{"id":2223,"date":"2010-01-18T22:18:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-01-22T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T01:24:00","slug":"trijicon_the_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2223","title":{"rendered":"Trijicon, The Bible, And Huge-A** Headache (Or, When Wrongs Collide)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Wixom company under fire for putting tiny references to Bible verses on gun sights sold to the U.S. military, announced today it will drop the inscriptions on future arms shipments and offer kits to help the military remove codes on sights in the hands of troops.<\/p>\n

Trijicon Inc., responding to an uproar in the United States and abroad, said it has voluntarily decided to drop the inscriptions on all of its products made for the Defense Department. It will also supply the Pentagon with 100 “modification kits” to allow for the removal of the codes.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the story broke yesterday<\/a> that Trijicon, makers of the excellent line of ACOG firearms sights is embossing the codes for Bible verses<\/a> on the sights along with the model number and serial number. <\/p>\n

A friend of mine checked his Army-surplus Trijicon and conformed this to me (not all that necessary, because in the ABC stories that broke this, the manufacturer apparently confirms it):<\/p>\n

Trijicon confirmed to ABCNews.com that it adds the biblical codes to the sights sold to the U.S. military. Tom Munson, director of sales and marketing for Trijicon, which is based in Wixom, Michigan, said the inscriptions “have always been there” and said there was nothing wrong or illegal with adding them.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The usual suspects are having heart attacks<\/a> over this:<\/p>\n

who would jesus kill?<\/p>\n

via oliver willis, we find an american munitions company that is secretly inscribing coded biblical quotations on their weapons sold to the u.s. military for use in the middle east…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I’m feeling very, very sorry for some poor SOB in the Pentagon tonight who is drawing up contingency plans to replace or modify a whole shedload of delicate, technologically advanced weapons sights.<\/p>\n

So where do I stand on this? On one hand, I’m annoyed at Trijicon for doing this – they’re devout, but not stupid – and they had to know that this would be a significant issue. They have every right to print anything they want on their products, including the unexpurgated text of ‘Ulysses’ but the folks purchasing them have the right to demand that they be ‘Ulysses’-free. <\/p>\n

I’m annoyed at the folks in the procurement process who didn’t catch this and deal with it.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be incredibly annoyed at the pure-heart activists who are going to demand – DEMAND – that we recall every ACOG in service IMMEDIATELY. Because G** forbid we offend people before we shoot them.<\/p>\n

The sights are really good ones. There are meaningful options – Aimpoint<\/a> and Elcan<\/a> make great optics (Biggest Guy has an Elcan optic on his M249 SAW). But the overwhelming majority of the optics I’ve seen in contemporary military use are ACOGS – and for good reason, they’re great sights.<\/p>\n

I really will hate to see some kind of fire drill resulting from this that will put our troops at risk. And I’ll say that acknowledging that the real reason I’m annoyed at Trijicon (and the reason I may have just switched my purchase decision on an optic for my M1A to Aimpoint) is that by doing this, they have put US troops at risk<\/b>. There’s no good answer here, except to give a solid attention slap to the procurement officers who had to know about this and let it pass. <\/p>\n

My head hurts…
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Yes, Trijicon put Bible verses on their weapons sights. Now what??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}