ETF - Uses Aug?

jonnynitro

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Gentleman,

I saw the "gun scare at Sheridan" piece on the news last night and noticed what I thought was an Aug with one of the ETF guys. In todays Toronto sun on-line www.torontosun.com there is a photo of an officer with what I think is in fact an Aug....

Do they actually use them? Weird...


Take a look and can someone identify his rifle?

Jonathan
 
Sheridan College is in Halton Region. Halton Regional Police Emergecy Response Team fields 4 Steyr Augs as CQB Carbines.
 
Ban tubular objects!!!

I went to that campus. It's where the Photography and Media Arts programs are housed. I think its pathetic that the anti-gun bias has been so deeply ingrained that this kind of hysteria is caused by someone in a camoflage jacket with a tripod in his backpack.

Insp. Jackie Gordon said tactical officers from Hamilton and Peel were called in to help search for a suspect.

Surveillance showed the man, who wore a camouflage jacket, enter into the campus residence building. One person was detained and later released. The man with the item was never found.

"There is video, and if you look at the video, there's a possibility ... (what was thought to be a gun) could have been mistaken for a tripod," Gordon said. "It looks very similar to a tripod. It was difficult to make the call at the time. Erring on the side of caution, we all used due diligence in making sure the safety of the students was the most paramount thing today."

College President Dr. Robert Turner said a professor and some of his students thought they saw a "long tubular object" sticking out of the man sack and feared it was a firearm.
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Kandise Barron was so spooked by the episode, she and a classmate hid in a closet for 45 minutes after two police officers rattled the door and told them they could come out, the glass-blowing program student said.

"They asked us to come out but we didn't come out," Barron said. "The mood was a little bit untrusting. It was quite frightening, actually."

........

Convinced it was no joke, Barron and her friend hid in a closet for about 30 to 45 minutes before hearing someone coming in and try to open the door.

They braced their feet against the door so it wouldn't open. A second voice said the men were police and asked if anyone was inside the closet.

Barron said they eventually spoke up. The officers slid business cards under the door but the students stayed in the closet for another 45 minutes until they could see other students in the room.
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agit-prop said:
Ban tubular objects!!!

I went to that campus. It's where the Photography and Media Arts programs are housed. I think its pathetic that the anti-gun bias has been so deeply ingrained that this kind of hysteria is caused by someone in a camoflage jacket with a tripod in his backpack.
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The University of Saskatchewan was put on lock down last year after a man with a bicycle seat was spotted.
 
Kandise Barron was so spooked by the episode, she and a classmate hid in a closet for 45 minutes after two police officers rattled the door and told them they could come out, the glass-blowing program student said.

"They asked us to come out but we didn't come out," Barron said. "The mood was a little bit untrusting. It was quite frightening, actually."

........

Convinced it was no joke, Barron and her friend hid in a closet for about 30 to 45 minutes before hearing someone coming in and try to open the door.

They braced their feet against the door so it wouldn't open. A second voice said the men were police and asked if anyone was inside the closet.

Barron said they eventually spoke up. The officers slid business cards under the door but the students stayed in the closet for another 45 minutes until they could see other students in the room.
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did anyone else nearly pee themselves laughing after reading this?
 
Its crazy how screwed up the world is these days. A decade ago I could walk across the campus of Memorial University with my cased rifle and nobody gave it a second's glance or thought. And yes, I often wore my very warm and comfortable "Tru-Leaf Green" patterned hunting camo coat I purchased from Gander Mountain on campus all the time. It was wind/water proof, had tons of pockets and was extremely comfortable. If I did that today, I'd be staring down the barrels of a dozen SWAT rifle barrels, simply for wearing a comfortable coat and wanting to go shooting at the campus firing range (assuming it was still in operation).
 
