Posted on 03/12/2003 11:17:34 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
Heads up, President Bush.
Because there are at least four different articles with the same headline, one from MSNBC, another by Fox News, this one from The Guardian, and an identically-titled Reuters wire service dispatch, with differing text and all apparently by different authors.
Until such time as the search engine at FR can accomodate a search that includes the author, the only other way I know of to differentiate such stories is by date- and when they're breaking, it's probable that they'll all be entered on the same day.
Likewise, expect that some initial *flash reports* from FReepers who catch breaking TV news reports or have access to wire service copy will likely slug such breaking news items the same way, just as any editor or newsman might. That alerts other FReepers to the existance of the story, and subsequent developing reports are thereby compiled in one place as corrections to erronious early reports or changes occur.
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The range from the tank commander's hatch on my last M48A3 to the back deck where the fuel fillers were is only about 8 feet. For serious shooting at that distance, an AK does just fine, but power and reliability are also absolute must-haves, and the AK47 and AKM have those attributes as well.
As the second most produced personal firearm of the last few centuries, the 100 million or so users of the Kalishnikov design and its variants [AK47, AKM, RPK light MG, Valmet and Galil modified variants and countless knockoff copies, PK and PKM machineguns and even the AKSU *machinepistol* variants] appear to agree with you. Stoner's AR-15/M16 design comes in 4th, behind Great Britain's *Brown Bess* flintlock musket and copies thereof, which numbered some 15 million in their day.
The estimated 120 million Mauser-action rifles in their various models and types continue to hold first place, slightly ahead of MikTim Kalishnikov's brainchild. But a few more years of production, still during his lifetime, may tip the balance. That's a LOT of shootin irons out there....
Including mine.
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