Is The Army This Desperate For Weapons

[lizbud]

This is unsettling news.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/04/27/guns.back.ap/index.html

[Lady's Human]

What's disturbing is somewhere, some bureaucrat gave a ski resort a modern weapon for avalanche control. The M-119 is a fairly recent weapon. Most of the time the weapons given for jobs like this are museum pieces, but not in this case.

[joycenalex]

just how rowdy is this ski resort that they need a howitzer?!? ansd what do the local cops have?

[mugsy]

Originally posted by joycenalex
just how rowdy is this ski resort that they need a howitzer?!? ansd what do the local cops have?

Scary isn't it?? I know, I, for one, wouldn't want to ski there! :p

LH...do you think this guy will lose his job? Pretty amazing.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by Lady's Human
What's disturbing is somewhere, some bureaucrat gave a ski resort a modern weapon for avalanche control. The M-119 is a fairly recent weapon. Most of the time the weapons given for jobs like this are museum pieces, but not in this case.

Most ski resorts use the Viet Nam era recoiless rifle..It's a vehicle mounted weapon..far more portable than the 119.

I think that the real reason behind asking for the weapons back is to prevent their 'loss'. Soon those guns are going to be put up for the summer and what kind of security would they have on a piece like that??? Chain it to a lamp post?

You just have to pull the tires off that sucker, put it on a semi and you have mobile terror. With a halfway decent crew and a spotter you can get a few rounds off from a distance and before anyone would be the wiser......

It could be that asking for the guns because the troops need them is less threatening than telling
people there is a terrorist threat from a 'ski resort gun'.