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The Lucy .50 Magnum Sniper Rifle

The Lucy .50 Magnum Sniper Rifle

Named after Lucy Parsons an African, Native and Mexican-American anarchist labor activist and all around bad-ass who was described by the Chicago PD as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” She was married to Albert Parsons former Confederate soldier turned anarchist organizer who was a Haymarket Martyr.

 

This rifle fires a new .50 magnum round with a resdesigned .510 bullet derived from the old .50 BMG cartridge, that is boat-tailed to reduce drag and go much farther. It is semi-automatic with a 4 round magazine. It can also fire the standard .50 BMG round with a special mag adaptor.

 

Built almost entirely out of shapes none of them white.

Credits to "The Wezzy" for the Rails and xλИ for the stock (which was heavily modified and removed of white shapes), "(Matthew Taylor)" for the bipod (again modified, wanted less shapes and less part usage) "Shark ~ He who rides a tiger cannot dismount" for the grip and trigger (modified slightly)

 

Total number of pages of code: 1769 @ Helevetica 12pt

 

www.lucyparsonsproject.org/

 

From a story by radical folk singer Utah Phillips:

“One time, she was speaking at a big May Day rally back in the Haymarket in the middle 1930s during The Depression. She was incredibly old. She was led carefully up to the rostrum, a multitude of people there. She had her hair tied back in a tight white bun, her face a mass of deeply incised lines, deep-set beady black eyes. She was the image of everybody’s great-grandmother. She hunched over that podium, hawk-like, and fixed that multitude with those beady black eyes, and said: “What I want is for every greasy grimy tramp to arm himself with a knife or a gun and stationing himself at the doorways of the rich shoot or stab them as they come out.”

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Uploaded on August 23, 2011
Taken on August 23, 2011