"Outdated" Thai police getting new guns to keep up with the bad guys

[eeyang wah]

6 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

 

 

Shooting the Glock 17 9x19

0:51 do you realise how close you are to chopping the end of your thumb off? Your thumb should never be on top like that. Trust me, I learned the hard way!

[Wilsonandson]

0:51 do you realise how close you are to chopping the end of your thumb off? Your thumb should never be on top like that. Trust me, I learned the hard way!

Do you realise that that is someone else's youtube video and not mine. Who are you talking to?

[Get Real]

Wonder how many quickly wants to try their luck on live target with their new gun.

[lvr181]

The "corruption" remains regardless of new weaponry! The whole RTP needs to be overhauled. To be called the Royal Thai Police is an insult to their King while corruption remains. 

 

But I am sure that the new pistols are welcome.

[Shawn0000]

7 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

Do you realise that that is someone else's youtube video and not mine. Who are you talking to?

Everyone with more thumbs than him by the sound of it!

[Destiny1990]

How about some new police summer outfits as well?

bermuda shorts ,white colors polos with short sleeves and a cap.With purpose of more frequent beach patrols walking and or with mountain bikes.

 

[wakeupplease]

Always do it the wrong way

1, replace the outdated police

2 replace the outdated firearms

 

That works for me.

[hdkane]

8 hours ago, madmitch said:

 

Could this mean thousands of old guns for sale on the open market?

Exactly...the police are basically an arm of the mafia here...the thought that the police are now going to expand their activities into arms dealing makes me recoil...

[elgordo38]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The move is part of the "Smart Police" initiative designed to drag the force into the modern era.

Please please no more I can't stand it. Well the dragged into the modern era I agree with kicking and screaming. 70 years since the last upgrade gee that goes back to when Hector was a pup. At least when the water runs out and I am laying there dying of thirst they can dispatch me in a merciful way. Thank the Lord for small mercies. 

[elgordo38]

8 hours ago, madmitch said:

 

Could this mean thousands of old guns for sale on the open market?

Which "open" market can they be purchased at?? Seems more like under the table. 

[elgordo38]

5 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Yes, because it's the guns that will transform them from a  bunch of inept, corrupt, lazy #$@#^&%$ into an efficent law enforcement body {albeit a mythical one taken from tv} rather than proper training.

Well it will be a step up from the "Gunfight at the OK corral" mentality today. Geeze I still keep thinking of the RTP trying to push that coffee vendor into the back of a car and the fat "undercover cop?" threatening the person filming it? Even Chang cannot wash that one down. 

[elgordo38]

Yes they can upgrade the 70 year old guns but can they do the same with the mentality of the people who will holster them????

[whaleboneman]

7 hours ago, Shawn0000 said:

You can put 38 bullets in some 9mm guns, but probably only revolvers.

And will they come out the other end?

[elgordo38]

5 minutes ago, whaleboneman said:

And will they come out the other end?

We the people may be real winners if they did not. 

[WhizBang]

This is just like the whole minivan problem.  The real problem is not the van, but the guy behind the wheel.

 

To put this in perspective, the problem is not the gear the police have to do their job, but the guy inside the uniform.

 

[tifino]

Still... they are behind the times.

90 years back the Chinese Army bought up almost the entire world's supply of a particular semi-auto pistol

 

the Mauser

 

It was seen by western nations as being a complete failure as an offensive weapon due to it's utter inaccuracy.

The 1st bullet might strike, but the rest flayed towards heaven

The Chinese Army mysteriously were found to have promoted the weapon to their front line, and during the 30's (Manchuria??) during battle the Mauser, failure as it was, and the suspected ill training standard of Chinese troops did not stand in their way from winning their battles, with absolute thanks to the Mauser.

 

The most inaccurate weapon, even in the minimally trained hands of an incompetent,can win the day.

Entire crowds of protesters can be wiped out, in just one zzziiippppp

 

How? - well, from history, the Chinese found a way of giving accuracy back into the hands of the automatic pistol bearer...

... hold the weapons sideways (as the modern gangster does).

The recoil, instead of blatting the pistol upwards, instead blatts it sideways.

If it doesn't catch the person you aim at, it will catch the fella next to him, and next to him, and next to him.

A wet splash of redded shirts will be laying all over the street...scratch the bad guys

[FitnessHealthTravel]

And they'll all be dying to try them out...

[Bluespunk]

3 minutes ago, FitnessHealthTravel said:

And they'll all be dying to try them out...

It won't be the BIB doing the dying...

[tifino]

Just now, Bluespunk said:

It won't be the BIB doing the dying...

that is the idea!

[bokningar]

7 hours ago, cliveshep said:

Hope they aren't like the Philippines where the cash strapped police cannot afford to buy bullets so the guys never actually get to shoot their guns!

 

Are you sure that is a bad thing in the Philippines? 

[Shawn0000]

30 minutes ago, whaleboneman said:

And will they come out the other end?

 

I was told that some revolvers can take them, someone else here says not, the real problem may not be the other end but removing the casing after firing, which may well get stuck, if indeed it goes in in the first place.

[Bluespunk]

3 minutes ago, tifino said:

that is the idea!

Let me rephrase: won't be just the criminals dying at the hands of those using these guns...

Edited February 13, 2017 by Bluespunk

[Bluespunk]

7 minutes ago, bokningar said:

Are you sure that is a bad thing in the Philippines? 

Not at all.

 

Edited: Misread post...apologies bokningar

Edited February 13, 2017 by Bluespunk

[Shawn0000]

Just now, Bluespunk said:

Yes.

Are you supporting the  extra judicial killings?  I think that is probably what they had in mind when they asked the question.

[Bluespunk]

23 minutes ago, Shawn0000 said:

Are you supporting the  extra judicial killings?  I think that is probably what they had in mind when they asked the question.

Reread my post Shawn0000

 

I did so with the one I commented on.

 

Then made a correction as it is the right to do.

 

Sigh...

Edited February 13, 2017 by Bluespunk

[overherebc]

If you really want to shoot out some tyres try one of these. You can do it at 35 kilometres as well.

This a 'gun' ie it has wheels.

175mm ME107.

[DepDavid]

Yes the weapons were purchased but held up on US side. They are expected shortly.

[Gerard052]

9 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Replacing the 'outdated' police themselves with new ones would be a better idea.

That is the best idea yet.

[kannot]

great  they  should  be  able  to  shoot even  more  feet

[bangon04]

" The slick black handgun is capable of delivering 15 rapid action shots. "

Specially useful in a drunken rage at a nightclub where a potential loss of face by a RTP officer is threatened. Wonderful progress.