More F&F weapons found at crime scenes
The Washington Times reports that more rifles that were shipped to the cartels in Mexico from US gun shops under the watchful Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico;
Fox News reported that the guns were tracked down and recovered. Justice Department documents described the weapons as WASR-10 .762 caliber Romanian rifles. The three weapons were tracked back to a gun store located in Glendale, Ariz., Fox News said.
It’s not yet clear exactly where the guns were found, or what crimes they were used to commit. But the Department of Justice papers did indicate that two of the weapons had been bought by a man named Uriel Patino.
I think the author meant to report that rifles were WASR-10-762 7.62mm rifles. A .762 caliber rifle sounds attractive since it would fire a bullet half-again as big as a .50 caliber and I’d probably be the first in line to buy one, but it doesn’t exist as far as I know.
But, it’s good to see that the BATFE had a back-up plan to recover the smuggled weapons at crime scenes. I was worried about that.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Next time I go to Schrank’s, I’ll ask them if they carry that .762 calibre ammo, and tell you how long it takes them to fall down laughing. Those durn decimal places are so hard to remember.
WASR-10 is a Romanian AKM clone in 7.62 X 39.
The WASR-10 .762 caliber is similiar to the phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.
You’ve heard of the .762 rifles, haven’t you? They’re the ones where you get one shot before they haul your ass away to try to reconstruct your shoulder.
NHSparky, this is why I keep coming back here. I fall off my chair laughing at stuff like this. Scares the cat.
Could be worse, could be the dreaded .9mm I see all the time.
Damn, .762 caliber? Sounds like an old 3/4″ Brown Bess musket! Haven’t seen reference to anything like that in years! (smile)
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.9mm? Hmmmm. Literally a needle gun. Sounds like it would the favorite sidearm caliber of ND:tBF.
Ahh…a .762 caliber rifle; I’m sure that rifle would’ve been useful in bringing down the dreaded T-Rex on the loose we all remembered from “Jurassic Park II”; other than that, not so much…
Wait! What? It’s a 40-watt phased plasma rifle?
OK, but can it beat a prototype GenD 104AR PR-T4 MASER rifle?
Doubtful!!!!!
But wait! There’s more! Hows ’bout a .950? Fa-real.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=835_1328257815
AirCav, you just rattled the cage door.
@9, try this
Wonder what would happen if some of the families involved were to file suit against the US DoJ? Hmmm.
.792 actually comes out to 19.3548 millimeters. Wow an almost 20 mm semi auto shoulder fired rifle. I need one, I need one bad, gotta have one. Didn’t the Finns have an anti-tank rifle in the 20 mm range in WW II?
Shit! .762 vs .792. 19.3548 mm is correct. Sorry, I can’t feel my fingers since bypass surgery.
@12 The administration and a good chunk of the media keep glossing over the fact that the US government is complicit in hundreds of murders in Mexico.
Well, this is close…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lahti_L-39
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