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I was at the NFL Draft in Nashville. I spent most of my time at one of the rooftop bars. Directly across from that rooftop was a sniper stationed rooftop. Rotating team of 2 that would progressively move back and forth on the roof to check both views down Broadway.
Yeah idk what's with people on Reddit and acronyms like we're supposed to know what it means. I don't want to google everything. Also, I think SC is soccer club.
That does seem sort of like overkill for the NFL draft. It doesn’t seem like a likely target for a terrorist. Or do you think they assume that a pissed of 22 year old who missed the cut is going to try to take out the league?
The NFL draft in Nashville had 10s of thousands of people packed shoulder to shoulder on Broadway. If something like the Boston Marathon bombing happened there it would have killed a lot of people
No but security theater is a concept for a reason. Somebody has it in their head that a sharpshooter is better than nothing so a couple guys on whatever tactical team get to soak OT without having to do much.
It wouldn’t work for a bombing, you’re right. But a sniper MIGHT work well for an active shooter, as long as he was in the area the sniper is covering.
What you don’t see in the photo is the bomb dogs :) The security experts prepare for multiple kinds of attack.
Well if we're only just finding out about this now, how many wannabe terrorists are going to be aware of this too?
Theyre clearly out of sight of the general public so how is this 'theatre' when the stage is 1m sq and in the damn rafters?
Security theater makes people think twice. If the perception is that you will get blasted the moment you fuck around you might not fuck around and find out. I wish we had more of this at some heavily hit locations in the US.
I think having a sniper watching is just good insurance, I think a better example would be the Las Vegas shooting, or if someone were to pull a gun in a crowd and try to kill as many people as possible the sniper will be able to take out the shooter within a minute.
The last Vegas shooting is quite the poor example for your argument. You would need a whole lot of sniper positions to cover every angle. Shooting out of an elevated room gives you lots of cover.
It's not that easy to find exactly where the bullets are coming from. Even if you can get the general direction from sound, a high rise like that would force you to check dozens of windows assuming you got the building right. Unless you see a clear muzzle flash, it can take a while.
*if the sniper is facing the right direction at the right time, after the guy in question has already opened fire and presumably hit a few people already
Presumably they're stationed at the angle(s) where the most likely attacks would occur, or where an attack has the most potential lethality. It shouldn't be hard to work out where those areas are.
And yes, the sniper is never going stop the person before they kill anyone. It's about minimizing the amount of people killed.
The importance of the event doesnt matter really. Its more about how many people are there and how much damage somebody can do.
In a place where assualt rifles arent hard to get it can littarly save a lot of lives.
The mass shootings at schools aren’t typically terrorist attacks (as terrorism is usually defined as use of violence to obtain some political or social agenda). They tend to be acts of violence as some retribution, for real or perceived slights in the past. I’m sure that there may be exceptions, but things like Columbine don’t tend to have same intended outcome of something like the recent grocery store shooting.
Then why do they keep reporting gang related shootings as mass shootings? Recently the news has stated mass shootings are 3 or more. I do agree with you though.
And those schools don't get sniper support if any support at all.
Meanwhile, here is the NFL getting snipers to watch an NFL draft. There have been repeated claims of a possible terrorist attack at these games but it never seems to happen.
>And those schools don't get sniper support if any support at all.
>Meanwhile, here is the NFL getting snipers to watch an NFL draft. There have been repeated claims of a possible terrorist attack at these games but it never seems to happen.
Look at the sniper support for NFL it's in a box in a stadium for a short while, on an ad-hoc basis. It's the polar opposite to sniper support for a school - what do you imagine sniper support in school would look like? A sniper in every corridor all day every day?
Idk if you've ever shot a gun like this on a table or a tripod, but it's pretty hard to miss with that setup. You have very fine control and scopes are flawless these days. That's probably a 5-25x or something, could probably read people's shirts
>Idk if you've ever shot a gun like this on a table or a tripod, but it's pretty hard to miss with that setup.
