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2013-03-27 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2013-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Just FYI. Barrett makes two semiautomatic .50 caliber rifles, two or three bolt action .50 caliber rifles, and a few other rifles in .338 Lapua, .416 Barrett and maybe one in 5.56 but I'd have to check. So Barrett doesn't automatically equate to semiautomatic.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2013-03-27 04:34|| 2013-03-27 04:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I never said it does. My point was that a single spent cartridge casing was left at the scene by the shooter. I think it was left there not because the shooter cycled the action on a bolt action before he left the scene, but because he was firing a semi automatic.

Posted by badanov 2013-03-27 06:53|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2013-03-27 06:53|| Front Page Top

#3 at a range of about 60 yards, which is a tiny fraction of the range of the weapon.
That does seem like 'overkill' but this is Mexico...

Actual distance to the target was probably irrelevant. Individual Body Armor or vehicular armor penetration was the goal. Badanov can correct me, but I believe picking up expended brass is a Los Zetas or bad guy counter-forensics TTP, not a police TTP.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-27 07:44|| 2013-03-27 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Expended brass, one spent shell casing, was left at the scene, and counter forensics is one theory as to why Mexican shooters clear their brass. Why Victor Galindo did not will ever be a mystery. Maybe an oversight, maybe it was deliberate. I s'pect it was an oversight because it makes little sense to clear a bolt action after a round has been fired, but a semiautomatic would pop out the brass.

My favorite pet theory is that Mexican drug gangs retrieve their brass because they are having as difficult a time finding ammo as the rest of us, and that they are reloading their own.

Posted by badanov 2013-03-27 08:38|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2013-03-27 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 My favorite pet theory is that Mexican drug gangs retrieve their brass because they are having as difficult a time finding ammo as the rest of us, and that they are reloading their own. Posted by badanov

Could be Badanov. May also be a dunnage exchange requirement with the Social Security Administration, Homeland Security, or BATF.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-27 09:31|| 2013-03-27 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Me wonders if this notorious Barrett rifle used by El Guacho has "Fast and Furious" engraved on it anywhere?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-27 10:03|| 2013-03-27 10:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Oops hit the go button too soon.

But to continue, the Barrett in its various forms is a highly lethal weapon with no known redeaming social value, you won't go hunting Elk with that sucker, the meat would spoil before you got to the carcass...anyway, the Barrett should be a highly monitored and observed item and for the Narcoterrorists in Mexico to have one means it was purchased in the US for this guy....Fast and Furious?

I'd love to see a stink over this one. It's one thing to let a popgun M-16 walk but to let a weapon capable of dismembering a victim at over a MILE is another...

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-27 10:06|| 2013-03-27 10:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Badanov, my comment was directed to the inline, which was "and they presume correctly for once". Nothing more than that.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2013-03-27 17:19|| 2013-03-27 17:19|| Front Page Top

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