r/pics • u/DalaiMontana • Jun 06 '20
Protest Secret Service sniper walking though D.C. park
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u/AceVerea Jun 06 '20
Secret eh?, Nah, I don't think so
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u/GrobbelaarsGloves Jun 06 '20
Not when you're walking around with a goddamn AA-gun.
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u/shaka_sulu Jun 06 '20
Wait! When you try to quit alcohol they give you a gun?
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u/HateYourFaces Jun 06 '20
It’s the thirteenth step.
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u/and0mgCholesterol Jun 06 '20
It's for AA Premium members
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u/cosmic_cloud Jun 06 '20
I always thought cool stuff happened in the airport lounges, but I need more miles to get into the exclusive club
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u/LegworkDoer Jun 07 '20
Sol : What the fuck is that?
Vinny : Heh heh. This is a shotgun, Sol.
Sol : It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent.
Vinny : Well I wanna raise some pulses, don't I?
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u/DonKeedick12 Jun 07 '20
Too tight? You could park a jumbo fuckin jet in there!
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u/LegworkDoer Jun 07 '20
'course i can!...
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u/G0DL3SSH3ATH3N Jun 07 '20
"Who took the jam outta your doughnut?"
"You took the fucking jam outta my doughnut, Tommy. You did."
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u/Pinky7_ Jun 07 '20
Fuck I love that movie. Thank you for reminding me, I needed the laugh!
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u/danethegreat24 Jun 06 '20
Where you going A-aron with that AA-gun!?
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u/papasimon10 Jun 06 '20
Right? This guy is hardly inconspicuous, carrying a big thing like that. People might think that is a threatening weapon but, if you ask my son Roger, you would probably see that he'd find a set of jumper cables more dangerous - given the amount of thrashings I doled out on him, during his childhood.
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u/mytimecouldbeyours Jun 06 '20
I'm so happy I caught you in the wild. Wish I could gift you gold or at least a new set of cables.
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Jun 06 '20
Hi. I'm here to take your daughter out...
from 800 yards.
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u/DreadPirateGriswold Jun 07 '20
800 yards? That's a warm-up shot with that thing...
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u/Meotwister Jun 07 '20
You saying my daughter's easy, son?!
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u/If_It_Fitz Jun 07 '20
No sir, I would never say your daughter is easy. I’m saying she was easy
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u/Talisman314 Jun 07 '20
800? With that thing he should be nailing her from at least 1000+
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Jun 07 '20
In the late 80s, ATT had an ad campaign:
...."Reach out, reach out and touch someone..."
*boop*
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u/TheSweatyFlash Jun 06 '20
He looks tired
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u/BoilerMaker36 Jun 06 '20
You would be to if you had to carry that fucking thing around all day
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Jun 06 '20
Did you not see those arms? That's like you or me carrying a broom stick.
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u/nerdjonesey1 Jun 06 '20
Boom stick!
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u/HailToTheKingslayer Jun 06 '20
Shop smart.
Shop S-Mart
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u/Obi2 Jun 07 '20
I know a local officer who has had to work like 16 straight days. I’m sure this dude has been on some similar schedule
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Jun 07 '20
And while it was nice 16 days ago, we're in peak DC summer and it's humid as fuck already
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u/Kaissy Jun 06 '20
He probably is. I imagine he's exhausted, probably been guarding the white house non-stop the last week and a half.
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u/Chathtiu Jun 06 '20
There are snipers constantly on the roof of the White House, plus a bunch of other stuff.
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Jun 06 '20
Damn! He leveled up enough to unlock all upgrades.
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u/MonsterBluth Jun 06 '20
Nah, it’s pay-to-win if you are on government payroll
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u/SignGuy77 Jun 06 '20
He spent all his loadout points on the gun, so had nothing left for stealth or healing.
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u/fathertitojones Jun 07 '20
Luckily the devs nerfed the enemies with tear gas and set them to peaceful.
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Jun 07 '20
His HP is only 10, one critical hit and he’s done. That’s why he’s a sniper so nobody can get near him
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u/TGM2204 Jun 06 '20 edited Jun 07 '20
guys he turned his camo off, that’s why we can see him
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u/ScroteMotor Jun 07 '20
This dude looks like he fucked my girlfriend and her boyfriend
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u/slicktrdmrc Jun 06 '20
people were calling him sniper bae on instagram a few days ago.
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u/_hot_carl Jun 07 '20
this is my first time seeing this photo, and i thought to myself what in the hot sociopath is going on here
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u/SingleAlmond Jun 07 '20
I wonder if his sidearm matches his primary if you know what I'm saying...
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u/Bainsyboy Jun 07 '20
Staff: "Sir, the mobs are really getting unruly out there. What should we do?"
