Weapon Porn

Since Heidi always has my best interests at heart and provides me with such fantastic aviation stuff, I figure I’ll contribute to the pile. This one’s for Heidi…but also for my sweet Marine. Enjoy, via Blackfive.

Marines carry six-pack attack
Submitted by: 1st Marine Division
Story Identification #: 200631023356
Story by Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva

Marines with Regimental Combat Team 5, based in Camp Fallujah, test-fired the latest in the Corps’ arsenal of weapons’ improvement, the M-32 Multiple shot Grenade Launcher. It’s a six-barreled, 40 mm beast of a weapon that has just about enough attitude for Marines.

“I thought it was pretty bad the first time I saw it,” said Cpl. Jason H. Flanery, a 23-year-old mortarman from St. Louis, Mo., assigned to RCT-5’s Personnel Security Detachment.

The M-32 MGL looks like something straight out of an action movie or a weapon ginned up by designers of futuristic video combat games. It’s a bare-bones, shoulder-fired weapon with a bulging six-barreled cylinder. There’s no bones about it. This thing’s all business when the trade is knocking out bad-guys at a distance.

“You can put six rounds on target in under three seconds,” Flanery said. “I thought this thing was sick.”

Sick might be right for the insurgent on the other end of the sight. The M-32 MGL is step up from the M-203 grenade launcher Marines have used since post-Vietnam days. It fires similar 40 mm grenades and at similar distances. It just puts more rounds on the bad guys faster.

“The ‘203 has been around since the ‘60s,” explained CWO4 Gene A. Bridgman, the regiment’s gunner, or weapons expert. “It keeps improving. This is a progression in the weapons system.”

Flanery put the comparison of the two similar weapons in more simple terms.

“It makes it obsolete,” he said. “It’s that much better.”

The idea to bring M-32 was the brainchild of Marine gunners across the Corps, explained Bridgman, a 43-year-old from Garden City, Kan. During an annual symposium, they decided an improvement was needed over the M-203. One option was to bring back a rifle-grenade. The M-32, won out, however, and now each Marine battalion will field them as an experimental weapon.

Bridgman added the M-32 isn’t a new idea altogether, though. Brazilian, Italian and South African military have carried them in the field for years. Marines, though, took it one step further…

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Guns Don’t Kill People, Doctors Do

Let’s ponder some interesting statistics for a moment…

Doctors:

(A) The number of doctors in the U.S. is 700,000.

(B) Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year are 120,000.

(C) Accidental deaths per physician is 17.14%.

Statistics: courtesy of the U.S.Dept of Health & Human Services

Guns:

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S. is 80,000,000.

(B) The number of accidental gun deaths per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

(C) The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is 0.001875%.

Statistics: courtesy of the FBI

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Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

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Fact: Not everyone has a gun, but almost everyone has at least one doctor.

Remember, guns don’t kill people, doctors do.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets completely out of hand!!!

H/T: John Holt via Fred Martinez

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#137: Never Bring Nunchuks To A Gunfight

More rules to live by…

I love when guns help to save the day. Kudos to this gentleman in San Francisco (where they’re trying to outlaw guns) who blew away a ninja-style attacker:

An armed man wearing a black, ninja-style mask was shot to death by a Healdsburg man this morning after he attacked the man’s wife outside their home and chased her inside, police said.

The shooting happened about 7:30 a.m. at the end of Sunset Drive, a semi-rural street on the east side of town.

The woman was about to take the couple’s two Wheaton terrier dogs for a walk when the masked man jumped her outside her garage, police said. The woman struggled, broke away and ran screaming into the house, with the attacker in pursuit.

Her screams awoke her husband. The man, whom police identified only as a man in his 60s, “grabbed their handgun, probably a .357 … and fired more than one shot,” Police Chief Susan Jones said.

The attacker died at the scene.

*Sniffle*

I love a happy ending…

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Lock And Load

Muslims are testing the waters for good ‘ole Mohammed Cartoon protests right here in America. And I thought we’d skate by without such an annoyance.

New York got a taste of Cartoon Jihad yesterday when 1,000 Mulsims protested at the Danish embassy in New York City. I don’t know how New Yorkers took it, but I, for one, don’t take too kindly to the idea that the flag of Islam will ever fly over our White House.

Malkin will also be covering a protest in Washington D.C. today sponsored by a coalition of Muslim groups and the New Black Panther Party. She suggests that “the Danish cartoons are just a convenient pretext for their hate-filled agenda.” I don’t doubt it when you look at their rhetoric - nasty stuff. I’ve also heard that Free Republic plans to be there to counter-protest. I’ll keep you posted.

It’s all fun and games, mohammedans, until someone gets hurt. So you guys wanna rock?

Then let’s roll.

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Why No Muslim Riots in America?

My guess would be that they are a little more sophisticated when it comes to PR and public opinion. Probably have a few dozen advisors from CAIR and the ACLU on retainer, too.

And then again, 65 million American citizens have a few of these laying around…

Maybe? Could that be it?

What do you think? What would you do if hundereds of Muslims rioted in your town with placards that said, “9/11 Part 2″ or “Exterminate Americans!”?

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Guns: The Great Equalizers

I was at a gunshow recently, and as I was admiring a certain handgun and considering its purchase, a very know-it-all type next to me at the booth piped up. He told me that a bullet might not stop the most determined or crazed of attackers. Possibly even several bullets, if the attacker (or rabid animal) is deranged. BUT, he intoned, pepper spray will stop ANYONE or ANYTHING in its tracks. AND, he advised me, it will fit nicely in a lady’s purse.

Well, as a former military type who has gone through more chemical bunker drills - with snot flowing freely - than I care to remember, I concured with his assessment of the relative effectiveness of pepper spray. HOWEVER, I argued that to use pepper spray effectively, one needs to be relatively close - too close for comfort, in my opinion. Therefore, it would be wise to shoot FIRST, and spray if the crazy fucker keeps on coming AFTER you empty your clip.

Then I showed Mr. Know-It-All my personal version of a “lady’s purse”: an OD green government issue ammo shoulder pouch. You just can’t judge a book by it’s cover…no matter HOW good it looks. *wink*

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