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Ukraine mum arms herself with massive sniper rifle & sets up sentry post in kitchen warning Putin ‘I’ll start shooting’
A MUM is pictured wielding a huge sniper rifle in her Ukraine flat as she prepares for a Russian invasion – warning Putin: “I’ll start shooting”.
Mariana Zhaglo, a 52-year-old marketing researcher, has said she is willing to do whatever it takes to defend her country.
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The mother-of-three has set up a sentry post in her kitchen, arming herself with a massive Zbroyar Z-15 rifle, helmet and camouflage gear as she joins millions of civilians preparing for the imminent Russian invasion.
Posing in her Kiev apartment, she told The Times: “As a mother I do not want my children to inherit Ukraine’s problems, or have these threats passed on to them.
“It is better that I deal with this now.
“If it comes to it then we will fight for Kiev; we will fight to protect our city. If there is a need for the shooting to start, then I’ll start shooting.”
She explained that her weapon is a hunting rifle – but that she has no intentions of hunting dear.
“I have never hunted in my life. I bought this carbine after listening to some soldiers discussing the best rifle to get,” Mariana added.
And the rifle wasn’t a one-off purchase for Mariana.
In addition to splashing £950 on the weapon, she also went to a two-week sniper course and had several attachments fitted – including a bipod, a telescopic sight and a silencer – to ensure she could be as lethal as possible.
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Without question there is some chivalrous if not romantic notion about a pair of duelling pistols. Such pistols which were built by many of the finest gun and rifle makers in Britain held a serious respect amongst the aristocracy, nobility and officer classes. For us Brits it came down to protecting ones honour and integrity, the smallest of slights resulting in a challenge to a ‘duel’ the result of which was the very real chance of death or serious injury.
Truth is, duels were genuinely serious business and at one stage during the Napolenic War it was said that more British Officers were killed in duels amongst themselves than actually by the French! Such was the seriousness of the situation that duels were banned by Wellington himself who later became one of the chief proponents in the outlawing of the practice in Britain. Duelling in Britain finally came to an end in the mid 1800’s.
To anyone who has ever handled a duelling pistol it cannot go without notice how beautifully balanced and well made the pistols are. They can often at first appear heavy and slightly unbalanced in the hand but as you draw them up and line the sights up you really appreciate just how well balanced and steady they become. You would certainly not want to be on the receiving end!
Importantly with duelling pistols they had to be identical in every way so that no one duellist had an advantage. As such they are some of the finest quality firearms built by British makers of the flintlock and percussion era. Most British made pistols were built as smooth bores in calibres from .40 to .65, but for the more cunning barrels might be part rifled or ‘scratch’ rifled to aid accuracy.
For those of you who have prepared it is wise to remember the advice that always accompanies the final stages of preparation. Once you are prepared, shut up, zip it, run silent and run deep.
The reason is simple comrades, when the “voluntary rationing” phase concludes, those who have prepared are quickly cast as ‘hoarders” and targeted by those who created the desperation. It has always been thus.
DC Mayor and COVID Compliance Minister, Muriel Bowser, asks residents in/around her region to enter a phase of voluntary rationing. What comes after the voluntary phase is the part many have been studiously preparing to avoid.
In the bigger picture… I find it rather revealing that only when leftist policies are followed to their natural conclusion do you see officials in the leftist economic system they created, a system not coincidentally always based on the outcome of scarcity, asking people not to engage in economic activity.
Chasing socialism always creates an outcome where the expressed intent from government is NOT to buy stuff, rationing. Socialism, or leftism in its modern form, always creates scarcity; it is the diametrically opposite outcome of a free capitalistic society.