Top one has the four blood grooves, bottom only three, both nasty.
Posted on 08/22/2015 6:10:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Paris (AFP) - A gunman tackled by young Americans on a train between Amsterdam and Paris pleaded with them to hand back his Kalashnikov after they overpowered him, one of the group said.
"Everything happened very fast," Anthony Sadler, a student travelling with friends Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone, both members of the US military, told France's BFMTV.
"I didn't realise what was happening until I saw a guard run past. I looked back and saw a guy enter with a Kalashnikov. My friends and I got down and then I said 'Let's get him'," said Skarlatos, a 22-year-old member of the National Guard in Oregon, who has recently returned from service in Afghanistan.
"We didn't know if the gun wasn't working or anything like that. Spencer just ran anyway and if anyone had gotten shot, it would have been Spencer and we're just very lucky that nobody got killed," he added in quotes shown on the BBC.
Stone tackled the gunman but was cut with a knife....
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That was my first thought too, but it is way better to use the barrel end of the rifle since that keeps the trigger away from the terrorist, and allows the person doing the thumping to switch to shooting if they have to. If you are using the butt plate to hit the terrorist if he can grab the weapon it is pointed away from him, not at him, and he might be able to recover control of it.
They were not Marines. USAF and Army National Guard.
So once again Americans defeat an enemy the French ran away from.
Makes sense now why those guys let the jihadi live.
I read the article. Excellent. The humble handgun “and the will to use it” are the means of gaining an advantage and turning the tide.
I hope he is still pissing blood.
To run 10 Meters! towards a guy with a gun, no less a weapon like that, takes bravery beyond comprehension.
I think I spent the entire night reading every article and twitter comment regarding this incident.
Reason being that it has been such a dark time with this pResident that I soaked in all that I could, like a man dying of thirst and finding s well.
LOL! Simple and to the point.
Back in the day I saw an AK that had built in bayonet that swung up from under the barrel. Well, it was more of a pike I guess. Not a blade.
Good job, men. You make us proud!
Thanks for that. Some of it was new to me.
Funny how they’re all p**sies when they start getting wailed on in a fair fight.
Tres bien!
sounds eerily almost like Programming...like a machine....
More like a 12-14" long spike with four blood grooves. . . nasty weapon for when the magazine gets empty and you need something for that reach out a touch 'em need.
Authorities laud European train passengers for averting attack by heavily armed man.
Leftists are overtly hostile to American values.
Service member’s response — “Oh, I’m sorry your jihad failed. You won’t get your virgins... But look on the bright side, you get to be one for a little bit while you rot in prison.”
Clearly a case of road rage.
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