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Quoted: Sshhhh . . . . . . Shhh . . . . . . . . Come closer . . . . . . . Come closer I defended democracy and human rights in dc View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Are you still patting yourself on the back for your brave service at the J6 “uprising” in DC Sshhhh . . . . . . Shhh . . . . . . . . Come closer . . . . . . . Come closer I defended democracy and human rights in dc Attached File |
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View Quote Onnittelut I want an RK-62 or M92. |
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View Quote Awesome! F_ck Putin's Russia! |
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View Quote Why hello there fellow Nato friend |
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Quoted: Finland should be a useful member. I'll bet they pony up more than the required contribution too. https://brian.carnell.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/select-all-images-finnish-snipers-920x1024.jpg View Quote Finland Buys New Rifles from SAKO/Beretta Defense Left to right: Franco Gussali Beretta, President Chairman of Sako Board; Jari Mikkonen, Director of FDF Logistics Command; Jonas Lotsne, Head of FMV; and Raimo Karjalainen, CEO Member of Sako Board. (Photo: Sako) "dON't pOKe dA bEAr." - LOL! |
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Quoted: I'm here. Different forms of Fascism. Still authoritarian BS. From both. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Fuck Russia, but fuck I'm here. Different forms of Fascism. Still authoritarian BS. From both. Well, less fascist-authoritarian than CA, OR, WA, IL, NY, NJ, MA, CT, MD, DE, RI, etc. regarding MSR ownership in Finland, France (yes, France), Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, etc.. |
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Quoted: I want an RK-62 or M92. View Quote They go between about $2500 and $3000 plus a few hundred for export/import permits and shipping. If the barrel is in decent shape, they sell pretty fast. There's one. |
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Quoted: I'm here. Different forms of Fascism. Still authoritarian BS. From both. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Fuck Russia, but fuck I'm here. Different forms of Fascism. Still authoritarian BS. From both. Define Fascism. I see this word chucked around by both sides with wanton abandon. |
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Quoted: Finland Buys New Rifles from SAKO/Beretta Defense https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/64252676ef076d2fae761d2c513260e192bf1f6f8fb16.jpg Left to right: Franco Gussali Beretta, President Chairman of Sako Board; Jari Mikkonen, Director of FDF Logistics Command; Jonas Lotsne, Head of FMV; and Raimo Karjalainen, CEO Member of Sako Board. (Photo: Sako) https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/642526af675771cda840d3e1456b8534f275a17ea22bd.jpg https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/642526bdd869cba6874a2797593bc9fb833a2d93b0036.jpg "dON't pOKe dA bEAr." - LOL! View Quote |
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Quoted: Anything's possible. Do you think its likely? I seem to recall you being in favor of Finland joining NATO. View Quote I'm not an expert on Finnish politics, so it is difficult for me to put a percentage on it. However I know that response of Europe to the Gates Declaration has been to increase the American burden for what are fundamentally Euro defense problems. That's non sustainable for the US, but the Euros have even fewer options, budgetarily and demographically than us, so here we are. Now, the Swedes and Finns will be as close to turn key accession on the practical integration as imaginable, unlike the majority of new NATO accessions, even 25 years into the process. |
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Quoted: Take a look at what each NATO country spends and where they are located. The mooches (with the exception of Turkey) are far from Russia: Luxembourg (0.58%), Belgium (1.18%), Spain (1.01%), Canada (1.27%), Germany (1.44%) Now look (with the exception of Turkey) at what the countries close to Russia spend on defense: Poland (2.42%), Lithuania (2.36%), Latvia (2.10%), Estonia (2.34%), and now Finland (2.25%) Russia has a long and ugly history of trying to eat their neighbors, so their neighbors are steadily learning that spending on their militaries and having friends is a good thing. View Quote 2.36% of the Lithuanian budget isn't much capacity or capability. |