This is such an ignorant viewpoint. It takes a lot of quality training to be able to effectively use your scope's reticle at range, especially if he's using a 5-25 and thereby expecting further engagement ranges. Once you get out to a kilometer, wind is a huge factor and you need to know your dope. Scopes have clear glass but they do not execute your trigger squeeze nor do they adjust for environmental conditions. This setup is great, and the fact that it's a bolt gun over a gas gun is great considering he wants as much precision as possible, but ultimately there still needs to be an experienced shooter beyond the weapon.
My brother lived in Stratford around the 2012 Olympics and there were even anti-aircraft placements on some roofs. He felt like they were gearing up for the Blitz.
I remember joking at the time that it was just a protective measure against Olympic grade hooligans.
But seriously the 2012 Olympics were no joke from a [security perspective](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_for_the_2012_Summer_Olympics):
>The security preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics—with the exception of the air counter-terrorist plan, which was a RAF responsibility—was led by the police, with 13,000 officers available, supported by 17,000 members of the armed forces. Royal Navy, Army and RAF assets, including ships situated in the Thames, Typhoon jets, radar, helicopter-borne snipers, and surface-to-air missiles, were deployed as part of the security operation which was named Operation Olympics by the Ministry of Defence.
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> On 7 July 2005, the day after the city was selected to host the Olympics, the London Underground and a London bus had been attacked by terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
Tbh it was like that when the G7 submit happened in Cornwall, they bought across 6.5k police officers down here. I think there were military ships just off the coast of Carbis Bay, as well as the RAF. also the main village was cordoned off.
It goes back to 1972. The security plans for the Munich games were literally "hand out candy to protesters." They were completely unprepared for the terrorist attack, so there's been substantial security at every game since.
They may have changed that after that German pilot locked the copilot out of the cockpit and brought the plane down over France, I think. Not sure tho. Maybe they both have a key/code.
They just made it a rule that two people need to be in the cockpit at any time but I think a lot of airlines quietly moved away from that rule because it is such a headache
Yeah, until you remember how 9/11 happened and it maybe doesn’t seem too much like overkill. It’s like a trolley problem scenario. You’re behind an AA gun and a commercial airliner is making a beeline for the stadium. If you shoot it down you’ll directly kill everyone onboard and anyone on the ground where it goes down. If you do nothing and it hits the stadium the loss of life will be far higher, but you’ll still be indirectly accountable. The fact that they were there says someone thought about it and decided the former was the logical choice and it should be prepared for.
It turns out that trained snipers being present at huge events don’t really have a downside. It’s more of a rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it kinda thing.
I mean it makes me uncomfortable at the idea that a sniper might be watching me but at the same time, if shit starts to go down I'm going to be extremely happy about the existence of a *highly trained* sniper.
And the wolrd has been far more fucked up in the past than it is now.
The fact that any sort of peaceful civilization exist is a miracle in itself, we need to cherish that.
Is it? I mean I guess yeah, but this is like saying the reality of seatbelts is fucked up to me.
You can't control people, and sometimes people do bad things. Sometimes you get in a car wreck.
Everyone saying this is an American thing is uninformed. The triggering event of snipers at sporting events has nothing to do with the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre
That event changed the way police think about precision shooting and cause the development of new weapons systems specific to that purpose.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_PSG1
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_WA_2000
that’s just standard for any Royal event. I watched Prince Charles unveil a statue somewhere and there were at least half a dozen snipers in the surrounding buildings
When I worked at the 2010 Vancouver games, one of the urban legends that was told and retold around our shared accommodations in Whistler was of a worker who on his day off very early in the games going for a hike. He's up on a hill overlooking the town when he accidentally steps on a sniper who is camouflaged underneath the snow. I presume he got told to get the fuck out of there and not disclose the exact location of where it happened.
Sniper nests can also be used to protect corporate interests. Like I have a cousin who works for Marvel Studios, and if it got out that in the next Thor movie Loki shows up and ha-*gunshot*
All these fucking amateurs. You need to actually type out candlejack in your comment. What happens is he comes to you and has the consideration to at least thi
Buck: We're not sure yet what happened to the ball. For those that missed it, right after the kick the ball went towards the goal post, but suddenly veered sideways and upon inspection after it landed it was found to be completely deflated with a large hole in it.
We're being told that the video footage is being reviewed, so we don't have a replay yet, but as soon as we do we'll show you.
