The AKM rifles suggest this isn’t a standard boomer arsenal. Fully automatic rifles are incredibly hard to come by above board (a small handful of grandfathered rifles, practically antiques), and I don’t think there even is a legit way to get AK’s. So black market acquisitions, wouldn’t surprise me if there’s some government involvement. Not directly, mind you, probably some security contractor given some leeway for “disruptive” activities with regards to Cuba.
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If they're the semi-auto version, they are definitely clones available.
Full auto & explosives just require the right license/stamp/fee from the government and deep pockets.
iirc there are some pre-86 bringbacks. if you do enough paperwork and have a buddy who's a pig you can get new production full-autos as a "dealer sample" with the fig leaf of potentially selling a bunch to the department.
not sure who is manufacturing domestic full auto AK pattern rifles but that paperwork also allows you to replace parts to turn a semi-auto into a machine gun for pig evaluation.
and that's not getting into gimmicky devices that allow fast repetition fire but aren't the american legal definition of a machine gun for technical reasons.
This is not a standard boomer kit lol I know exactly two people that could maybe fill this and they're exactly how you think they are. They wouldn't be taking a speedboat to Cuba with their gear. They'll just bunker up at home "when things get bad". So yeah, usually the attitude with that shit is its saved for mad max. Even though there are literally masked feds abducting people rn.
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some kind of recon/special ops shit that went tits up?
IMO. I feel like they were supposed to enter covertly
Possibly even just running guns to local counter revolutionary groups, for all we know. Doesn't seem like they were prepared for what they ran into at all, despite the hardware.
Lmao I've got that same knife, the big one with the light metal handle. It's got a hollow pommel with a firestarting kit inside, and the knife fucking sucks absolute shit. It's super wobbly because it's a fucking blade with no tang attached to a hollow tube of a hilt that's awkwardly sized, and even when tightened fully it just doesn't want to sit right.
I didn't buy it, mind, I was just given it after it was "lost" from a hoarder relative's collection of random garbage. The only use I've managed to get from it is hacking the bark off a branch I was turning into a handle for a rusty old tool head I found and cleaned up.
But yeah, most of that shit is expensive enough that people who just like owned it personally wouldn't be going on a suicide mission to do terrorism in a country that's already on high alert against attacks like that. Even if they're bloodthirsty reactionary dipshits with like adult-chunibyu level delusions of grandeur, which let's be real all these operator types definitely are, actually acting on it is definitely an "incited and/or funded by CIA agents" kind of thing. Especially since they were going to meet with a local contact to start doing terror attacks, there's no way that's not a CIA op doing its usual thing of throwing money, guns, and logistical support at some bloodthirsty fascists so they can go and spill some blood in the name of the American empire.
I'm just kinda confused at the big picture here. Sending a special forces supply boat out to Cuba has to come with some specific purpose, but it seems awfully arrogant to do it at the same time as starting a war with Iran.
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