{"id":60394,"date":"2015-06-16T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60394"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:56:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:56:25","slug":"marine-snipers-want-a-new-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60394","title":{"rendered":"Marine snipers want a new rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who claims to be a Marine infantryman, wrote in the Washington Post<\/a> about the need for the Marine Corps to replace their aging inventory of M40-series sniper rifles with something that is more like the rifles that their sister services and their enemies employ. <\/p>\n

Current and former Marine Corps snipers say their hardware doesn\u2019t match the capabilities of the other services, not to mention what is in the hands of enemies such as the Taliban and the Islamic State.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter if we have the best training,\u201d said one reconnaissance sniper who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not permitted to talk to the media. \u201cIf we get picked off at a thousand yards before we can shoot, then what\u2019s the point?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree completely. In an age when the Pentagon throws away bucket-loads of money on a jet that won’t work as advertised for another decade or so, surely the Marines can arm their long-range shooters with a weapon that shoots at long ranges. For less than $3000, I have a .338 Lapua Magnum-chambered rifle that can out shoot the M40. I’ll donate it to the Marine Corps if they promise to kill more jihadists with it. But, if I, as a private citizen, can afford a better rifle than what snipers in the Marine Corps are issued, certainly the Corps can cough up enough to arm their snipers for the modern battlefield.<\/p>\n

Here’s someone else who is better armed than the USMC Marines hitting a beer can on the first shot at more than 1200 yards with a .338 mag (at about 2:30 into the video).<\/p>\n