Actually with regards to the IRA purchasing new weapons, one laughable comment made by the media was the reference to, "their vast arsenal". Er yes, I mean give me 650 Kalshanikovs, a couple of dozen Armalites, assorted handguns and some medium and light machine guns plus odd bits and bobs and I'll storm the country of your choice for you tomorrow. So long as that country is say, oh Lichtenstein say or the Vactican State. No one ever mentions the 100,000 plus weapons still believed to be privately owned by loyalists and never handed in at any point.
Marcus
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