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Livermore:Lab Gatling guns frighten some;others feel safe Weapons-protect facility from terrorists
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| February 4, 2006
| Henry K.Lee
Posted on 02/04/2006 6:49:45 PM PST by Amerigomag
Word that Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will install a battery of machine guns capable of spitting out 66 rounds a second with a range of nearly a mile was met by relief by some who think the weapons will deter terrorists but fear by others who worry they'll be caught in the line of fire.
The guns, which the lab unveiled to much ado Thursday but has not yet installed, are meant to protect the laboratory's cache of radioactive plutonium, which terrorists might try to steal or destroy, sending a plume over much of the Livermore Valley. The weapons, called Gatling guns because they are multibarreled like their 19th century counterparts, fire up to 4,000 rounds a minute from six barrels.
The Gatling guns are far more powerful than anything the local police have in their arsenal, and Livermore police Capt. Mark Weiss said the lab has fully briefed the department on the weapons. Police Chief Steve Krull and other city officials work closely with the lab and support the new weaponry, said Livermore Vice Mayor Marj Leider, herself a retired nuclear chemist at the lab.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; doe; gatlingguns; lawrencelivermore; miltech; radlab
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To: DJ Taylor
I want one! For....deer hunting. Yeah, that's it!!
To: Lurker
FWIW, the article does say 7.62
To: DakotaGator
In central California it's handy in the Taco Bell order line.
To: everyone
I bet some liberal weasel leaked this so the Bay Area lefties can stop it from happening.
To: DJ Taylor
Is that at the gun and knife show? ;-)
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:19:07 PM PST
by
md2576
(I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
To: BubbaTheRocketScientist
Sorry, my mistake. Thanks for the correction.
L
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:20:24 PM PST
by
Lurker
(In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
To: NonValueAdded
If anyone in CA could carry one, it would be him. Maybe Stallone.
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:24:34 PM PST
by
willyd
To: Amerigomag
To: Squantos
Your dinner table looks hood!
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:32:57 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(Flies,fleas,ants,ticks,cockroaches,bad cops,lawyers,judges & politicians All the same. Useless!!!)
To: ChefKeith
hood- good
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:33:38 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(Flies,fleas,ants,ticks,cockroaches,bad cops,lawyers,judges & politicians All the same. Useless!!!)
To: Lurker
"Now, if they're the 7.62mm variant I'd say that's about right."
Make that 40mm and then you have something nice.
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:35:11 PM PST
by
MaDeuce
(Do it to them, before they do it to you!)
To: Amerigomag
To: Firefigher NC
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:36:08 PM PST
by
sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Amerigomag
66 per second and 4000 a minute. How many are in the feedbelt?
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:36:31 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: Amerigomag
I love the sound of
"BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
in the morning.
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:41:00 PM PST
by
manwiththehands
(Everything I ever cared to know about Islam I learned on 9/11)
To: DJ Taylor
Put a couple of those in towers at the perimeter with interlocking fields of fire and I think you're on to something.
Of course, mucho target practice is in order for the lucky SOBs who gets to operate the things.
L
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:52:22 PM PST
by
Lurker
(In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
To: Amerigomag
".... machine guns capable of spitting out 66 rounds a second with a range of nearly a mile...." Stop it! I'm getting a woodie.
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posted on
02/04/2006 7:58:05 PM PST
by
fightu4it
(conquest by immigration and subversion spells the end of US.)
To: California Patriot
I bet some liberal weasel leaked this so the Bay Area lefties can stop it from happening.
Nope. The security people at the lab actually called a Press Conference last Thursday to show them off. They also used the opportunity to do a lot of tough-talking about stopping anyone who even THOUGHT of trying something against the Lab. I think the idea was to send a public message to all the terrorists out there that it is not worth their wile to ever try an attack against the labs. This is but one layer of the Lab's defense strategy.
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posted on
02/04/2006 8:14:33 PM PST
by
Zetman
(This secret to simple and inexpensive cold fusion intentionally left blank.)
To: Lurker
Put a couple of those in towers at the perimeter with interlocking fields of fire and I think you're on to something.
I have driven around the labs before, and I didn't see any towers. An article in the SF Chronicle a few days ago said that some of these guns would be mounted on mobile vehicles, and the rest would be placed at "undisclosed" fixed locations within the "campus".
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posted on
02/04/2006 8:20:58 PM PST
by
Zetman
(This secret to simple and inexpensive cold fusion intentionally left blank.)
To: DJ Taylor
Droooool....
Me want, me wants it!
My preciousssss.
:-)
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posted on
02/04/2006 8:30:14 PM PST
by
gogogodzilla
(Raaargh! Raaargh! Crush, Stomp!)
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