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Originally Posted by ArchmageXin
And "potential" combatants isn't a free license for a shoot them all.
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That is where the military industrial complex makes money. I have seen those rubber-tipped non-penetrating 9mm rounds and each of them costs 50-60 cents each to manufacture, that is 3-times the amount a normal 9mm with a copper-jacket-lead-core bullet. And the use of those reflex sights addons to normal rifles with established iron-sights for precision aiming, finding the "correct" one and fixing them on 1000+ rifles isn't cheap.
I wouldn't use the term "dirty" business, rather, I would use the term "messy" business because it takes alot of training, doctrines, re-evaluation of SOPs and established protocols. Oh yes and your trainees will have to expend more rounds in those mockups again and again until it becomes their second nature, from which they go for other training, lose that feel, then refresher after refresher........
That is a hell lot of money someone can make providing those services - ask anyone here who served in any military and have training in asymmetric warfare about how much more is the total cost of the gear each of them carry, as compared to the insurgents they are fighting. I believe even with the simplest SMG/rifle + pistol + body armor + OC spray/taser + laser pointer + handcuffs gear, we can arm 3-4 insurgents with crummy rifles and up to 90 rounds each.
