How can a country that bans citizens from owning guns justify having a standing army?

They use Ewoks as snipers?

Frank N Stein: How can a country that bans citizens from owning guns justify having a standing army?

that's the goofiest argument i've heard, and i'm a huge 2nd amendment fan

Richard Saunders: They use Ewoks as snipers?

You meant to say "Wookies," right?

/guy looks way too tall to be an Ewok

I want one. For home defense, of course.

Zombies are terrible at sneaking and hiding ;)

Sigh...

My range only goes out to 300 yards...

Kills from a mile but its range is 260 yards short of a mile at best.

The L115A3 Long Range Sniper Rifle - based on a weapon used by the British Olympic shooting team - weighs 15lbs, fires 8.59mm rounds and has a range of 1,100-1,500 yards.

Still want one though.

Frank N Stein: How can a country that bans citizens from owning guns justify having a standing army?

Somebody has to keep the masses in line when the conditioning gets weak....

Wow...So at a mile, it takes the bullet 1.7 seconds to kill your buddy, but it takes the sound 4.7 seconds to get to you...that's enough to soil some britches, I imagine.

Current record is held by a Canadian picking off an al-qaeda terrorst at 2.5 miles.

The MoD web site says "Designed to achieve a first-round hit at 600 metres and harassing fire out to 1,100 metres"

ZAZ: The MoD web site says "Designed to achieve a first-round hit at 600 metres and harassing fire out to 1,100 metres"

Still sounds good to me!

I'm sure that the vids are still up on the net somewhere, but back about 4-5 years ago, there were a lot of sniper take-out videos that were readily accessible.

After watching the farking dillweed terrorists chopping off innocents' heads, I have to admit that I relished watching them getting their shiat all blown up by our snipers.

Sniper being interviewed by liberal reporter:

Q. "Well, what do you feel when you kill someone like that?"
A. "Recoil."

fwappity fwap fwappity

Last week Army snipers were training with the rifle and full camouflage on the snow-covered ranges of the Support Weapons School at the Land Warfare Centre at Warminster, Wiltshire.

Good training to have before being deployed into the desert..

Way to copy the headline from TFA nearly word for word.

skinink

You owe me a new keyboard.

was expecting to see a Barrett. Handled one at a gun show not too long ago. Didn't really seem all that heavy. Then again I'm not bustin' a hump out in the middle of nowhere..

"against people the military claims are Taliban" you mean.

skinink: Goony - goo -goo.

Leave Aunt Bunny out of this (new window).

Frank N Stein: How can a country that bans citizens from owning guns justify having a standing army?

I do hope you're trolling / joking...because that's probably one of the stupidest questions I've ever heard.

sirgrim: Current record is held by a Canadian picking off an al-qaeda terrorst at 2.5 miles.

All that needs to be said. 50 cal aint it?

Frank N Stein: How can a country that bans citizens from owning guns justify having a standing army?

.5/10

I shot a man in Reno from a mile away, just to have my spotter confirm the kill.

FrostyOne: Last week Army snipers were training with the rifle and full camouflage on the snow-covered ranges of the Support Weapons School at the Land Warfare Centre at Warminster, Wiltshire.

Good training to have before being deployed into the desert..

Ummm....

Meh. You should see how getting lit up by a LAV III's low-tech 25mm cannon, or finding themselves downrange of an M777 gets the Taliban's full and complete attention.

Frank N Stein: How can a country that bans citizens from owning guns justify having a standing army?

The government has a monopoly on crime. How else would you expect it be justified?

lantawa:
Sniper being interviewed by liberal reporter:

Q. "Well, what do you feel when you kill someone like that?"
A. "Recoil."

That will win.

//former REMF soldier
//still get a kick out of it, though

FrostyOne: Last week Army snipers were training with the rifle and full camouflage on the snow-covered ranges of the Support Weapons School at the Land Warfare Centre at Warminster, Wiltshire.

