Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Wed 05/28/2025 View Tue 05/27/2025 View Mon 05/26/2025 View Sun 05/25/2025 View Sat 05/24/2025 View Fri 05/23/2025 View Thu 05/22/2025
2024-08-21 -Land of the Free
Secret Service installs bulletproof glass for Trump's outdoor rally in North Carolina
Wonder how many panels were tested.
[JustTheNews] At his first outdoor rally since the attempted assassination, Trump will try to counter the DNC and secure the key battleground state

The Secret Service has installed bulletproof glass at former President Donald Trump's Wednesday rally in North Carolina.
It’s better than nothing, at least. Transporting it will add an interesting twist to the agents’ daily routine.
This is his first outdoor rally since the one last month in which a sniper attempted to assassinate him.

A "special see-through protective barrier" will separate Trump, now the GOP presidential nominee, from rallygoers, according to The Washington Examiner.

The sniper at the July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, shot from a rooftop about 150 yards away from the stage and outside of the Secret Service's inner security ring that included magnetometers, which has prompted several investigations into agency lapses and promises for a review of and improvements to policies and practices.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-21 10:14|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top

#1 "The calls shots were coming from inside!"
Posted by Frank G 2024-08-21 11:16||   2024-08-21 11:16|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm kind of suprised that wasn't the standard protocol
Posted by ruprecht 2024-08-21 11:21||   2024-08-21 11:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Next story: in a shocking lapse, shots that killed Trump went straight through defective bulletproof glass, report reveals. The improperly stored glass deteriorated over time and should never have been used, investigators said.
Posted by Omeath Spaling8608 2024-08-21 13:07||   2024-08-21 13:07|| Front Page Top

#4 
Given everything coming out of the DC Swamp lately. Why do I expect to read soon.....

A Secret Service Spokesperson stated.
We "thought" it was bulletproof.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-08-21 14:03||   2024-08-21 14:03|| Front Page Top

#5 And Trump gave them heart attacks when he stepped out from behind the glass and down to the stands to check on a person that fainted in the heat.
Posted by DarthVader 2024-08-21 16:53||   2024-08-21 16:53|| Front Page Top

#6 
Posted by DarthVader 2024-08-21 16:54||   2024-08-21 16:54|| Front Page Top

#7 UAV? After all if Hezbollah can master the tech, why not some, technically competent though leftard otherwise, American kid?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-08-21 17:03||   2024-08-21 17:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Why not a full-size round? Like a NATO 7.62? I think I recall--69-71, there were AP rounds along with ball and tracer. Not sure about incendiary, although all had been available in mil 30.06.
Would bullet-proof glass stop a full-size round? Lots of hunting ammo in that ballpark, too.
So I guess the question is what kind of commonly-available ammo will the glass stop?
Going on about AR-15 family of weapons and ammo may restrict the thinking.
When I was in high school, just over sixty years ago, lots of guys, or their fathers, had the 03 Springfield for deer. Fired the mil 30.06. If you lived near Canada, likely to have an Enfield in .303,similar ballistic performance.
And those were the cheap ones. When the US switched to NATO, how many Garands got loose?
I hope somebody's thinking bigger than .223/5.56.
Posted by Richard Aubrey 2024-08-21 17:18||   2024-08-21 17:18|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 UAV? After all if Hezbollah can master the tech, why not some, technically competent though leftard otherwise, American kid?

Rather amazing this has not already happened given the wide availability of commercial off-the-shelf drones. I can think of a half-dozen ways to do it that would be really hard to defend against, especially if it was the first instance. Who's up for a nice drone swarm?

Perhaps the overlap between dangerous wokerati lunatics and STEM nerds is not that great.
Posted by SteveS 2024-08-21 18:36||   2024-08-21 18:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Plot Point of 'Angel Has Fallen', 2013.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-21 18:49||   2024-08-21 18:49|| Front Page Top

07:43 Procopius2k
07:42 BrerRabbit
07:42 Procopius2k
07:39 Procopius2k
07:36 Procopius2k
07:35 Procopius2k
07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker
07:03 NN2N1
06:58 NN2N1
06:58 Besoeker
05:28 Whiskey Mike
05:23 Whiskey Mike
05:21 Whiskey Mike
05:18 Whiskey Mike
05:15 Whiskey Mike
05:13 Whiskey Mike
05:08 Whiskey Mike









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com