{"id":22218,"date":"2013-04-23T01:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T04:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22218"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:37:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:37:08","slug":"us-army-removing-bible-references-from-gun-scopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/23\/us-army-removing-bible-references-from-gun-scopes\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army Removing Bible References from Gun Scopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

FoxNews reports on the continuation<\/a> of a “scandal” from 2010<\/a>:\u00a0 Trijicon, the maker of the much-vaunted<\/a> ACOG gun sight, was known for putting an abbreviated Bible verse reference<\/a> on the end of its serial numbers.\u00a0 Michael Weinstein found out, claimed that Islamic terrorists were offended when they were shot by rifles with these scopes, and demanded the Army remove them.\u00a0 Trijicon ultimately offered to provide kits to remove the references<\/a>.\u00a0 (After threatening legal action<\/a> against Trijicon,\u00a0Weinstein also apparently implied his MRFF was a Christian organization…)<\/p>\n

The Army now claims these inscriptions violated the terms of the contract:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u201cThe vendor etched those inscriptions on scopes without the Army\u2019s approval,\u201d Army spokesman Matthew Bourke told Fox in a written statement. \u201cConsequently, the modified scopes did not meet the requirement under which the contract was executed.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s probably a stretch, since indications were these were a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) purchase.\u00a0 Since the verses were on the commercial version, they were naturally on the version the Army received.\u00a0 There was no “modification” to the product.\u00a0 For its part, Trijicon indicated it had a Chick-FIL-A style response to its scopes<\/a>, albeit on a smaller scale, with an uptick in interest in their products and no public backlash.<\/p>\n

The Army made the modifications slowly, as men and equipment were cycled in and out of theater:<\/p>\n

Soldiers at Fort Wainwright in Alaska told Fox News they received a directive to turn in their scopes so the Bible references could be removed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weinstein was upset at that pace<\/a> (though the Army was apparently\u00a0unfazed by his whining), since everyone was aware that US troops were dying just because of these ACOG scopes.\u00a0 Actually, they weren’t, but that’s what Weinstein would have people believe.<\/p>\n

Weinstein had tried to claim large groups of people, including the enemy, were offended by these references.\u00a0 Ironically, the official documentation the Army provided instructing soldiers on how to grind the scripture reference off had to go out of its way to explain what the Bible references are — because it isn’t obvious, and a lot of US Soldiers probably aren’t Biblically literate.\u00a0 And that’s the Americans holding the weapons, not the (mostly illiterate) Afghans on the receiving end of 5.56mm rounds.\u00a0 In other words, it is a manufactured offense of grand proportions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt blows my mind,\u201d the soldier said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t help the Army do its mission to take off a biblical reference.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, but some people seem to think if they just give Weinstein an inch, he’ll be satisfied and leave them alone.<\/p>\n

Eventually, they figure out they’re wrong.\u00a0 It just takes a little while.<\/p>\n

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