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Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are.
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Update, yes there are snipers:
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They're law enforcement but not snipers
https://www.thelantern.com/2024/04/university-confirms-there-are-no-snipers-on-the-ohio-unions-roof/
Snipers are well trained professionals...
These are state troopers, which makes them far more dangerous because they're untrained idiots and likely have the same high powered weapons.
Yeah, I don't think this is one for the semantics game. There are guys with guns on the roof. There.
I don't buy it. Guarantee you they have a precision rifle up there.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a police man in possession of a good vantage, must be in want of a precision rifle
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Cops lie all the time
It wasn’t cops that said this. Did you even read or are you spreading misinformation
All they know is eat hot chip and confirm priors
University administration, cops, same thing
You can try and try to muddy the waters of ACAB but this is very clearly not a relevant case. 🥱🥱🥱
Toodles.
Lol
Okay so they have spotting scopes and tripods for sure. Now they could have just brought those for the sake of gathering accurate info on protests I assume are 100-300 meters away to pick out details better (ie Is that person pointing a gun or a dslr camera with a long lens?)
A modern AR-15 (most patrol car rifles) with a proper zero, consistent ammuntion and in the hands of a capable person (it's not hard it just takes regular practice) could easily be used effectively to engage man size targets with a guy on the spotting scope doing the target id I mentioned earlier to get the right guy.
With a basic bolt action precision rifle, even if it's chambered in the same round, could be used even more effectively with target id capabilities of the spotting scope using the magnification of better rifle optics. I bet they have one on that second tripod.
And honestly I'd prefer that over 50ish dudes with rifles with their own set of mob mentality like they had at Kent back in the day.
They have better pictures available. It's 100% a scoped rifle.