Re: [OT]Responsibility and the Merchants of Death

Alan Brain wrote:

> > The Swedish army is a big culprit here, BTW - it didn't guard
> > its mobilization weapon caches very well, so criminal elements have
broken
> > into several such caches with the result that the MC gangs in
southern
> > Sweden have used AT4s in their gang wars. Not exactly the purpose we
> > designed the AT4 for :-(
>
>Look on the bright side:
>a) It proves the AT4s work
>b) The MC gangsters (hopefully) tend to use them on each other, rather
>than on banks, civilians etc. In which case, No Great Loss.
><yes, this was supposed to be a joke>

Actually, the MC gangsters were too incompetent to read the instructions

printed on the barrel (and had quite obviously never fired AT4s during 
their conscription, if they had ever been conscripted) - not only did
they 
fire the weapons from well inside the arming distance so the grenades 
didn't explode, but they also cut away the soft-plastic end caps on the 
barrel to avoid having the grenade detonate in-barrel... Thanks to their

utter incompetence, they failed to kill anyone with those AT4s in spite
of 
firing them into houses full of people.

It looks as if the USA's 101st division gets rather more effect out of 
their AT4s, though :-/

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

"Life is like a sewer.
  What you get out of it, depends on what you put into it."