Firm offers to axe Bible references on rifle sights
A company which supplies British forces with rifle sights has offeredto remove controversial Biblical references from the equipment.
The Ministry of Defence has ordered 400 advanced combat optical gunsights (ACOGs) from US-based Trijicon but it emerged that they are routinely marked with the characters JN8:12, a reference to the book of John, chapter 8, verse 12.
Trijicon, which has used Biblical references for more than 20 years, said it had agreed to stop marking equipment for the US military and would make the same offer to military forces abroad.