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Old March 19, 2013, 04:30 AM   #51
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I've said it before, and it bears repeating, if the gun grabbers are targeting semi-automatic rifles today, so-called assualt weapons, then tomorrow they will be after bolt action rifles, the so-called sniper rifles.
Let's not forget all single shots could probably classified as zip guns and all handguns as Saturday Night Specials!
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Old March 19, 2013, 03:59 PM   #52
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I carried a sniper rifle in LE, a Remington 700 BDL Varmint in 223

How illustrative of the issue at hand. The Remington 700 BDL you called a sniper rifle is billed as a great hunting rifle by Remington and has been for the last 40 years.
http://www.remington.com/products/fi...l-700-bdl.aspx
Yeh, it was also billed as a great LE Sniper Rifle per the USAMU Counter-Sniper Guide from the '70s.

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Redfield Leupold Unertl Realiat Tasco

- 6X with 4 post crosa hair reticle
- 1.5 X with duplex reticle
- 6X Condor with poat reticle
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Old March 19, 2013, 07:44 PM   #53
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Yeh, it was also billed as a great LE Sniper Rifle per the USAMU Counter-Sniper Guide from the '70s.
And so the same rifle does not care what it is doing. You can give it whatever name you want, calling it a hunting rifle or a sniper rifle, but in the end, such a name isn't a classification of the firearm, but an application of it.

Sort of reminds me of the differences between hunting scopes, sniper scopes, and countersniper scopes.
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