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Ok, I'm not a firearms expert or anything, but wtf would those snipers even be up there for if the statue of Liberty is surrounded by water? Any land is kinda far from that statue and there aren't any real points of interest near enough that a sniper would be interested in I would think lol
Weaponized laser sharks invading the harbour
The rifle on the right is at least a .338 Lapua, but probably .50BMG. The former cartridge was explicitly designed to reach out 1000 meters, penetrate military body armor, and still have enough energy to make the kill. The .50BMG can reach out at least 1800 meters and still serve much of its antimateriel design intent, antipersonnel to about 3000 meters.
Those numbers would put quite a bit within range of the Statue of Liberty.
Source: I target shoot with both of these cartridges, along with .308 Winchester.
It still seems like an inefficient use of assets. You can touch land but not that much. Unless someone is trying to stop small boats from traversing the waters around Liberty Island not sure what effect it would have. Then again I am not a pretend sniper in a bad movie.
It’s also not even that high up compared to some of the buildings dominating the New York City landscape now.