.22 Rifles = Terrorist Weapons.....

[PegLeg45]

so says the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman.....    
(Where do these people come from?)

FERC Chairman Dubs .22 Rifles Terrorist Weapons

The chairman of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has provided aspiring terrorists with an idea – use a .22 rifle to take out power transformers.

“There are ways that a very few number of actors with very rudimentary equipment could take down large portions of our grid,” FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington last Friday. “I don’t think we have the level of physical security we need.”

A would-be al-Qaeda miscreant “could get 200 yards away with a .22 rifle” could take down the power grid, Wellinghoff warned.
Mr. Wellington did not provide an explanation why — over the last decade — the terrorist group has not targeted the power grid in the United States.

Bloomberg Government describes itself as a “single, comprehensive web-based information service for professionals who interact with or are impacted by the Federal Government.”

The notorious gun-grabber, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, owns the online subscription-based service.

“Wellinghoff has managed to inject an anti-rifle scare into the energy debate that Bloomberg News, in thrall to its billionaire anti-gun zealot master, has the means to disseminate to the general public to manipulate and gin up the fear needed in order for planned ‘solutions’ to be introduced,” writes David Codrea.

http://www.infowars.com/ferc-chairman-dubs-22-rifles-terrorist-weapons/

[Big Frank]

If anyone is capable of taking out transformers at 200 yards with a .22 let them. I'd like to see it.

[fightingquaker13]

I think the guy is brilliant to point this out. If we didn't realize this deadly threat (shooting transformers with .22s), we would be distracted by silly things like worrying about truck bombs, people flying airplanes into buildings  and chemical attacks in subways. But we know that's amateur hour, real terrorists use 10/22s to snipe transformers so they AC turns off. Jeebus, where did they find this guy?

[tombogan03884]

I think the guy is brilliant to point this out. If we didn't realize this deadly threat (shooting transformers with .22s), we would be distracted by silly things like worrying about truck bombs, people flying airplanes into buildings  and chemical attacks in subways. But we know that's amateur hour, real terrorists use 10/22s to snipe transformers so they AC turns off. Jeebus, where did they find this guy?

More of a threat in Phoenix in July than it is in Laconia in December.

[TAB]

Jumbo, you don't have to damage them, just take out the cooling.   rather thats a fan, or fuild.. The trash can ones you see on the poles are filled with mineral oil.    if it leaks out, they go bad.

[Sponsor]

[RTFM]

When we were kids in New Hampshire... we'd take our single shot bolt action Colt .22 and a pocket full of transformers to the sand pit and plink the hell out of them ...

Unfortunately at the time we never picked up after ourselves.... transformers and there coils and fluids leaking all over the place...
Does that make me an Eco-terrorist?
 

[fightingquaker13]

Jumbo, you don't have to damage them, just take out the cooling.   rather thats a fan, or fuild.. The trash can ones you see on the poles are filled with mineral oil.    if it leaks out, they go bad.

Hell, silly string or mono line or ight wire will do it if you connect them with something conuctive. Squirrels are pretty good at that too. There's the real  threat right there, a crack squad of well trained jihadi suicide squrrels.

[MAUSERMAN]

Morons.

[PegLeg45]

There's the real  threat right there, a crack squad of well trained jihadi suicide squrrels.

Which is eminently better than a well-trained suicide squad of crack squirrels.

(especially if they are really pissed because they are shakin' to bad to climb trees)

[44s rock]

When we were kids in New Hampshire... we'd take our single shot bolt action Colt .22 and a pocket full of transformers to the sand pit and plink the hell out of them ...

Unfortunately at the time we never picked up after ourselves.... transformers and there coils and fluids leaking all over the place...
Does that make me an Eco-terrorist?
 

Yep! Prolly been that ay since you were 7.  ;