Orlando gets a surface to air missle...
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Topic: Orlando gets a surface to air missle...
Posted By: WGP guy2
Subject: Orlando gets a surface to air missle...
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 1:41pm
| http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-missilelauncher-081707,0,3944715.story?coll=orl_sports_highschool_xpromo - http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-bk-missilelauncher-081707 ,0,3944715.story?coll=orl_sports_highschool_xpromo |
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Posted By: Man Bites Dog
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 1:45pm
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Yep, yesterday was Kicks For Guns. It is a great event, it helps the community a ton. ------------- 
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 1:57pm
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He'll wish he kept it when the commies start flying over his house.
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Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 2:00pm
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Ok I'd rather have sold those guns that were worth something then get a $50 gift certificate or shoes... ------------- 
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Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 2:45pm
| haha the man tried to take the rocket launcher to three separate dumps. |
Posted By: bjelder
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 3:21pm
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i still dont see how they can do that anonymously... what if the guy was used
in a crime or something.. idk ------------- Vroooooooooooom 
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Posted By: CarbineKid
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 4:26pm
| When I read the article I thought it was a stinger missle, but it looks more like a tow. So does anyone have a theory as to how this missle ended up in a shed??? |
Posted By: Evil Elvis
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 4:31pm
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Wasnt that in the Reno 911 Movie? ------------- 
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 4:44pm
probably part of some leftist conspiracy to assassinate our great president. :dodgy: ------------- 
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CarbineKid wrote:Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 4:48pm
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I'd love to see some one roll up in a tank. and ask for their sneakers. ------------- |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 4:51pm
Thats what I said to someone earlier. Build a mock up of a SCUD missile launcher and roll up in it. |
Posted By: lt redneck
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 8:49pm
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or roll up in a tank and demand sneekers. who's gonna say no way?
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 9:01pm
The guy with the AT4. |
Posted By: Ben Dover1
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 9:20pm
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Posted By: Nuclear
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 12:13am
What the hell, you copying elder for? ------------- 
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 12:17am
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lolz i know some people with some stuff that would make those guys collecting crap their pants.
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Posted By: Nuclear
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 12:19am
RPG + Old Shed = Fun ! -------------
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Posted By: stick_boy_2002
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 1:06am
im all for the saying "work smarter not harder" but thats a little over kill. but it would still be fun. ------------- 
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Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 1:08am
shens. major shens. ------------- |
Posted By: Nuclear
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 1:08am
Fun indeed. -------------
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 1:51am
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What I want is a deal where I can turn in a set of old sneakers (no questions asked) and get a gun.
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Posted By: Nuclear
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 2:04am
What a deal that would be ! -------------
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 11:20am
No, I have seen and shot some of the stuff. I'm not explaining any of it over teh internetz, so if you don't believe me, oh well, because I'm not going into any details. -------------
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Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 11:44am
No theories... but that definitely doesn't look like a shoulder-launched SAM. I'm in the same train of thought as you in that it's an Anti-Tank round of some sorts. And it doesn't look like a full launcher... just the storage tube. I'll be interested in hearing more info on it. And I can't believe that people would turn in stuff like a Springfield M1A!!! For something like $50 in Shoe Money. I hope like hell that Orlando Police at least traces the serial to check if it was stolen, and makes an attempt to contact the rightful owner before taking a torch to it! I'm sorry, but no one trades in a M1A for a $50 shoe certificate. No one. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 6:48pm
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I wouldn't trade it in. Heck, if I wanted to get rid of it, I would hang it in a basement or turn it into a sick paintball anti-tank weapon. ------------- 
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Posted By: kuhndog599
Date Posted: 19 August 2007 at 10:43pm
oh man, a guy handed over a garand just to get destroyed!  ------------- model 98 - homemade handguard solid stock - opsgear mag polished internals homemade sling - paintjob operator barrel progressive barrel opsgear mag - stock |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:48am
Why's that unreasonable? One of my friend's uncle's is one crazy mo (has actually been institutionalized once), and he used to be in the Army. Well, I have (according to him) only seen a small chunk of what he has, and I have personally held his RPG, full-auto M-16, semi-auto m-14, and have seen 2 flashbangs, lots of smoke grenades, and a frag. The crazy thing is that this guy is also one of the most hardcore racists I've ever met, and claims that he will assassinate the first black president... and he actually has the weaponry to possibly pull it off, even though he'd probably be too drunk and miss or something (alcoholic also). ------------- 
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:50am
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Oh and yeah... People are dumb. At least sell it to a pawn-broker or something. Guns are worth more than shoes.