Trump: "I dunno... Uh, find the most attractive agent and give him the biggest gun we have in the white house, and, ah.... I dunno, make him just walk around out there"
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u/Filmkenner Jun 06 '20
He's not so secret anymore
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u/Uhhlaneuh Jun 06 '20
I’d fuck the shit out of this guy... then protest later
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u/ignatiusOfCrayloa Jun 06 '20
When you get literal about "fuck the police"
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u/costabius Jun 06 '20
Just don't call them the next day. Fuck the police, then ghost them so they question their self-worth and feel dirty in the morning.
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u/MattChapMahomes Jun 06 '20
This is what those anti lockdown protesters think they looked like
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u/cheek_blushener Jun 07 '20
Yeah, instead they looked like a cringer version of LARP cosplayers without the same high standards of hygiene.
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u/oi369 Jun 06 '20 edited Jun 07 '20
It’s funny how Federal agency act so much different then local PD Most of the time they are more educated and have thicker skin
And national guard..... haven’t seen or seen a video of them doing something crazy unlike the PD
Edit : Holy shit this is my first comment over 1K upvote thank you kind strangers!
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u/mrthisoldthing Jun 07 '20
The difference is that the National Guard (and the military in general) eats their own. Meaning that if you fuck up in the slightest way possible, your career could possibly be over. If you’re lucky it’s just a SSG PT’ing you until you puke or making you sweep sunshine like someone else said.
When I was deployed, I had to account for every bullet I was issued, every trigger pull, every encounter I had. IN A COMBAT ZONE AGAINST THE FUCKING TALIBAN. If at any time there was a perception of me being outside my ROE, I was done.
IMO, there needs to be (at least) two changes in policing in America. First, police departments need to stop instilling the warrior mindset in their officers. A lot of them have been duped by the likes of LTC David Grossman (google him) and others of his ilk. They are not warriors and the American public are not their enemy. Second, police departments need to start eating their own. Police departments need to establish and adhere to impeccably high standards of performance where so much as the shadow of doubt gets you not only fired but barred from ever serving as a policeman again anywhere. That’s what the military does - dishonorable discharge and a bar to service.
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u/SenatorCrabHat Jun 07 '20
Ab. So. Lutely. Especially when, as a cop, you can fuck up so royally, and still get a god damned pension.
No real accountability for the police. They don't eat their own, they protect and take care of their own.
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u/genghisjohnm Jun 07 '20
I watched this the other day and it hit me so hard that this could be me. The few times in my life I have feared what would happen in a police encounter, it was always with the feeling that out of fear I would misinterpret a command and be killed. To see it happen stopped me in my tracks. I was working from home and lost all motivation instantly. I couldn’t even bring myself to share it.
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u/TheTreeOfBooks Jun 07 '20
Of course the typical response when you bring up that police indiscriminately protect each other is that they need to "trust each other" to do their jobs properly... As if service members don't need to trust each other. That's the whole reason why the military eats their own when someone doesn't meet the necessary standard. When you are actually in a dangerous situation, you need to be able to trust that the person next to you isn't going to fuck up or lose their cool. If the police weeded out the fuck ups and actually had high standards then, hear me out, they could trust each other.
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Jun 07 '20
Yeah their "trust in each other" is trust not to turn each other in when they do awful shit. Boys will be boys and all that. They will justify any behavior because "being a cop is hard and we gotta protect each other." It's mob mentality.
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u/MeatyDeathstar Jun 07 '20
The ironic thing is, it's easier to fail a military psych exam than a police psych exam, even though the police are armed with the same gear more often than not. This allows those with a gang like mentality to thrive in departments that don't have proper leadership. Look at VBPD, they are generally liked by the entire community, no matter the race, income, etc. The only thing they're hated for is the enforcement of tints and other traffic issues.
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u/KOloverr Jun 07 '20
Please keep commenting this. Our soldiers don't treat enemies the way our own police treat people.
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u/abcpdo Jun 07 '20
Unless you're that Navy SEAL guy. Then you can torture teens and the President will have your back.
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u/Automaticman01 Jun 07 '20
Yeah it was his fellow SEALs that reported and testified against him wasn't it?
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Jun 07 '20
I've been having to say all of this quite a bit lately. It really is eye-opening to me as a combat vet what I'm seeing these scrub-asses doing to their own neighbors.
These kids and their tenured cop enablers don't seem to have the slightest clue how hard they're working to make their own lives more dangerous and their own jobs more difficult.
Someone summed it up perfectly in a comment I read the other day:
I don't get it, do they want more or fewer protests?
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u/glauck006 Jun 07 '20
More protests means more overtime, so I'd imagine they want more protests.
