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From: Zixx <t_berghoff@*********.NETSURF.DE>
Subject: Re: Sniper rifles
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 20:37:03 +0000
On 31 Dec 97 at 3:47, George H Metz wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:40:09 +0000 Zixx <t_berghoff@*********.NETSURF.DE>
> writes:
>
> >> > 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...;)
>
> Five words: Special Weapons And Tactics units. aka SWAT teams. Hostage
> rescue and, increasingly in the larger cities over on this side of the
> Pond, drug busts. If police with silenced submachine guns bothers you,
> try the M-21, a sniper version of the M-14 battle rifle with an integral
> silencer. I live in a small town. OUR SWAT team has about 4 or 5.

Freaky. You would think that once they start fireing silenced weapons
aren't nescssary. Espcially SMGs. I mean once they enter a building....Then
again it doesn't make you half as deaf...

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

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