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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #425 on: January 16, 2021, 09:07:48 PM »
My wife and I were discussing this, watching the NG troops on the network news: are they being issued ammo, or are the M4s just for show?
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #426 on: January 16, 2021, 09:16:25 PM »
Just the sight of a firearm will make a lefty piss his/her pants.....  add in a little transference....

Why would they need ammo? 


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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #427 on: January 16, 2021, 09:56:28 PM »
I’m strongly guessing the latter.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #428 on: January 16, 2021, 11:18:06 PM »
To be fair, the Taliban isn't as a big of a threat to America as is Biden.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #429 on: January 16, 2021, 11:39:56 PM »
My wife and I were discussing this, watching the NG troops on the network news: are they being issued ammo, or are the M4s just for show?
If I was being called up, I'd make darned sure to bring some of my own ammo.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #430 on: January 17, 2021, 12:50:13 AM »
Just the sight of a firearm will make a lefty piss his/her pants.....  add in a little transference....

Why would they need ammo? 
They aren’t there to stop the lefties.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #431 on: January 17, 2021, 08:39:55 AM »
They aren’t there to stop the lefties.

Also not necessarily to stop the righties. This is a staggering number of troops. They could have done adequate security with a tenth this number. This is a statement.

I recall that all of the left that are applauding the optics of this were screaming about ~100 feds sent to Portland to stop actual violence in progress.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #432 on: January 17, 2021, 08:51:17 AM »
Also not necessarily to stop the righties. This is a staggering number of troops. They could have done adequate security with a tenth this number. This is a statement.

I recall that all of the left that are applauding the optics of this were screaming about ~100 feds sent to Portland to stop actual violence in progress.

Quoted for truth.  The feds are telling the proles they had better stay in line.  There is a world of hurt awaiting those that don't.  And not just in DC, and not just for the virtual inauguration.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #433 on: January 17, 2021, 09:35:51 AM »
Also not necessarily to stop the righties. This is a staggering number of troops. They could have done adequate security with a tenth this number. This is a statement.

I recall that all of the left that are applauding the optics of this were screaming about ~100 feds sent to Portland to stop actual violence in progress.
Maybe not to stop the righties, but the statement was made only in direct response to the first riot on the right in recent memory. Seems like a pointed statement.

I had a very anti-Trump client comparing the Feds going to Portland with Kent State. I wonder what he thinks about this.

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #434 on: January 17, 2021, 09:39:39 AM »
Probably among the largest troop deployments in the last decade? Well it makes it very clear who Washington is at War with currently. Let that sink in.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #435 on: January 17, 2021, 09:54:30 AM »
Maybe not to stop the righties, but the statement was made only in direct response to the first riot on the right in recent memory.

I agree with this, and it's what I didn't make clear in my post.

If this were the Trump inauguration, we'd be hearing about despots, police states, and totalitarianism.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #436 on: January 17, 2021, 10:07:43 AM »
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Beeler was subsequently transported to USCP Headquarters and charged with Carrying a Pistol without a License; Possession of Unregistered Firearm, and Possession of Unregistered Ammunition.

"Unregistered ammunition".

https://www.theepochtimes.com/virginia-man-arrested-at-dc-checkpoint-with-unregistered-firearm-says-it-was-honest-mistake_3659637.html
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« Reply #437 on: January 17, 2021, 10:25:03 AM »
If I was being called up, I'd make darned sure to bring some of my own ammo.

And you’d probably be in deep kimchi....for violating orders

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #438 on: January 17, 2021, 11:32:42 AM »
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #439 on: January 17, 2021, 04:21:50 PM »
I’ve heard a Twitter rumor, accompanied by a photo of a NG member with no mag in his rifle with the caption of “Biden’s transition team ordered mags and ammo to be confiscated because fears one of the NG soldiers will assassinate him”. More likely they never issued ammo or mags in the first place. Or if they do have ammo probably ordered not to lock and load to prevent Snuffy ND or AD.
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« Reply #440 on: January 17, 2021, 04:47:00 PM »
I've seen the empty mag wells in all the pictures but speaking with a friend of mine this afternoon, with over twenty years in the guard after acctive service, said they had about 500 rounds for each one of them.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #441 on: January 17, 2021, 04:54:28 PM »
That's kinda SOP.  Even if you have loaded mags you aren't going to go amber (mags inserted)  or red (round chambered) unless there is some kind of activity that makes you think you'll be using the weapon.  And yes, that's to prevent clearing ND's.

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« Reply #442 on: January 17, 2021, 05:44:16 PM »
Another "unregistered ammunition" arrest:

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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #443 on: January 18, 2021, 01:01:13 AM »
Now they are "vetting" the NG troops in DC for the election. So, be cardboard cutouts, but no ammo for you. More and more I am adding the tinfoil that Biden's great service to the democratic party is to die in a loud and glorious manner on inauguration day. Then we have a free hand to round up all those radicals. [tinfoil]
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« Reply #444 on: January 18, 2021, 08:37:35 AM »
Now they are "vetting" the NG troops in DC for the election. So, be cardboard cutouts, but no ammo for you. More and more I am adding the tinfoil that Biden's great service to the democratic party is to die in a loud and glorious manner on inauguration day. Then we have a free hand to round up all those radicals. [tinfoil]


I was just coming here to post that. On the bright side, maybe it's a message to the TDS people that the military might not just robotically follow unconstitutional orders (e.g., gun confiscation).
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« Reply #445 on: January 18, 2021, 09:09:42 AM »
The FBI claims that the woman who stole a laptop from Pelosi's office planned to sell it to Russian intelligence. This seem rather far-fetched to me. Why would one of these ultra conservative " 'Merica!" rioters sell information on the US to Russia?

I wonder if the same people in the FBI who spearheaded "Russia, Russia, Russia!" against Trump are in charge of this investigation?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-probing-allegation-that-woman-stole-laptop-from-pelosis-office-to-sell-it-to-russia_3660762.html
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #446 on: January 18, 2021, 09:15:08 AM »
All options are on the table. For some reason things are being pushed VERY fast regarding implementation of globalist totalitarian policies. The masks are already off, I would definitely count on "an event" that would justify taking off the gloves before the frogs start jumping out of the pot. Biden is just another old white patriarch, and Kamala is the unimpeachable authoritarian high SJW scoring stooge.
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #447 on: January 18, 2021, 09:22:23 AM »
The FBI claims that the woman who stole a laptop from Pelosi's office planned to sell it to Russian intelligence. This seem rather far-fetched to me. Why would one of these ultra conservative " 'Merica!" rioters sell information on the US to Russia?

I wonder if the same people in the FBI who spearheaded "Russia, Russia, Russia!" against Trump are in charge of this investigation?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-probing-allegation-that-woman-stole-laptop-from-pelosis-office-to-sell-it-to-russia_3660762.html

The Chinese were charging too much for the info off the laptop so the Russians had to try and get it by other means
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Re: It's getting sporty in Washington...
« Reply #449 on: January 18, 2021, 12:19:43 PM »
Once again, I am forced to ask myself "If the left wanted to incite a violent response from the right what would they do differently?"
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