Question for Texans

[texace]

It's possible to purchase the M95 Barret (or a very similar rifle) in Texas. Cabela's in Fort Worth has two of them. Box of ten .50 rounds was around $20.

[SMIDSY]

Originally posted by red26
Yes in Texas we can go out and by one of these no prob and no certin licence. They are around $1500 to $2000 here and just about any true gun store eather has one or can get it quick. Im from around Dallas my self. The small town of Chico is were I lived most of my life and there I have around 4 friends that have a 50 Cal. ANd they have no certin lincence at all and the sherrif there if the Deputy pulls us over he just looks at it in AHHHH so yup we can have one.

HOORAY!! i will be visiting the Great State of Texas in late December (so shine up them stars fellas.) hope to blast me some tiny rodents.

[Excel1]

Originally posted by Maverick
If a .50 cal could destroy tanks we wouldn't need Dragons, Hellfires, LAW's, TOW's, RPG's, DPICM, 105 mm, 120 mm guns since we could do it far cheaper and lighter with a.50 cal.

Tanks might be invulnerable to.50 cal fire but it's still a threat to softer skinned military vehicles even though they may give adequate protection from small arms fire.  

When the NZ army were deployed in Bosnia in the mid 90s the likelihood of  pot shots from .50 cal weapons being taken at their M-113s was a real concern and led to a mad scramble to find bolt-on armour plating for them, which they eventually got by borrowing it off the Israelis.

[lazs2]

LOL... anti tank rifle....  What the politicians are afraid of is "anti armored limmo rifle"

With the rash of anti tank weapons being used in crimes to date (that would be zero) it is obvious that these modern (mostly made in the 1920's) high tech weapons should be banned.

Semi auto's like the lahti were quite common and until the late 60's you could order one out of a catalogue for about $100.. the ammo was about a buck a round.   Thousands were sold and are still out there.

A dentist we knew bought one and we took it out to a gravel pit and shot 10 rounds through it.  was fairly accurate at the 500 yards or so we were shooting at.

Why would there be any reason to ban such a weapon?

lazs

[lukster]

Why shouldn't citizens be allowed, under the guarantee of the second amendment, to possess any and all weapons in use by our military?

[lazs2]

well..... one could interpret "arm" to be personal portable weapons.   The lahti and such are border line... they are 6'long or longer and really, a two man weapon but I do agree... any weapon should be allowed so long as it violated no ones rights.

High explosives in a residential area should be illegal for instance.

lazs