Business brisk at Kyiv gun shops as Ukrainians rush to buy arms

[Dial H For Hero]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/23/business-brisk-at-kyiv-gun-shops-as-ukrainians-rush-to-buy-arms

Ukrainians are buying guns, ammunition and sniper rifles ahead of a possible Russian invasion, with long queues inside weapons stores on Wednesday.

With a state of emergency set to be unveiled, the country’s parliament approved a draft law that gives Ukrainians permission to carry firearms. Previously they were forbidden from leaving home with lethal weapons.

Most Ukrainians – boys and girls – learn how to shoot at school. About 400,000 people are estimated to have combat experience, following Vladimir Putin’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and the Moscow-supported armed uprising in the east.

But the threat in recent days of a possible attack on Kyiv has caused an unprecedented rush to buy arms. Gun shops have sold out of some weapons, such as AR-10 and AR-15 assault rifles, with business now exceptionally busy.

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[ChazII]

1. Kicking back to the top. n/t

[honest.abe]

2. I am thinking the Ukrainians are not going to go down quietly.

It will probably turn into a guerilla warfare type opposition that could drag on for months. Then if enough Russians come home in body bags, Putin might be compelled to give it up.

[Throck]

6. Putin is a stupid son of a bitch.

He's not fighting the war. Like most, if not all wars the people in the high towers don't care about the pawns and peons. He will march all his foot soldiers to their death rather than admit he was wrong. War Pigs.

[sop]

3. Japanese Admiral Yamamoto said, "I would never invade America, there is a gun behind every

blade of grass.” Russian soldiers will find out how right Yamamoto was.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. He is *supposed* to have said that. There's no citation for it.

[Dial H For Hero]

5. Quite so. As much as I like it, the quote is almost certainly bogus.

[sop]

7. As the newspaper reporter said in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance":

"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."