Post Ab4r3gchNlHLuO2WLw by VoxDei@qoto.org
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(DIR) Post #Ab0jSBTjsI4NEUQ7mq by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-21T23:59:45Z
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@olives wait... cops in the USA dont even carry sub machine guns (fully-automatic guns of any kind actually)... I am quite surprised to hear in the UK they carry these casually. My guess is they are using the term wrong and they mean a carbine.
(DIR) Post #Ab0kc7YDQthjtuofy4 by VoxDei@qoto.org
2023-10-22T00:12:47Z
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@freemo @olives I don't claim to know a lot about the distinction, so it's entirely possible I'm wrong, but my belief was always that armed police in the UK had carbines. I'm reasonably sure they do not fire on full auto regardless. It's possible specialist counter-terrorism police have different armaments.Police in the UK are not routinely armed with more than tasers, mind. It's only specialist armed response officers who have guns. Where I live in Devon I seem to remember hearing that there are only three armed response units to cover the entire county overnight, which is about 70 miles N-S, about 55 E-W, largely rural but with at least three population centres in excess of 50,000 people. Though again I may be misinformed.
(DIR) Post #Ab0l4q8bFmSAIDWro0 by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-22T00:17:59Z
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@VoxDei A carbine is not a full auto...A carbine is a rifle, any rifle, with a shortened barrel from its original design. Usually a carbine is a reference to a "Pistol Caliber Carbine" which is a carbine which shoots pistol ammo.Carbines may be lever-action (not fully or semi auto), semi or full auto.. But generally a carbine refers to non-full-autoA submachine is a fully-automatic carbine, thus why carbine is usually reserved for non-full auto.All that said you will almost **never** find civilians or police (even swat or the high-end cops) ever using a full auto gun. They wont even have burst fire. They usually use PCC or a full blown rifle.They use AR-15 alot but remember an AR-15 is **not** an automatic weapon, it is a semi-automatic weapon.@olives
(DIR) Post #Ab0uI5czs5vhgf8jnU by bluGill@kbin.social
2023-10-22T01:45:18+00:00
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@freemo@olives @VoxDei if you can get a chance, fire a full auto gun once for fun. However the cost of that 20 seconds combined with how little control you have will convince you that it isn't something to do often.There is the reason the military mostly uses.3 round burst or semi auto mode. Full auto is useful at times, but if you get hit by a gun on full auto it is your own stupid fault, while semi auto it is the skill of the gun operator.
(DIR) Post #Ab0uI6SklfKWHBM4TA by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-22T02:01:12Z
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@bluGill Full auto would be fun in the same way as maching explosives... its not about control.No one wants or needs full auto, even the military rarely uses it@olives @VoxDei
(DIR) Post #Ab0vANRLrWdIZHZxxo by Pjcoyle@qoto.org
2023-10-22T02:11:03Z
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@freemo @olives I don't know about the UK, but in the 70's neigborhoo cops in West Berlin carried MP5's, certainly a submachinegun
(DIR) Post #Ab0vFyra9SnQ57WJWa by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-22T02:12:03Z
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@Pjcoyle Well back then berlin was occupied territory, so a bit of an exception in that regard.@olives
(DIR) Post #Ab0wZT8Fw7wZPoAxuK by Pjcoyle@qoto.org
2023-10-22T02:26:48Z
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@freemo @olives No, I saw the same thing in Frankfurt.
(DIR) Post #Ab0wejITGPomztSj5c by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-22T02:27:43Z
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@Pjcoyle Very odd. Only time ive seen something like that was military and national guard sort of stuff.@olives
(DIR) Post #Ab1LT3uTIUxuJ2lnpQ by torparskytt@mastodon.nu
2023-10-22T07:05:41Z
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@freemo @bluGill @olives @VoxDei With technique and depending on the platform maybe bipods etc, I’d say it’s controllable. Normally you’d use it to fire in bursts. Video clip from https://youtu.be/lDKi4B36vIQ
(DIR) Post #Ab1V1kgXfJFOP9s3NY by guardeddon@qoto.org
2023-10-22T08:52:51Z
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@freemo @VoxDei @olives GB police forces’ armed response units typically use Heckler & Koch MP5 & MP7s.I write GB, as in the other component part of the UK, NI, police officers do routinely carry personal weapons (but notably very rarely used).
