{"id":439,"date":"2001-11-28T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-28T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=439"},"modified":"2001-11-28T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-28T21:33:00","slug":"branch-davidian-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/11\/28\/17\/33\/branch-davidian-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Branch Davidian Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portal.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2001\/11\/24\/wsnipe24.xml\">US special forces are using the .50 Barrett sniper rifle<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iansa.org\/news\/1999\/aug_99\/IRA_sniper.htm\">IRA&#8217;s favourite weapon<\/a>, being able to punch right through body armour at arbitrary range. This is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpc.org\/studies\/sniper.htm\"><i>one shot one kill<\/i><\/a> tool. This weapon hits at 1.5 miles with a force greater than a point-blank Magnum .44. Evil gun companies sell these rifles to gun-crazy &#8220;enthusiasts&#8221; in the US. These sniper rifles were used by the Branch Davidians in Waco to kill four Federal agents during their initial ambush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US special forces are using the .50 Barrett sniper rifle, the IRA&#8217;s favourite weapon, being able to punch right through body armour at arbitrary range. This is a one shot one kill tool.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}