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| Israel seizes guns, gun-making tools in the West Bank | |
| 2016-03-14 | |
[IsraelTimes] IDF and Shin Bet confiscate weapons, ammo and equipment in crackdown on homemade guns used in terror attacks
During one raid on Saturday, Shin Bet officers confiscated 15 rifles that had been hidden in the Yabad village, outside Jenin. The officers learned of the weapons’ locations after interrogating a gunsmith they had placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... and questioned earlier, the service said. On March 1, security forces conducted a similar raid in Nablus, seizing guns, bullets and weapon-making equipment. "The IDF and the Shin Bet are constantly carrying out operations to thwart the creation and sale of weaponry in the West Bank," the Shin Bet said this month. Improvised submachine guns, based off the Carl Gustav design, have been used frequently and to devastating effect in the ongoing wave of violence. Most recently, two Paleostinian faceless myrmidons opened fire with two Carl Gustav submachine guns at a city bus in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem and then at coppers near the Old City. During the firefight, an elderly Arab Israeli man was maimed. The day before, a Paleostinian gunman shot and seriously injured two coppers with a Carl Gustav-style submachine gun in a drive-by shooting in East Jerusalem. Three faceless myrmidons armed with such guns also shot and killed 19-year-old Border Police officer Hadar Cohen in February. Some 68 shooting attacks have been carried out in the West Bank and Jerusalem since October 1, many of them with this kind of fabricated gun, the IDF said in a statement. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 More commonly known as the 'Swedish-K.' Very, very stable and accurate. The ability to write one's name on a large target, frequently claimed. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-03-14 19:47 |
| #3 Swedish designed Carl Gustav m45 |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-03-14 18:28 |
| #2 From the article, dear Snowy Thing: Improvised submachine guns, based off the Carl Gustav design, have been used frequently and to devastating effect in the ongoing wave of violence. There are also photos at the link that you might find interesting. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-14 17:06 |
| #1 I thought the Carl Gustav was a recoiless rifle. There's a submachine gun? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-03-14 16:14 |