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Quoted: They go between about $2500 and $3000 plus a few hundred for export/import permits and shipping. If the barrel is in decent shape, they sell pretty fast. There's one. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I want an RK-62 or M92. They go between about $2500 and $3000 plus a few hundred for export/import permits and shipping. If the barrel is in decent shape, they sell pretty fast. There's one. Unimportable into the USA thanks to Bush Sr. The closest we have are pre-1989 M62s which are in excess of $5,000. When I worked at Beretta, I proposed a project to Franco Beretta (pictured in my previous post) to make the Rk92 here (2007) - 922r compliant. SAKO couldn't locate the tooling - that's why Finland bought over 200 Norinco AKs for their reserves back in 2005 (I think). I also discussed the project with Raimo who is also pictured in the same photo. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Finland Buys New Rifles from SAKO/Beretta Defense https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/64252676ef076d2fae761d2c513260e192bf1f6f8fb16.jpg Left to right: Franco Gussali Beretta, President Chairman of Sako Board; Jari Mikkonen, Director of FDF Logistics Command; Jonas Lotsne, Head of FMV; and Raimo Karjalainen, CEO Member of Sako Board. (Photo: Sako) https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/6425269b10496cc8eee91a3663905b5a97206941d63e6.jpg https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/642526af675771cda840d3e1456b8534f275a17ea22bd.jpg https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/642526bdd869cba6874a2797593bc9fb833a2d93b0036.jpg "dON't pOKe dA bEAr." - LOL! They (HK, Sako, etc, etc) all copied the great Stoner (and Sullivan) design and claim it as their own! |
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Quoted: I look forward to surplus Finnish 7.62 Nato ammo. Nammo Oy Lapua please. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Finland should be a useful member. I'll bet they pony up more than the required contribution too. https://brian.carnell.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/select-all-images-finnish-snipers-920x1024.jpg Finland Buys New Rifles from SAKO/Beretta Defense https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/64252676ef076d2fae761d2c513260e192bf1f6f8fb16.jpg Left to right: Franco Gussali Beretta, President Chairman of Sako Board; Jari Mikkonen, Director of FDF Logistics Command; Jonas Lotsne, Head of FMV; and Raimo Karjalainen, CEO Member of Sako Board. (Photo: Sako) https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/6425269b10496cc8eee91a3663905b5a97206941d63e6.jpg https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/642526af675771cda840d3e1456b8534f275a17ea22bd.jpg https://images.guns.com/prod/2023/03/30/642526bdd869cba6874a2797593bc9fb833a2d93b0036.jpg "dON't pOKe dA bEAr." - LOL! I look forward to surplus Finnish 7.62 Nato ammo. Nammo Oy Lapua please. I have vivid memories of a Valmet M62 in a local gun shop around 1981 and 82. It sat on the shelf for years - butterfly metal buttstock, swiss cheese hole handguard, bicycle grip type pistol grip, etc. I came close to buying it at $800 (BIG money then) but the only ammo for it was from Lapua at $1/round. That killed it for me. Even after the Maadi AK came in around 1982, there still was no cheap supply until Chinese AKs flooded in with ammo in the mid-1980s. |
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And pix of the former PMs leather starfish please and thanks. |
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Quoted: Upset Russia can't invade more people? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: North Atlantic Terrorist Organization Upset Russia can't invade more people? With all of their superior weaponry and highly-trained extra personnel currently sitting the bench waiting to be put in? |
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Quoted: With all of their superior weaponry and highly-trained extra personnel currently sitting the bench waiting to be put in? View Quote I could have almost believed that Putin would have been arrogant enough to send in the B team at first. But once his plan started going to shit, surely he would have sent in the 1st line units if that were the case? |
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Quoted: I look forward to surplus Finnish 7.62 Nato ammo. Nammo Oy Lapua please. View Quote While the Rks will be stored and then most likely melted, surplus JVA 0316 might actually happen (in maybe 10 years from now). It is rather nice ammo, most lots are sub-MOA in good condition Sako barrels, way tighter than acceptance criteria. There is a recurring April Fools news story circulating among Finnish reservists of the FDF issuing surplus ammo to reservist personal use at all local garrisons on April 1st. Every year someone goes just on the off chance that some new guy is guarding the ammo depot and won't know it's a joke. |
