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from .50-caliber sniper rifles! Easy-to-buy sniper rifle has mile-long range, could penetrate steel armor

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Feinstein warns of border danger from .50-caliber sniper rifles
Easy-to-buy sniper rifle has mile-long range, could penetrate steel armor
By: Feinstein office
Published: Mar 24, 2006 at 08:48

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is urging Customs and Border Protection to assess the threat to border patrol agents should the easily available .50 caliber sniper rifle find its way into the hands of Mexican drug smugglers or other criminals.

"The threat posed by the easy availability of the .50-caliber sniper rifle could endanger our border patrol agents and hinder our ability to control our borders," Senator Feinstein wrote in a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Deborah Spero. "Given the range and lethality of these weapons, how would the Border Patrol carry out its mission should these weapons be used by criminals, smugglers and human traffickers shooting across the border?"

Following is the text of the letter Senators Feinstein sent to Commissioner Spero:

March 24, 2006

Deborah J. Spero
Acting Commissioner

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Department of Homeland Security

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20229

Dear Commissioner Spero,

I write to bring to your attention a significant issue which I believe could endanger our border patrol agents, and hinder our ability to control our borders: the threat posed by the easy availability of the .50-Caliber Sniper Rifle.

At a recent hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary on the subject of border violence, Mr. Aguilar of the Border Patrol testified about the dangers posed by snipers, inside Mexico, shooting across the border at our officers. I asked him about whether analysis of this threat included the newest, and most dangerous, weapon in the sniper's arsenal - the .50-caliber sniper gun. His answer left me with the impression that the threat had not been fully considered.

As you may know, the .50-caliber rifle is accurate at extreme long range: a skilled gunman can kill a man at more than a mile. That accuracy is coupled with extreme lethality, because the projectile is moving so fast, and is so heavy, that it can penetrate steel armor. In fact other elements of the Department of Homeland Security, notable the U.S. Coast Guard, now use the rifle because it can shoot through the engine block of fleeing smuggler "fast-boats."

I have long been concerned about this issue, and have introduced legislation which would, at least in part, address the problem by treating these weapons under the same regulations that govern machine guns, rather than .22-caliber rifles as is presently the law.

I would greatly appreciate if you could advise me, as soon as possible, of the following. Has Customs and Border Protection assessed the threat faced from this weapon, and is so, what is the result of that assessment? What steps have been taken to protect Border Patrol agents from the treat? What steps are planned? Given the range and lethality of these weapons, how would the Border Patrol carry out its mission should these weapons be used by criminals, smugglers and human traffickers shooting across the border?

I look forward to your reply, and working together on this critical issue. I have enclosed some background material for your review.

Yours truly,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator

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Article Link:
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_33384.shtml

Around $2.00 per shot and the difficulty of shooting something that far out but the jewess doesn't mention this.


 
Posted : 03/05/2006 10:18 am
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Don't you just love it? This lady who has presided over the illegal invasion of California for decades now pretends to be concerned, but she is using the issue to address her true jew agenda of more gun control.

This is how jews get credit for being always on the "right" side of any issue. Tricks.


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Posted : 03/05/2006 10:44 am
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How much is the cheapest? $3,000-5,000. Who has that kind of cash laying around. If they do they can get the job done regardless.

Feinstein warns of border danger from .50-caliber sniper rifles
Easy-to-buy sniper rifle has mile-long range, could penetrate steel armor

Around $2.00 per shot and the difficulty of shooting something that far out but the jewess doesn't mention this.

As for New York's proposed 50-caliber ban: These guns just aren't suited for crime. Fifty-caliber rifles are big, heavy guns, weighing at least 30 pounds and using a 29-inch barrel. They're also relatively expensive: Models that hold one bullet at a time run nearly $3,000. Semi-automatic versions cost around $7,000.

The folks who buy them are wealthy target shooters and big-game hunters, not criminals. No one in the U.S. has ever been murdered by such a gun.

The Daily News tried adding to the hysteria with a recent front-page news story that reported, "The manufacturer of a .50-caliber sniper rifle boasts that it can bring down an airplane with a single shot, and that's just one of the things about it that worries local lawmakers."

But when contacted, the manufacturer said that they'd never said that. The News had relied on a false statement from a gun-control group. In fact, there is just too much redundancy in modern aircraft for a single bullet to bring down a plane.