And why destroy the guns that are turned in anyways? Guns ARE still legal in Florida, aren't they? -------------
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Posted By: Nuclear
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:51am
Might be dummy frags. -------------
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Posted By: Man Bites Dog
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:53am
Most all the guns turned into Kicks For Guns are illegal or unwanted. People don't want to pawn them off where they might be used for another crime. They know by giving them to KFG, they will be destroyed. They are destroyed because, like it said, most all of them are illegal street guns. -------------
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:55am
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Doubt it. If the guy has all this other stuff, why have fake grenades? It seems like they'd be way easier to steal/smuggle than an RPG.
I actually got to hold most of the stuff, and I'm fairly certain it was all real (except maybe the F/B's since I've never seen one other than that). -------------
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Posted By: Nuclear
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:56am
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If you unscrew the charged part of the grenade you can see inside, that would be how to check to see if their live.
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 1:59am
Ah. Makes sense, but it still seems like a waste of good guns to not just put them back into legitimate trade. It's not like the gun has any recollection of crimes committed, or a tendency to repeat them... Or they could just give them to me for safe-keeping... I promise I won't play with the SAM. :p -------------
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Posted By: Man Bites Dog
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 2:14am
Well, I can only say from listening to the live coverage of KFG done on the radio stations that host it, and have hosted it for the past few years, but a large majority of the people who go to KFG are teens who found the gun or who's parents didn't know they had it, or are people who's friends asked them to "hold onto it," and they think it was used in a crime. They get a lot of illegal weapons, either by design (automatic uzi's and tech 9's) or modification (sawed off shotguns, pistols with serials filed off). They are just part of the surplus firearm problem. All guns start off life as legit, but almost always the ones being turned in are going to be ones that will cause a problem. -------------
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 2:25am
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I definately see your point. It does suck to destroy some great guns though (the M1a is a case in point), and it seems like criminals could just use that as a way to anonymously dispose of a murder weapon.
I wonder how that would go over in Detroit or Flint... -------------
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Posted By: Man Bites Dog
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 2:29am
Yeah, the rare M1 is a oddity for sure. I think this is the first year they have gotten anything collectible like that. And yeah, I am pretty sure criminals have used it to get rid of a murder weapon, but I think in this situation the ability to cause a greater good outweighs the bad. -------------
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Posted By: Nuclear
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 3:14am
They do it here in Michigan. and as for the M1A / M-14 we have a couple, they be sweet. -------------
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Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 8:36am
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Well... back to original topic... not meaning to disappoint anyone... but CarbineKid and I called it.
It was an EMPTY storage tube for a TOW missile. Which is an anti-tank round fired from a vehicle or helicopter, not a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile as the media stated to get their ratings up. |
Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 8:45am
Of Course the Media will say its a SAM. Just think. Orlando has a nice little Airport families use to take their children to Disney when its not easy to drive there. Nice little way to say, look if one man has a SAM, then many people could have one, and we could be looking at a huge problem for the airlines. If I was a betting man like Tim Donaghy then I would say thats where the media would have taken this story if it was a live SAM. |
Posted By: CarbineKid
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 9:56am
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I use to think gun buy backs were crap, now i'm waiting for one in my area. Yes gun buy backs can be good. Read on...
http://www.illinoiscarry.com/?q=node/8 - http://www.illinoiscarry.com/?q=node/8 
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Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 11:39am
| Gun buy-back programs around here make me want to cry. It's usually little old widows turning in their husband's collection of valuable guns. We had a very broken(read that run-away full auto) .22 that my grandpa turned in. I saw a lot of winchester model 12's, a few Springfield 03's , some sporterised, many S&W's that were custom tuned and engraved, a chinese SKS missing parts, and a bb gun that the cop thought was real, until my grandfather figured out what it was. Fortunatly I know some of the more collectable guns find good homes in some programs. |
Posted By: CarbineKid
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 5:14pm
Im hoping for one in my area. I have an old 22 and a shotgun thats broke and not worth fixing. Im hopeing to cash in on them. I will be even happier if they are acceptinh pellet guns(some buy backs do) I have a few of those that are broke too. All in all I could have a great day. |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 20 August 2007 at 5:27pm
Go to walmart and buy a bunch of assorted pellet guns for $30. Trade them in for $50. Win. |