Sheriff gets APC with 50 cal machine gun...

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Sheriff gets APC with 50 cal machine gun...

Posted September 4th, 2008 by wafflehutguy (http://www.dailypaul.com/user/6567) "The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff's Department just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun"...
http://www.reason.com/blo... (http://www.reason.com/blog/show/128482.html)
... must be something in the water....

http://www.reason.com/UserFiles/Image/rbalko/serveandprotect.jpg

[ClayTrainor]

havent you heard? theres a potential terrorist around every corner,

we need more cops, more tanks, more big government guns... we need to be kept safe.

/ sarcasm

This is insane, what could they possibly need an APC with a 50 cal for ?

[FindLiberty]

Come on, you want to be secure, right?
We gotta be ready for anything...
http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Mars-Attacks/thumbnails/tnmars021a.jpg
"Don't shoot, we are your friends"

[jkr]

that's allright, We got SOUL!

[Agora]

how many people are arrested during RNC and what are the charges?!
(very scary!!!!)
=The Sheriff is well informed.:(

[GreenCardSeeker]

But what if the criminals have T-72 tanks or maybe even some stolen M1A1's? Won't they need heavier weapons?

[Johnnybags]

only needs a homemade bomb to do ten times the damage. I guess they are planning for civil unrest at some point. Do not know how many illegal poker games or marijuana plant busts need a tank but what they hey, let em sow the seeds of discontent.

[AutoDas]

Oh gawd. It's not a damn conspiracy, homeland security isn't sending one 50 cal APC to the retirement center to prepare for "civil unrest". It's just some police agency with too much tax money on ts hand and wants to intimidate the citizens.

[Mesogen]

I guess it'll soon be time to break up those crackhouses with a few laser guided munitions. Sure, there will be some collateral damage, but these are acceptable losses.

[newyearsrevolution08]

nice fucking vehicle...

where can I get one?

do I need a badge to get one

[revolutionman]

My question is, if the need should ever arise, how is that vehicle disabled?? Say it was stolen by criminals and was being used to assault protesters and violate peoples rights, how do we destroy such a machine?? I think fire would probably roast whatever was inside of it, but with armor ment to withstand military firepower and preform on inhospitable terrain, how do you get it to stay still long enough to thoroughly cook whatever bad guy has captured that machine?

[TheEvilDetector]

My question is, if the need should ever arise, how is that vehicle disabled?? Say it was stolen by criminals and was being used to assault protesters and violate peoples rights, how do we destroy such a machine?? I think fire would probably roast whatever was inside of it, but with armor ment to withstand military firepower and preform on inhospitable terrain, how do you get it to stay still long enough to thoroughly cook whatever bad guy has captured that machine?

You call another police agency who has their own mounted 50cal or possibly a stealth bomber..

:)

[V-rod]

Hey, shit happens. Like those bankrobbers who armored themselves well with kevlar, and had stockpile of ammunition for their fully automatic ak-47's.

Or that guy who transformed his bulldozer into a unstoppable tank.

[Dr.3D]

Hey, shit happens. Like those bankrobbers who armored themselves well with kevlar, and had stockpile of ammunition for their fully automatic ak-47's.

Or that guy who transformed his bulldozer into a unstoppable tank.

Yeah, shit happens like Waco. :rolleyes:

[Cinderella]

here to protect and serve

[RedLightning]

Hey, shit happens. Like those bankrobbers who armored themselves well with kevlar, and had stockpile of ammunition for their fully automatic ak-47's.



Could have been solved by the application of two .308 rounds from a hunting rifle.

[CurtisLow]

My question is, if the need should ever arise, how is that vehicle disabled??


Use this
http://img177.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img177/2630/1220809733w6x.smil

[Primbs]

They have a slightly different armored personnel carrier drive down the streets of Washington D.C. during protests.

I guess they are becoming popular.

[JeNNiF00F00]

I grew up in Richland County and I can tell you that there is NOTHING here. NOTHING. No reasons for using a tank.

[Dr.3D]

I grew up in Richland County and I can tell you that there is NOTHING here. NOTHING. No reasons for using a tank.

Actually, it's not really a tank. It's an armored personnel carrier. They just move people around in it. It is pretty much bullet proof but there are things that will get through it. As for the 50 cal mounted on it... I can see absolutely no reason to have that there. It would shoot through homes and kill innocent people.

[RedLightning]

Now I'd have no problem letting the sheriff have that .50, if us private citizens were allowed to them without having to pay a $200 tax, or only being able to buy from pre-1986 registered automatic firearms.

[Dustancostine]

http://www.dailypaul.com/node/60263

Sheriff gets APC with 50 cal machine gun...

Posted September 4th, 2008 by wafflehutguy (http://www.dailypaul.com/user/6567) "The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff's Department just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun"...
http://www.reason.com/blo... (http://www.reason.com/blog/show/128482.html)
... must be something in the water....

http://www.reason.com/UserFiles/Image/rbalko/serveandprotect.jpg

Well if a true violent revolution ever breaks out, you guys in S.C. are lucky. You know exactly were to go first for you first Armored Personal Carrier with a .50 cal on it. I can bet you County Sheriff departments security will be much more lax and easier to overthrow than Army Installation.

(BTW this was said tongue in cheek, this is just a hypothetical and by no means do I intended to violently overthrow our government)

[SeanEdwards]

I suspect the .50 cal was sold as a tool that can effectively dismantle fairly substantial cover, not as a new and improved way to disperse protesting crowds of 9/11 truthers and hippies.

[brandon]

My question is, if the need should ever arise, how is that vehicle disabled?? Say it was stolen by criminals and was being used to assault protesters and violate peoples rights, how do we destroy such a machine?? I think fire would probably roast whatever was inside of it, but with armor ment to withstand military firepower and preform on inhospitable terrain, how do you get it to stay still long enough to thoroughly cook whatever bad guy has captured that machine?

molotov cocktail

[JeNNiF00F00]

Actually, it's not really a tank. It's an armored personnel carrier. They just move people around in it. It is pretty much bullet proof but there are things that will get through it. As for the 50 cal mounted on it... I can see absolutely no reason to have that there. It would shoot through homes and kill innocent people.

Looks like a tank, and it looks like it rolls like a tank as well. Thats enough to scare most people and enough to piss me off. I've seen these in Tampa on the streets on 2 occasions on my way to work. 2 men on top dressed in black, and a big water cannon looking thing mounted on the top. Its sickening and I don't care what theyre there for, its the image and the message they are trying to get out that is what bothers me. This is just another step into the police state that we already have. Its unacceptable.

[fisharmor]

Should this ever fall into criminal hands, I'd be less tactically concerned with the tank and more concerned with the six other criminals who would be accompanying it.

Also, anyone know where they got the money for this sort of purchase? I hear that this type of thing is usually done with federal dollars, meaning that at some point favors may be called in.