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Originally Posted by djlnc
I predict that in 2025 there will be jihadists taking advantage of these readily available weapons delivery systems to attack infrastructure, stadiums, etc. We are a target rich country and pretty much defenseless against this sort of attack.
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^Concur. This is a significant concern.
I seem to recall an incident (maybe in NJ or NY) a few decades ago when they caught foreign nationals attempting to fire on a U.S. civilian airliner. Can't find anything on the internet search-machine thingy about it though.
Further internet searching is indicating it may have initially been considered a cause for Flight 800 in 1996, but was apparently later to determined to be an electrical short in the central fuel tank.
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