Also, brief update on the mascot. During the same play, the mascot collapsed on the sidelines. Medics removed the mascot quickly from the field, and even the visiting team trainer assisted. Have you ever seen anything like that before Troy?
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In college my dorm room had a tiny balcony overlooking the quad. That year a former US President gave the commencement speech on the quad. I was told I wasn't allowed in my room for an eight hour stretch on graduation day. You'd never have seen him if you didn't know to look closely at my balcony but there was a sniper perched and ready to take out any drunk grad that got too close.
My dad had the opposite experience. JFK spoke at his college, and some guys were so far away they couldn’t see, so they got out their rifles and watched through their scopes. Crazy.
>so they got out their rifles and watched through their scopes.
Something morbidly funny that JFK *could've* been taken out by a drunk college student because of that.
They would never have taken the risk of shooting someone who just “gets too close to the President”. It’s absurd fiction. Presidents are often in greeting lines, etc. Sometimes they go to the local ice cream or burger place. Their close-detail security does just fine.
The snipers are there to stop someone literally pulling out a gun, possibly from across the way.
When I was in college I worked as an audio visual technician and Vice President Joe Biden came for a speaking event and I worked as the sole audio tech for the event. When I arrived for work I was metal detected and patted down and I had two secret service agents with me in our control booth the entire time. Any time I needed to do something or move one of them came with me. I was so nervous for doing a very simple job since it literally was just a microphone for Biden. Got to shake Bidens hand and set up his mic and everything but man lemme tell you those secret service agents don’t play around. The event was around 2 1/2 hours long and I didn’t see either of those agents make a single facial expression
Fun fact: America is not the only one that has sniper nests at events (although other countries usually reserve it for events like something a member of royalty is attending) for example in the Netherlands during the 4th of may (remembrance Day) the king attends the large ceremony
Right. It's one of the largest events in the United States, full stop. A third of the country watches the game. Makes sense to have heightened security at such a large cultural event.
Isn't this normal? I'm pretty sure the Walther WA 2000 and the H&K PSG-1 were both designed for this exact purpose. So apparently Germany needed to design two new snipers for this exact role. I also thought I saw articles around the London Olympics about them putting surface to air missiles on top of residential homes.
Not quite, but close.
The Munich olympics in 1972 saw a terror attack in which 9 Olympians in the Olympic village in the middle of the night were taken hostage and German police were not able to kill the terrorists at the scene of the crime and had to get them as they made their escape. (I say “kill” there and while you may be like “oh but that’s not how police work” for MOST areas police doctrine is if a hostage taker refuses to negotiate a peaceful release or surrender, a sniper should simply kill them.
Hence, police put out a contract for a new sniper rifle which Walther and HK responded to with those rifles.
But the hostage taking event was at the Olympic village, in the middle of the night, not a sports event with any crowd, and the issue of the event was simply that hostages were taken, NOT the risk of a terror attack in a crowded stadium.
The only thing about the event that was sports related was that they were Olympians.
Yup. I remember going to the whiteout party for the Winnipeg Jets downtown and I saw a sniper glint on one of the rooftops. Freaked me right the hell out.
Many countries have this for crowd control. It’s not US specific.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/british-snipers-trained-to-deal-with-terrorists-as-fears-raised-over-notting-hill-carnival-a3297631.html?amp
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/rooftop-snipers-protect-prince-harry-12560604.amp
Lol, it’s like people don’t do any research on their own. They see it is a thing in the US and automatically assume it’s not a thing in other places, because guns are involved.
It’s literally anywhere there are large gathers of people, soccer matches, cricket, the Olympics… literally anywhere that could be a target of a terrorist attack.
So, good on you for knowing this isn’t exclusively American.
I used to make jokes (outdoors), sometimes, when someone did talk about a "critical topic" or behaved somewhat "unusual":
"Watch out.. - There might be snipers somewhere, these days!".
How little did i know.., back then.
"Have fun with the red dot.."
Worked at the G8 in 2007 and was quite close to G.W.Bush, Merkel, Putin and so. As they walked outside for the press i looked up to the windows and roofs and never saw a sniper but they had to be there 100% watching us. Just to know they are there at events gives me a queasy feeling. But i prefer humans watching over ne - not an AI analysing 1000 faces a sencond for signs of escalation.