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Quoted: Unimportable into the USA thanks to Bush Sr. The closest we have are pre-1989 M62s which are in excess of $5,000. When I worked at Beretta, I proposed a project to Franco Beretta (pictured in my previous post) to make the Rk92 here (2007) - 922r compliant. SAKO couldn't locate the tooling - that's why Finland bought over 200 Norinco AKs for their reserves back in 2005 (I think). I also discussed the project with Raimo who is also pictured in the same photo. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I want an RK-62 or M92. They go between about $2500 and $3000 plus a few hundred for export/import permits and shipping. If the barrel is in decent shape, they sell pretty fast. There's one. Unimportable into the USA thanks to Bush Sr. The closest we have are pre-1989 M62s which are in excess of $5,000. When I worked at Beretta, I proposed a project to Franco Beretta (pictured in my previous post) to make the Rk92 here (2007) - 922r compliant. SAKO couldn't locate the tooling - that's why Finland bought over 200 Norinco AKs for their reserves back in 2005 (I think). I also discussed the project with Raimo who is also pictured in the same photo. That’s the saddest story I’ve heard today. Either way, I said I wanted one, not that I could afford one, LOL. |
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Quoted: Well, less fascist-authoritarian than CA, OR, WA, IL, NY, NJ, MA, CT, MD, DE, RI, etc. regarding MSR ownership in Finland, France (yes, France), Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, etc.. View Quote I love you're defending the EU now. You get that it was conceived as a neo-Trotskyite project to serve as a counter-balance to the US? |
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Quoted: “Much capacity” isn’t the requirement. Let’s not move goalposts. View Quote These are the practical realities that military personnel need to address. Its great that the Balts do their 2%, and they provide value added in a number of ways, but the reality is that 10 tiny nations providing 2% doesn't buy much, other than increasing the ease of US forces to enter the battlespace. Additionally, the 2% of these countries is pretty much territorial defense in the best case, and provides little in the way of advanced mechanized or out of area capability. Even then, there significant mobility challenges in these areas. The Balts and Poland would likely be spending 2%+ on their defense in any event. That 2% just buys them mammoth American firepower, bodies and money. |
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Quoted: I love you're defending the EU now. You get that it was conceived as a neo-Trotskyite project to serve as a counter-balance to the US? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Well, less fascist-authoritarian than CA, OR, WA, IL, NY, NJ, MA, CT, MD, DE, RI, etc. regarding MSR ownership in Finland, France (yes, France), Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, etc.. I love you're defending the EU now. You get that it was conceived as a neo-Trotskyite project to serve as a counter-balance to the US? I'm NOT defending the leftist-globalist EU at all. Just putting things in perspective of how bad things are for us which many here don't realize because they live in a free state. |
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View Quote Thank you Vladimir Putin! He managed something that the West has wanted, but failed to do for over 50 years - get Finland to Join NATO. Amazing! |
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Quoted: Thank you Vladimir Putin! He managed something that the West has wanted, but failed to do for over 50 years - get Finland to Join NATO. Amazing! View Quote It is interesting that Putin would have likely been able to preserve the Russian sphere of influence far better had he continued in the grey space area than just trying Blitzkreig V3.4, the MS-DOS 4.0 of invasions. |
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Quoted: While the Rks will be stored and then most likely melted, surplus JVA 0316 might actually happen (in maybe 10 years from now). It is rather nice ammo, most lots are sub-MOA in good condition Sako barrels, way tighter than acceptance criteria. There is a recurring April Fools news story circulating among Finnish reservists of the FDF issuing surplus ammo to reservist personal use at all local garrisons on April 1st. Every year someone goes just on the off chance that some new guy is guarding the ammo depot and won't know it's a joke. View Quote Its not joke anymore. Law changed and now military ammo and full auto guns can be used in reserve shooting events. National defence training orgs had hard time getting ammo due to covid and war, so law was changed and we are dipping into military cookie jar and will shoot out all the 7,62x39 ammo and wear out all the old RK barrels to speed up migration to ARs. Sorry, no surplus for you.. |
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Good. Finland can take our place so we can get the hell out of NATO. |
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Quoted: Define Fascism. I see this word chucked around by both sides with wanton abandon. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Fuck Russia, but fuck I'm here. Different forms of Fascism. Still authoritarian BS. From both. Define Fascism. I see this word chucked around by both sides with wanton abandon. It usually means the person doesn't like the thing, and so it's facist |
