S.C Sheriff's Department buys M113 APC with belt fed .50

Lex1775

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:27 PM
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S.C Sheriff's Department buys M113 APC with belt fed .50

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/128482.html

Check out the photo at the link... just your friendly neighborhood deputies.

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Mojorabbit

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:29 PM
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1. This shit has to stop. nt

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Subdivisions

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:32 PM
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2. That's what truly terrifys me. n/t

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nc4bo

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:36 PM
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3. They are preparing, they know what's coming. nt

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Greyskye

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:38 PM
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4. Bought it 3 months ago...

...has he had occasion to try out his new toy yet? :shrug:

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MidwestTransplant

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:39 PM
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5. Those rounds will go through a number of houses.

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krispos42

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:41 PM
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6. I can understand buying the M113...

It is bulletproof, after all.

But the Ma Deuce is way overkill.

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Winterblues

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:59 PM
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9. It isn't really bullet proof you know

It is made from condensed aluminum and armored piercing bullets go through it like butter.

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slackmaster

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Tue Sep-09-08 03:36 PM
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11. It will stop just about anything a civilian in the US can buy legally

Without one of the bolt-on armor options, it will not stop .50 BMG armor-piercing ammunition (which is NOT available to US civilians).

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Wednesdays

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Tue Sep-09-08 03:55 PM
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14. Are they having a sale of armor-piercing bullets at Wal-Mart?

:shrug:

If so, those guys really should stay alert.

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formercia

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:47 PM
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7. I shot one of those once

Put a 90 mm recoilless rifle HEAT round right behind the front sprocket.

It was spread out over 300 meters. Lit that baby right up.

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cobalt1999

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Tue Sep-09-08 02:52 PM
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8. I think people here might get more riled if it had a belt fed taser gun

If past outrages are any indication.

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nichomachus

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Tue Sep-09-08 03:30 PM
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10. If you give cops a new toy

they will find a reason to use it -- sooner rather than later.

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lpbk2713

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Tue Sep-09-08 03:40 PM
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12. "Alright kid. No license to operate that lemonade stand, huh?"

"OK Boys. Roll 'er in."

"We'll show these punks who's in charge here."

:eyes: :eyes:

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Tierra_y_Libertad

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Tue Sep-09-08 03:47 PM
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13. Did those hard hittin' sherriffs get XXL jock straps to go with their new toy?

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spin

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Tue Sep-09-08 03:59 PM
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15. Full auto weapons and armored personnel carriers...

are not uncommon items in police department inventories.

The battle rifle Fry fired that night is among more than 20,000 weapons that have cascaded out of military warehouses and into police arsenals nationwide as part of a little-known partnership between the federal and state governments.

Since 1990, the programs have led to the creation of dozens of police armies around the country outfitted with machine guns, sniper rifles, armored personnel carriers, helicopters and grenade launchers.

********snip********

In Jasper, a town with three traffic lights near the Georgia border, the Police Department has as many M-16s (seven) as officers. But there is no one qualified to train the officers in how to use them, and the rifles are stored in a gun rack in a sergeant's office.

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The surplus bonanza has quietly turned the Orange County Sheriff's Office into Florida's biggest military police army -- with 216 former military assault rifles and 16 surplus grenade launchers. Nearby Marion County created an air force with 23 free military helicopters, two twin turboprop airplanes and other equipment -- originally valued at $41-million -- before its former sheriff came under scrutiny for trading surplus chopper parts.
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/03/02/State/Fort_Florida.shtml

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