TTAG’s reported on the large number of firearms-related crimes involving .9mm handguns. But not recently. In the interests of bringing the prevalence of this highly dangerous caliber back into sharp focus, here’s a roundup of news stories where .9mm rears its ugly if diminutive head . . .
Upper Darby man shot dead in domestic dispute
“The 911 dispatcher told him to go outside and put the gun the middle of the street, which he did,” Chitwood said. Police subsequently recovered a .9 mm handgun, loaded with the exception of one bullet, the superintendent said, noting the individual has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
Recovered on the ground at the scene with Collier were two additional firearms, a .22-caliber and a .9 mm, both fully loaded, Chitwood said. Collier did not have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, the superintendent said.
‘I’m strapped like Rambo.’ Accused killers tried to sell guns online after slayings.
Less than two hours after two longtime friends were gunned down in a Fuquay-Varina house in 2014, the accused killer posted a picture on social media of his hand clutching a World War II “Tommy” gun that was stolen from the victims’ home, prosecutors say.
Howard Cummings and Matt Lively, Wake County prosecutors, say Donovan Jevonte Richardson, 24, of Holly Springs, was armed with a Glock .9 mm handgun in the early morning hours of July 18, 2014 when he and Gregory A. Crawford of Fuquay-Varina busted out a basement window to enter Arthur Lee Brown’s home at 236 Howard Road in Fuquay-Varina.
Chattanooga Man Found With Cocaine, Gun Gets 2 Years In Federal Prison
A Chattanooga man found with cocaine and a gun at his residence during a police search has been sentenced to serve two years in federal prison. Demetrius Smith appeared on Friday before Judge Travis McDonough.
In a search on Aug. 5, 2016, Chattanooga Police found in Smith’s bedroom 14.6 grams of cocaine on a dresser with plastic baggies, a .22 caliber revolver under a pillow, a loaded .9 mm pistol in a nightstand by his bed, a loaded .25 caliber pistol in a bottom drawer of the nightstand, and $7,937 in cash.
School gun video investigated: It’s a toy
At least one student of the St Joseph Secondary School has been suspended after a video of him and another student brandishing what appeared to be a .9 mm Glock pistol was circulated on WhatsApp yesterday.
According to sources, police from the St Joseph station visited the school after a report was made and questioned one student believed to be the owner of the gun. When it was taken from the boy’s schoolbag it was found to be a toy.
The student has since been suspended and is expected to have counselling from the school’s support staff.
Investigators say teen robbed after using buy-sell app
They met at a Lawrenceville neighborhood not far from the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office. Major Mercer said one man with a gun approached two undercover officers in an unmarked car.
“It could have been a bad situation because they showed up to commit an armed robbery with a .9 mm handgun when they confronted you folks or the other way around? correct,” said Major Mercer.
Belize City cops take .9mm off streets
At around 5:00 p.m. yesterday, Belize City police conducted a search inside an empty lot on Lavender Street.
That search led to the discovery of a black .9 mm pistol.
Police additiionally found a 12-shooter magazine containing seven live .9mm rounds.
No one was in the area at the time of the discovery and the pistol was deposited as found property.
I wonder how much it would cost to make it look like a glock again…
We were taught that if a suspect has his hands in his pants pockets, tell him to keep them there. It’s harder for them to attack or draw a weapon from that position.
Didn’t I see a comment on a earlier thread pointing out that we need to be wary of a rash of crimes being committed with .762 rifles now?
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I gotta get me one of those 10 gauge rifles, then.
My two cents and im not trolling: I really couldn’t care less about cops at this point. They’ve made their bed and they get to lie in it. They’ve made it their lives ambition to harass innocent people, question them without an attorney present, and are allowed to legally lie to somebody. And when a cop is found guilty of wrongdoing, there is little to no punishment for their actions. I should they should all go back to school and learn not only about upholding law but also protecting us, instead of compelling us to incriminate ourselves. I think it was the Kelly Thomas incident that broke the camels back for me. Several beat him to death and they all got off, despite the overwhelming evidence. I don’t talk to the police, I don’t help them, I want nothing to do with them because I fear for my safety when I’m around them. If I saw one getting his ass kicked, the thought of helping him wouldn’t cross my mind because he would do the same thing to me if he knew he would get away with it.
Cops are people too. Most are good generally speaking, but all we hear about is the bad news. I’ve had many an interaction over the years. Generally speaking, if you treat them with respect, they will return the favor. If you act like a jerk, well, they are very capable of making like suck for you.
99.9% of my experience is in Texas mind you. Where cops generally walk softly and carry a big whoopin stick and practice often with it. They still say sir and mam. I might feel differently if I lived in one of those states where gun rights go to die…
I’d be interested in hearing from of the more traveled people of the gun. Are cops worse in some places than others? Why?
It has to be said!
DUCK! DUCK! GOOSE!
The first thing I saw was a tea cup grip at :45, thumb over thumb grip at :50 and a different gun for the Jaguar driver.
Good on the civilian for stopping the assault, but … the original stop? Anyone down-and-out enough to be picking through a Tabitha’s Way donation bin is probably exactly the sort of person Tabitha’s Way is supposed to be helping and a cop hassling him is really punching down.
But, to be fair, Anderson sounds like he’s a repeat low-to-mid-grade troublemaker. Probably low IQ, poor impulse control, with mental problems. He was arrested back in Sept. and again in Nov. for “lewdness,” “burglary of a vehicle” and “possession or use of a control” [sic].
https://www.policearrests.com/arrests/paul_douglas_anderson_id_43631105.html
https://www.policearrests.com/arrests/paul_douglas_anderson_id_44122282.html
I’d bet his record goes back a lot farther than that.
