Active duty (regular army) troops train for that kind of mission all the time. Hard to judge Intent by anything except overt acts -- I had numerous training sessions carrying an M-14* against imaginary civilian crowds, hypothetically just outside the base gates in beautiful Eatontown, New Jersey.
And we weren't even a "combat arm", being a Signal Corps school installation.
*The M-14 fired a 7.62 mm NATO cartridge, which would penetrate multiple bodies at crowd-control (point blank) range.
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Date: 2008-09-26 05:08 pm (UTC)And we weren't even a "combat arm", being a Signal Corps school installation.
*The M-14 fired a 7.62 mm NATO cartridge, which would penetrate multiple bodies at crowd-control (point blank) range.