Thread: CBS News: More on Project Gunrunner

CBS News: More on Project Gunrunner

by FirearmsTruth
March 9, 2011

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aR3kzC6 ... r_embedded

We’ve been hearing a lot about Project Gunrunner, but it makes us wonder what we’ve not heard yet.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aR3kzC6 ... r_embedded

2,500 guns in the report including .50 caliber sniper rifles

Barrett M82
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrett_M82



Cartridge .50 BMG (12.7x99mm NATO) and .416 Barrett
Action Recoil-operated, rotating bolt
Muzzle velocity 853 m/s (2,799 ft/s)
Effective range 1,800 m (5,906 ft)
Feed system 10-round detachable box magazine
Sights Fixed front, adjustable rear sight; MIL-STD-1913 rail provided for optics

AK-47

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47



Cartridge 7.62x39mm M43/M67
Action Gas-operated, rotating bolt
Rate of fire 600 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity 715 m/s (2,346 ft/s)

Effective range 300 metres (330 yd) full automatic[4]

400 metres (440 yd) semi-automatic[4]

Feed system 10, 20 , 30 , 40 or 75 -round detachable box and drum style magazine, also compatible with 40-round box or 75-round drum magazines from the RPK

Sights Adjustable iron sights, 100–800 metre adjustments, 378 mm (14.9 in) sight radius

this is the shit that ATF / DOJ / DHS / Obama has put our border patrol / Police Units up against

Gen. Antonio Erasto Monsivais holds up a seized .50 caliber Barrett model 99 single-shot rifle in the seized weapons warehouse at the headquarters of the Secretary of Defense in Mexico City. Mexican authorities have repeatedly complained that most of the weapons used by drug cartels there — including Barrett rifles — are coming from the U.S. The ATF’s Fast and Furious probe allowed guns to be trafficked south of the border in an effort to nail high-level cartel operatives Credit: Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press