Good training to have before being deployed into the desert..

The Taliban are (is?) in Afghanistan. It snows in Afghanistan.

meh.

Canadian snippers are better.

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FrostyOne: Last week Army snipers were training with the rifle and full camouflage on the snow-covered ranges of the Support Weapons School at the Land Warfare Centre at Warminster, Wiltshire.

Good training to have before being deployed into the desert..

Afghanistan is very mountainous and has plenty of snow.

Two days under cover? Met a guy who operated (up to six) weeks under cover. Well, so he claimed.

The supergun could kill from 600 miles away. We destroyed one being built in Iraq.

"The gun would be able to fire 600 kg projectile to a range of 1,000 kilometers, or a 2,000 kg rocket-assisted projectile into orbit."

This will only encourage the Taliban to develop and deploy their own superguns.

Devoid: FrostyOne: Last week Army snipers were training with the rifle and full camouflage on the snow-covered ranges of the Support Weapons School at the Land Warfare Centre at Warminster, Wiltshire.

Good training to have before being deployed into the desert..

Ummm....

Hahaha. That is a fantastic link. In all my years of Internetting, I have not come across that way to say lrn2google.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50-90_Sharps

"Billy Dixon used a Sharps .50-90 at the Second Battle of Adobe Walls in June 27, 1874 to make his legendary 1538 yard shot."

Not that the gun isn't cool, but the article needs more explanation as to why.

That's all?

Wikipedia's entry on the range of snipers:

"The longest range recorded for a sniper kill currently stands at 2,430 meters (2,657 yd, or 1.51 miles), accomplished by Corporal Rob Furlong, a sniper from Newfoundland, Canada, in March 2002 during the war in Afghanistan."

The_Fuzz: meh.

Canadian snippers are better.

I don't know, the Hampton Ave SuperCuts in St. Louis is hard to beat.

The Pete Stanis: FrostyOne: Last week Army snipers were training with the rifle and full camouflage on the snow-covered ranges of the Support Weapons School at the Land Warfare Centre at Warminster, Wiltshire.

Good training to have before being deployed into the desert..

The Taliban are (is?) in Afghanistan. It snows in Afghanistan.

Gets farking cold there. High altitude too.

U.S. Snipers use 50 cal rifles among others. Those can kill at up to 2500 yards. I have a friend who is a former Army Ranger sniper. As much as he is allowed to say which isn't much is that he made a few kills from 2000+ yards out with a 50 cal. He also said he disabled more than 50 enemy vehicles. He served in Bosnia back in the 90's.

Isotope: Wow...So at a mile, it takes the bullet 1.7 seconds to kill your buddy, but it takes the sound 4.7 seconds to get to you...that's enough to soil some britches, I imagine.

With the can the gun you don't have any sound. That's what suppressors do.

Cool, you can get one yourself for 6 grand.

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Awesome..A great way to lower the threat of contamination---during the Zombie Apocalypse.

thereadlines: This will only encourage the Taliban to develop and deploy their own superguns.

They don't need to develop them. Al Qaeda bought a few 50 cal sniper rifles in America. Now everybody wants one.

Barrett's .50 BMG rifles have up to a 2 mile range.

The British Armed Forces adopted the AWSM rifle chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum as the L115A1 Long Range Rifle. (new window)

Oh, I've run accross these guys before. Buncha freaking cheaters, what with their wall hacks and bunny hopping. The next patch will get them in line.

re: Canadian snipers vid...

Must. Have. Infrared. Glowsticks. pant pant

Geologist: The British Armed Forces adopted the AWSM rifle chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum as the L115A1 Long Range Rifle. (new window)

Oh, I've run accross these guys before. Buncha freaking cheaters, what with their wall hacks and bunny hopping. The next patch will get them in line.

I dream of the day when wars will be fought online as the two armies collide over shouts of "OMG you farkin cheat", "Your mum" and "PWNed". Will hopefully save a few lives.