Posted on 02/26/2002 12:59:26 PM PST by Travis McGee
He's probably still doing raids with that shotgun.
Looks like the whole family in that house goes down ...
Don't want to know more at this point ... gotta read it to find out now.
Regards.
The story of my life!!!
BTW, how'd I do on the transportation, call signs, commo, and house clearing? Freepmail me, so I won't be too humiliated, and I'll fix it up for the book.
I want to know what Edmonds is going to do now?.....and are any of the bad guys gonna flip cause they can't stomach the stuff they're doing? Driving in the dark and full speed ....boy that brought back some old memories best forgotten.
We're all all waitng. Nice job.
Regards
The BATF, on a "compliance visit" to a gunshop after hours in Sacramento (or Fresno, I can't recall exactly) shot the gun store owner about 5 times with their 9mms, and he was dead.
But get this (TRUE STORY! I SWEAR!!!!) their story which was backed up by their friendly coroner was that:
/1/ The crazed owner was going for a .45. (Not one he ever used or carried. A "shop gun".)
/2/ The BATF agents, fearing for their lives, drew their weapons.
/3/ The gun store owner put the gun to his temple and shot himself with his right hand, (even though he was left handed.)
/4/ The BATF agents, in full draw and unable to stop, shot him also, 4 or 5 times.
/5/ But since the gun store owner was "already dead" at the second their bullets struck him (!!!!????) there was no killing by the BATF. They were just "shooting a corpse", who just happened to pick up a counter gun and kill himself with his "off hand" much to their surprise. And since the coroner agreed with that scenario, there was not even a grand jury, nothing.
And who cares? He was only a scum of the earth gun seller, a "merchant of death", so good riddance, right?
All the above is the truth. It really happened in real life, not in a novel.
(But I think those two BATF agents are pretty good STU material, don't you agree?)
Really, looking foreward to the finished product.
FReegards
Nobody has second thoughts or flips from the STU because they are all hand-selected misfits and "good ole boys roundup" types picked for their aversion to paper work and "going by the book". They are thirty former Rangers, SEALs, Marine Recon etc who "only care about results". They don't do investigations, "that's not my department". They just "take out terrorists" who they truly believe really are terrorists. They leave investigation and target selection to others.
And they don't mind a little "collateral damage" like Edmonds' family, because "it's a war! In a war, the only rule is to win!"
This is the result of creating federal SWAT teams directly from men who were Rangers and SEALs the year before: it's a wartime mindset they bring to "law enforcement". They are used to "compartmentalization" for operational security: leaving the investigating to one unit and the raids to another makes perfect logical sense to them. The fact that this may be abused to turn them into a death squad targeting innocents to provoke a civil war does not even occur to them. They are NOT deep thinkers, they are "operators" and "shooters".
Interestingly, old Special Forces types do NOT fit into this mindset and are the natural enemy of these govt black op death squads. The old Special Forces mindset is about 180* opposed to the STU mindset, and the old Green Berets are going to be a big problem for the STU.
Geez, Travis, I have often thought that one of those could make an outstanding "urban sniper" platform. Compact, longrange accuracy.
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