Actually, Red King is really one of our agents, having infiltrated the local governmental structure to facilitate the rise of our cause. Eventually. We shall prevail. All hail the Glorious Republican Democracy of Greater Carolina. Which we will get around to one of these days.
Shit, I leave for 30 minutes to
track down Dr. Loboto in his underwater Brain-Dome go to Arby's and all this happens. I actually needed the chuckle, thanks guys.
For the record, I am (though not for much longer) a government contractor who does technical support for the Bureau of Alco_hol, Toba_cco, Fire_arms and Explos_ives (also known as "Party in a Box"...broke up the words so this doesn't show up on a random Google search and earn me a call from IA). Said support often extends into coordinating resource deployment when the fecal matter impacts the rotary air circulator. Although I've had remarkably little to do with it this time around. Denver guys seem to have their shit screwed on straight, and it's during the week. The Giffords thing was on a weekend, when there's a lot less staff and more of the shit falls through to guys like me.
That said, my position does give me a much more close-up view of the trials and tribulations of trying to get any kind of loose grip on the umpteen million legal firearms out there in the US, much less the untold millions of illegal ones.
As to the bomb thing, they'll most likely use some rather sophisticated camera-arm things to get as much of it recorded as possible, figure out how it's *supposed* to work, then figure out how to safely disassemble it. Then they'll take the parts back to one of two labs, put it back together according to the recordings, and see if it actually did work. Those guys have the best fucking job. It's like Mythbusters with *more* explosions. Reason for this being, if someone has come up with a novel explosive/incendiary design you'd like to know about it in case they shared it with others and you start seeing that design pop up elsewhere. One of my favorite things I ever did was help decoding the videostream output from a CAT scanner, after they had secured an IED out of a car and taken it to a hospital to have the internal structure scanned. They had already figured out it was inert, but I still would have hated to have been the poor CAT scanner tech that had to help them with that one. Dude must have been shitting construction-grade bricks.
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