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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 01:35 PM
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Feds Raid Blackwater Compound
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/feds_raid_blackwater_compound.php
Agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have confiscated nearly two dozen automatic rifles from Blackwater Worldwide, the private security contractor and firearms training company in Moyock, N.C.
The move came two days after a story in The News & Observer raised questions about the legality of Blackwater's deals to buy the guns for the Camden County Sheriff's Department. The security firm kept the rifles at its giant firearms training facility and used them in training law enforcement officers and members of the military.
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Company spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell said ATF agents came to Blackwater Tuesday and took all the rifles there owned by Camden.

"It was not a raid," she said. "We were cooperative."
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 01:36 PM
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1. I'm proud that the N&O ran that story
and that the BATF acted on it.
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Bob Dobbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 01:56 PM
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2. It's a start.
I don't know if even the US Military has the firepower necessary to challenge Blackwater world wide, now, however.
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 02:19 PM
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3. yeah, it's real scary
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-27-08 03:11 PM
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4. Will the Blackwater guys set themselves on fire now?
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