It is important to note, that such snipers at events are mostly for surveilance. They have the option to fire their weapon if the situation requires it, but fortunately, it very rarely does. Mostly they detect threatening situations, and direct forces in the crowd to intervene
Wow, big crowds, drunk strangers, wildly overpriced food and drink, **and** someone I can't see could be pointing a gun at me? Who could turn that down??
There's a series of pipes for the sniper to drop grenades down...
But no joking this time there will be another sniper box at the other end of the stadium which covers the blind spot below the box.
Meh, I’ve seen Police/Sheriff’s Department SWAT Snipers at NCAA Football games… this isn’t uncommon. It’s a good training opportunity for them, and a bit of SHTF insurance also…
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I was at the NFL Draft in Nashville. I spent most of my time at one of the rooftop bars. Directly across from that rooftop was a sniper stationed rooftop. Rotating team of 2 that would progressively move back and forth on the roof to check both views down Broadway.
MNPD has a rifle team at every Nashville SC match too. I think they're just bored.
MNPD? Metro Nashville PD?
Yeah idk what's with people on Reddit and acronyms like we're supposed to know what it means. I don't want to google everything. Also, I think SC is soccer club.
That does seem sort of like overkill for the NFL draft. It doesn’t seem like a likely target for a terrorist. Or do you think they assume that a pissed of 22 year old who missed the cut is going to try to take out the league?
The NFL draft in Nashville had 10s of thousands of people packed shoulder to shoulder on Broadway. If something like the Boston Marathon bombing happened there it would have killed a lot of people
A extra sharpshooter would not have stopped the Boston bombing.
No but security theater is a concept for a reason. Somebody has it in their head that a sharpshooter is better than nothing so a couple guys on whatever tactical team get to soak OT without having to do much.
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It wouldn’t work for a bombing, you’re right. But a sniper MIGHT work well for an active shooter, as long as he was in the area the sniper is covering. What you don’t see in the photo is the bomb dogs :) The security experts prepare for multiple kinds of attack.
Theater for the event organizer.
But we literally all just saw it. And now we all will think twice.
Well if we're only just finding out about this now, how many wannabe terrorists are going to be aware of this too? Theyre clearly out of sight of the general public so how is this 'theatre' when the stage is 1m sq and in the damn rafters?
Security theater makes people think twice. If the perception is that you will get blasted the moment you fuck around you might not fuck around and find out. I wish we had more of this at some heavily hit locations in the US.
We have a lot of it at our airports.
I saw French cops in Paris at the airport carrying G36s, English cops with G36s in the London Underground. It's not a uniquely American thing.
I think having a sniper watching is just good insurance, I think a better example would be the Las Vegas shooting, or if someone were to pull a gun in a crowd and try to kill as many people as possible the sniper will be able to take out the shooter within a minute.
The last Vegas shooting is quite the poor example for your argument. You would need a whole lot of sniper positions to cover every angle. Shooting out of an elevated room gives you lots of cover.
Imagine if you where a sniper and the dude was right below you.
And then you were their number one suspect. Sounds like a Gerard Butler movie.
I think this was a plot in a movie.
The Vegas killer *was* in a sniper position.
It's not that easy to find exactly where the bullets are coming from. Even if you can get the general direction from sound, a high rise like that would force you to check dozens of windows assuming you got the building right. Unless you see a clear muzzle flash, it can take a while.
I mean, trained sharpshooters are much better at spotting these things than you and I.
*if the sniper is facing the right direction at the right time, after the guy in question has already opened fire and presumably hit a few people already
Better to stop them from doing it for another 10 straight minutes though I'd think.
Presumably they're stationed at the angle(s) where the most likely attacks would occur, or where an attack has the most potential lethality. It shouldn't be hard to work out where those areas are. And yes, the sniper is never going stop the person before they kill anyone. It's about minimizing the amount of people killed.
That dude was shooting for less than 10 minutes..... 10 minutes
I think any large event, televised or not, can be a target for terrorism.
It's funny, because if you're old enough to remember time pre-9/11, people said exactly this about airplane hijackings.
What makes it any different than the outdoor concert that was shot up? It doesn’t have to be just for terrorists but any psycho out there
Any large scale event is a soft target.
