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Guns 'n Rosa's...

By The Armorer on August 13, 2007 | | Comments (6)

That's what CAPT H titled his email where he sent me this link to a photo essay on the Women's Village Defense Committee's in India. Imagine that - providing state-of-the-art weaponry to persons who are *not* full-time government employees (because, as we all know, being a government employee means you are by definition gifted with better judgement and superior intellect and impulse control - hey, just ask us!).

Indian women forming a militia - AP Photo.

Here's a better shot with fuller context. Yep, along with some AK's, those are home-built Indian INSAS'.

Gun Trash had the first correct answer - however, CAPT H, having pointed out the article in the first place, gets points for restraining himself as long as he did. Well, and for pointing out the article, too!

My first instinct when I saw the muzzle shot, which I knew to be wrong as I started looking closer, was MAS 49/56.

Examples of both are in the Holdings of the Arsenal of Argghhh!!!

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By MAJ Arkay on August 13, 2007 10:58 AM
A couple years ago, an old woman in an obscure Indian village decided she wanted to learn to shoot. After much grief from the village men, she learned to shoot a .22 (which actually did look like a .22). Then other women became interested, and off it went. Was an offbeat TV news item, primarily because it had an interesting after effect -- the number of wives dying of strange causes dropped to almost nothing in that village. Not surprised to see interest cropping up in other Indian women....
 
By AFSister on August 13, 2007 12:54 PM
The "female Indian shooter" was as far as I got. You know me- if it's got a muzzle and a trigger, it's a gun, plain and simple. [Hmmm, if that's true AFSis... how do you classify these? Oh, and under the top one? That's a spike, not a trigger, btw. -the Armorer]
 
By BillT on August 13, 2007 3:57 PM
Dunno about AFSis, but I'd classify 'em as dual-threat bludgeons...
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on August 13, 2007 5:23 PM
Trigger: "3. anything, as an act or event, that serves as a stimulus and initiates or precipitates a reaction or series of reactions." Cheers
 
By Murray on August 13, 2007 6:41 PM
Well I don't know if they frighten the enemy, but by god their weapons handling skill are inducing an involuntary bowel movenment in me.
 
By BillT on August 14, 2007 1:29 AM
The ladies in the foreground appear to be having difficulty obtaining the proper sight picture. As long as I'm in the neighborhood...
 
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