05-03-2002, 01:30 PM
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Join Date: March 4, 2001
Location: Knoxville, TN USA
Age: 62
Posts: 1,641
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Originally posted by Noble Wolf:
quote: Originally posted by Sir Taliesin
Would you try to fight back? If so, how would you do it? Would you take up a privately held firearm and defend your country or would you stand by and wait on the Australian Army and retake the area?
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As stated earlier, I am ex-military, so your point beggs two answers
Firstly,- most regular fighting armies now a days wear some form of body armour, wich tends to stop most "civilian" grade weapons (and if private citizens are ever allowed to own armour defeating weapons then I'm outta here!!)Therefore your privately owned weapons are worth squat against regular front line troops.
Secondly, - I hope I don't need to point out your own history to you; in the fact that most western nations in the past have allways supplied fighting weapons (Mgs etc) to their allies/resistance cells in times of need.
Therefore any firearm that I could possibly own now, is irrelevant in such circumstance.
thanx for noticing the name[/QUOTE] Don't know about Australia, but the body armor the US supplies you with sucks! It's only good for shrapnel. It will not stop a bullet. A police officer is much better protected. However most hunting rifles will penetrate standard body armor. Better start running!
In Vietnam, the US Army and Marines armed their snipers with hunting rifles. Snipers were frowned up on in the US military. It wasn't sporting I guess (stupid IMO). Snipers accounted for many causilites in the Vietman War. One man by the name of Carlos Hathcock tied up a whole NVA battalion for an entire day once. He used a Winchester 70 in 30.06, a hunting caliber. There are two books about this guy. Here is a link to Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/se...848644-7268124
If my memory of history serves me right, most of the weapons the French Resistance had in WWII was captured or stolen from the Germans or were privately help weapons. The Allies didn't start arming the Resistance movements heavily until near the D-Day invasions. During the early part of the war The US, Britain and Australia had a hard time even arming their own armies. The Russians had no where near enough weapons to go around. Most of the time Russian Troops where armed in pairs. One was given a rifle and a loaded stripper clip and the other was given just a loaded stripper clip. They then told him to pick up the rifle after the first soldier was killed.
[ 05-03-2002, 01:33 PM: Message edited by: Sir Taliesin ]
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