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10-29-2006, 01:56 PM
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#511 | | Senior Member
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I wandered into a Gun Shop while in the military and was having a graze around. Saw a "funny" looking SLR. When I got talking to the owner he said that no one wanted to buy it because of its looks.
I was just about peeing my pants trying not to laugh as I handed over $300.00 Kiwi Shekels to take it off his hands.
7.62 SLR, heavy barrel, with bipod.
Israeli woodstock foregrip.
1 x Section weapons kit.
2 x 20 round and 3 30 round magazines.
Full auto enabled. 
The armourers back at base couldn't believe it when I signed in my new personal toy.
Considering that full auto is illegal in this country, it was a damn fine buy. When I left the Mob, I had it chopped up in front of me by the armourers.
Didn't want to think about it ending up with some Idjit.
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10-30-2006, 02:52 AM
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#512 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | Good one. I'd have had the thing neutralized rather than chop it up, though. Like I said above, all mine have been - I mean, what am I going to do in France with a working weapon? (Don't answer that, my wife'd get upset!)
But it's nice just to be able to hold one from time to time, strip it, etc. (!!)
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10-30-2006, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ***  how much air support do you want our marines to have! | The more the better! That's a silly comment. Some of the guys here have been emphatically stating that brit forces are very short of helo support, as well as other air assets. If that's true, then obviously the system in place is not working.
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10-30-2006, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by mkloby Some of the guys here have been emphatically stating that brit forces are very short of helo support, as well as other air assets. If that's true, then obviously the system in place is not working. | Peace is a wonderful thing, isn't it! Never misses - wind down your armed forces to such a point that they are no longer capable of doing the job correctly, and then get into a war.
Someone should tell that a*se Blair - and ALL politicians - that being the best in the world is not going to make up indefinitely for inadequate kit and inadequate numbers. The Yanks, I'm afraid to say, seem to have remembered that better than our lot.
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10-30-2006, 12:48 PM
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Country: | unfortunately politicians do seem to think that the military can be disbanded if it's peacetime - save some more money for an expanded social welfare program!
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10-30-2006, 02:33 PM
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#516 | | Der Crewchief
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10-31-2006, 11:18 AM
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Someone should tell that a*se Blair - and ALL politicians - that being the best in the world is not going to make up indefinitely for inadequate kit and inadequate numbers. The Yanks, I'm afraid to say, seem to have remembered that better than our lot.
| i agree for the most part but then again buddying up to the yanks is anything but a bad move, we get less of the hatred america get but we've got one of the strongest alliances the modern world has ever seen, whilst we generally go on the offensive together if you were to attack Britain, you're almost garanteed to get America involved................
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11-02-2006, 01:48 PM
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#518 | | aka Dickcheese
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks *** i agree for the most part but then again buddying up to the yanks is anything but a bad move, we get less of the hatred america get but we've got one of the strongest alliances the modern world has ever seen, whilst we generally go on the offensive together if you were to attack Britain, you're almost garanteed to get America involved................ | Your d@mn skippy. 
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11-08-2006, 03:26 PM
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#519 | | Master of Ewes
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11-08-2006, 03:46 PM
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11-08-2006, 03:58 PM
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11-08-2006, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass if you mean you now think i love all things american, you can sleep in comfort tonight safe in the knowledge i don't i just think that being the best friend of the world's biggest power's a damn good idea! | Lanc - that's been a strong ethos of UK foreign policy for decades!
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11-08-2006, 04:10 PM
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Country: |  Lanc insulted me Hunter. My superpower ego is bruised. And I was going to save him from the hypthetical baddies too.
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11-09-2006, 09:01 AM
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#524 | | Der Crewchief
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Originally Posted by Matt308 So you are an equal opportunity whore which sleeps with whoever holds the biggest gun? You better start learning Chinese. |
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11-09-2006, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by mkloby Lanc - that's been a strong ethos of UK foreign policy for decades! | Strikes me it's generally the other way round. Look at Grenada, for example.
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