Thursday, November 20, 2008

Medicine for Pirates

Drudge had a photo today of one of the anti-pirate forces off the coast of Africa with an old-school M16 rifle (carry handle and fixed stock) at the ready. (It was one of those photos that Drudge annoyingly embeds on his site without a link or any caption. From a story that he linked to separately, it looks like it might have been one of the Dutch.) This pirate problem has gotten remarkably out of hand, and I think it's going to take something more than a few varmint guns to solve it. Something like this would work:



Yeah, I know battleships with the 16-inch guns shown in the video have all been mothballed, but pirate-fighting duties would be a great excuse to pull one back into service.

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