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Men jailed after sniper rifle found in back of minicab in South Croydon
Croydon Toda ^ | 9 Oct 2012 | GarethD2011

Posted on 10/09/2012 9:28:15 PM PDT by smokingfrog

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To: papertyger
Such items are owned solely by those intent on causing serious harm to their planned target or targets...

Yup, I myself been doing serious harm to pieces of paper for years.

141 posted on 10/10/2012 8:19:32 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: Last Dakotan
Yup, I myself been doing serious harm to pieces of paper for years.

Maybe that's why little old men from Florida are taking out armed robbers two at a time, while cops like this Detective Sergeant LacyThong and New York's finest are pissing themselves over squirrel rifles, and shooting up busy pedestrians when squaring off against fashion designers....

142 posted on 10/10/2012 9:35:57 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: PastorBooks

Don’t laugh about getting shot with a 22 round. A friend of mine; I should say ex-friend, did it to me at the kitchen table. We were about 14 years old and had been out hunting rabbits, got back to the house and were cleaning our rifles at the table when he pointed his at me. I told him not to do that; he said it’s not loaded and proceeded to pull the trigger. Trust me, it was loaded and knocked me right out of the chair. Bullet penetrated a tee shirt, a long sleeve canvas shirt, a wool sweater and a heavy field coat, went in 2 inches above and to the left of my belly button. That was 46 years ago and I still remember how much it hurt.


143 posted on 10/10/2012 11:41:54 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Domangart
I didn't say the .22 wasn't lethal. I did say calling it a sniper weapon is a stretch. A .22 is good out to a limited distance.

This, from a website reviewing a .22 sniper rifle:

Because of the use of the factory sporter barrel and with the suppressor attached, and because its a .22, accuracy is not up to sniper rifle standard, but that is not the intended design of the rifle either. The purpose of this rifle is to take out porch or street lights and also the occasional guard dog when required. For this purpose, the accuracy and capability of the rifle is good indeed. Also, Tac-Ops related a story to us where a Green Hornet was used to shoot and kill a suspect who drew to fire at officers. As we all know, the .22 LR is deadly with a well placed shot. For this rifle, at 50y, the rifle will shot right about 1" groups. Beyond 50y, the .22 LR starts to suffer on any rifle, and as such struggles with this rifle also, but we were able to easily hit light bulb sized targets at 25 yards shooting from the offhand position.

50 yards. Not my definition of a sniper round.

144 posted on 10/11/2012 12:28:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (WAAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhh.....)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

See my above message.


145 posted on 10/11/2012 12:31:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz (WAAAAAAAAAHHHhhhhh.....)
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To: papertyger

Because the article sucks, and the cop’s a hysterical idiot.

Better?


146 posted on 10/11/2012 5:45:52 AM PDT by green iguana
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