Check out one of the police sniper nests at the Superbowl

From this article: http://deadspin.com/5883203/this-looks-like-a-fortified-snipers-nest-at-the-super-bowl

Do they have fingers on the triggers?

Can't really tell on a cell

 

Don't look like it, the on guy has his finger on the outside of the trigger guard

Maybe he does, maybe he doesnt.

It's indexed outside the trigger guard.

Nick- Where were you during the Super Bowl? Did they give you good accomdations and a per deim?...

It's indexed outside the trigger guard.

 

 

Right where it should be...

Free accomodations... no per-diem...

 

...... was at the GF's house.

Can anybody ID the weapons and scope? I wonder what power the binocs are...

We really have become a panicked society. Freaking snipers at the super bowl, give me a break.

We really have become a panicked society. Freaking snipers at the super bowl, give me a break.

 

Well Madonna was there...

We really have become a panicked society. Freaking snipers at the super bowl, give me a break.

 

I think it's standard at any major event...

Scope looks to be a USO SN3 Erek. Rifle looks to be a remy in an XLR chassis.

It's retarded.

Game ball!

 

In case you don't get the joke, here it is:

 

Its funny how people go bonkers at a gun store if you carefully hand someone an unloaded weapon with the action locked open and the muzzle just happens flash someone for a split second..

 

No ones cares about having loaded high powered rifles pointing at thousands of law abiding people over the course of a few hours.....

Please elaborate why this is retarded. What exactly is the downside of having a potential tool available that can neutralise a threat if one sould arrise. No threat, then a couple officers have the best seat in the house. What exactly is the down side?

 

This is indeed standard at major events.....

I personally dont like having loaded guns pointed at me,.... I can take care of myself and don't need them to do it for me.

On the one hand, if you're pro-2A, I can't see being afraid of this.

 

Realistically, however, I can't conceive of the situation which occurs requiring this officer to take a shot.

Therefore this is "security theater" like TSA and the unarmed guardsmen in Penn Station.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong LEO's.

Because it should of never gotten to this point. We are a country constantly living in fear of the next attack or the next bomb or the next whatever. The fact that we live every day in constant fear just means the terrorist have won even more.

 

What's the solution, I don't know I don't claim to have the answer to everything but there has to be another solution instead of having snipers at every major sporting event.

 

Then on top of it, once again the media reports about it so now the next time what advantage do these people have if someone "actually" wanted to do something. When everything is reported you gain no tactical advantage.

 

So I will stick to my original statement, it's retarded.

just ask yourself this, do you want some stranger whom you've never met or know anything about deciding whether or not you live or die just becuase you decided to go watch a sports game? Thats what they're doing

 

Now im sure these gentlemen our of sound mind and have good training but is that something you're willing to partake in? I personally will not give someone that power if I can help it. specially in this type of situation where you have no way to fight back...

 

 

call me crazy

To me Id rather have a few around and never have anything happen. But I guess you never know when a Munich type situation could happen. Simply Id rather have it and not need it........

you would rather give up your rights so that someone else can protect you.. i get that

 

 

 

but thats exactly the problem with this country IMHO

Come to think of it, there's no way of knowing whether that rifle has live ammunition in it.

Could just be there for the photo op.

Just another example of a police state...... This is getting overkill by just a little bit.

I would be willing to be it has one in the chamber ready to rock... or at least it did during the game. why else bother having them there at all?

I think some of you guys think this is a new thing..... I guess you dont ever go to a majore political rally....

 

The only thing that has changed is public awareness. And frankly I think that is a mistake because someone planning to do bad things may now take countermeasures into account.

 

To call it living in fear is a mistake. Not putting any countermeasure to some terrorist opening up in a crowd with a krink would be a mistake. Evidence of a plan for a terrorist attack of this type has been discovered. Again, whats the down side of having a solution available for a specific type of problem?

I would be willing to be it has one in the chamber ready to rock... or at least it did during the game. why else bother having them there at all?

 

I am in total agreement on the last point. Why be there at all? What threat does it counter? It appears to be a show of force measure.

If it makes people feel warm and fuzzy so be it, better that than TSA VIPR teams groping the attractive females outside the stadium.

"you would rather give up your rights so that someone else can protect you.. i get that

but thats exactly the problem with this country IMHO"

 

Redbow, if that was directed at me, Id LOVE to know how you extrapolated that out of anything I have said......

The goverment authorizing someone to be in a stitation where he could end and one or several of thousands of peoples lives in the blink of an eye isn't a downside?

 

its all a matter of opinion. I would like the opportunity to proptect myself