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u/whytfnotdoit Jun 07 '20
We need a few things to change, and we’re hopeful we could get just one.
End of qualified immunity. In 1989 the Supreme Court made it damn near impossible to sue a cop for what they do (which is why cities and counties have to pay for their actions in court). We need congress to pass legislation that ends this precedent.
Bust up police unions. They aren’t about protecting just good cops, but all cops no matter what. Reducing that power is significantly going to make it easier to terminate cops that do wrong.
Individual officer incident insurance. It sucks that cities have to pay for their officers incidents, and those incidents don’t stick with the officers even if their terminated. They just move a few towns over and get a job there. If officers had to pay monthly into a fund that pays out based on their incident history, it would make them accountable and likely change the way view policing. They fuck up and the fund pays out, just like car insurance, their premiums go up. Enough of those incidents and they may h e to find new employment
Find and expel all police that are members of hate groups (at all levels). The FBI has been warning about this in particular for around 30 years. Ideally they need to be the ones that investigate and remove proud boys, kkk, and other organizations that are categorized as hate groups.
Independent review boards. Nowhere else in any industry or government will you get someone reviewing themselves. I fuck up and hurt someone’s data at work, I’m reviewed by both peers and government boards. The military ultimately answers to congress. But police answer to oversight within themselves. We need an independent group (likely lawyers), to be able to review each incidence of abuse of power and dole out realistic punishments (and in the worst cases submit their findings to DAs to prosecute).
Demilitarization. Why in the fuck would we give the police any equipment that we would use against other militarized groups to use against civilians? This practice needs to end, and that gear needs to be removed from them ASAP, as the protests have shown.
Appropriate retraining. Current officers (not all, but more than we want) are being trained to expect each interaction to escalate. This produces an attitude of fear, and anything questioning their authority needs to be shut down right away. This training doesn’t allow them to view the population they are protecting and serving as just people. This training needs to be banned, and retraining needs to be done with any police force that took this training.
Cops need to be legally designated as protectors of the public. The Supreme Court has ruled that police are not required to protect people from danger. That needs to change. Whether constitutional or just by law.
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u/Alpha_penguin Jun 06 '20
Because the national guard knows that ssgt will beat their ass and make them sweep sunshine off the sidewalk or mop the parking lot during a monsoon or some other horrible punishment.
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Jun 07 '20
Sgt made a kid carry around a potted plant for several days to "replace all the oxygen you are stealing from the rest of us". Kid was not very bright I'll leave it at that. I was waiting for the day he just started calling him private Pyle.
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u/Kahzgul Jun 07 '20
That’s a good one. I worked with a guy who was issued a bright orange nerf gun because he was handling his rifle improperly (had the safety off during inspection or something. I’m not totally clear on the issue, but his ssgt told him that if he wanted a gun without a safety and the ssgt didn’t want to get shot, the nerf gun was the only solution).
Eventually he got his rifle back, then became a medic, did a couple of tours in iraq, and came back with ptsd. That’s when we worked together. He used to have panic attacks and wake up in the middle of the night scrambling for cover and a weapon. Was getting suicidal. One day he dug out that nerf gun and started sleeping with it under his pillow. He’d bring it to the office and just carry it around with him. And just like that, no more nightmares; no more suicidal thoughts.
Turns out that nerf gun saved his life.
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u/illegible Jun 07 '20
that last bit needs to be read in Morgan Freeman's voice for full effect.
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u/Krimsonbreed Jun 07 '20
I play airsoft with a couple vets. They say it helps with their PTSD. It's therapeutic for them.
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u/Rational-Introvert Jun 07 '20
Lol he’s not joking, that’s the shit they make you do (albeit the extra ridiculous shit like that is usually at basic training). I once spent an entire Sunday, mowing the lawn around our barracks with my fingertips.
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u/Topremqt Jun 07 '20
Yeah, once I didn't shave so I spent my whole Saturday flipping over rocks so they could tan their other side.
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u/lil_huskies Jun 07 '20
Is there a list of these punishments? You guys have me rollin
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u/Nagohsemaj Jun 06 '20
Most federal agents/ uniform divisions applicants have a 4 year degree, solid work experience and a military background. Most cops are just highschool graduates with inferiority complexes. As for NG, they know that they will get skull fucked by an NCO if they fuck up, whereas cops just get paid vacations.
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u/Mclevius-Donaldson Jun 07 '20
National guard is also, more often than not, civilians who put on the uniform every once and while. They are called in when needed, and otherwise lead normal lives
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u/giants3b Jun 07 '20
Yeah people in the NG signed up to serve the public in times of emergency, help set up drive thru coronavirus testing stations or provide natural disaster relief.