He’s probably the sort of guy who would have been institutionalized for his own safety and the safety of others 50-60 years ago. What are you going to do with people like this? Institutionalize them early and be accused of unjustly incarcerating people (a very valid concern) or keep dinging them on minor crimes, putting them in and out of jail, until eventually they seriously hurt someone?
Springfield Armory.
Longtime SA customer, now stuck with 1911s that they can no longer modify because they closed their true custom shop to work on crappy overpriced 1911s. I want my gun the way I want it. If SA thinks they can charge me $2k+ for a 1911, they’re smoking dope. If i’m dropping that much money on a 1911, it will be with WC, NH, LB, or Guncrafter.
Throw in the IL FFL exemption BS, and they made it on my Sh*tlist forever.
5,000 round minimum on .22wmr, 15,000 .22lr, 5,000 9mm, 7500 5.56/.223 and working my way up to 5,000 .308 for my new bolt action savage. Other .357/.38 and .45 kind of around 1,000 or so. Though I’ll be buying more .22lr and wmr and 9mm over the next few months.
Chattanooga Man Found With Cocaine, Gun Gets 2 Years In Federal Prison
Why did the gun have to go to prison?
I wonder how many shootings per capita in Oz vs here in the U.S.?
I’ve shot service rifles for the last 25 years. I don’t mind the full power cartridges as I’ve owned or used nearly all the common ones: 6.5×55, 7mm Mauser, .303, 7.62 NATO, 7.62x54r, 8mm Mauser, .30-06, etc but I do like my .223 conversions. Ammunition is really cheap. The softer recoil means less recovery time between shots, giving me another 10+ seconds in a 10 round rapid course. And the lack of muzzle rise means faster target reaquisition.
So I use the .223s when the scores count and the others in the fun matches.
Uniform or not, I’d be bloody concerned if some armed nutter started talking to his imaginary friend.
I love this site. The comments are so hypocritical!
You all hate the anti gunners because they treat us all like we’re mass shooters just waiting to be unleashed and that is unfair (eg: don’t punish all gun owners because of the criminals). Next, you all do the exact same thing to them, calling them all ‘libturds’ and ‘snowflakes’ and whatnots.
Next, a cop on duty tries to have a simple dinner with his wife and gets thrown out for having a gun and you all do it again with the cop this time (eg: welcome to the our world, no special privilege). That is followed by all cops everywhere are criminals who just don’t get caught.
You don’t get it both ways. The cop was NOT exercising any special privilege. He was on duty getting food. I’ll bet he has a policy that STATES EXPLICITLY that he is not allowed to divest his firearm on duty. Period. That is like saying to a preacher ‘no bible while you’re preaching’ or ‘no wrench while working’ to a plumber.
This site’s ignorant commenters are so blind to themselves, that it totally negates the point of the site. You are supposed to come here and see different views and ideas and discuss them. Instead, it’s just a place where you can get your rocks off bashing people that you never would in the real world. Hell, I remember one commeter saying that the Tac-Team hunting an armed man didn’t need all that armor because he felt perfectly fine in his yard raking his leaves with .380!
I’ll issue a challenge to you all: hit up your local PD for a civilian ride along. I guarantee they have that option and IF you can pass the background check, do it. I dare you.
0.9mm= 0.0354 or roughly 1/32″, perhaps these are the “flechette” round we used to hear about, gotta be a bitch to clean the bore…
Nah! just use a .8MM cleaning rod and brush.
The PROBLEM is; no one has a rifle.
So they had to get by on low powered machine guns until ‘this all started’? Lots of poorer families don’t have any machine guns at all. It is nothing to be embarrassed about. Plus she can afford a GAU-19 or even large a Bushmaster now.
After 40 years of “buy it before they ban it!” we start returning to normalcy and companies don’t understand what’s happening.
M&P does that stand for missed and pissed?
My 1st carry revolver back in 1991 was a 2.5 inch S&W Model 66. Recoil with full power 125 grainers wasn’t fun even in a 32 oz gun for me back then. 110 grain wasn’t much better.
I had it Magna Ported. I didn’t even give the gases coming out of the ports any of the thoughts brought up here about a snubby and porting. I should have sorta.
As its not exactly a pocket pistol in my case. The porting made the snubbie a much funner gun for me.
I ended up carrying the gun with the NYPD load for revolvers a 147 gr Hydra Shok +P+. I still have 12 rounds of that discontinued load 30 years later. Wish I had more………..
Imagine, some dumb bastard steals a loaded handgun and prepares to shoot it. Little does he know that each 9mm bullet in that Hi-Point has been intentionally charged with 10.2 grains of Titewad for just such an occasion.
Time to sell some home rolled bullets to the gangbangers’.
Excellent article Robert.
There is no doubt Trump won (and Bush in 2000) because of the NRA.
If Hillary was pro 2A (hard to imaging, but try for a minute) plenty of gun owners would have stayed home and some democrat gun owners wouldn’t have voted Republican.
Michigan was only in trumps column by 10k votes.
Wisconsin was about 20k
Pennsylvania was somewhere around 40k, don’t remember.
That’s only less than 100k votes.
Trump won by a wide EC margin but the individual states that got him there were nail biters.
GOA or any other no-compromise group could not have done what the NRA did.
Many people have valid complaints about the NRA but that why it’s good to have them complemented by other groups.
No one group can be all things to all people.
Every little bit counted. The big reason though, is that Clinton made serious strategic errors that cost her an easily winnable election. She spent more time in states that either she or Trump had locked up than she spent in swing states. She arrogantly assumed that some of the larger swing states were solidly hers, and thus spent no time in some large states that ended up going to Trump by the slimmest of margins.
Trump didn’t win, Clinton lost.
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All four were commercial offerings. I won’t list the wildcats.