Talk about lawn art (gun related)
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Preacherman
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Now me, I'd be watching the neighborhood kids, who - having seen that broadcast - will now be gathering all the black powder they can extract from fireworks, putting a package of it down the muzzle, and waiting for a large airliner to approach before they light the fuze . . . 
kjeff50cal
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Read the article, it might be for sale in the near future......
.......and if you buy it, we expect a full range report with pics
Freeze N
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As a History buff, I have always wanted a Sherman Tank for my front yard.
As a History buff, I have always wanted a Sherman Tank for my front yard.
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Geez, leave it to the press.
I really don't see Taliban residents planting something like this on their lawn. They're hangin' out in the back of a van with a Stinger (sold to them by Iraq, which recieved it as part of an "AID" package in the '80s, but still represent plenty reason for S. Brady and Co. to denounce totally unrelated personal protective devices)
Tell the general public that it's there to defend the airport, and that they should remain clear, in your best JBT voice.
I really don't see Taliban residents planting something like this on their lawn. They're hangin' out in the back of a van with a Stinger (sold to them by Iraq, which recieved it as part of an "AID" package in the '80s, but still represent plenty reason for S. Brady and Co. to denounce totally unrelated personal protective devices)
Tell the general public that it's there to defend the airport, and that they should remain clear, in your best JBT voice.
Yessiree, I'm just an old war vet with a busted down old Vietnam era piece of AA artillery that I can't get ammo for 'cause it would be a Destructive Device, sittin' on mah lawn on a lazy Saturday afternoon, picking off commercial jetliners, from my front yard, in broad daylight.
Duh!
How could anybody not think that sucker was just a lawn ornament. Next thing you know they'll be hassling the VFW with the deactivated Huey out front, 'cause, you know, you could be out running clandestine sorties, strafing school children with that thing.
Morons!
Maybe if it tipped over and fell on them...
dracphelan
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I've driven by that piece for years. The first time I saw it, I thought "Cool. I wonder if it can be fired?"
Tropical Z
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Hillary Clinton must have driven by.
I hope someone can step up and save it. There must not be much in the way of mechanically computerized AA guns left in the US. As a little kid I remember reading a chapter in a book about these things. Wonder if it would be worth anything as an artifact?
Save the Skysweeper!
Save the Skysweeper!
That gun has been there....
since 1991, that I know of. That is when my boss first saw it. I sent an email to Fort Sill to inquire if they have one of these in their artillery museum. They replied that they will look into it. Can't have old military equipment going to the scrap yard.......chris3
since 1991, that I know of. That is when my boss first saw it. I sent an email to Fort Sill to inquire if they have one of these in their artillery museum. They replied that they will look into it. Can't have old military equipment going to the scrap yard.......chris3
danurve
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Wonder what it would take to convert that puppie into a potato gun?
engineer151515
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Our VFW's usually have static M-60 tanks, howitzers, sometimes a mortar.
This thing is probably rusted shut.
Why can't people just calm down.
This thing is probably rusted shut.
Why can't people just calm down.
I'm big into vintage metalworking equipment. Over on Practicalmachinist, if this gun was an old lathe the members would take up a collection and someone with a truck and space would buy it for historical reasons. There should be more preservation activities like that.
ID_shooting
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Reminds me of a school yard gun we used to have at one of the elementary schools here in town across the street from the old community bomb shelter. Barrel filled in, rusted up shut, had been in the same place since WW II and was a landmark. Zero tolerance about guns on school grounds show up, off to the scrap yard with it.
Really gets under my skin somtimes.
Really gets under my skin somtimes.
engineer151515
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Come to think of it, we have Civil War cannons all over the place in Mobile, AL. Nice big cannon at the intersection of Airport Blvd and Government that could tackle an 18 wheeler truck with no problem.
As for the sky-sweeper, I think we have a 90mm one at the Battleship. Pointed in the general direction of an ex-Air Force base. Battleship park has tanks, (old and new), artillery, aircraft, a submarine and, of course, the USS Alabama.
If somebody doesn't like old cannons, they really won't like it here.
As for the sky-sweeper, I think we have a 90mm one at the Battleship. Pointed in the general direction of an ex-Air Force base. Battleship park has tanks, (old and new), artillery, aircraft, a submarine and, of course, the USS Alabama.
If somebody doesn't like old cannons, they really won't like it here.
ScottsGT
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Maybe he should send it to Jane Fonda. I understand she likes to pose on AA guns. No,....wait, only COMMUNIST owned AA guns.....Maybe it should be restored and AIMED at her instead?
Haymaker
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*HEH* The Veteren's Hall in my Hometown has a cannon on the front lawn
A 20mm Bofers AA cannon from WWII. The boys got it from a Navy facility that was being 'deleted' bt the Klintonistas
= they mounted the gun on their front lawn and trained it across main street directly at the 3rd floor meeting rooms of the County Board of Supervisors
In the last decade that oiece has been a tourist draw with tens of thousands of pics of kids manning that gun
A 20mm Bofers AA cannon from WWII. The boys got it from a Navy facility that was being 'deleted' bt the Klintonistas
= they mounted the gun on their front lawn and trained it across main street directly at the 3rd floor meeting rooms of the County Board of Supervisors In the last decade that oiece has been a tourist draw with tens of thousands of pics of kids manning that gun hirundo82
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I just want to know who the morons are who call a TV station when they see what they imagine to be a terrorist threat, instead of calling the police.
It also takes in extreme amount of ignorance and dearth of brainpower and common sense to think that this poses a threat.
loose cannon
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i dont belive anyone called the media and said"they feared it was targeting airliners"
i highly suspect the media made this up out of whole cloth as they do many things.
i highly suspect the media made this up out of whole cloth as they do many things.
Stickjockey
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Don't now, but if you've got a bit of metalworking skill, I do know where you can get the plans for a replica M3A1 37mm anti-tank gun.
ScottsGT
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Ditto! Some newspuke probably riding around in the company car saw it and made everything up.
Originally Posted by Preacherman
Now me, I'd be watching the neighborhood kids, who - having seen that broadcast - will now be gathering all the black powder they can extract from fireworks, putting a package of it down the muzzle, and waiting for a large airliner to approach before they light the fuze . . .
It's not just kids who do that sort of thing, I know of a story involving a fishing club made up of staff from a certain maximum security prison and a 68pdr RML coastal gun. Scared the hell outta the seagulls!
Now me, I'd be watching the neighborhood kids, who - having seen that broadcast - will now be gathering all the black powder they can extract from fireworks, putting a package of it down the muzzle, and waiting for a large airliner to approach before they light the fuze . . .
It's not just kids who do that sort of thing, I know of a story involving a fishing club made up of staff from a certain maximum security prison and a 68pdr RML coastal gun. Scared the hell outta the seagulls!
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No,I think it was Doganne Fiddlestink from the left coast was in town snooping like billary does......
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