re: #239 shiplord kirel

They don’t do even that without being armed. They are actually more heavily armed than the Israeli boarders, in fact, since they augment their pistols with shotguns rather than paintball guns.

Someone recently linked an article saying that the IDF had pistol sidearms and that it was one or more of these that got wrestled from the soldiers and into the hands of the.. (choosing words carefully).. boat occupants. Is this correct or not? Did the people on the boat have pistols *and* shotguns to begin with?