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Quoted: Thank you Vladimir Putin! He managed something that the West has wanted, but failed to do for over 50 years - get Finland to Join NATO. Amazing! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Thank you Vladimir Putin! He managed something that the West has wanted, but failed to do for over 50 years - get Finland to Join NATO. Amazing! Trying to create Soviet Union 2.0 hasn’t turned out as planned so far. |
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Quoted: It is interesting that Putin would have likely been able to preserve the Russian sphere of influence far better had he continued in the grey space area than just trying Blitzkreig V3.4, the MS-DOS 4.0 of invasions. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Thank you Vladimir Putin! He managed something that the West has wanted, but failed to do for over 50 years - get Finland to Join NATO. Amazing! It is interesting that Putin would have likely been able to preserve the Russian sphere of influence far better had he continued in the grey space area than just trying Blitzkreig V3.4, the MS-DOS 4.0 of invasions. Agreed. It's kind of weird. Wonder what changed - is he feeling his mortality, trying to rush his glorious legacy? |
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Quoted: It usually means the person doesn't like the thing, and so it's facist View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Fuck Russia, but fuck I'm here. Different forms of Fascism. Still authoritarian BS. From both. Define Fascism. I see this word chucked around by both sides with wanton abandon. It usually means the person doesn't like the thing, and so it's facist Totally agree. Throwing the same word back at your enemy doesn't really work. |
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Quoted: Agreed. It's kind of weird. Wonder what changed - is he feeling his mortality, trying to rush his glorious legacy? View Quote Personally, I think he guessed that the West wouldn't intervene on what Putin perceives is outside the West's core interest area, and that Russia had to redeem a gradually failing position of influence within Ukraine proper (i.e. economic issues in occupied Eastern provinces, water shortages in Crimea, fewer Russian controlled politicians and business figures within the country) and he was facing no better opponent than Biden. People tend to think this is Hitler 2.0 wanting to redraw the Continental system, when its actually closer to Kim Il Sung, 1950. |
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Quoted: Holy shit. How much does the FSB pay you? No one with a half a brain believes that bullshit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: They openly stated they wanted to reclaim all former Soviet and Imperial Russian lands. Finland was once one of those. Who is they? Putin stated this? Putin has clearly stated they dont desire to take over Ukraine. Holy shit. How much does the FSB pay you? No one with a half a brain believes that bullshit. Actually, he's right - for the wrong reasons. Putin doesn't want to take over Ukraine, he wants to eliminate all Ukrainians and make it Russia. If it's Russia, it isn't Ukraine. |
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Quoted: Personally, I think he guessed that the West wouldn't intervene on what Putin perceives is outside the West's core interest area, and that Russia had to redeem a gradually failing position of influence within Ukraine proper (i.e. economic issues in occupied Eastern provinces, water shortages in Crimea, fewer Russian controlled politicians and business figures within the country) and he was facing no better opponent than Biden. People tend to think this is Hitler 2.0 wanting to redraw the Continental system, when its actually closer to Kim Il Sung, 1950. View Quote I'm inclined to agree. He probably thought that the Ukraine invasion would shake out like Georgia invasion did. |
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Quoted: Its not joke anymore. - - Sorry, no surplus for you.. View Quote It's no joke if I actually can walk in an ammo depot and get issued ammo to shoot in my personal weapon. Or to check out the rifle and the ammo to go on the range on my own time (like with Kaitseliit). We have still a lot to do to reach the level of support for active reservists that Estonia has. Perhaps that will happen, but I won't be holding my breath. IMHO it is more important that in a SHTF situation FDF standard full scale issue ammo would be 5.56 and compatible with more personal weapons. Thus far it is issued only to SOF of various kinds (and Border Guards). |
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Iran type of response - retaliate in future https://tass.com/politics/1599383
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