I didn't read the writing, just looked at the picture assuming that it was a sniper I was supposed to find. 😆

Cool stuff that you can find in Ukranian and Russian warehouses today.

Wagner PMCs found a cache of new in the grease Thompson SMGS from the lend-lease of WW2.Along with NIG Maxim machine guns. There are storehouses like this all over Russia still stuffed full of both German Wehrmacht and Allied lend-lease equipment,as the Russians never throw out or scrap military equipment.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1653413295599091713

"With air rifles they have to under a certain joule to be legal, but I’m sure you can soup them up like you can the scooters" 😂

Why does that "rifle " look like it has been crudely cut and pasted onto the picture, and made look Ar15 ish?

The trouble is when you magnify and zoom the pic the rifle looks like he is carrying a Barret light 50 rifle.Which would be VERY unlikely.

All in all it sounds like the resident "Victor Meldrew" got hold of the reporter and spouted some utter nonsense.

Verdict.VERY dodgy story.

Where would I buy one of those silencers that make the shot sound like "a puff of air"? Hollywood maybe?

I thought I was erring on the side of being cynical, however I thought that. Yer man's opinions while in inverted commas are presented like facts.

Planted by who? Lol

If it was a planted fake story they’d have imagined something that was in some illegal or involved shooters.

Its a typical commitee Queen with nothing better to do. Abd a journalist with nothing to write about. No more.

I think the most obvious explanation is usually the right explanation.

The media will publish whatever gets them the most clicks. A Madman roaming Mullingar is more dramatic that a man-child with a airsoft on his back. Sometimes publishing the dramatic version of the story will hurt shooters and align to other interests, that's not the same as a co-ordinated smear campaign.

IF there was a targeted campaign as you suggest. I highly doubt it would feature in a local Westmeath newsletter, with a circulation of 5000. Nor do I think it would be such a ridiculous article. If it was fabricated, it would most likely actual firearms owner doing something actually illegal. To me it sounds like a hysterical local busy body. Chairman of the residents committee, reported it to the council (lol) - I think we all know exactly this type of person. Again, most obvious explanation.

Seems clear, sensible and reasonable from the judge.

I don’t think it poses any legal issues. Plenty of countries have legalised medical cannabis without issue.

I think it should be legalise. I’d have no issue about utilising it if it was. I have tried CBD oil to treat inflammation post knee surgery. I imagine the stronger stuff can help even more.

If anything legalising it will eliminate the criminal aspect and encourage sensible use.

Yeah, I got that was the implication. My answer was with that in mind. Legal medical cannabis use and firearm ownership are not at odds with each other. As is seen in German, Switzerland, Norway, Finland, etc etc etc.

The guy above got into bother as he was caught driving under the influence. That's obviously irresponsible, and would still be irresponsible with a prescription. But 99% of medical cannabis users are able to do so completely responsibly, there's no issue with any body being a medical cannabis user and also owning a car. As long as they don't use both together. Just likes is also perfectly fine to drink alcohol and to own a car/firearm. As long as you don't do both together.

Somebody who does both* together, and gets caught, especially repeatedly. Should probably have to demonstrate they are responsible enough to have their license reinstated.

*that seems to apply for all 4 combinations of activity and substance.

Germany Grass or Geweher ? One or the other.

The USA likewise.It even specifically asks you on the 4773 form when you are buying a firearm. Have you ever used Marijuana or any other narcotics?[Somthing Joe Bidens son Hunter,lied thru his teeth about.]

I thought medical cannabis lacked the good stuff.

Nope aSFIK the THC compound is the pain relieving part of the compound?

Germans have odd laws on booze. Beer for example is classed as a foodstuff,[since around 1416] and not an alcoholic beverage.Hence you can actually buy it in a vending machine in your place of work and drink it while operating machinery or equipment.To us Irish that sounds weird and HTAF does anyone not have accidents and be sober during work? Simple really.They have a different sense of personal responsibility and duty to workand workmates than us Irish. You won't find Hans completely rat-assed operating a machine for anyway long as he would be out the door with his P35 before lunchtime. But a H&S inspector or foreman won't bat an eye at an opened bottle of beer beside the same machine and Hans is working away no problem.

Likewise driving DUI is an utter death knell for you if you have any sort of firearms/hunting cert and are caught. Likewise, if you have a pilot's license or a small boatsman's license. In fact any sort of state-granted license. You lose them ALL for the period of your DUI suspension, It's a 3 strike and you are out. In fact, over there these days, fiddling with your taxes, excessive speeding or belonging to an extremist Right or Left political group or liking a slightly off-colour FB post will get you in the same hot water. Yet it is no bother to have a bottle of beer in the gun clubhouse after a shoot and drive home. Different if of course you pour a bottle of Schnapps into yourself and try it and run into a police checkpoint,[as no doubt someone will have phoned the cops before you even make it into your car with your firearms].Which in itself is a very rare occurrence,if they have a checkpoint up, it's for something serious not your tax& insurance and NCT. I've yet to see one for DUI in Germany. They don't have every long weekend the local police reminding Germans about speeding or driving under the influence at the holidays on the MSM. It's just a given that Germans take their responsibilities seriously. So yeah,having a booze problem that's clinically diagnosed you as an alcoholic, your guns are gone.So it's hardly then surprising if you are using or growing your own ganja for medicinal use your guns are gone too...

There is no excuse for this.

How convenient, that following a governmental report stating that thermal/NV can not differentiate between a bee and a deer, that something like this happens, ? hmm, one wonders!

Absolutely no mitigating circumstances. I don't think complete idiot covers it to be honest.

Shooters need to see clearly what they are shooting at and if there's a safe backstop before they even think of going near the trigger.

Sh1t like that throws a bad light on all of us and I'd fully expect that person to never be allowed to hold a firearm again.

That's exactly what I thought when this came out yesterday. There's more to this than meets the eye. Who were these people in wetsuits supposedly retrieving golf balls after dusk? Who were these 'hunters'? Are they members of any particular club or are they 'family'? We have a few of the latter out round here from time to time after dark with their whippets.

100% agree. I think it is...... Is not identification.

Common sense should be a super power these days.

Depends on which kind of seal he was thinking about being in there . A seal or a USN SEAL.

Did the "hunters" have one?OTOH it might also have prevented such a shooting too. It's irrespective,even if they had a state-of-the-art Ukrainian spotter drone up with them. It was an unidentified target and the more you read of it the more suss this whole story becomes. From both sides. Lads out in the night looking in a water trap for golf balls, another group "hunting" on a golf course?

There's decent money in lake balls. There's a retired guy in Cork that has the "rights" for search on a couple of golf courses, but he is restricted to non-playing hours, so very early morning or very late evening. He makes a decent sideline in it and only searches bushes.

Decent ProV will get you €1.50- €2, and even the average golf ball will get you €1. You could easily collect 200+ balls in a couple of hours in a lake

Here's a site selling lake balls sourced in Irish lakes https://colegolf.ie/products/golfballs/

Rabbits are a scourge in many clubs at present. They burrow holes which an unsuspecting golfer can easily trip on, hence some clubs will get some local hunters in to cull the rabbit population along with foxes if they also pose a problem.

So for golfers, there is nothing unusual about the story except the guy doing the hunting should have been a lot more aware that people other than golfers (walkers can frequent golf clubs) can be on a golf course late evening / early morning

I work with a member of the golf club in question. None of the parties involved had permission to be on the grounds.