thank you...
Posted on 12/31/2009 11:23:02 AM PST by Beaten Valve
In general, merchandise gets exported while people get deported. So he can be exported only if dead.
Mind you, I don't disagree with your sentiment. :)
rocket launchers can be dangerous if they’re in the wrong hands”
To be printed as a surgeon general’s warning on every rocket launcher produced in this country....(sarcasm)
The woman looks mmore dangerous than the weapon!
“The former director of Houston’s FBI office said rocket launchers can be dangerous if they’re in the wrong hands”
Paging Mr. Obvious....
The Right to Bear Arms goes along way in Texas :)
so is a gun....
Not really seeing what is wrong with having a rocket launcher in the ‘right’ hands...
You can sometimes find expended ones in Army-Navy stores. They are basically trash. They aren’t reloadable. A lot of modern weapons are sealed one shot units. You pop the sights up, arm the launcher, pull the trigger, drop the tube, walk away.
If you still lived at The Manor, I’d be looking carefully at the address of this discovery. :)
I'm shocked at this startling revelation.
To all who say its ‘just a spent tube’...My experience in the Army was, if you fire it, you crush it. This was meant to prevent IED’s (although we didn’t use that term back then).
I just don’t think DRMO sells spent rocket launchers, especially uncrushed ones. This means the launcher is likely s-t-o-l-e-n.
If I’m in law enforcement, and I come across an A’rab, complete with jihadist writings...well by golly, I investigate the rocket launcher. Where did it come from? Did you but it? Is it as simple as some GI smuggling it off base after training? Or did somebody steal a live one and fire it (maybe at an airliner). Was a lot # stenciled on it - could it be traced to a point of origin? Maybe I would poke around the apartment a little more - see if this fella likes black powder. Maybe check and see if he’s got a storage shed, etc, etc, etc.
I wouldn’t just ignore it.
“Not really seeing what is wrong with having a rocket launcher in the ‘right’ hands”
My post 90 explains why I think the empty launcher is problematic.
If you are implying that us average citizens should be able to have an unexpended rocket launcher...its quite a slippery slope. I’m sure the shape charge at the end of the rocket makes it a class whatever explosive...with a whole set of requirements. I don’t know where the 2nd ammendment stops - somewhere between rifles and nukes...and that’s a whole different debate.
I just thought it was a strange statement that a rocket launcher ‘could be dangerous in the wrong hands’...which seems patently obvious to me.
I dated an AT-4 like that when I was younger. Thanks for the info. I had forgotten her name.
I saw this on the TX message board when I got back on FR.
Cheers!
Actually, I served under Mr. Clark when I was in the Army, and he is an expert. The story doesn’t exactly make him sound like a genius, however.
As a peice of expended ordnance, the AT4 launcher is demilled by the Army (or a contractor) before being released fore sale to a scrap/surplus dealer. The mechanical acutuating mechanism is removed and certain locations of the launcher are cut to render the tube pretty much worhtless. While I am certain a good ordnance man can get a demilled copy back into useable condition, the rockets are rather hard to obtain outide complete AT4 munitions, so outside of some machine shop and homemade explosives, it is an unrestricted curio.
I have a carbon fiber rocket launcher tube sitting about 3 ft. from where I’m sitting right now. It has been made into a reflector telescope. I don’t think it’s going to kill anyone.
thank you...
Its only the past 45 years that we have been willing to let anyone into the country and have uncontrolled immigration.
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