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Old 02-20-2014, 09:20   #1
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ROCKS, BULLETS, BODIES, CNN at it's finest..

The Ukraine is in shambles and people are dying..

BUT the dummies at CNN show a BB gun sniper on their front page??



http://www.cnn.com/
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Old 02-20-2014, 09:23   #2
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The Ukraine is in shambles and people are dying..

BUT the dummies at CNN show a BB gun sniper on their front page??



http://www.cnn.com/
LOLOL, great reporting.....
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Old 02-20-2014, 09:35   #3
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Air rifles are a popular sport in Europe, are very accurate and can be quite powerful.

Around here, I take a Daisy Powerline 880 pump air rifle when I take my dogs out - it fires BBs and .177 pellets - 10 pumps and it's as powerful as a .22 and I use it to shoot jackrabbits and ground squirrels with pellets.

People just look at it like a BB gun, but...

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Air rifles are a popular sport in Europe, are very accurate and can be quite powerful.

Around here, I take a Daisy Powerline 880 pump air rifle when I take my dogs out - it fires BBs and .177 pellets - 10 pumps and it's as powerful as a .22 and I use it to shoot jackrabbits and ground squirrels with pellets.

People just look at it like a BB gun, but...

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Sorry, but a BB gun is right up there with a knife in a gunfight....

CNN would not know the difference anyway, it could have been a drawing of a rifle and those at CNN would be wetting their panties.

This was probably the "sniper" CNN was reporting about in 2008: Clinton says she 'misspoke' about sniper fire http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/25/campaign.wrap/
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Old 02-20-2014, 09:41   #5
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Someone capture that picture before CNN deletes it......
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Someone capture that picture before CNN deletes it......
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Richard, I have a BSA Lightening, runs a bit over 800 FPS with a 15gr pointed pellet, BC of .009. I run if thru a calculator and with a 25yd zero, the 100 yd head shoot only gets 16 ft lbs.. Not a real "one shot one kill" type of weapon.. Not sure it would punch a hole in a Babushka??
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Old 02-20-2014, 10:25   #7
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Someone capture that picture before CNN deletes it......
Too easy...
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I normally wouldn't worry about a country imploding in a civil war but a large portion of the old USSR's nukes are in the Ukraine...

Nevermind- The Ukraine sent it's nukes back to Russia... Send them more BB guns...

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I normally wouldn't worry about a country imploding in a civil war but a large portion of the old USSR's nukes are in the Ukraine...
John Kerry is on his way to Kiev.

The State Dept said Kerry is taking a Syrian delegation with him as the Syrians have stepped up and informed the Ukraine that it would be sending in teams to remove the nukes from the Ukraine before the fighting got worse.
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