.22 Rifles Deemed Al-Qaeda’s Weapon Of Choice To Takeout Power Grid

The chairman of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has provided aspiring terrorists with an idea — use a .22 rifle to take out power transformers.

“There are ways that a very few number of actors with very rudimentary equipment could take down large portions of our grid,” FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff said at a Bloomberg Government breakfast in Washington last Friday. “I don’t think we have the level of physical security we need.”

A would-be al-Qaeda miscreant “could get 200 yards away with a .22 rifle” could take down the power grid, Wellinghoff warned. http://www.infowars.com/ferc-chairman-dubs-22-rifles-terrorist-weapons/