Tom Ridge gets a new toy

[gun-fucious]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030329/168/3njei.html

Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge holds a rifle as he talks with officers during a visit Friday, March 28, 2003 at U. S. Coast Guard Station Mayport, in Mayport, Fla. Ridge says the country has increased its homeland protection since the start of the war in Iraq (news - web sites) by improving vigilance at airports, nuclear power plants and ports. (AP Photo/Oscar Sosa)

 

[Pilgrim]

Hope he doesn't shoot out his eye.

 

[boing]

He's following all the safety rules. Good for him.

 

[Master Blaster]

Looks like an evil .50 cal rifle to me.

 

[Matthew Courtney]

Can't ya'll tell that he's aiming it at a 747?

 

[QuarterBoreGunner]

MmmI recall a news story I read about eight months ago (can’t find the link…) about the drug interdiction Coast Guard crews in the Caribbean having .50 rifles on some of their helicopters. They were trained to use them to take out the motors of speed boats that refused to be boarded by the cutter crews.

I mean damn. On a chopper, with a .50, aiming at the motor compartment of a speeding watercraft.

Actually… that sounds kind of cool.

 

[QuarterBoreGunner]

Found the link

http://www.helis.com/news/1999/uscgfire.htm