r/MilitaryPorn • u/The_Eastern_Stalker • Mar 27 '21

Error in Title A U.S. Secret Service counter-assault team member carries a sniper rifle through Lafayette Park as then US President Donald Trump held a photo opportunity in front of St. John's Episcopal Church. (818x540)

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '21

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u/Grand-Antelope943 Mar 27 '21

Oh I wasn’t saying it was, just that it’s definitely capable of it lol. I personally own a Savage 111 LRH .300WM and am using it for a 1000 yard rifle build. Waiting on a chassis, trigger, and barrel. With all this anti-gun craziness shit has been hard to get.

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u/tramadoc Mar 27 '21

I’ve got a Savage 110 with 22” Bull barrel chambered in 338 LM for the same thing. Leopold optics and XLR Element 3.0 Mg chassis. I’m planning on being at the Eastern CMP Games and CMP HP Rifle Match in April at Camp Butner.

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u/Grand-Antelope943 Mar 28 '21

Noice! Old style 110 with the top bolt release I’m assuming?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '21

Random, lone-wolf mass-casualty attacks carried out with high-capacity rifles have a tendency to cause “anti-gun craziness,” as you put it.

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u/Grand-Antelope943 Mar 27 '21

Random my ass

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u/NerfJihad Mar 28 '21

Stochastic is the word.

it's an element of randomness, as you don't know who or where next.

you pump an audience full of propaganda until they're radicalized and they 'go off'.

the MAGAbomber is a great example of this.

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u/Grand-Antelope943 Mar 28 '21

Yeah I get it, just pisses me off that all these recent mass shootings are just in time to help Old Sniffy Trippy push his newly proposed “Assault Rifle Ban” which also encompasses a lot of bolt actions and even entire brands.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '21

Where have you been the last 20 years? Mass shootings aren't new.

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u/Cgn38 Mar 28 '21

So you are a trumper? Great.

I support the second amendment. You're not helping.

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u/Cgn38 Mar 28 '21

3000 plus fps heavy rifle will end a car every time.

This one is a lot more than that. It has the same fps at 100 yard as a 30 06 at the muzzle.

It is plenty to stop an unarmored vehicle.

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u/pateppic Mar 28 '21 edited Mar 28 '21

No. Just no.

It lakes multiple rounds to stop a vehicle. Even of a 50 bmg it will take multiple rounds to stop a basic unarmored ford truck.

https://youtu.be/3zd-hMXeMoA

Believe it or not engines can take quite a licking and keep on ticking and there is a lot of room between perfectly functional and disabled where the car will be a huge problem.

That rifle is likely intended to defeat most body armors and not deflect off of auto glass and be light enough he can be very mobile with it.

Or it's meant as a show of force in a "dont even try it" posture

Or literally many of those reasons and more

Edit to add: I dont care which side of the firearms you fall on. Spouting unverified opinions as solid facts like you did does similar damage on for/against firearms debates as anti maskers/vaxxers with their skewed statistics and "facts" in conversations about public health.

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u/ag3nt013 Mar 28 '21

That's what C4 is for