Oh, Come On.
This is just ridiculous:
The Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff’s Department has acquired an armored personnel carrier complete with a turret-mounted .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun for its Special Response Team.
Sheriff Leon Lott told the Columbia State newspaper that he hoped the vehicle, named “The Peacemaker,” would let the bad guys know that his officers are serious.
“We don’t look at this as a killing machine,” Lott told the paper. “It’s going to keep the peace. We hope the fact that we have this is going to save lives. When something like this rolls up, it’s time to give up.”
Who wants to set an over under on the first time they use this thing to bust a pot dealer?
[The Agitator]
This seems like an appropriate time to point out that the RPG-7 is a really outstanding light antitank weapon — and given how many have been made, it’s probably pretty cheap too.