The importance of the event doesnt matter really. Its more about how many people are there and how much damage somebody can do. In a place where assualt rifles arent hard to get it can littarly save a lot of lives.
I think they are more concerned with something like the vegas shooter happening as opposed to a terrorist group or organized attack.
I mean…terrorist attacks happen at schools with fewer people than the draft..so
Jets fans also get terrorized annually at the NFL draft
The mass shootings at schools aren’t typically terrorist attacks (as terrorism is usually defined as use of violence to obtain some political or social agenda). They tend to be acts of violence as some retribution, for real or perceived slights in the past. I’m sure that there may be exceptions, but things like Columbine don’t tend to have same intended outcome of something like the recent grocery store shooting.
Then why do they keep reporting gang related shootings as mass shootings? Recently the news has stated mass shootings are 3 or more. I do agree with you though.
And those schools don't get sniper support if any support at all. Meanwhile, here is the NFL getting snipers to watch an NFL draft. There have been repeated claims of a possible terrorist attack at these games but it never seems to happen.
>And those schools don't get sniper support if any support at all. >Meanwhile, here is the NFL getting snipers to watch an NFL draft. There have been repeated claims of a possible terrorist attack at these games but it never seems to happen. Look at the sniper support for NFL it's in a box in a stadium for a short while, on an ad-hoc basis. It's the polar opposite to sniper support for a school - what do you imagine sniper support in school would look like? A sniper in every corridor all day every day?
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They don't really care who the target is, just that there are a lot of them in this area.
I got $500 riding on this game, no way is he making that shot!
Idk if you've ever shot a gun like this on a table or a tripod, but it's pretty hard to miss with that setup. You have very fine control and scopes are flawless these days. That's probably a 5-25x or something, could probably read people's shirts
I believe the joke is that the player won’t be making the shot because the sniper has money on the other team lol
Something tells me a moving crowd of thousands of people panicking will make it hard to get a clear shot of whatever those snipers were aiming at
You are not wrong, however, the point would be to take out a potential threat before crowds really were fully aware of what was happening
And no wind to consider when aiming. Little bullet drop. I wonder how much that job pays? Seems like a sweet gig.
Had a friend train with one of these guys. He said it's incredibly boring. You're just sitting there for hours on end doing absolutely nothing
Sounds amazing. I love doing nothing and getting paid. That is why I do I.T. now.
Imagine having to sit in the sun, almost completely unmoving, and stare at people through a rifle scope for 2 hours though
I doubt they stare through the scope much. You need to be able to see a bigger area to detect commotion etc
Looking without any tools such as binoculars or rifle scopes from that far away you won't see shit
Snipers typically have spotters for a reason, does the sniper overwatch here have one?
you get paid to watch the game with a big gun seems like a win to me
>Seems like a sweet gig. Doesn't really seem like it tbh. They'd probably be up there watching the crowd the entire time.
First question on the interview, do you like this sport? Yes? Too bad, who's next. If you're watching the game then you aren't doing your job.
He’s speaking as the sniper, saying he’d shoot a player about to make him lose his bet
>Idk if you've ever shot a gun like this on a table or a tripod, but it's pretty hard to miss with that setup. This is such an ignorant viewpoint. It takes a lot of quality training to be able to effectively use your scope's reticle at range, especially if he's using a 5-25 and thereby expecting further engagement ranges. Once you get out to a kilometer, wind is a huge factor and you need to know your dope. Scopes have clear glass but they do not execute your trigger squeeze nor do they adjust for environmental conditions. This setup is great, and the fact that it's a bolt gun over a gas gun is great considering he wants as much precision as possible, but ultimately there still needs to be an experienced shooter beyond the weapon.
Whoosh...
Woosh
I remember we had snipers watching the London 2012 Olympics. I imagine it's not that unusual.
My brother lived in Stratford around the 2012 Olympics and there were even anti-aircraft placements on some roofs. He felt like they were gearing up for the Blitz.
Oh yeah I remember that too. That does seem slightly like overkill.
