Is it just me, or do you also find that the first thing that leaps to your mind when you see the below pic (from Drudge) is:
 
 …What the hell is Hezbollah doing with a Ruger P-Series?
I didn’t know Rugers sold well outside the US. Sure hope that doesn’t turn out to be the “handgun of choice” for the Party of God terrorists. If so, I’d want to short Ruger stock.
Interesting choice of weapons, but has anyone noticed the rifle being sported by the Palestinians in some of the latest pictures. How did they come by such an inordinate number of M-16’s? This is not a trick question, I am genuinely curious where and when they got them. Any answers?
Yah, I’ve wondered that myself. Do you suppose that’s how all the AR manufacturers stayed in business during the time the assault weapons ban was in effect? They had to sell their wares to somebody, and a foreign sale is better than no sale at all.
Anybody know? Were there enough US law enforcement and military contracts out there to keep all those companies going without any civilian sales during the AWB…?
The handgun in the picture does look a lot like a Ruger, but where is the slide lock? Maybe what we’re seeing is the left side of the gun and the print was flopped(flip horizontally, in the newfangled Photoshop idiom)? I looked on Drudge and couldn’t find it. Can you provide the source?
Regards
Lergnom, you’re absolutely right about the missing slide lock. I don’t think flopping is the answer, though — if it was flopped, you’d expect to see a larger cutout for the ejection port than is visible in the image. For example, to see what I mean, examine the top two images (one left, one right) at http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg05-e.htm
The image with the missing slide lock was at Drudge’s top center headline within the ten minutes or so prior to my post. Unfortunately, Drudge doesn’t have the image any more that I can see in his “old headlines” section, and the wayback site doesn’t have anything that recent. So I don’t know where he got it.