Spearhead assault on RPG sales to black market. (1 Viewer)

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/captain-stole-antitank-weapons/2007/04/05/1175366371099.html

Pistols are bad enough, then there's rocket-propelled grenade launchers in the hands of children like him round and could clearly have the potential take out many lives on Australian streets.

 

[banco55]

At least this wanna be jihadist is off the street:

"A Sydney court has heard previously that five of the rocket launchers ended up in the hands of a Sydney-based terrorist suspect, through an accused arms dealer, but have never been found despite an intensive search by NSW and federal police."

 

[zeek]

Its funny how someone from the ADF whose job it is to protect Australians sold these RPGs to a "Sydney-based terrorist suspect".

 

[zeek]

Sif the ADF do anything anyways...

Nah, they just supply people with military grade weapons

 

[HotShot]

OMFG the TERRORIST HAVE RPGS now...

Oh wait its only the some depressed aussie soldier - yeah I mean he only stole an RPG and then sold it to someone who could have been a terrorist. Yeah so he isnt a terrorist.

Lets keep hicks in that Bay of for a few more years... SERVE him right for meeting WITH OSAMA.

 

[YankeeChica]

They seems to have financial motive more than anything else. I thought soldiers are paid quite well here. In Russia soldiers are paid $10 a month and are forced to be gay prostitute and pornstars according to UN.

 

[AntiHyper]

Mr Lawler said the rocket launcher model was "a very powerful weapon", capable of destroying an ordinary vehicle and all those in it.

lawl

 

[HotShot]

They seems to have financial motive more than anything else. I thought soldiers are paid quite well here. In Russia soldiers are paid $10 a month and are forced to be gay prostitute and pornstars according to UN.

So? If they want to be gay porno - then that ARMY is the way to go.

 

[2ndbest]

When did the Black Market get so bad?! tsk tsk tsk we should be going back to the good old days when all rackets sold was porno and alcohol...

 

[Punk_In_Drublic]

Pffft. Sif the ADF do anything anyways...

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Yeh mate, forget that the ADF is deployed in 2 medium intensity conflicts. We should all be hardcore maths tutors like you.

 

[Bacilli]

Lolz

 

[ilovecommunism]

it seems very cool bro...=.="

 

[mr EaZy]

Yeh mate, forget that the ADF is deployed in 2 medium intensity conflicts. We should all be hardcore maths tutors like you.

and several peace keeping missions too

but i wont comment on the intensity or scale

 

[ALLLICE]

Did anyone else read the title of this thread and go "Roll Play Games? Since when are they sold on the black market and why are they getting rid of them?"

lol i assumed this must be a thread about pirated copies of WoW or something...pfft

but right..rocket propelled grenades

 

[Punk_In_Drublic]

The M72s are imported by the Department of Defence and then stored by civil contractors. When they are used they are withdrawn from the civil contractor and used by the Defence Force. It is my understanding that the recovered LAW (lightweight anti-tank weapons) was allegedly stolen before it was issued to the Defence Force."

Much of the confusion arose because NSW police kept describing the rocket launchers as "army weapons".

The rules under which the civil contractor has to store the weapons are set and monitored by the Department of Defence. But since the storage depots were privatised under the Hawke-Keating government, the storage has not been a Defence Force responsibility. And that's what is pissing off the Defence Force: because they keep getting blamed for something that would not appear to be their fault.