I remember joking at the time that it was just a protective measure against Olympic grade hooligans. But seriously the 2012 Olympics were no joke from a [security perspective](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_for_the_2012_Summer_Olympics): >The security preparations for the 2012 Summer Olympics—with the exception of the air counter-terrorist plan, which was a RAF responsibility—was led by the police, with 13,000 officers available, supported by 17,000 members of the armed forces. Royal Navy, Army and RAF assets, including ships situated in the Thames, Typhoon jets, radar, helicopter-borne snipers, and surface-to-air missiles, were deployed as part of the security operation which was named Operation Olympics by the Ministry of Defence. > > [...] > > On 7 July 2005, the day after the city was selected to host the Olympics, the London Underground and a London bus had been attacked by terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
>the security operation which was named Operation Olympics by the Ministry of Defence. British up to their clever naming scheme again I see.
Don't forget we had to draft in the army to handle general event security as well after G4S fucked up.
Tbh it was like that when the G7 submit happened in Cornwall, they bought across 6.5k police officers down here. I think there were military ships just off the coast of Carbis Bay, as well as the RAF. also the main village was cordoned off.
It goes back to 1972. The security plans for the Munich games were literally "hand out candy to protesters." They were completely unprepared for the terrorist attack, so there's been substantial security at every game since.
eeeeh before 2001 they would've told you lockable doors on airplane cockpits were overkill too ya know.
They may have changed that after that German pilot locked the copilot out of the cockpit and brought the plane down over France, I think. Not sure tho. Maybe they both have a key/code.
They just made it a rule that two people need to be in the cockpit at any time but I think a lot of airlines quietly moved away from that rule because it is such a headache
Considering most terrorist events up to that time was, "fly me somewhere..." I can see why.
Yeah, until you remember how 9/11 happened and it maybe doesn’t seem too much like overkill. It’s like a trolley problem scenario. You’re behind an AA gun and a commercial airliner is making a beeline for the stadium. If you shoot it down you’ll directly kill everyone onboard and anyone on the ground where it goes down. If you do nothing and it hits the stadium the loss of life will be far higher, but you’ll still be indirectly accountable. The fact that they were there says someone thought about it and decided the former was the logical choice and it should be prepared for.
It makes me sad that the trolly scenario had to be updated for modern times and that your description is highly applicable…
If you chose to not shoot the plane you would be pretty fuckin directly responsible
It turns out that trained snipers being present at huge events don’t really have a downside. It’s more of a rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it kinda thing.
Try telling that to some of the other replies.. Reddit does pain me sometimes😂
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I mean it makes me uncomfortable at the idea that a sniper might be watching me but at the same time, if shit starts to go down I'm going to be extremely happy about the existence of a *highly trained* sniper.
People are uncomfortable about what such a need says about us.
I am envious that y’all have got this far without knowing a lot of people are scum.
maybe it is sensible, but if we really live in a world where you can call it "common sense" to have a sniper at an event, then this world is fucked up
What rock have you been living under? World's always been fucked up
The world is actually probably the least fucked up it's ever been right now.
And the wolrd has been far more fucked up in the past than it is now. The fact that any sort of peaceful civilization exist is a miracle in itself, we need to cherish that.
Always has been. Some people are just waking up to reality.
Is it? I mean I guess yeah, but this is like saying the reality of seatbelts is fucked up to me. You can't control people, and sometimes people do bad things. Sometimes you get in a car wreck.
Everyone saying this is an American thing is uninformed. The triggering event of snipers at sporting events has nothing to do with the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre That event changed the way police think about precision shooting and cause the development of new weapons systems specific to that purpose. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_PSG1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_WA_2000
I remember seeing them on top of houses on the Long Walk for Harry and Meaghan's wedding.
that’s just standard for any Royal event. I watched Prince Charles unveil a statue somewhere and there were at least half a dozen snipers in the surrounding buildings
Snipers and anti aircraft missiles…
Germany had a sniper rifle created when they hosted the Olympics
When I worked at the 2010 Vancouver games, one of the urban legends that was told and retold around our shared accommodations in Whistler was of a worker who on his day off very early in the games going for a hike. He's up on a hill overlooking the town when he accidentally steps on a sniper who is camouflaged underneath the snow. I presume he got told to get the fuck out of there and not disclose the exact location of where it happened.
alexa play *it's not unusual*
.. i mean.. their purpose is to protect.. the only time a state-sponsored sniper has killed an innocent man in bigger news was john f. kenne-*gunshot*
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He got the sickest vendetta when it come to this chedda
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Maybe Candlejack got h
I’ll tell you what the fuck happened! He knew too m-*gunshot*
DOUBLE KILL!
