I'm also wondering how this can be real because the 50cal rounds are very rarely used in rifles. Though I may be incorrect in this sense, I have never seen an old-fashion-designed and styled 50cal bolt-action rifle like the one this guy has. There are 2 50 cal sniper rifles that I know of... the Barrett M82A1 rifle is one I learned of some time ago to be an anti-device rifle, used for picking off devices from long range. The other is popularized by various video games like BF2, CoD4, MW2, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 -- the M95.

To add also into the doubting mix is the fact that a youngster like him would be holding a weapon that can FIRE a 50cal round. I won't be surprised by people holding something that can fire NATO rounds. But a rifle that fires a 50cal? Sorry, my expectations for those capable of firing a 50cal round from a rifle is someone in uniform and one who has had years of marksman training.

Cool, but will it have a sniper rifle?

To quote Warren Ellis himself:

"Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle.

I mean, if you don’t want to see a film with Helen Mirren with a sniper rifle, I’m not sure I want to know you."

Who cares if it's rubber bands? It's freakin' cool. I was impressed by the sniper rifle. The Lego people need to hire this guy to build stuff for them.

Rather than run the risk of repeating myself, I'll just link to my previous comment so I don't repeat myself.

>> ^nanrod:

Duh! I was kinda thinking about the reaction when this shows up fully assembled on an X-ray>> ^heathen:
>> ^nanrod:
OK. Who wants to be first to try and board a plane with this in their carry on?

Would be pretty easy, disassembled, just some Lego bricks and elastic bands.



In that case, no chance. These days a picture of a gun on your T-shirt is enough to stop you boarding a flight.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1234193.ece

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Duh! I was kinda thinking about the reaction when this shows up fully assembled on an X-ray>> ^heathen:

>> ^nanrod:
OK. Who wants to be first to try and board a plane with this in their carry on?

Would be pretty easy, disassembled, just some Lego bricks and elastic bands.

Maybe I'm just picky, but to be a FULLY functional sniper rifle, shouldn't the scope work, too?

Cool nonetheless.

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>> ^nanrod:

OK. Who wants to be first to try and board a plane with this in their carry on?


Would be pretty easy, disassembled, just some Lego bricks and elastic bands.

Life is not like GTA 4 where you can just walk into a store and pick up a gun if you're a criminal. It's not like a Hollywood action movie where bad guys are armed to the teeth with sub machine guns, sniper rifles and atomic bombs, and the only thing that'll stop them is Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson taking up arms and shooting the living crap out of them.

There are gun restrictions in my country, where you need to register your weapon and buy ammo through specialized shops who keep track on how much you get. You need to get a hunting license and maintain it in order to legally buy and keep your weapon. You also can't have as many guns as you want, nor whatever kind you want.
Now, this is by no means necessarily the reason why the crime rate is lower here than in the states, because it's such a complicated issue that you can't just point to one single thing as the decisive factor. However, the majority of our lesser crimes (and I can imagine most of the more serious ones) are gun-free. I'm just saying that restrictive gun laws doesn't mean you simply take the weapons from law abiding citizens and hand them over to the mob, serial killers and bank heist rings.

I saw this on Live Leak, the consensus there was that this was the work of a rubber bullet to the head. Which have been known to cause massive trauma.

If that was a .223 full metal jacket I'm surprised to see so much trauma. Given other pictures of similar trauma, on the internet, it would appear that a .223 would not cause the brain to flop out on the concrete like that. It seems like a rubber slug or something to that extent. Of course we don't have sufficient proof, but we can formulate a good hypothesis.

If it were a sniper, there would have been much, much more damage. I mean like his head would have popped in a red mist and his body would have slumped directly to the ground, not as if it were being knocked over. I get the feeling that if it were a lethal round then it wasn't a sniper but regular infantry; who is a good marksman. The circumstances just don't lead me to think it was.

Since when do snipers do head shots...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Thai_Army#Equipment

The general Thailand bolt action sniper rifle is listed as the SIG-Sauer SSG 300; which shots the famous 7.62x51mm NATO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG-Sauer_SSG_3000

They also have the SR-25 which also fires the 7.62x51mm NATO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-25

>> ^Djevel:
>> ^cybrbeast:
. EOD are not snipers!

From what I understand, EOD personnel are trained in the use of the Barret for long range explosive detonation.

I guess you're right

http://www.americanspecialops.com/special-ops-weapons/barrett-sniper-rifle.php
However I doubt they would have the skill and endurance of real snipers. And it's still ridiculous that the British special ops were taken out like pansies and couldn't even repair their own tire.