Behold the next excuse the Great and Powerful Oz and Nurse Bloomberg will float (after they're done exporting rifles to Mexico in order to blame the US-sourced weapons on Mexican violence which means we'll have to disarm Americans to protect the campesinos... from the... ATFE, a USGOV agency, but I digress). No, after teh Usual Suspects are done with that little game they'll use this to come after AirSoft and BB Guns - not only do they look too realistic, terrorists use them... From Strategy Page (all rights reserved, used with permission)
You just know, in some small lab somewhere, some Soros-funded butthead is trying to figure out how to weaponize paintballs, so they can then smuggle those to terrorists, to set up another level of banning.
Heh. No, I don't need new tinfoil for my colander, thanks.
Al Qaeda Deploys BB Guns
by James Dunnigan
July 14, 2011
A wanted al Qaeda leader (Fazul Abdullah Mohammed) was recently killed in Somalia. Among the weapons found with him was a BB gun. Well, not just any BB gun, it was a Umarex Steel Storm. This weapon looks like a compact 9mm submachinegun, but is actually an automatic BB gun. Weighing 1.25 kg (2.75 pounds), it is 38 cm (15 inches) long, with smooth bore barrel. The Steel Storm can fire single shots, or six BB bursts. The 4.5mm BB's come out barrel at 135 meters a second. That's about a third the velocity of the 9mm pistol round commonly found in submachineguns. Only a lucky shot in the eye would be fatal, but these steel BBs cause a lot of pain, which makes it sort of a non-lethal weapon.
The Steel Storm carries 300 BBs (which must be shaken, 30 at a time, into the "magazine"). When you reload the BB container, you have to replace the two CO2 gas cartridges in the pistol grip. Effective only a close range (under 30 meters). The Steel Storm costs about a hundred dollars. Ammo is cheap (per round cost of gas and BB is a few cents). But this is not a combat weapon. What was the al Qaeda big shot doing with it? Well, it could be used to terrorize, and he was a professional terrorist. Security guards have sometimes been seen armed with this (usually) non-lethal weapon (with a 9mm pistol as a backup). The Steel Storm looks intimidating, and being able to fire dozens of those small steel balls quickly would, at the very least, prove distracting to those on the receiving end.
Air guns, like BB guns, have been around for over a century. Some of those available today fire bullet-like projectiles at velocities near those achieved by some 9mm pistols. But the size of these projectiles remains small (rarely more than 6mm), and these high powered air guns are meant for hunting small animals, not humans.
You just know, in some small lab somewhere, some Soros-funded butthead is trying to figure out how to weaponize paintballs, so they can then smuggle those to terrorists, to set up another level of banning.
Heh. No, I don't need new tinfoil for my colander, thanks.
http://www.sweeney-special-effects.com/special_effects_catalog.php?SFCL
Paintball-sized ball bearings through windshields anyone?
I guess it's time to pull out my t-shirt that says: "If they take away our guns, can we use chainsaws?"
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It fired a 60 grain slug at 1,000fps if my memory serves, it looked like an over under shotgun sort of.
A quick ggole search found this...http://www.airgundepot.com/big-bore-article.html
Regards
Rich in KCK
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Guess I better start wearing a tinfoil beanie, also.
dickens aint saying what online. No sense giving the buttheads any ideas. *wink*
Cheers
I remember when I was stationed at Ft Lewis during the WTO riots in the late 90's that the Seattle PD rode a guy out on a APC with a paintball gun. As the crowd would push forward he would "mark" people who either had makeshift weapons, seemed to be leading the pack, or who he identified as a threat from his elevated positon. The riot squad on the ground would then rush that individual.
Seemed pretty effective at the time