Firearms appreciation thread

During WWII dad was a USMC MP assigned to a remote location on the N end of Oahu. They'd do frequent patrols both via jeep and horseback of the back paths and roads looking for infiltrating Japs and anyone else that wasn't supposed to be there.

Now troops in the pacific that did get fresh meat subsisted on a diet heavy with mutton imported from NZ and Australia. not tender lamb, but grizzled old sheep that no longer produced wool.

His unit had a good navy cook, but they were burned out on a diet of mutton and fish, (mostly acquired via hand grenade fishing).

On one patrol they saw the brush moving and got out to investigate the cause. it was a rather large boar. The prospect of fresh pork was too much to pass up.

now dad was armed with a Thomson SMG with a 50 round drum. The pig was at close range so he had it on single shot and put a .45 round right between its eyes. The pig just grunted and started after them. Dad jumped in the back of the jeep and his driver hit the gas with the pig in hot pursuit. Switching to full auto he unloaded the full 50 round drum on the presumptive porcine.

When they butchered him the skull was over an inch thick and the fat provided several inches of body armor. The Between the eyes shot produced a mere flesh wound and most of the rounds tunneled and tumbled thru the fat layers doing no mortal damage.

He beat the pig to death with a Tommy Gun!

"yeah you firearm afficianatos are really great. down the street from my house people have started up a shooting range on public land. now trash,broken glass, old car parts,left-over targets and spent casings litter the area. used to be a great place to run my dog but now he is a little freaked out from all the rounds going off. sweet!"

N FRANCISCO -- A California state senator who advocated gun control legislation asked for campaign donations in exchange for introducing an undercover FBI agent to an arms trafficker and told him how to get shoulder-fired automatic weapons and missiles from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.

The allegations against state Sen. Leland Yee were outlined in an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint. The affidavit accuses Yee of conspiracy to deal firearms without a license and to illegally import firearms. He was arrested Wednesday and appeared later in federal court, where bail was set at $500,000

Yee discussed helping the agent get weapons worth $500,000 to $2.5 million, including shoulder-fired automatic weapons and missiles, and took him through the entire process of acquiring them from a Muslim separatist group in the Philippines to bringing them to the United States, according to the affidavit by FBI Special Agent Emmanuel V. Pascua.