Attempting to Disarm Recently Armed Citizens

[Speedo66]

Interesting article here in the NY Times about trying to disarm citizens in Georgia (the country, not the state) who bought to protect themselves.

Grandmother expressing joy of buying machine guns, and other interesting tidbits like a buyback program which netted 15 M-4s.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/world/europe/15ossetia.html?hpw

 

[gondorian]

“Officially, I have given up my gun,” The best line

 

[VonClausewitz]

Cash for clunkers, Kaukasus style.

 

[scndactive]

a 12.7-caliber machine gun, a World War II-era weapon

Interesting..........

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Nothing like Yank.ees

 

[RP88]

They netted about a hundred weapons, I guess.

If it's true about Soviet Warehouse liquidation via bribery and other dark pretenses, then I'd assume there are probably entire Ossetian arsenals that are still laying around in the mountains and other places.

 

[cchris]

a 12.7-caliber machine gun, a World War II-era weapon

Interesting..........

I assume 12.7x99, Browning .50 cal...so an M2?

 

[chuckusaret]

I assume 12.7x99, Browning .50 cal...so an M2?

Last time we bought .50 caliber (12.7 X 99) ammo the 750gr. Hornady A-Max was $644.40 plus shipping per hundred rounds. You do well planned practice sessions when firing rounds that cost over $6.50 each.

 

[VonClausewitz]

I assume 12.7x99, Browning .50 cal...so an M2?

Considering the point of sale, I think the good old lady actually procured a 12.7 x 108 gun. Probably a DShK variant. Its the Warsaw Pact equivalent to the BMG and was produced in bulk worldwide.

Hope granny has some upper body strength or a tripod. Power to the people!