The decision to demonize these particular guns and not, say, .475-caliber hunting rifles is completely arbitrary. The difference in width of these bullets is a trivial .025 inches. What's next? Banning .45-caliber pistols? Instead of protecting people from terrorists or criminals, the plain goal here is to gradually reduce the type of guns that people can own.

Even for lawmakers, predictions must eventually matter. If legislators can't see that these laws have failed to deliver as promised, it's hard to know when facts will make a difference.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott41.html


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Posted : 03/05/2006 11:05 am
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That fricken Kike bitch Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), & all the rest of the so-called gun control lobby, make me sick. They want white people to be at the mercy of the 3rd world savages they let run wild here. Yet in Israel any beenie wearing phsyco is allowed to carry an Uzi around & use it.
(as long as it's not a Jew getting the lead)


 
Posted : 03/05/2006 11:40 am
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Thanks for the replies. I heard that jewess Feinstein and jew Schumer are CCW permit holders but can't find any evidence.

I did find an old post by no_nomen which is also important! (Adolf Hitler wasn't a gun grabber)

http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=96&highlight=control+1938


 
Posted : 03/05/2006 12:12 pm
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She's a Jew and definitely should know better.

Whats the Israeli Defense Force answer to 50 cal gunfire=Ground to air missiles.
Or is it that only Jews can act in their own self defense?


 
Posted : 03/05/2006 1:28 pm
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Imagine...a 100 white men armed with these, hidden in the moonlit Arizona desert....


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Posted : 03/05/2006 7:05 pm
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As long as the top-criminals politicians keep everyone pen like sheeps, they don’t care who crawls in our border.

The Narco-traffic mafia have high tech weapons at they're disposal. And with millions of beaners roaming in US, they could kill any politician at will if they mess with they’re Narco -business.

This would be Poetic-Justice.


 
Posted : 03/05/2006 7:23 pm
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That is a hell of a rifle, but your average person, hmm.....I'm not sure I'd have much use for it.

A regular assault rifle, and / or a 30.06 for hunting, that's all I'd need.


 
Posted : 03/05/2006 10:51 pm
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What a usless antigun dead commie faggot Harvey Milk loving kike kunt!


 
Posted : 03/05/2006 11:04 pm
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As long as the top-criminals politicians keep everyone pen like sheeps, they don’t care who crawls in our border.

The Narco-traffic mafia have high tech weapons at they're disposal. And with millions of beaners roaming in US, they could kill any politician at will if they mess with they’re Narco -business.

This would indeed be Poetic-Justice.

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=2071
Today the shadowy structures of Guatemala’s intelligence commands are so embedded with organized crime that the Bush administration, for one, is already calling in the United Nations. Putting aside its usual criticisms of the international body, the administration supports a proposal to form a U.N.-led task force explicitly called the “Commission for the Investigation of Illegal Armed Groups and Clandestine Security Apparatus” in Guatemala. So far the only nation to yield its sovereignty to allow the United Nations a similar role is Lebanon, where U.N. investigators are digging into the murder of a former prime minister.

The proposed U.N. plan for Guatemala also enjoys the support of its new president, Oscar Berger, a wealthy landowner and lawyer who is well respected by the U.S. administration. But the proposed U.N. Commission is encountering resistance from FRG politicians like Weller’s wife, Ríos Sosa, who is also an FRG congresswoman.

More troubling still is a recent case involving those Mexican soldiers-turned-hitmen, the Zetas. This past October 22, seven members of the Zetas were arrested in a Guatemalan border town with weapons and cocaine. The Associated Press reported that, according to Guatemalan authorities, the Zetas came to avenge one of their members who had been killed in Guatemala. Despite the evidence against the men, a little more than a week after their arrests, Guatemalan authorities inexplicably set them free.


 
Posted : 04/05/2006 8:48 am
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I'm an Australian, so I'm not quite up to speed on Dianne Feinstein and her lot but when I saw that letter and the fact that she was a Democrat I knew SOMETHING was up. That is one hell of a slimey letter and there's NO genuine concern with the Border Patrol.


