Sentences with phrase «thousands of machine guns»

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

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With a few hundred machine guns and mortars, a small army can take over an entire country, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands

The fighting is chaotic and merciless, where the life of a young man who has trained for months and travelled thousands of miles to fight can be extinguished in a split - second by the opening salvo of machine - gun fire.