(DIR) Post #Ab4qAUB3xBsdNin8BU by VoxDei@qoto.org
2023-10-22T18:45:07Z
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@guardeddon @freemo @olives Is that the same weapon as you see the armed police at airports with?
(DIR) Post #Ab4qAVIBoBAuq78Kvo by guardeddon@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:32:46Z
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@VoxDei @freemo @olives Airports and other venues such as Palace of Westminster, London (I visited the buildings, recently. Entrances all guarded by armed Met Police officers).I'm not sufficiently familiar to discriminate the various types of weapons.
(DIR) Post #Ab4qAW9ib9zdW8B5Mm by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:33:48Z
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@guardeddon Weird to hear one of the least armed populace has one of the best armed police force... @VoxDei @olives
(DIR) Post #Ab4qYGsz1Upz6mg1Hk by VoxDei@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:38:10Z
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@freemo @guardeddon @olives Well, depends a bit how you look at it. For your regular beat cop, not so much - ours don't carry firearms. Comparing like with like would probably mean only specialist firearms officers (I guess the closest US equivalent is SWAT?). I don't know what they'd tend to carry in the US, but I suspect it's heavier than that?
(DIR) Post #Ab4qj0krL244GRzw5Q by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:40:05Z
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@VoxDei Even our swat wouldnt be seen with a full auto gun, so still sounds like UK is more armed. We also would never have swat guarding places, you would never see them even around really expensive stuff, they come out once shit is already going down.@guardeddon @olives
(DIR) Post #Ab4r3gchNlHLuO2WLw by VoxDei@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:43:52Z
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@freemo @guardeddon @olives Yeah, the ARUs are like that - you don't get them just hanging around the place, they turn up when they're needed.All this said, on Googling, @guardeddon is correct about the model of weapon, but it's a single-fire variant in use. See https://www.eliteukforces.info/police/uk-armed-police/ under "Police Weapons". So similar in idea to the US, I guess.
(DIR) Post #Ab4rKVHqmdKnflJ6A4 by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:46:53Z
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@VoxDei If it isnt full auto it isnt an MP5, that would be the SP5 and yea thats not unusual, thinking of buying one myself.@guardeddon @olives
(DIR) Post #Ab4rRGeha5ZmJyDlS4 by VoxDei@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:48:07Z
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@freemo @guardeddon @olives Way beyond my personal knowledge, I was just going off that website (which says the most common is the MP5SF, which may be the same thing as you're talking about, and the G36C)
(DIR) Post #Ab4rcjKlIP5cS1MNaC by freemo@qoto.org
2023-10-23T23:50:11Z
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@VoxDei Similar, I think the MP5SF is the one with a buttstock, which would be illegal in the US for civilians, but they might use that in non-civilian use.@guardeddon @olives
(DIR) Post #Ab5dK6jgrJYDKSCpGq by guardeddon@qoto.org
2023-10-24T08:44:41Z
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@freemo @VoxDei @olives I am reliably informed* that the Met do use straight MP5s, SOP is for the officer to set single fire mode. Mountain of paperwork required if used in auto.PSNI (as was, RUC) previously used Sterlings, provided this answer to a FoI enquiry:https://web.archive.org/web/20190803023503/https://www.psni.police.uk/globalassets/advice--information/our-publications/disclosure-logs/2015/operational-policing/weapons.pdfPSNI isn’t necessarily typical of GB’s police forces due to continuing local terror threat.Being a major global capital city, London has experienced critical globally influenced terror incidents, accordingly Home Office/Met have established standing protections and mitigations.[*] recently retired DI