Mike Krzyzewski is a 1969 West Point grad and later coached the academy’s basketball team before moving down the coast (and up in the AP rankings) to Duke. So when it came time for a team building exercise for his current crop of future NBAers, he marched them back to the home of the Black Knights for a little boom boom therapy. As nesn.com reports, “Freshman sensation Jabari Parker and his teammates were taken through an instructional program on how to properly use the guns, then they were given the go-ahead to get (in)position on the ground with their assigned assault rifles and fire off some rounds for target practice. The players seemed excited by the opportunity, posing with the weapons as if they were getting ready to defend against the zombie apocalypse.” Of course, Coach could never have accomplished the same thing at home in Durham, since owning or possessing firearms at Duke is the devil’s work. But when you have enough high dollar alums willing to throw cash at the hoops program, flying the team to West Point for some fun is really no biggie.
Looks like an EST2000.
Good for Coach K. I’m happy to know that he’s not a hoplophobic @ssh0le.
That was just overflowing with awesome. Just grow up indeed!
Based on my experience at that particular federal institution, I would hazard a guess that all of those truly are assault weapons. We never had anything that wasn’t capable of full auto (aside from the M14s without firing pins we marched with). The belt fed machine gun in the bottom picture is an M60.
They mainly come out at night…mainly…
Just another example of a reporter doing a half-a$$ed job. The photo in the link with the students firing off rounds is actually the students using a firearm simulator. Really just a step up from a coin fed arcade game. The lack of eye and ear pro should be a big tip off.
And the hoses going to the weapons.
“Hoplocurious” is my new favorite word!
Just don’t take hoplocuriousity too far lead exposure nasty burns and horribly disfiguring pinches cuts and bruises may result.
i’d take the first all day i’ve seen how unreliable extended glock mags are i’d rather stick with reliability than more bullets i can always reload
I wonder if Duke’s ROTC has a range like my state school’s ROTC program had? Good times .
I always leave a gun range more enlightened then when I first entered it.Perhaps the real target isn’t the one downrange, but your personal outlook.
Spot on, ST.
Back in the 1980s my old man (union electrician, Vietnam Vet, and competitive pistol shooter) heard that this newfangled yoga thing could help you control your breathing and heart-rate. He started taking yoga classes with all the yuppies in our neighborhood. I don’t have anything against meditation and/or yoga but I wish I could go back in time and see my dad in those classes.
Exclamation points are best used sparingly. If you want to emphasize something, don’t use it often. Kind of like swearing or cap locks also.
IF I ALWAYS TYPE LIKE THIS WITHOUT CORRECT PUNCTUATION YOULL NEVER KNOW WHAT IM TRYING TO EMPHASIZE AND WHAT IM JUST SAYING DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?! OR MAYBE I JUST TALK LIKE IM YELLING ALL THE TIME!?!
a gun is a gun, nobody needs to be a bulls eye shooter to defend themselves, but if you cant at the very least be combat effect with any weapon that you pick up then you probably need ALOT more practice. I own a glock, M&P, XDM, and 1911 and shoot all of them effectively and it damn sure inst because of the grips or the angle.
Actually handed my liberal as hell, anti gun xmotherinlaw a12g this weekend… May or May not have helped.
Do have video though.
Don’t interrupt your enemy while he’s making a mistake!
Let Emperor Big Gulp drain his coffers away!
I want the guy on the left covering my back.
The rest of them not so much.
That’s like, the coolest picture I’ve seen all day.
Agree on the abortion topic. It starts to feel like hijacking the thread.
As much as I honor the right to free speech, and the respect the passion of the posters – this gets tiresome after awhile.
Its a very deep issue, with huge moral implications, that are beyond the truth about guns. There are better places devoted to the discussion elsewhere.
Just my two cents.
“…couldn’t never have…”
wince
Impossible not to be spellbound by Kirsten; but it looks like a shot we could all make with a $100 handgun.
Everybody pisses on the KelTec .380 but you see this same pistol used in more and more DGUs. I have one myself and it’s never malfunctioned yet after several boxes of ammo.
Maybe the Kel Tec haters should move on to something else.
When I was growing up in TX, TCU and – to a lessor extent – Baylor and SMU was were you sent your kids to keep them safe (at that time, of course, that meant not having to rub shoulders with colorful people). Those schools absolutely played a near-parental role for their student bodies. They wanted to issue forth graduates who would go into professions, the Junior League, and suitable country clubs. Clean-cut boys in slacks (no jeans!) and good girls in proper dresses. If you didn’t have the money to send your kids to one of those schools, you sent them to Texas Tech because it was another safe play, and considerably less expensive. UT and A&M were a bit too rowdy.
I can see that hasn’t changed much since I left my homeland 25 years ago…
Its funny how you can read an article here and then almost guess what the comments are going to be.
Debate on condition 1 vs condition 3 – check
Debate on off body carry – check
Debate on why the hubs wasnt packing in the first place – check
There should be more plain old kudos for an armed citizen being the first responder on scene stopping a crime, no innocents being injured and no cops shooting a dog. In my book it was mission accomplished. Now the cops will hopefully get out of the donut shop and catch the guy.
Stop with the woulda coulda shoulda already.
When is someone going to design and manufacture a shottie that is reliable and has a decent capacity. The AA12 would be perfect, if the designer would break his military only rule and sell a semi-auto version. Drum or magazine fed are the most efficient ways of reloading a shotgun. this side by side tubes crap is not the way to go.
How come we never start our own false-flag anti-gun organizations, with the intent of covertly promoting the 2nd Amendment?