The NRA helped promote this deadly Russian sniper rifle that has the US military worried

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• The National Rifle Association once helped promote the ORSIS T-5000, a deadly Russian sniper rifle that has worried the US military. 
• The US Army even listed it in a report about "the Russian threat and how Russian Led Separatist Forces (RSLF) conducted operations in Eastern Ukraine since March of 2014."
• The T-5000 fires a .388 Lapua Magnum round, which is an 8.6 or 8.58x70mm round, that can hit targets up to 2,000 yards away, and can penetrate every known body armor currently fielded. 

The Army released a report in late 2016 that centered on the Russian threat in Ukraine and detailed how the capabilities of Russian snipers have grown, thanks in large part deadly new Russian sniper rifle, the ORSIS T-5000.

And it also just so happens that the National Rifle Association once helped promote the T-5000, according to Mother Jones.

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