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Please don't feed the trolls!
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Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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Right on - I would prefer less tacticool scales, though
Member of the Merry Band of turdlike People.
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You mean the useless things that catch on clothing??? They're foolish on a belly-popper handgun. 
Hunt with Class and Classics
Religion: A founder of The Church of Spray and Pray
Acquit v. t. To render a judgment in a murder case in San Francisco... EQUAL, adj. As bad as something else. Ambrose Bierce “The Devil's Dictionary”
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"If you don't know where you're going, you may wind up somewhere else".
Yogi Berra
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cool sure. Stupid yes. At least the part that all services went to the 9mm to start with....and now we pay ONCE again.
But I'll take this hit, since it helps our troops out.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Pretty fancy lookin' piece fer a bunch of Jarheads. 
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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I'm still pissed about open queerness in the Marines! 
"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
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The age old dilema.. larger firepower vs. larger capacity
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The age old dilema.. larger firepower vs. larger capacity Resolved by H&K with the USP-45. 
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$22.5MM for 12,000 pistols comes out to $1875 apiece. WOW!!
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The price includes spare parts and "support". In government contracts that "support" can cover an awful lot of ground.
As for the taxpayers paying ,"once again", we are always paying for new or replacement stuff for the military. We might as well pay for good stuff when we can.
This contract costs only a fraction of what one aircraft costs, to better equip 12,000 Marines.
It sure beats having the government pay $600 for toilet seats, etc.
Semper Fi
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I'm still pissed about open queerness in the Marines! Yeah. And some years ago, the Queer Rodeo Cowboy's Assn. got started. That just about blew me out of the saddle! 
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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22.5 million dollars divided by 12,000 pistols = $1,875 per pistol. Looks like another 'bargain' for the American Taxpayer! I love the Government Model .45 and I'm glad they're going back to them...but damn!
Every day on this side of the ground is a win.
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22.5 million dollars divided by 12,000 pistols = $1,875 per pistol. Looks like another 'bargain' for the American Taxpayer! I love the Government Model .45 and I'm glad they're going back to them...but damn! That does seem excessive. A basic model would have served as well. I guess corporations see the US tax payer as a huge sucker.
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22.5 million dollars divided by 12,000 pistols = $1,875 per pistol. Looks like another 'bargain' for the American Taxpayer! I love the Government Model .45 and I'm glad they're going back to them...but damn! The price includes spare parts and "support". In government contracts that "support" can cover an awful lot of ground. Also realize that just because there's a price quoted on a budget - doesn't mean that's what we paid for it. Remember our budgets are available via FOIA. You put down 600 dollars for a toilet seat, spend 7 bucks on the seat and 593 dollars goes to "skunk works" and no one knows what that is actually.
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I'm still pissed about open queerness in the Marines! Yeah. And some years ago, the Queer Rodeo Cowboy's Assn. got started. That just about blew me out of the saddle! That could add a whole new meaning to "bare back riding division "  A properly built 1911 is a hell of a weapon, and a bigger hole is almost always better 
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