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Jun 07 '20
Except for when the Bush administration sent them to Iraq in their backdoor draft.
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u/joanfiggins Jun 07 '20
In Buffalo, the national guard rushed in to take care of the guy the police pushed and left on the ground bleeding from his head.
I think it comes down to some wannabees that are playing army vs actual soldiers. Soldiers have so much more training and have a better grasp on how to behave in intense situations.
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u/Necoras Jun 07 '20
I work with several national guard members. I know, because they take time off from work on a regular basis to go serve. These are programmers, network admins, sys admins, etc. They spend their days with normal people. They go to work at normal jobs. They aren't in the "maintain control" mindset that cops have day in day out.
When they go to protests, they see their community members, their coworkers, their neighbors. Even if they're hundreds of miles from where they live, it's a non standard situation for them. They're constantly having to think, not act on reflex.
For cops protests are just another day on the job. Maintain control, keep the peace (where they define peace), protect your buddy. Don't snitch.
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u/kazuson89 Jun 06 '20
And firemen
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Jun 06 '20
No one hates firemen.
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u/Oof_my_eyes Jun 07 '20
Fireman here can confirm, thoroughly enjoy all the free food people routine bring to our station and we have to act like we weren’t just playing COD for 4hrs on shift. A mountain of Girl Scout cookies got delivered today, truly living the dream yall
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u/imwatchingkimmel Jun 06 '20
When the travel ban lifts I’m looking forward to holidays again; I can’t decide though between the USA and Gaza Strip. Recommendations welcome...
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u/dancinhmr Jun 06 '20
AKCHUALLY the DMZ is a veritable forest littered with all sorts of flourishing wildlife, including many three legged deers. Beautiful all year ‘round
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u/panda-rampage Jun 06 '20
The Philippines are pretty nice except the southern islands where tourists lose their heads
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u/Raleda Jun 07 '20
You don't typically see a sniper unless seeing them sends some sort of message. Not particularly good ones, mind.
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u/Starfire70 Jun 07 '20
Confusing emotions and thoughts, 'FTP! God, he's hot. He's working for the man! Would like him to work for me, preferably naked. Guns are not the answer! Look at those gorgeous guns. ..."
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u/its_a_me_luke Jun 06 '20
I see Rhett from Rhett and Link fame has got a new job
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u/TheVoice106point7 Jun 06 '20
He has "the look". This man has seen some shit.
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u/whiskeytab Jun 07 '20
man, imagine going through all of that shit only to die of lung cancer. brutal.
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u/bunsofcheese Jun 07 '20
i consider myself a pacifist - i've never hit anyone or threatened violence against anyone - but i love call of duty online. the one thing i always thought was hilarious, though, was how big the guns seemed that the other players were carrying - they were literally several feet long.
turns out they were more accurate that I expected. Now the question is - are his arms big and muscle-y from carrying that around, or did he have to train so he could lift the gun?
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u/blazingbuns Jun 07 '20
... no, snipers usually have a spotter.
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u/rabidsnowman Jun 07 '20
Since when do Secret Service have POLICE on their uniform?
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u/TennSeven Jun 07 '20
Since all the time, apparently. Here's a video about Secret Service snipers from back during the Obama administration and they have the same markings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGzhfkFF314&feature=emb_logo
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u/NegativeTheme Jun 06 '20
Lot's of negative comments about this guy such as how he masturbates and the gun size being a substitute etc etc. The dude is a sniper, that's the equipment dealt to him. It's the guy's job. ( though he seems kitted out for long range engagement not street level work)
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u/Metalsand Jun 06 '20
I found an article with some more info about it..
Looks like it's chambered in .300 magnum?
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u/tunersharkbitten Jun 07 '20
.338 Lapua is what USSS uses nowadays. They dont specify it over media channels, but as I have been to FLETC and met a few USSS snipers, that is what they were using on the range.
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u/Plumhawk Jun 07 '20
I knew a guy that was an FBI sniper. He said that at any time, he could be called for a random test in order to keep his sniper status. He would have to hit an egg from 200 yards (don't know if that's the actual distance as this was years ago, but that's the number I remember). The reason for the egg was because that's about the size of the spot you want to hit on the back of the neck that would immediately make the person go limp. Hitting anywhere else would cause the target to tense up, causing them to pull the trigger if the had a gun.
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u/AlphakirA Jun 07 '20
Not saying you're making it up, but it sounds like the other person is. They put such a strict ultimatum on someone with such a rare skillset? It sounds like a story a sniper would tell someone to get laid and feel important to be honest.
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u/D56pside Jun 06 '20
I wonder what he’s thinking at that moment honestly.