From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 07:40:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7259137B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:40:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E71143F3F for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 07:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 6505C530E; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:40:51 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Paul Robinson References: <3EEF00E4.9000908@freebsd.mheller.org> <20030617.060806.42773474.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030618023138.GE93137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030617.204100.122615446.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030618034838.GJ93137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3EF0331A.2F2CF1DB@mindspring.com> <20030619003054.GC93137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3EF17471.36CC59B9@mindspring.com> <20030619090332.GO93137@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3EF29286.99CF131D@mindspring.com> <20030620101200.GA14047@iconoplex.co.uk> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:40:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030620101200.GA14047@iconoplex.co.uk> (Paul Robinson's message of "Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:12:00 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: English Police Officers X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:40:55 -0000 Paul Robinson writes: > Oh, and in Manchester, some specially trained police have been walking > around with MP5 machine guns, on and off, for at least the last 10 years > that I remember. Something to do with a couple of Irish lads who keep on > trying to kill loads of civilians in offices and shopping malls. But let's > not get into that (5,000 dead so far), the point is, they have the same guns > the British Army carry. And they're scary. Unless I'm very mistaken, the bulk of the British Army carries the Enfield L85 assault rifles, not the H&K MP5 submachine gun. SMGs aren't appropriate for general field use; they are deployed by special forces, SWAT teams and other units that are mostly involved in short close-quarters engagments. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org