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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,373502,00.html>>>>>
>>>>>Boy, that's the closest they've come to victory in over a century!
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>>>>Really bizarre. This is an elite unit and number of things that would have had to go wrong for live rounds to even be available and for an experienced soldier to load them ...
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>>>>Pretty tragic. Especially for the guy pulling the trigger (and, obviously, the recipients of the live fire ) if those rounds were some how improperly color-coded.
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>>>My immediate suspicion was something that was mentioned in the article, that someone may have done it on purpose. Maybe I've been reading too many thrillers.
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>>Or sick pscho-murderer novels. Yeah, somebody could have created a live round clip with the dummy color code, but that would be pretty twisted.
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>Dummy rounds don't have bullets in them. They are shell casings filled with powder and crimped closed. No soldier could mistake one for the other.
Agreed. Maybe you could miss that slapping in a clip, especially the behind the guard clip the FAMAS appears to use, but the top round would be visible - and was certainly visible to the armorer who loaded it. Unless somebody topped a live clip with a dummy.
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