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Re: National Rifle Association (NRA) On Campus!

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From: klaatu
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:00
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Brian Claypool wrote:
> 
> epinnel wrote:
> >
> > Michael T Shinn wrote:
> > >
> > > John M Atkinson (jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu) wrote:
> > > : %So those things that looked like M60s were not in fact M60s?
> > > : %Could have fooled me...
> > >
> > > : No, they weren't.  Take another look.  Then look at whose vehicles they were.
> > > : Come back when you've got a unit designation.
> > >
> > > Gee would those be Texas National Guard Engineer Recovery Vehicles with
> > > Smooth Bore guns on them?  And what about the M-1's that were on the
> > > Manifest List as being at the compund too?
> > >
> > > Let me put it this way, A Bradley will kill a man just as fast as a Tank.
> > > Quiblle all you want, there was ARMOR at that campound - and not a SINGLE
> > > anti-tank weapon inside the Cult Compound to warrant such an
> > > over-reaction.
> > >
> > > Oh yeah, and Posse Commitatus - IMHO that means those Armoured Vechiles,
> > > which included tanks, aren't supposed to be used for Police Powers.
> > >
> > > M. Shinn
> > > Yeah I've killed tanks...
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> >    There were also ACES (Advanced Combat Engineer) vehicles, which are
> > basically
> > tanks with an arm on the turret instead of a big main gun.  Now, as for
> > the last
> > line in your post, how do you kill an M1 with homemade materials?
> >
> > Eric Pinnell
> 
> Eric,
> 
> Lure one over a pool of gasoline and set off the gasoline.

Hmm, are you suggesting that someone in the Davidian compound tried to
do that, and wound up simply burning up their place instead of the APC?


> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bama (who, me?  I didn't say nothing!) Brian

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From: klaatu <klaatu@clark.net>
Subject: Re: National Rifle Association (NRA) On Campus!
Date: 1997/05/18
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