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Military hardware still flowing to local police after Ferguson
The Washington Times ^ | Dec 30, 2014 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 12/31/2014 7:38:10 AM PST by TADSLOS

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To: Sherman Logan

My understanding is that even the “full auto” military firearms are 3 shot bursts, max.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.


21 posted on 12/31/2014 8:20:56 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: bassmaner

‘civilian security force, just as well equipped as the military ...’


He left out the implied “under my control”.


22 posted on 12/31/2014 8:21:44 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

I believe that’s standard. However, there are certainly full auto versions. Or versions that switch between single, burst and full.


23 posted on 12/31/2014 8:21:58 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly. We are a pen and a phone call away from a federal police force under the direct control of DHs and the Dept Of JUSTUS. That’s why Al Sharpton is now on the Obama Hit Squad.


24 posted on 12/31/2014 8:23:56 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: cripplecreek

“Well the people are doing plenty to justify it.

those are not people......


25 posted on 12/31/2014 8:25:00 AM PST by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: TADSLOS

Gotta keep the crony capitalists who make this stuff fat & happy even after Obama pulls out of all the wars, dontcha know...


26 posted on 12/31/2014 8:25:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Love the tagline...


27 posted on 12/31/2014 8:28:03 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: MrB

My understanding is that even the “full auto” military firearms are 3 shot bursts, max.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

The M4 /M16 newer versions have what is called select fire . You can select singe, 3 round burst or full auto.

When first introduced, in Viet Nam, there was only single round a full auto selections. We trained to finger control a ~3 round burst.


28 posted on 12/31/2014 8:29:22 AM PST by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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To: pallis; TADSLOS; null and void

And when the NatCCC is mobilized, all they have to do is rollup onto the POMCUS sites at the state and local police barracks - and bingo, they’ve got MRAP’s, Bearcats and all the firepower they can use.


29 posted on 12/31/2014 8:29:59 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Breto

The M16A2 had three sets: SAFE, FIRE and BURST (3 rd. burst), no full auto like the M16 or M16A1.

Having learned first under the old M-16, I remember well the trigger control...


30 posted on 12/31/2014 8:33:28 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Old Sarge

Yep.


31 posted on 12/31/2014 8:34:27 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: GOPJ

Good question and observation. Is that why the police opposition to DeBlasio is suddenly a political crisis for the Dems? Did they think that most police officers would serve a political master class bent on throwing them to the wolves first, and then use them to subvert the population when the manufactured outrage gets out of hand?


32 posted on 12/31/2014 8:35:43 AM PST by Ironfocus (Texas!)
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33 posted on 12/31/2014 9:23:56 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Don Corleone
"He said he was going to do it. Who is to stop him? The only question is who the police will side with."

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34 posted on 12/31/2014 9:31:18 AM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: null and void

must be getting ready for O’s coming race war


35 posted on 12/31/2014 9:34:03 AM PST by Nifster
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To: TADSLOS

Gun owners fear Maryland cops target them for traffic stops
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/30/gun-owners-fear-maryland-cops-target-them-for-traf/

The democrat party socialists are coming for all.


36 posted on 12/31/2014 11:41:56 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: TADSLOS
Citizen Subject!

Public! Serve Us!

3rd Amendment House and quarter troops!

37 posted on 12/31/2014 5:33:54 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
>"It ain’t for the local police. It’s just being staged there for the Gestapo."

Benghazi for everybody on the house!

Coordinated stealth flash mobs can over run an unsuspecting armory easily, unless ya got a few well trained special forces guarding it continuously.

38 posted on 12/31/2014 5:41:42 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: TADSLOS

Eat the racial moron bait from the sponsored propaganda of the socialist establishment. Support your local police state.

Some political folks never learn, until it’s too late for them.


39 posted on 01/01/2015 1:14:13 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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