Who would win?
The Bloods, The Crypts, or the Taliban?
The Crypts??
Is that like a gang of guys who drive around in hearses, and their leader is skeleton with an irritating cackle?
hehe
Well, yeah!
OK, however you spell it!
Hell, the Taliban isn’t armed well enough to survive a battle with East L.A. grocers. The grocers have the better guns.
Just go to a gun range in East L.A. and what do you see? Tiny little Korean and Vietnamese grocers weilding gigantic .45 Smith and Wesson short-barrels, Ruger SP101’s and 100’s. Nothing less that .357 too. And I should mention the Vietnamese have uniquly good taste in tactical firepower. No shitty Wal-mart Marlin shotguns for them. Oh no, Heckler-Koch and Browning all the way.
The Taliban? Crappy Chinese AK clones – all stampings and shit-metal, and, what? .32 calibre? Those Chinese short barrels overheat and warp in no time too.
LOL Inky.
Just the answer I was hoping for.
Too bad they don’t play fair. 
Bastards.
Oh, they play fair enough. Just so long as they don’t catch you filtching samples from the beef jerky jar.
Oh! Hang on, I bet you meant the Taliban…
Har har har!
Verrrry funny man!
wags finger
You verrrrry funny man!
The Taleban couldn’t make it through the East LA interchange. My guess is a MTA bus would wipe them out of the busway before the cryps got their own chance.
We might all see it on KCAL 9.
.308 russian, actually(7.62x39)
A larger bore weapon than our own M16.
Oh, and its crips…
Gigantic Short barrels? A little oxy-moronic dont ya think?
I am not aware of many Smith and Wesson pistols in .45 with a barrel less than 4 inches. Not that I would buy one anyways, I am a 1911 man myself.
You are right about their taste in shotguns though, At the gunshop I go to every last Asian shop owner buys Franchi, HK, Beretta, or one with equally high quality. Now the white owners but cheap ass Mossberg riot gun.
What I would like to know is who would win between the taliban, and ALL the rednecks from my hometown of Redding CA. (4 hrs notrh of San Francisco. My county has more guns per person than all of Texas. ( I personally have 6)
Inky, none of the handguns you mentioned impressed me much as being serious combat firepower. As for stamped Chinese AKs they are not made of “shit metal.” Stamped AKs may be cheaper to produce but are every bit as effective as a milled Bulgarian or Russian made gun. The AK design has some drawbacks but remains one of the most effective assault weapons ever built, particularly in harsh, dirty conditions.
- let’s try to look at it while ignoring who are the good and the bad guys here. (And ignoring that there’s no real debating this unless we know what’s the objectives of the respective sides. )
On one side, shopkeeprs: Civilians with handguns and shotguns - slight technical edge to the weaponry, but not by a lot. Probably decent marksman skills, within the limitations of shotguns and handguns. No unit training.
The shopkeepers are reinforced by punks, whose weaponry is primitive but who’ll probably have better unit cohesion and command structure going for them.
Shopkeeprs and punks have really good terrain knowledge, probably their biggest asset.
On the other side we have people from a country where war has been a way of life for as long as anyone can remember, most of whom will actually have seen combat. Their weaponry looks primitive, but the 7.62 x 39 is more than powerful enough to go through most walls, the AK-47 is popular because it works, they know how to fix their weapons with little or no outside help and they do not fight fair. At all. They may even bring along grenades, RPGs or - more critically - radios.
Sorry, as much as I’d like to see the good guys come out victorious, they are not going to.
What I would do is first send in dropships with marines and firebats, along with some cloaked wraiths for backup before the zergs rush…
But THEY wouldn’t. Television is illegal for them… heh heh
But there are women in the Bloods and Crips, right? Don’t you think that they would donate to the Taliban a beatdown or three?
Ya’ got me! Actually, the incident I was thinking of was a little guy weilding a Colt .45 officers model with the truncated length. Those ones that were available in the mid-eighties.
He was only about 5’2", maybe 150 lbs, and could barely wrap his hand around those big .45 grips. With every round he grimaced, clamped his eyes shut, fired and was tossed back a foot.
You guys are forgetting the most important thing:
If you drop the Taliban into the middle of East Los Angeles (oh, say, near the intersection of the 10, 5, and 710 freeways), the ensuing gridlock would so completely screw up the entire Los Angeles area highway system that ten million pissed-off Angelion drivers would hunt down the Taliban idiots responsible and terminate them with extreme prejudice.
And gunfire would be optional – a dozen pissed-off soccer moms would simply run 'em over with their oversized SUV’s and we’d be done with it.
(Sure, we had the similar gridlock fiasco last Wednesday, but that was okay, because we were all watching the Lakers kick the snot out of the rest of the NBA 
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I never thought I would be proud of L.A. in such a way.