I mean you would think they would know a black widow is a female spider that eats it's mate.
Posted on 05/22/2015 3:13:56 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
The Army is not a “level” of society unless everything has changed since 1983. The rich kids that I knew were treated pretty much the same way as anyone else.
If I got here four or five months ago, I’d be really careful who I called names, especially something as insulting as “jackboot lickers” but you do whatever you like.
>> If I got here four or five months ago, I’d be really careful who I called names, especially something as insulting as “jackboot lickers” but you do whatever you like. <<
If you actually READ my post, you’ll see that I didn’t call anybody anything. I responded to a post by someone named ‘Sport’ which (although I found it distasteful) I thought deserved a response.
BTW: If you have difficulty reading, perhaps you can turn on the ‘large text’ option on your computer or ask a responsible adult for assistance.
As to your idiotic threat, I find it more offensive than Sport’s post.
This kind of crap is why I quit this website years ago — threatening, idiotic people who can’t read what’s in front of them.
So you just outed yourself as a zotted retread. Thank you, that makes it even better. Funny, you guys make it so easy.
The Army as a level of society?
I don’t know what you mean, what I told you was “You would be amazed at what is available in some levels of society.” in regards to weapons.
I mean you would think they would know a black widow is a female spider that eats it's mate.
When I was in the Marine Corps is was the same way. Access to any type of munitions was very tightly regulated.
But the original comment was that soldiers were getting grenades and C4 from their posts, which is utter bull unless they’re breaking in and stealing them the same as any run-of-the-mill thief could do without joining the military.
Weapons can be, and are, shipped from war zones, and probably stolen from major storage facilities, if gang members and corrupt GIs can assist the paper work and smuggling operations, similar to corruption among the Border patrol.
But that isn't really needed anyway, there are lots of old weapon stocks in America and crossing the border, grenades and weapons have always been around, during the 60s and 70s I assumed that some of the grenades were coming from private collections, along with weapons like the Thompson machine guns, or German automatics.
Outlaw gangs would be a collection center for information on such materials, criminals would approach them to sell materials, and the members and the club itself would be the people who are privy to that type of street information from friends and associates and associations, not to mention the thefts by club members themselves and whatever efforts they may make in procuring such things.
"" They hatched a plan to buy a boat, fill it with weapons and sail it all the way to Ireland. Over the following months they assembled a seven-ton arsenal costing some $500,000 – $1.12 million (£720,000) today – after extorting the money from drug-dealers.
The hoard comprised 163 assault rifles, 71,000 rounds of ammunition, a ton of military explosives, and a dozen bulletproof vests. To the astonishment of IRA commanders struggling to obtain weapons at home, they bought much of it from advertisements in the pages of Shotgun News. Other items were obtained from IRA sympathisers around the US – 25 mini machine-guns from a gang in Philadelphia""
Did they really say how they are acquiring them?
“Members of the Bandidos biker gang who are in the military “are supplying the gang with grenades and C4 explosives,”
Yes, just as I said. But ammunition and explosives are closely watched. inventoried and guarded in the military.
Not just as you said.
It only says that they are supplying them, not how, or from where, there is a huge amount of leakage in such things. Here are some quick examples of leakage.
Washington (CNN) — The arrest of a Navy SEAL accused of trying to sell arms smuggled from Iraq or Afghanistan has raised questions about how he managed to get 80 high-powered weapons into the U.S. through military transport-————————
A gang which included US soldiers allegedly offered ‘wet-work’ murder-for-hire services, narcotics trafficking and stolen US military weapons to undercover Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents… posing as foot soldiers for Mexico’s notorious Los Zetas drug cartel.
A soldier with an elite National Guard unit has been arrested and charged with illegally smuggling sophisticated firearms – including assault rifles and pistols – from New York City to China.
Federal air marshal and Army Sgt. 1st Class David Kellerman was planning to take a few items with him on the way home to South Florida from Afghanistan: 11 grenades, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, about 33 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives, a couple of assault rifles, a shotgun, a machine gun and more.
The high-powered weapons were dismantled and hidden inside various bags and equipment. But U.S. Army inspectors found them before Kellerman left Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.
That search, two months ago, led to additional searches in Broward County — and the discovery of other caches of weapons, according to a federal criminal complaint.
‘Blackwater’ to pay $50M over arms-smuggling, other charges
A Base Borden soldier who was arrested in Alliston in 2012 and charged in a complicated weapons case pleaded guilty to numerous charges on Friday.
The charges included possession of restricted firearms, exporting firearms out of Canada and making prohibited devices.
A former soldier has been jailed for 10 years after smuggling a cache of guns and ammunition from Iraq into the UK in a tank.
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