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On Friday, January 10, 2014 11:38:21 PM UTC-6, Califbill wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 18:52:00 -0800 (PST), "John H."


wrote:




On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:10:13 PM UTC-5, KC wrote:


On 1/10/2014 7:28 PM, Tim wrote:




On Friday, January 10, 2014 7:59:27 AM UTC-6, John H. wrote:




On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:19:12 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:
















A "LAWS" wouldn't hurt either. Well, depends on which end your on...
















Their effective range is pretty short, well within AK-47 range.








Colonel William Prescott "Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes!"












The problem with fighting back with small arms or rockets, is they can




stand off a ways and sink you with theirs a lot easier than you can hit




them in their tiny boats... or run a cable and disable you, then hit you




with the rockets...That is what I heard anyway, as a reason why the




bigger ships just can't fight them off with small arms....




The .50 cal machine gun can shoot a mile off. Being a machine gun, it


can put a lot of rounds on target. Why they don't put one on every ship is beyond me.




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It seems to work for the Coast Guard.




Lots of countries have anti gun laws.


That's why you arm up in int'l water.