Posted on 02/12/2013 6:37:22 AM PST by Baynative
He's gutted their healthcare, plans to cut their pay and apparently, doesn't trust them either. David Codrea over at Gun Rights Examiner points out that Marines marching in President Obama's second inaugural parade recently were caring rifles without bolts, meaning they were removed.
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That can't be true -- if that were true service members would vote Democrat.
In a perverse way, I find that to be a hopeful sign.
Beat me to it... The M-1 is most certainly not an M-14, even though they are related.
I am more concerned with those 8th and I Marines sloppy carriage of the rifles: There isn't a parallel line among those muzzles and the Color Guard in the photo looks like he has his rifle wrapped around his neck. I would not have put up with that level of drill proficiency when I was still in and the Gunny would have had some extra practice for those Marines.
Shoot (as a euphemism for sh**), the SS learned from Egypt’s assassination of Anwar Sadat.
They are looking a little shabby, but I could hardly blame them though based on the situation.
Their current CiC hates them more than even PDiC (Pants Dropper in Chief) clinton ever did.
When PDiC visited Baumholder Germany before the start of Operation Neverending Balkan Excursion (IFOR/SFOR) the M2A2 Bradley on display at the back of the parking lot where we were assembled didn’t have the coax installed, and the bolt was removed from the Bushmaster. The M1A1 Abrams also on display was stripped of it’s weapons and the main gun was rendered safe. We didn’t have weapons either.
I guess the giant sign near the main entrance that said “Welcome home draft dodger” really pissed him off especially since it was on private property. :D
Why shouldn't the town's cannon be operable? Doesn't the 2nd cite the reason of the state's own security [and liberty] as justification for the militia's existence? And isn't it the "right of the people" that is so recognized as having the right to arms? -- A town-cannon therefore makes much sense, as does "city AA-guns", and just imagine what would have happened to Obama if NYC had possessed city AA-guns when he buzzed the city.
Do you really want to have to store those rifles in the arms room and keep them accountable?
I have more issue with the policy on-base of depriving the general population of arms (forcing them to store personal arms in the armory).
IOW, they were sitting ducks. Expect to see more of this free target practice staged for our enemies.
There are clips for M1-carbines and M-16s. They fit on the magazine, you press the cartridges into the magazine and discard, or put the empty clip back in your pocket.
There is a small adapter to make the clip fit the magazine.
They disable commemorative cannons so they do not have to worry about some damn fool stealing them or monkeying with them.
Yes, I know that’s the ‘why’, I merely question if it is more detrimental in the end than beneficial. — It also has the built-in assumption that (a) people are defined by the lowest common denominator, and/or (b) people are not [and cannot be] mature, self-governing moral individuals [that is, eternal adolescence and never mature].
Sure there are. That is not what the poster was talking about though.
Sure there are. That is not what the poster was talking about though.
The poster was clearly using the term clip, when referring to a magazine.
That is a journalist’s mistake.
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