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Re: chinese troops with crossbow

Posted by: "Jim Webster" jwebster2@... f_j_p_webster

>I was struggling with a non-lethal police use for the crossbow, the
>tranquilliser dart makes sense, cheers

I think it's safe to say that if you are an ethnic minority in China and
you are fighting the Han majority and the security forces tranquilize you,
things are probably going to end up being fairly lethal.


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http://tinyurl.com/lwa4uw the smaller picture off to one side shows the guy with the crossbow. It was the main picture in our edition of the paper Jim...
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... ? aimed at another list Jim ? nb he is a Police officer and the American designed compound crossbow fires tranquilliser darts. ... Tom.....
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... From: "Tom Adamson" <thomas.adamson4@...> To: <ancmed@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: [ancmed] Re: chinese...
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... They also fire bugging devices, grapnels with wires etc. The best trivia is that the telescopic sight is useless at ranges much over 10-15m (because of...
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There is a film made fairly recently that depicts chinese infantry with those repeating crossbows that have intrigued people over the years. They were very...
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Posted by: "Jim Webster" jwebster2@... f_j_p_webster ... I think it's safe to say that if you are an ethnic minority in China and you are fighting...
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