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From the "Unclear on the Concept" Dept
| We don't make this stuff up. |
Turkish Institution of Machine and Chemistry Industry (MKEK) Director General Mehmet Baspinar said that the institution started to produce bullets injuring people instead of killing them due to change in NATO's concept and to give those bullets to Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). Baspinar said, ''there used to be 7.62 mm rifles which were killing a person when they hit him. In 1990s, the public opinion discussed whether a weapon should wound or injure people. Then, some NATO member countries started to use 5.56 mm rifles which don't kill, but wound a person.'' Baspinar said, ''we have been producing 5.56 mm rifles for the last four years and giving them to the Gendarme Command and Land Forces Command.''
| Errr, Mehmet, that part about 5.56mm rounds wounding people, not killing them? That was a bug, not a feature. |
Posted by: Steve 2004-05-19 |
