New Haven, Connecticut police arrested three teens in connection with a couple of recent robberies, one of whom was in possession of a homemade “zip gun.” After interviewing them, police searched the home of another juvenile who’d manufactured the gun, and recovered another assembled gun, a partially assembled gun and components intended for assembly. That individual told police he’d manufactured and sold more than a dozen of the improvised weapons. I’m sure the buyers all passed background checks.
When I saw a headline at the normally left-leaning Slate (they run @GunDeaths after all) that said Gun Safety Laws Are Pointless If Nobody Bothers to Enforce Them, I was pleasantly surprised that we might finally be on the same page. Alas, it was not to be, as the bloody-shirt waving started from the very first sentence, and the enforcement they’re looking for is not better enforcement of existing gun laws. Instead, they listed several instances where people were shot accidentally, and they were aghast that no charges were filed. It seems they equate unsupported criminal charges with prevention of accidents, and they want something, anything thrown at these people, pour l’encouragement des autres. So I guess we’re not as close as I thought. Ah well. It was a pleasant dream.
I’m just gonna leave this here, with one note: Usually when things are Made in the USA the company makes it impossible to miss that fact. Since this company doesn’t, the assumption is it’s not. Patriot Pillow, meet irony. [Another h/t to ENDO, two in a row!]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfVckC-nSBA
Why is the city of Chicago throwing away $2 million a year by scrapping seized weapons instead of selling them? Does it really matter if the gun a gang member uses against an enemy was once seized by the Chicago police rather than being fresh off the assembly line? “By selling guns instead of scrapping them, you send a mixed message, and that could result in a non-economic price of decreased officer attention to this issue,” said Mark Iris, former executive director of the Chicago Police Board. But is that really true? After all, as reason.com points out, they don’t need to flatten stolen vehicles to retain their vigilance against car theft. [h/t Pascal]
tnoutdoors9 got himself a new rifled-barrel shottie, and used the confluence of that and Halloween as an excuse to light off a couple of 12 gauge Hornady SST FTX slugs at a couple pumpkins, as a prelude to upcoming full ammo tests of that and others. BOOM! Splat!
Right to bear arms… country of origin is riddle with gun violence even though the police is only allowed to carry them.
And It may sound harsh, but firing a warning shot means:
-You are possibly endangering somebody, know what is behind your target, you can’t possibly know what is at the end of the arch as the bullet meets whatever or whoever.
-True, is rural place, but firing a warning shot opens you up to an ungodly amount of trouble.
Conclusion, harsh though it may be:
-Do not give a warning shot
-If you fire, aim center mass.
I own, and regularly shot (till ammo prices went ridiculous) an AR-15 SP1, MiA Loaded, Garand, Springfield Armory Inc./Imbel Match-grade FAL, SIG 556, and Remington 700 BDL (30-06) and CDL (300 Win Mag)… each is a sweet machine in its own right, and like a father loves all his children equally, I would have a hard time parting with any of them. But, the FAL is my one-gun-solution, my rifle of last-resort… I would grab it and go because it has an adjustable gas system that accommodates the widest range of ammo, as well as scope, bi-pod, and cleaning kit… it is a 1 MOA rifle with 175 gr. FGMM SMK’s for the first three shots, about 3 MOA all day long.
None of these fine rifles are perfect, yet each has features that are… after all these years, nobody has designed one rifle combining them all.
“It’s coming straight for us!”
Based on that zip gun, I am guessing Connecticut schools have abandoned industrial arts classes.
Me too that thing is almost as fugly as DIFI.
I’ thinking a really big pumpkin, 10 pounds of tannerite and .50bmg API round.
Hope my go pro survives
Damn, I’m not a hunter, but you guys sure make me want to go get licensed just so I can go drone hunting. There must be hundreds of them here in California.
Two warning shots center mass; if that isn’t warning enough;one center of the triangle, just to make sure.
I’m in the no-warning-shot club. You waste precious ammunition, especially if the city/county has enacted magazine limits.
Well, living here in the Peoples Republic of New York State, where we’re limited to 7 rounds, I think I’d have to conserve all my ammo for a possible defense of my life……so, it’s not even an option for me to consider (once again the SAFE Act limits my options and puts me in danger)
Meanwhile, the society of strong gun laws the Moms Demand Action seek already exists in the crime free paradise of Chicago, Illinois.
Or should, anyways.I can bet more then five people in Chicago got shot last night ,and I haven’t even read the news yet.
Warning shot? If you live within a township or city, your “warning shot” has a real chance of hitting some other person…may be a long chance, but a chance nonetheless. It is just stupid to take that chance. If you are going to use a gun to deter an intruder…shoot the mother! Or place yourself at risk by trying to hold them by threat of the gun, but never fire a warning shot “into the air” except (maybe) if you are absolutely sure there’s no other person who could possibly be hit when what you put “up” comes “down”..Gravity and Friction are such twin, inconvenient b*tches…
What is this, the truth about health care?