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French riot police are now using semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors as Macron's law and order crisis spirals
2019-01-14
[DailyMail]
  • Officers were filmed brandishing Heckler & Koch G36 weapons by Arc de Triomphe in Paris today

  • Riot police were on crowd control duty today facing off a mob of Gilet Jaunes

  • Live ammunition 30 cartridge magazines could be seen as officers marched the streets

  • 5000 police deployed on the streets of Paris

  • A G36 was stolen from a police van during a Yellow Vest demonstration by the Arc de Triomphe on December 1
Posted by:trailing wife

#7  I suspect they got word that others, with more violent agenda's, might be infiltrating the anti-tax protests and wanted to be prepared.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2019-01-14 15:35  

#6  Further giving proof to the wisdom of our Founders via the explicit recognition of the Second Amendment.
Posted by: Ptah   2019-01-14 11:19  

#5  Ditto #4.

This is either a further example of media ignorance vis a vis fire arms or a further example of the lying propagandists of the global left in the MSM. I am also embracing the power of AND.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-01-14 09:25  

#4  Note the subplot. G36 is select fire, that is it is an actual "assault rifle" that can be fired fully automatic or semi. By labeling the G36 as "semiautomatic" (about 37 times in the article) they provide fifth column support for the idea that semi's are "assault rifles" and should be banned.

Buy your ammo now. Avoid the rush.
Posted by: Solomon Thrimble1550   2019-01-14 08:55  

#3  Unless they have barracks to go home to, they as individuals eventually have to go back to someplace among the population. They will discover the reason so many 'law enforcement' personnel in second and third world countries rather look the other way.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-01-14 08:30  

#2  Thïs where a Second Ammendment counts. 5,000 goons vs 100,000 armed French citizens...
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147   2019-01-14 01:04  

#1  "police"

They are establishment troops an imperial guard.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-01-14 00:13  

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