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To: Andrew Byler
Why does an FBI unit need grenade launchers

I'll take a wild guess and say that they're for tear gas. But you can never be sure.

49 posted on 04/25/2007 6:08:49 AM PDT by wbill
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To: wbill
Why does an FBI unit need grenade launchers

I'll take a wild guess and say that they're for tear gas. But you can never be sure.

The FBI is fond of using military parachute flares as incendiary grenades, as during FBI sieges at Whidbey Island, in Arkansas, and, of course, at Waco.


52 posted on 04/25/2007 6:49:18 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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