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From: Zixx <t_berghoff@*********.NETSURF.DE>
Subject: Re: Sniper rifles
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:40:09 +0000
On 28 Dec 97 at 3:09, TODD ROBBINS wrote:

> Zixx wrote:
>
> > I have to disagree. Somewhere on my harddisk I've got a Heckler&Koch
> > weapons catalogue (for police-sevices, IIRC) and there is a description of
> > the MP-5SD3. Somewhere there it says, that it fires super-sonic ammo. Now
> > they wouldn't do that if it negelcted the silencer, would they?
>
> The MP-5SD3 is a submachine gun, not a snipers rifle.

So? The type of gun doesn't matter. We're talking about what happens AFTER
the barrel...:)

> > Now that I think of it...what the hell do plice-forces do with silenced
> > weapons?!
>
> The majority of these are used by the West German government for
> counter terrorist units.

Well, I have an English .pdf-file with that specs. And I know lot's of
people in the German government don't speak any English...;)



Tobias Berghoff a.k.a Zixx a.k.a. Charon, your friendly werepanther physad.

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