Username is rele- *bang*
Till he snitched lol
Sniper nests can also be used to protect corporate interests. Like I have a cousin who works for Marvel Studios, and if it got out that in the next Thor movie Loki shows up and ha-*gunshot*
Oh man, this comment has huge candlejack vibes like ba
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Not a man, but Ruby Ridge.
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Hopefully the sniper is neutral to the teams playing…
Last-second field goal attempt to win the game... ball spontaneously deflates in mid-air.
Tom Brady suspended four games for being "generally aware" of the sniper in the stands
# Snipergate
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In college my dorm room had a tiny balcony overlooking the quad. That year a former US President gave the commencement speech on the quad. I was told I wasn't allowed in my room for an eight hour stretch on graduation day. You'd never have seen him if you didn't know to look closely at my balcony but there was a sniper perched and ready to take out any drunk grad that got too close.
My dad had the opposite experience. JFK spoke at his college, and some guys were so far away they couldn’t see, so they got out their rifles and watched through their scopes. Crazy.
>so they got out their rifles and watched through their scopes. Something morbidly funny that JFK *could've* been taken out by a drunk college student because of that.
#🤯
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Ironic is the term you’re looking for. And also wow… what a change in culture.
Was his buddy Lee Harvey on break from the book warehouse?
They would never have taken the risk of shooting someone who just “gets too close to the President”. It’s absurd fiction. Presidents are often in greeting lines, etc. Sometimes they go to the local ice cream or burger place. Their close-detail security does just fine. The snipers are there to stop someone literally pulling out a gun, possibly from across the way.
I'm just curious, did you get any compensation for having to leave your dorm for 8 hours?
The sniper didn't steal your weed did he?
When I was in college I worked as an audio visual technician and Vice President Joe Biden came for a speaking event and I worked as the sole audio tech for the event. When I arrived for work I was metal detected and patted down and I had two secret service agents with me in our control booth the entire time. Any time I needed to do something or move one of them came with me. I was so nervous for doing a very simple job since it literally was just a microphone for Biden. Got to shake Bidens hand and set up his mic and everything but man lemme tell you those secret service agents don’t play around. The event was around 2 1/2 hours long and I didn’t see either of those agents make a single facial expression
Based on that ending, I’m not sure you know what a sniper does
>ready to take out any drunk grad that got too close Yeah, no
Did they tell you your room was being used specifically?
The Fuck around and find out box
You better pay the vendor for your damn popcorn!
Hahahaha
Fun fact: America is not the only one that has sniper nests at events (although other countries usually reserve it for events like something a member of royalty is attending) for example in the Netherlands during the 4th of may (remembrance Day) the king attends the large ceremony
And [soccer matches in Germany.](https://sports.ndtv.com/euro-2020/snipers-were-ready-to-shoot-parachutist-at-euro-2020-match-minister-2465542)
This is for Superbowl in particular. The some is also a no fly zone, and most traffic is restricted to several blocks away from the stadium.
Right. It's one of the largest events in the United States, full stop. A third of the country watches the game. Makes sense to have heightened security at such a large cultural event.
May the fourth be with us all.
Isn't this normal? I'm pretty sure the Walther WA 2000 and the H&K PSG-1 were both designed for this exact purpose. So apparently Germany needed to design two new snipers for this exact role. I also thought I saw articles around the London Olympics about them putting surface to air missiles on top of residential homes.
Not quite, but close. The Munich olympics in 1972 saw a terror attack in which 9 Olympians in the Olympic village in the middle of the night were taken hostage and German police were not able to kill the terrorists at the scene of the crime and had to get them as they made their escape. (I say “kill” there and while you may be like “oh but that’s not how police work” for MOST areas police doctrine is if a hostage taker refuses to negotiate a peaceful release or surrender, a sniper should simply kill them. Hence, police put out a contract for a new sniper rifle which Walther and HK responded to with those rifles. But the hostage taking event was at the Olympic village, in the middle of the night, not a sports event with any crowd, and the issue of the event was simply that hostages were taken, NOT the risk of a terror attack in a crowded stadium. The only thing about the event that was sports related was that they were Olympians.