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Posted : 04/05/2006 9:00 am
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Transcript, Hearing of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on "U.S. Policy in the Andean Region," September 17, 2002

U.S. SENATE CAUCUS ON INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
Hearing on U.S. Policy in the Andean Region
September 17, 2002 - Washington, D.C.
WITNESSES:
RICHARD L. ARMITAGE, Deputy Secretary of State
ASA HUTCHINSON, DIRECTOR, United States Drug Enforcement Administration
BRIGADIER GENERAL GALEN B. JACKMAN, Director of Operations for the United States Southern, Command, United States Army

MEMBERS OF THE CAUCUS:
U.S. SENATOR JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR. (D-DE)
CHAIRMAN
U.S. SENATOR BOB GRAHAM (D-FL)
U.S. SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CA)
U.S. SENATOR TOM HARKIN (D-IA)
U.S. SENATOR CHARLES E. GRASSLEY (R-IA)
CO-CHAIRMAN
U.S. SENATOR JEFF SESSIONS (R-AL)
U.S. SENATOR MIKE DEWINE (R-OH)

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http://ciponline.org/colombia/02091701.htm

...drug traffickers and their nefarious activities, and the actions of terrorist group in the Andean Region, particularly in Colombia. This blending of drug and guerrilla empires has a significant adverse effect on the countries in which it has occurred, and also has the potential of effecting neighboring nations including the United States.

One effect that it will have on the United States is to cause us to re-look at our policy. Historically, we have recognized a division between narcotics producers and traffickers, and guerrilla and insurgency groups. Both of those have operated in Colombia, but each has had a different set of objectives. For the past decade the United States aid in Colombia has focused almost exclusively on counter- narcotics. And for the good reason that Colombia's the primary source of cocaine and heroine to the United States, has been an increasing source of supply, and that has fed Americans habit, which last year resulted in the consumption of over $64 billion of illegal drugs.

While our response to counter-narcotics has been vigorous, we have at the same time taken essentially a hands-off policy relative to the guerrilla insurgences in these countries. However, over time these groups have come together. The drug organizations benefit by the terrorist military skills, weapons, counterfeit documents and relationship with other suspect organizations. The terrorist organizations gain revenue, access to boats and aircraft, and money laundering experience. In many instances, the two, narco-traffickers and guerrillas have become one.

This poses a significant to the United States as to how it will continue to pursue its policies against narcotics when the same person in the same uniform is also a terrorist guerrilla. The administration has recommended some alterations to our previous policies, which will allow for a recognition of this blending of the two. And we look forward, particularly, to getting your insights and recommendations as to what future policies would be.

Right now, the acts of terror have been contained largely within Colombia, yet they are beginning to threaten regional stability and U.S. interest through the transaction -- national arms sales, drug trafficking, kidnapping and extortion. Some recent examples, Colombia statistically is the world's most terrorist afflicted nation. Together, the three groups, the FARC, the ELN and the United Self Defense Group of Colombia, the AUC, are responsible for more than 90 percent of terrorist incidents in the Western hemisphere.

The State Department reported that these three groups regularly engage in attacks on key infrastructure include pipelines, dams, electric equipments, roads and bridges. As an example, the Cano Limon pipeline in Northern Colombia was bombed 170 times in 2001 alone. It has been bombed 918 times since 1986, spilling almost three million barrels of oil, 11 times the amount of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker disaster.

The narcotics terrorists sabotage of oil pipelines have cost the government of Colombia lost revenue in the order of $500 million per year. Colombia is facing an outright assault by these illegal armed terrorists on its own government, society and people. In 2001, over 3,000 Colombians were killed and 2,856 kidnapped. In 2001, 55 percent of all terrorist attacks on U.S. interest in the world occurred in Colombia. Colombia has suffered more terrorist abductions than were reported in the rest of the world's countries combined. These abductions included five American citizens and more than 70 Americans over the past decade.

Since 1992 the FARC and ELN have kidnapped 51 U.S. citizens and murdered 13 with three remaining unaccounted for. The events of the past year and the past decade should leave no doubt that these groups do not care about the political process, democracy, Colombian citizens or even the nation of Colombia itself. In light of these facts, the United States has recognized that cocaine and terror have merged in Colombia and are merging in the Andean Region. The Andean counter- drug initiative, combined with new legal authorities, will aid Colombia in confronting the barrage of narco-terrorism....


 
Posted : 04/05/2006 9:33 am
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Anyone can knock a hole in a pipeline. It doesn't have to be drug gangs. They say that is what the US Army is doing in all those countries around the world - guarding pipelines.


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Posted : 04/05/2006 1:29 pm
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The .50 cal is okay but only when it isn't a threat to the jew.

See photo attachment of a gung-ho White male ready for deployment to protect kosher interests.


 
Posted : 04/05/2006 8:39 pm
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