The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned...I guess that last bit is if you plea bargain...?
The "Authorized Journalists" are going nuts. Here's a video from six months ago (see around 3:50 into it).
I can see the point that this could complicate Middle East operations. By the same token, a private company can put anything they like on their products.
Having worked in the defense contracting industry for over 16 years in a past life, I find it hard to believe the military procurement guys didn't know. But then again, having worked in the defense contracting industry for over 16 years, I find it perfectly believable.
And if no one in the media raised the issue, no one would ever know. Not even an illiterate insurgent using a captured rifle would know these markings.
ReplyDeleteYour last paragraph gave me a good chuckle. So true.
ReplyDeleteAnd my captcha word is "yelit". Interesting.
M4carbine.net has a thread going about this, and so far nobody with operations reports that their scope has Bible versus. It seems only the domestic sales to us have them.
ReplyDeleteI think the whole Jesus thing is a silly Fairy Tale so I don't see any point in getting upset: If your superstitions get through the day, I'm happy for you.
ReplyDeleteSince the "Scripture" verses are not "on" the Trijicon, just the chapter and verse, one would need to know the Bible to understand what the letter-number combinations mean other than "serial number", so any claim as to there being "Bible verses written on the sights" is not only erronious, but daydreaming. Not that any outside the atheist and MSM would be looking for anything remotely related to God.
ReplyDeleteI say to hell with any who complain about it. Period.
Shy III
Psssha, much ado about nothing.
ReplyDeleteif i'm not mistaken, the common denominator in all of the bible verses referenced on their sights have one thing in common: they talk about light. and they're all reflex optics, aren't they.
ReplyDeleteit has been hilarious to watch a certain few libertarian catholics whose articles i read complain about this, calling people who make optics "merchants of death". come on. what happened to free enterprise? you don't own the bible.
and this will probably now be followed by plenty of non sequitirs (here's one) that attest to individualism while ignoring the individuals in question: those who want an indestructible bible reference close at hand in the worst possible place they could be; the darkness of some hole their military created and then ordered them into.
they volunteered to go -- would these so-called christians then take this away from them for the sake of a "greater message" about war itself?
trijcon knows their market, that is all this is. there is in general no pretense of holiness in the soldier; they know who they are and what they do. only officers like hitler, the ones who think government can do no wrong, ever thought there was anything holy about it.
if you were really libertarian, if you were really christian, you would see there is no contradiction here between protesting war on those grounds and remaining silent on what people want on their rifle optics. i am disappointed.
Well, I guess if this means there will be a ton of slightly used Trijicon Reflex scopes dumped on the market by the Army then it is a good thing :)
ReplyDelete"Coded", ""apparent reference"...
ReplyDeleteBecause "2COR4:6" is quite obviously something devious that only subversives "brand" on their products.
(Side note: about time for me to look for some new optics, and guess who just topped the lists of potential candidates?)
I don't particularly like Trijicon product line, but this story is enough to shift my view towards buying one, heh.
ReplyDeletenot that a throwaway, emotional reaction from lew would chase me away from his blog and great website, but, laurence vance has weighed in on the trijicon issue with some actual presence of mind.
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