing part to a .50-caliber machine gun, the latest incident after the service was criticized for lost weapons.
The receiver assembly of an M2 .50-caliber machine gun went missing from 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment's staff duty area and triggered an all-hands search that, for most of the rank and file, lasted a little over 12 hours. But it resulted in an Army investigation that was still ongoing Monday.
A culprit was identified that afternoon, according to a soldier involved in the search. By evening, the soldier had allegedly confessed to tossing the receiver into a dumpster. At some point, the trash bin had been emptied and its contents -- including the machine gun part -- had been hauled away.
"Who else lost their four-day weekend to a stolen 50?"
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LOL, I see I’m not the only one who thought of that.
None- they willingly,give them to the terrorist enemies, no questioned asked. The left arm the cri inals/terrorists while impeding on our rights to defend ourselves.
I see he’s got a new movie coming g out where he is inmthe mafia, an enforcer or something.
One can if they aren’t a girlie man (said in the voice of Hans and Franz from snl lol)
Fifteen or twenty years ago Impact Guns had a complete, intact full auto M2 on a Form 4 for around $20k. Not many out there for civilian consumption.
Col Flagg was a gas.
Fishing accident....
I actually cringe now when I watch old MASH episodes, it doesn’t age that well.
It turned into The Alan Alda Show....jumped more than it’s fair share of sharks for sure.
—”Lots of demilled .50’s out there as props/collector’s items.”
In the early 1960s some of the older kids in my hood purchased a DWAT Thompson and also purchased readily available replacement parts...
Gear heads with access to one father’s hobby machine shop and summer of clandestine work...
They test-fired in a basement, firing a few rounds, all claimed to scared to death of it.
They went off to new schools and I never heard of it again.
I see a Duck Dinner in someone’s future.
It sold for around $30K.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050818062857/http://www.impactguns.com/store/ramo_M2HB.html
"Andrei, have you lost another submarine?"
Can he use the Hunter Biden defense? I thought throwing guns into dumpsters was okay now.
I am sure some RAT or FBI criminal has a good idea where it is.
Whose turn was it to watch it?!
Interesting fact... I was at a Canadian military base back in 1985 and a 50 caliber went missing. They searched every vehicle leaving the base... Another interesting fact... They never mentioned it in the news.
Whoever bought it better have a lot of money for ammo. 50s ain’t cheap.
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