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pipewrench

(194 posts)
Tue Dec 18, 2012, 10:01 PM Dec 2012

What I learned from my gun show tour

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/18/what-max-blumenthal-learned-from-gun-show-tour

"According to Defense Review, a leading online newsletter covering the small arms industry, the gun was a "nasty little piece of manpackable/backpackable ballistic business!" With the sleek, 3ft-long rifle in his hand, the dealer explained:

"The bipod will articulate to the side. You can shoot off of walls, car or truck doors, building tops, cliffs – at any angle, all the way to barricade position."

In less than a minute, the dealer effortlessly disassembled the gun and packed it away discreetly in a black backpack, explaining:

"The reason that we don't do this in a molly pack is that it looks military. If it's military, then people will assume that you're military. So what we do with this is we keep it as benign as possible so it looks like just any other backpack that anybody would have … so anybody with any garb, any dress, can go anywhere with it."

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Selling to a market segment that has no business owning a gun. Our children deserve better...

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What I learned from my gun show tour (Original Post) pipewrench Dec 2012 OP
yes they do samsingh Dec 2012 #1
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