We brought you news of the apparent arrest in Denver of someone named Perazzi the other day based on a story at examiner.com. While TTAG’s bog post pointed out that the gentleman named in the story was deceased, it turns out that whole story was a fabrication. Allegedly. The Perazzi people smell a rat and are ready to lawyer up. Here’s their statement (typos and all) posted a few hours ago on their Facebook page . . .
OFFICIAL RELEASE
With reference to press reports concerning Daniele Perazzi’s alleged unlawful arrest for terrorism last Saturday in Denver (Colorado), we state that the incident is devoid of any foundation and the news is completely fabricated. Daniele Perazzi (founder of Perazzi SpA) died last year, and his son Mauro was not in the United States last Saturday.
The Perazzis are not involved in any wrongdoing in any way, shape or form and, to our best knowledge, are not under investigation or scrutiny nor are targets of criminal proceedings. It is difficoult to think that this news are a mistake; there are reasons to believe that somebody who has interests against the company is dissaminating false informations. The Perazzi Company, contrarily to what has been reported, is very familiar with the US legislation on weapons, due to its extensive and successful presence in the American market. Perazzi has allready given mandate to its lawyers to promote criminal and civil action with the purpose to protect the brand and company’s reputation and its activities conducted also in the United States.
Perazzi SpA
Roberta Perazzi CEO
[h/t Sean Murphy]
““How do you drug a projectile?”
C’mon folks. Are you (and the the author of blog) not making the connection? That part of the legislation was put into place to thwart people using tranquilizer darts. You know – Like the ones game wardens use to relocate animals or sedate them. Presumibly because it wouldn’t really be hunting, and the only people using them would be doing so for illegal reasons.
Back to topic….It doesn’t matter if the tip is a bullet or a broadhead. Unless you hit the vital area the result will be the same. Gimmicy product.
But then again one could turn this thing into an “explosive” arrow pretty easily by packing a 357 magnum cartrige with 20 grains of titewad or bullseye powder and jb welding the bullet in place with a very, very heavy crimp.
I stumbled on this review & comment section while researching some ballistics data for the .32acp, re: RWS 73gr., for relative safety in these old guns. There had been some speculation that the Dynamit Nobel RWS round might be of sufficiently high pressure as to present hazard to the shooter and pistol. The main question was to determine if European manufacturers stayed with in SAAMI or similar specifications for velocity & pressure. I am pleased to report that all the information thus far shows that the RWS is well within safe operating range of these elegant pistols.
I own 3 model Ms: 2 1903s and a 1908 in .380. One of the 1903s is a 4 digit from 1904 and is, for all the world, exactly the same as the first year model. My 1908 is a very good one, condition-wise. The others bear the dings, dents, scrapes, scrapes, corrosion, and general appearance of true working carry pieces from a bygone era.
They all exude charm, mystique, nostalgia, elegance of design , both in appearance and in engineering, that has not and will never be duplicated.
I understand and appreciate the inspired attraction that these things have for those of us with a keen sense for tangeable elements of historic objects as well as the the intangeable attributes mentioned above.
For more insight into these fine old chunks of steel, see Colt Forum and Coltautos.
Also, Tyler, you’re not channeling RF very well. This version of the video has a pretty blonde instead of a dude. Same pig, though, I’m pretty sure.
This was in response to a poo poo above with added physics.
If the case is contained by the device so it does not split, then at least the arrow acts as a blow back bolt. Gun bolts are stationary at ignition except open bolt machine gun that uses forward momentum instead of at rest mass to lower the bolt weight.
Seems like the same concept.
Additionally, if the whole device penetrates into the animal, you cannot deny that the chemical energy that was transported to the target does not have an additional damaging effect. In this case it is not just the kinetic energy that the arrow/bolt imparts to the target. Surgically implant a .38 special inside a hog then remotely fire it?
Yeah, no damage there. (sarc)
Kahr sues DB for stealing tech, yet Kahr was founded on tech they stole from Seacamp.
I can’t remember who first said it, but there goes a saying that the absolute most offensive of free speech must be protected, for it is the speech that will be attacked and if silenced, all speech takes a hit. That’s kinda how I feel about this guy. He did some really stupid things, all of which should be legal under the second amendment. To throw this guy under the bus because he broke a bad law in a stupid way is to weaken any future arguments against the bad law.
If Glock sues, this could turn into the 5Gen Glock 17.
Aim small, miss small. Aim big, miss big. Same as it ever was.