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Norfolk-based ship fires on pirates off Somalia
The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 7 June 07 | LOUIS HANSEN

Posted on 06/08/2007 2:43:46 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY

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To: sgtbono2002

Sign me up! I want to prove that I can be falling down drunk and still whip some arab a$$!


21 posted on 06/08/2007 6:44:24 AM PDT by gr8eman (Everybody is a rocket scientist...until launch day!)
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To: Marauder
Strikes me as foolish to get close to any point on the African continent without suitable armament.
Foolish... and foolhardy.

But don't worry, under the Law of the Sea Treaty, won't all armaments on ships be outlawed? Then, by the logic of gun control, the pirates won't be allowed to carry guns either.

22 posted on 06/08/2007 6:46:04 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: samtheman
That's what dictators want. To take care of you. To protect you from YOURSELF.

And of course to protect themselves from you. I guess that is why Benito Guilini is so much in favor a gun control.

23 posted on 06/08/2007 6:57:06 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: Dumpster Baby

Lovvvveeeee that 25MM!!!

Someday the Navy will requisistion some modern headgear for the fleet crews soon...Thats almost embarrassing!!!

We be in the 21st century now...We need “tacticool” gear now!

Geesh!!! ;-)


24 posted on 06/08/2007 11:24:25 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: Dumpster Baby; stevie_d_64

Isn’t that based on the Bushmaster?


25 posted on 06/08/2007 3:02:48 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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To: Pyro7480

You betcha! Just a Navalized version...

Aimpoint made some fantastic red dot optics for that mount...


26 posted on 06/09/2007 2:30:34 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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