I am ashamed at the reaction the military ‘PC police’ is having towards this. So I guess the dollars that we spent on purchasing these scopes should have the ‘In God We Trust’ part removed as well? Also, get rid of all of those chaplains and the thousands of bibles that are handed out to the military too. The political correctness in our military and society is killing me. This same political correctness is what allowed Major Hasan to get as far as he did in our military, and do his deed at Ft. Hood, and there comes a point where someone in charge needs to make a stand.
From a collector’s point of view, I think this is pretty cool, and now I am glad I have an ACOG with that little JN 8:12 on it. Not because I am a religious guy, but because the value of my scope just doubled. It will probably triple in value, and in twenty or thirty years from now, collectors will be drooling over these things. So with that, I will gladly keep using my ACOG for work, just in spite of this ridiculous reaction to ‘bible versus on scopes’. Ridiculous. That is my take on the whole thing, and I guarantee that I am not alone in that thinking.
The really frustrating part about all of this, is that soldiers will have to turn in scopes so the little inscription could be removed. Thousands of scopes with armorers dedicating valuable time to this idiotic task, when instead they could be working on more important tasks like changing out barrels or tuning up weapons. Ridiculous. –Matt
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Company offers to stop putting biblical references on military scopes
January 21, 2010
(CNN) — A manufacturer that has been inscribing Bible references on rifle sights used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan announced Thursday that it will stop putting scripture references on products the U.S. military uses.
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of United States Central Command, said Wednesday — apparently before learning of the company’s announcement — that the references were a “big concern” to the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps, which have contracts for the scopes.