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Border Insecurity: Heavily-Armed Texas Gunboats Now Patrolling the Rio Grande
Stand With Arizona ^ | 07-12-2012 | John Hill

Posted on 07/11/2012 8:53:13 PM PDT by montag813

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1 posted on 07/11/2012 8:53:24 PM PDT by montag813
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Texas Department of Public Safety has deployed gunboats on the river, armed with major firepower.

Put wheels on them and drive um into Dallas, Houston, etc.

Target rich environments.

2 posted on 07/11/2012 8:55:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Eat lead ya long-eared, fur-bearin' mugs! Cowboy with Thompson submachine gun
3 posted on 07/11/2012 9:05:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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We got choppers with FLIR for that...


4 posted on 07/11/2012 9:07:48 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: montag813

I hear we have state of the art bean bag shooting technology.


5 posted on 07/11/2012 9:09:13 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: tumblindice

My father was an armorer when he was in Europe during WWII. He worked on Quad-50’s and Bofors.

I could see Quad-50’s on such a boat with a few anti-tank weapons for good measure.


6 posted on 07/11/2012 9:10:13 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/PrincipalWeapons.htm

“Quad .50: A half-track mounting four .50s capable of being fired as a unit. Developed as an anti-aircraft weapon, as an antipersonnel weapon it was capable of hurling an immense amount of fire into hillsides and valleys against advancing infantry, or long-range harassing fire against enemy movement routes at night. Firing as many as 100,000 rounds a day, the Quad .50 could go over hills like a vacuum cleaner, sucking them devoid of life.”

The Germans had something similar, a `Werbel’ (Whirlwind’)? and used it a lot after they lost control of the air.
That’d work!

I was thinking of something the Marines used— 4 recoilless rifles? An Ontos(?) That might be even better for cartel caravan work.


7 posted on 07/11/2012 9:17:03 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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“When all six weapons were fired at once, the back blast from the firing knocked bricks out of a nearby building and knocked the rear windows out of several cars.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontos

Blast from the back of the recoil-less rifles is not insignificant.

8 posted on 07/11/2012 9:38:33 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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“...armed with six M-240, 30-caliber automatic machine guns that fire 900 rounds per minute.”
Thus providing the illusion of security. Does anyone here actually believe that the State of Texas would be authorized to use those guns?


9 posted on 07/11/2012 9:38:40 PM PDT by STYRO (Do not accept unconstitutional government as legitimate government.)
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It seems to me the government is going out of it’s way to provoke the decent citizens of the United States so it can declare open season on them.

I can honestly say that I think there’s some credence to the idea city ops in Iraq an Afghanistan were mere practice for what at least some government officials knew was coming, if they could just arrange it.

They’ve sure been working overtime on it.


10 posted on 07/11/2012 9:42:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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To: Texas Fossil
Blast from the back of the recoil-less rifles is not insignificant.

Well, it will roast your body hair and light the cigar in your mouth!

11 posted on 07/11/2012 9:44:41 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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Border INsecurity? The folks on those boats did not look INsecure to me.


12 posted on 07/11/2012 9:45:08 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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BTW: Texans, God speed...

The decent citizens out here are right behind you.

Mexico is going to push it’s luck too far one of these days and it could result in a two way fight across the border for a change.


13 posted on 07/11/2012 9:47:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
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Good, maybe the residents of the four border states will get it through their thick skulls that the feds are actively endorsing an open border policy with mexico. Repel the invaders, and pay no heed to the feds. They refuse to do their job as mandated by the Constitution, so they can go f@!$ off, we’ll take care of the problem. They made their bed, now they can lay in it. It’s out of their hands now. America is for the people, by the people, and the people can look out after themselves.


14 posted on 07/11/2012 9:52:42 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Bofors twin mount like the AA mounts on WWII USN ships.


15 posted on 07/11/2012 9:53:15 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: montag813

I wonder if they will tell us when they bag their first illegal crosser.


16 posted on 07/11/2012 10:40:37 PM PDT by tdscpa
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I say they should put sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads in the Rio Grande River.


17 posted on 07/11/2012 10:44:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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Rick Perry sucks.
Someone on FR told me so. /s


18 posted on 07/11/2012 11:02:12 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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NG Units are under the command of the state, unless federalized for a national emergency. NG Guard units ARE the Army. They have ALL the Army’s current equipment, plus armories full of all kinds of interesting stuff, including I am sure, a Thompson or two.


19 posted on 07/11/2012 11:17:14 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and FU Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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“Heavily-Armed Texas Gunboats Now Patrolling the Rio Grande”

Git Ur Dun!!!!!!!!!!!


20 posted on 07/11/2012 11:33:36 PM PDT by Puckster
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