Re: [GZG] Troop potential

At 1:09 PM +0100 7/28/08, Adrian1 wrote:
>Isn't it possible in some countries to get hold of military grade
>vehicles including MBTs.  I don't know what the heaviest weapon a
>civilian is allowed to have but a bunch of ex-army techs with a mind to
>cause trouble might be able to do so,

Tanks, Armoured cars, artillery. In the UK, the 
Firearm's Owners Card for a .22 is about the same 
as it is for a 155mm Long Tom from WWII. The fact 
is though, that the ammo is rare and hard to get 
and you need more than one person to run one.

Tank ammo is easier but still quite hard to get. 
>From a factual standpoint, the worst thing people 
with private MV's have had issues with is perhaps 
speeding or lack of proper registration (ie tags) 
documents.

>
>Who remembers that new footage of the National guardsmans who stole an
>MBT and joyrid it down th e motorway.

Yeah, that was a stolen vehicle. And he screwed 
that tank up pretty good. You'd never see me 
doing that to my ferret.

Organized crime could buy it's own armoured cars 
(think money dellivery). They've yet to do that.

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