Sniper rifle

One young captain s attention wanders shortly as he thinks of some of his Special Forces personnel. Bitter memories of friends cut down by hooded snipers, cowards who fire from the windows of ordinary homes, continue to haunt them. Even when they see them run inside a building, the need to minimize collateral casualties forces the coalition units to hold their fire. Their M-16 rifles and highly accurate shoulder-mounted missiles have to wait until the unfriendly target is clearly isolated, lest they bring down a mother and child along with a black-scarfed terrorist. 

Should. 50 caliber sniper rifles be banned because terrorists might use such weapons to bring down aircraft or puncmre chemical tanks ... 

Gun control groups also began to focus on so-called sniper rifles as another form of terrorist threat. The Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings... 

October Ten random persons are killed and three injured by Washington, D.C. -area anonymous snipers. The shootings, revealed later to have been done with a high-powered Bushmaster rifle by Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allan Muhammad, are used by gun control advocates to argue for extending and expanding the bans on such weapons. 

Sniper Rifles. Washington, D.C. Violence Policy Center, 2002. Also available online. URL http //www.vpc.org/studies/duckcont.htm. Posted in August 2002. Warns that. 50 caliber sniper rifles could be used by terrorists to cause a disaster in a chemical plant or refinery. 

Criminal Use of the 50 Caliber Sniper Rifle. Violence Policy Center. Available online. URL http //www.vpc.org/snipercrime.htm. Posted in 2001. Recounts incidence of the use of the. 50 caliber sniper rifle in criminal activity. Some gun control opponents have said this heavy gun has never been used in crimes. While it apparently has, the number of incidents appears to be very small. 

Farrell, Lawrence R, Jr. Assault on the Small Arms Industrial Base. National Defeme, vol. 86, February 2002, p. 4. Suggests that gun control efforts or lawsuits that directly or indirectly target small arms manufacturers threaten the supply of weapons to the military. A case in point has been recent efforts to ban the. 50 caliber sniper rifle, even though this type of weapon has not been linked to criminal activity. 

American Ballistics Company, a Georgia based ammo maker, is now producing and marketing subsonic ammunition for use in conjunction with the Ingram MIO and Mil silenced submachineguns. They also carry subsonic ammo for use in the MAC silenced counter-sniper rifles, calibers. 223 and. 308,... 

Sniper Rifle Ammo Bullet-70 grain,Jacketed soft point. Muzzle Velocity-1095 ft./sec. 

Binder not only designed all but two of the title sequences for the Bond films produced within his life time (1925-1991), he also created the distinctive Bond opening graphic sequence, in which a fine of white circles cross the screen and morph into the spiral barrel of a sniper s rifle. The audience sees the figme of James Bond walk onto the screen, take aim, and fire his gun, causing a red wash of the assassin s blood to spill down the screen as the rifle-barrel image wavers and falls away to the bottom of... 

Stage 1 - Occurrence Estimate the probability of each threat scenario occurring (for example, the chances of being shot at by a sniper using rifle bullets unified with the likelihood of fiagmenlationftom an explosion, while walking in a patrol). 

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