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2008-11-20 Bangladesh

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Why didn't they unload it on the RAB? What kind of lousy, half-assed criminal drops a fully loaded grenade launcher? Damned banglas, they can't even break the law right.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-20 07:23|| 2008-11-20 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Big-jim: If you're caught and you haven't killed anyone from the RAB, you're given a couple of swats of the baton and carted off to jail. If you DO manage to kill a RAB member, you're disassembled alive before a live RAB audience wearing earplugs.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-11-20 15:05|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-20 15:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Not to be picky but the M79 is a single shot launcher. Mark 19's are belt fed and there was an earlier vietnam era one, but I don't remember the designation off the top of my head.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-11-20 17:14|| 2008-11-20 17:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, but they were thermobaric or white phosphorus rounds. I forget which.

Posted by ed 2008-11-20 17:33|| 2008-11-20 17:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Every third round on the beltfed M79 was atomic as I recall.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-20 18:02|| 2008-11-20 18:02|| Front Page Top

#6 "Every third round on the beltfed M79 was atomic as I recall."

Shhh. Don't give the Iranians any ideas.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-11-20 18:57|| 2008-11-20 18:57|| Front Page Top

#7 They can't fool me. A grenade launcher can't possibly look anything like a shutter gun.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-11-20 22:15|| 2008-11-20 22:15|| Front Page Top

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