X-man said:
Its crazy how screwed up the world is these days. A decade ago I could walk across the campus of Memorial University with my cased rifle and nobody gave it a second's glance or thought. And yes, I often wore my very warm and comfortable "Tru-Leaf Green" patterned hunting camo coat I purchased from Gander Mountain on campus all the time. It was wind/water proof, had tons of pockets and was extremely comfortable. If I did that today, I'd be staring down the barrels of a dozen SWAT rifle barrels, simply for wearing a comfortable coat and wanting to go shooting at the campus firing range (assuming it was still in operation).
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oh whatever...:rolleyes: People wear camo to school all the time!! It's been trendy for 5 or six years now and going strong, you can't get it off the runways. I'd say 7 out of 10 kids today own and regularly wear some sort of camo, when I was in school it was more like 1 in 50 (I'm from the big smoke, I'm sure it was and still is 7 out of 10 in the country ;)) Kids wear it everyday and some still wear trench coats everyday and no one says boo 99.999% of the time. It makes the news when cops come, because IT IS rare, just like it was when you were a kid.

I hate the "Back in the day......" rhetoric because its crap. Look at the 100 years trend on school shootings, the past decade is no worse then any other. In reality the world is no more crazy and screwed up then any other time you just forgot or never new.
 
We should all give our heads a shake, if truth be told if we just banned camera tripods the whole issue would go away.:cool:
 
20 years of liberal brainwashing is obviously working. No wonder today's campuses are all overrun by Kandise Barron type retards with IQ of -50.
 
MPI said:
I hate the "Back in the day......" rhetoric because its crap. Look at the 100 years trend on school shootings, the past decade is no worse then any other. In reality the world is no more crazy and screwed up then any other time you just forgot or never new.
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I think the other side is that you might not have heard as much non-local news 'way back when'. A disgruntled student shooting one or two people in a small town in the Maritimes might not make papers or the radio news in say, BC or vice versa. And if you didn't hear about it, you wouldn't remember it, right? Also, if per capita shootings stay the same, but population goes up, then the total number of shootings would go up, so you'd hear about more of them even if your chances of being killed in one have actually gone down.
 
Classic. I just thought it was "odd" that the ETF for Halton would use what I would consider an antiquated firearm and this thread turned into a news media thread...

Is anyone else surprised that the ETF for Halton uses this.... what it think is crumy (and yes I have experience with it) firearm?
 
jonnynitro said:
Classic. I just thought it was "odd" that the ETF for Halton would use what I would consider an antiquated firearm and this thread turned into a news media thread...

Is anyone else surprised that the ETF for Halton uses this.... what it think is crumy (and yes I have experience with it) firearm?
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I think they are #### as well and I have fired the AUG in auto. Some love bull pups some don't. I like the FAMAS and many think it #### so what you going to do. Bottom line I think is if you are a Police dept with limited funds and they still work then that's what you use. At least they are not using it as their DMR.;)
 
X-man said:
Its crazy how screwed up the world is these days. A decade ago I could walk across the campus of Memorial University with my cased rifle and nobody gave it a second's glance or thought. And yes, I often wore my very warm and comfortable "Tru-Leaf Green" patterned hunting camo coat I purchased from Gander Mountain on campus all the time. It was wind/water proof, had tons of pockets and was extremely comfortable. If I did that today, I'd be staring down the barrels of a dozen SWAT rifle barrels, simply for wearing a comfortable coat and wanting to go shooting at the campus firing range (assuming it was still in operation).
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I think that there's more than just a chronological gap in the two situations. MUN is a long way from the NDP-infested post-secondary campuses in Onterrible.
 
I was issued an AUG for about 7 years. We still have one in Service. Some with long memories remember that the AUG beat out the Colt M16A2 in the Aussie trials. Proved to be more reliable and durable. The AUG is one of the few weapons ever developed that was decades ahead of it's time.

I have more experience with it than many. My experience was not just a "U.S. Gun Store Rental" or "tried one at a shoot once" deal. It has some very minor limitations but overall is an outstanding weapon.

Rich
 
I overheard that Steyr is going bring the AUG back into the US market, striaght from the Steyr guy at SHOT. They are like 2 months from signing the "contract" with whoever.

No wonder the people at MSAR wasn't too happy to talk in the morning.....
 
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