{"id":23826,"date":"2023-12-21T06:56:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/hamas-claims-to-make-sniper-rifles-in-gaza-are-they-really\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:56:17","slug":"hamas-claims-to-make-sniper-rifles-in-gaza-are-they-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/hamas-claims-to-make-sniper-rifles-in-gaza-are-they-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Claims to Make Sniper Rifles in Gaza &#8211; Are They Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRcVRLtde6c?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>Hamas &#8211; or rather its specific military wing the Al Qassam Brigade &#8211; posted a video on Twitter \/ X yesterday purporting to show the manufacture of .50 caliber sniper rifles in Gaza. I was curious to have a look at it, as I&#8217;ve seen a lot of rifle factories and done some of this sort of work myself, so let&#8217;s see what the video actually shows when we look carefully&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Conflict Armament Research&#8217;s report on the Iranian AM-50 (copy of the Steyr HS-50):<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conflictarm.com\/technical\/iranian-am-50-12-7-x-99-mm-anti-materiel-rifle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.conflictarm.com\/technical\/iranian-am-50-12-7-x-99-mm-anti-materiel-rifle\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks also to Armament Research Services for consultation on the AM-50.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv Hamas &#8211; or rather its specific military wing the Al Qassam Brigade &#8211; posted a video on Twitter \/ X yesterday purporting to show the manufacture of .50 caliber sniper rifles in Gaza. I was curious to have a look at it, as I&#8217;ve&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/hamas-claims-to-make-sniper-rifles-in-gaza-are-they-really\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hamas Claims to Make Sniper Rifles in Gaza &#8211; Are They Really?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}