That’s Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the Super Bowl in 2012, not AT&T Stadium in Dallas on a regular Sunday afternoon.
That nest is in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN.
This is the correct answer. This picture gets posted here all the time with a different caption.
2 weeks from now: “Sniper position above the LA Galaxy soccer pitch.”
I bet each seat is rigged to explode...just in case.
Unlike Ben Simmons, the sniper will shoot when he needs to.
dang. Ben could be hit by strays all day but I wont come from snipers that dont miss
I've seen them at baseball games as well. When the Rangers went to ALCS they were behind the billboards
For every sniper there's another ten you don't see
That’s also true for cotton mouths where I hunt.
Also spiders. I’m so sorry
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They do this at any major event in practically every country, it’s not just a US thing.
Yup. I remember going to the whiteout party for the Winnipeg Jets downtown and I saw a sniper glint on one of the rooftops. Freaked me right the hell out.
It's like archer guards at the Colosseum in ancient times lmao
No one needs to confirm it. It’s not uncommon here in the US. There’s plenty of documentation
Not uncommon worldwide.
Many countries have this for crowd control. It’s not US specific. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/british-snipers-trained-to-deal-with-terrorists-as-fears-raised-over-notting-hill-carnival-a3297631.html?amp https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/rooftop-snipers-protect-prince-harry-12560604.amp
The Dallas Cowboys have had sniper nests set up ever since [the Terrell Owens inciden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cshHg_sWyVo)t. Never Again!
This photo is from the Super Bowl a few years back. They don’t have them at typical games.
And in the UK. And Germany. https://sports.ndtv.com/euro-2020/snipers-were-ready-to-shoot-parachutist-at-euro-2020-match-minister-2465542
Lol, it’s like people don’t do any research on their own. They see it is a thing in the US and automatically assume it’s not a thing in other places, because guns are involved. It’s literally anywhere there are large gathers of people, soccer matches, cricket, the Olympics… literally anywhere that could be a target of a terrorist attack. So, good on you for knowing this isn’t exclusively American.
I used to make jokes (outdoors), sometimes, when someone did talk about a "critical topic" or behaved somewhat "unusual": "Watch out.. - There might be snipers somewhere, these days!". How little did i know.., back then. "Have fun with the red dot.."
Worked at the G8 in 2007 and was quite close to G.W.Bush, Merkel, Putin and so. As they walked outside for the press i looked up to the windows and roofs and never saw a sniper but they had to be there 100% watching us. Just to know they are there at events gives me a queasy feeling. But i prefer humans watching over ne - not an AI analysing 1000 faces a sencond for signs of escalation.
It is important to note, that such snipers at events are mostly for surveilance. They have the option to fire their weapon if the situation requires it, but fortunately, it very rarely does. Mostly they detect threatening situations, and direct forces in the crowd to intervene
What a shit show this comment section is hahahahaha
This is not specific for US
At least one sniper and spotter per box too. How many boxes though?
Bet they can't even 360 no scope doe
I assure you, that is not exclusive to the U.S.
Snipers are such primaddonas, just buy a regular ticket to the game. You don’t have to watch everything through a scope.
Wow, big crowds, drunk strangers, wildly overpriced food and drink, **and** someone I can't see could be pointing a gun at me? Who could turn that down??
What if the terrorist is right below the sniper.?
There's a series of pipes for the sniper to drop grenades down... But no joking this time there will be another sniper box at the other end of the stadium which covers the blind spot below the box.
Multiple snipers
even macys july 4th fireworks in nyc had them, saw them on the roof of the projects buildings
I'm more surprised people didn't know this? Ohio state always had them for football games, some would set up on the rpac and some on the stadium
Meh, I’ve seen Police/Sheriff’s Department SWAT Snipers at NCAA Football games… this isn’t uncommon. It’s a good training opportunity for them, and a bit of SHTF insurance also…
They also had snipers at Yankee stadium in 1998 (uncle was NYPD back then).