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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20978842The PSNI use 'em. For me they are up there with the AK47 and MP5 as 'death-dealing art' 
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Also the baddies in Die Hard.
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:39 pm |
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JohnSheridan
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:10 pm Posts: 1057
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Special Forces have used the Glock for some time now.
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:49 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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They have been allowed to pick what they need for decades. Rightly so. Though shame that this procurement has taken so long to be completed.
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 4:51 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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I just bought a 9mm browning last week 
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 9:39 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Browning was always the brand mentioned in Tintin books. Haddock had one. He was always tooled up, I suspect.
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:14 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:22 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Shoulda waited, there'll be a lot of well-kept second hand ones around soon...
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Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:51 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm Posts: 5161 Location: /dev/tty0
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I bought a browning about a year ago. The Platinum Nano 75 badminton racquet.... Unfortunately I understand the stopped making racquets and are focusing on guns 
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JohnSheridan
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:10 pm Posts: 1057
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I used to have a Beretta 92F but handed it in some years ago
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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I'm kind of surprised they didn't go for the 92F to be honest. Quite a lot of NATO's armed forces use them already and there's a drive to standardise equipment to help inter-operability. Something tweaked my mind about that piece the BBC did. They said we'd been using the Browning since the '60's but I thought I'd seen evidence of them before then. Turns out it's a very, very old design indeed. The original version predates WWI and is therefore over 100 years old. I can't imagine there's any other firearm that's been in widespread use for such an extended period of time. I suppose the AK-47 might make it eventually. Yes, it's a thing we'd all much rather we didn't have. But something that's in use consistently round the world for a century? That's a pretty special piece of design.
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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It's both brilliant and scary that this site exists (found it looking for info on the '99 Mummy film) http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Bratty's new home page. 
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