You forgot to also add that regular people cannot do all that because they also need to be a FFL
No, I didn’t, because, no they don’t.
If they’re manufacturing automatic weapons or wish to purchase an automatic weapons manufactured after 1986 to law enforcement, THEN you need a class 3 FFL license. If they’re manufacturing, then they also need to file a form 1.
Private individuals can purchase a machine gun without an FFL, assuming your state law allows it via form 4. An FFL makes the process easier, but it’s not a requirement
They weren’t banned.
They required a $200 tax stamp at the time.
Now, they require a federal form (NFA Form 4), the $200 tax stamp and a metric ass ton of money since the public cannot purchase a full auto weapon manufactured after 1986 (Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986).
edit: Changed the tax amount, actually looked it up.
How did they justify this statement? A press release from Putin.
Effectively, yes.
The consortium just linked to the original story from Indian Punchline (the author’s personal blog) where the author quoted the statement from a TASS article.
It’s not hard hitting, factual news. It’s an OpEd piece from a blogger.
If we wrapped Robert Parry’s corpse with copper wire and surrounded his casket with magnets, we could probably power a small city with the electricity from him turning over in his grave at how far Consortium News has fallen in publishing articles like this.
It went from Columbus to Georgia, think the redline is to show the level of stupid. Shipping history, since he was kind enough to provide the USPS tracking number in his screenshot:
The B52s that started Gulf War came from Louisiana. They flew nonstop to the Middle East then returned to their base in the U.S. 35 hours of flight time with no stopovers…
Guam to Korea is a short stroll.
I’m sure they say they are. I’ll still doubt their capability
Not talking artillery here. Talking small arms ammo. I’m pretty sure Russia doesnt come close to producing 2m artillery rounds per year. Saw an article the other day about them running out of artillary barrels. If they couldn’t manufacture enough barrels to keep up with shooting, I doubt their general manufacturing capacity.
Outside of that, that’s two million non-NATO small arms rounds being donated by the private sector. Pretty sure the government would send M4s and SAWs with 5.56.
Russians and their fan-bois need to chest beat over whatever they can find at this point.
7% of just the one type… Not of all tanks. That being said, I get where you’re coming from. 14 Challengers, 31 Abrams… Guess it’s going to boil down to if the countries can/will replace the losses.
Yeah, that’s what I wasn’t following. MBTs are going to need repairs, no matter how heavily armored, when you run them over a minefield, hit them with anti tank missles or drones. APVs aren’t designed to survive that, just to keep the occupants alive from something that would have turned them into a thick red mist.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.
The complaint about armor (tanks) being destroyed seems odd. Last report I saw had them losing five of the 70 Leopards and a single Challenger so far.
I wonder if the complaint is directed at the amount of maintenance/depot work that needs to be done to keep them running. That would kind of make sense. Countries that donated them have significantly more of them than donated, so cycling them through depot repair would barely be a cause for concern.
Don’t recall anyone saying it would be a few weeks. Don’t doubt some people said it would only be a few weeks, just don’t remember it.
From the start of the invasion, it was two months one week and three days to topple the Taliban government.
Unfortunately, then next 19 years were apparently a waste since the regime that replaced the Taliban didn’t actually want to fight for themselves.
there are no other choices
There are all sorts of choices.
Russia could come to their senses and leave.
Russia could continue wasting their resources until they have to accept unconditional surrender.
Russia or an ally could go even more pants on head stupid than they already are and do something that triggers a NATO Article 5 response.
Repeating fantasies over and over doesn’t make them materialize,
You really need to feel this in what’s left of your soul
Ukraine can’t win a war of attrition against Russia.
And yet, they are. If the Russian command had any sense, they’d roll back to their side of the border.
(“game-changing” western equipment that doesn’t change the outcome of the conflict)
You’re actually right, they won’t change the outcome.
It’ll just make the Ukrainian victory quicker than it would have been without the equipment.
Using zone minder with reolink cameras. I’ve been happy with it so far.