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It’s at least worthy of consideration that the lines are being blurred between NFA full auto weapons and still-considered-semi firearms. The Tac Con assisted trigger that folks were peeing themselves over (just a few stories down) and the Slide-Fire stock are perfect examples. While earlier renditions of burst fire devices were pretty gimmicky, these new, robust technologies are indeed capable of turning a modern sporting rifle into the functional equivalent of an assault rifle.
Do I care? Not particularly, but it does make it harder for us to innocently bat our eyes and say, “Oh, you’re referring to those NFA arms that hardly anyone owns, and that are highly restricted.” To the great unwashed, the difference between pulling the trigger once for multiple shots and having the gun assist you in pulling its own trigger for multiple shots, is moot. Which means we should be pressing to eliminate the NFA distinction altogether.
In his 2011 TTAG interview, Massad Ayoob said that he thought the .45 was superior to the 9mm in cold weather, because clothing more substantial than denim (say, coat insulation), might prevent 9mm expansion. It would be interesting to see if there’s actually any truth to that.
Neat targets. I wished Games Workshop made targets, but they’re British and won’t/can’t get into the target biz. I’d love to pour some 9mm into some Orks or Chaos Space Marines.
So, ahh …… what track did the bullet follow through the victim’s body? The more horizontal, the more suspicious I’d be. I had a best friend, once, who almost shot me in the face with his, ’empty Glock’. Why? Stupidity, carelessness, or (perhaps) jealousy, or (maybe even) just plain old fashioned satanic motivation.
The most obvious discrepancy on this one? ……. Why was the rifle loaded? Not to mention, ‘Why’ wasn’t the weapon cleared before it was picked up and played with?
While I don’t agree with the police generally confiscating privately owned firearms, I do agree with getting guns out of the hands of careless and irresponsible gun owners – Who, almost invariably, always seem to think that guns are toys. (Which, of course, they are not.)
i think its up to you to know the rules and regs of your license – I especially wouldn’t expect Bud’s job is to tell you the benefits of YOUR license. They can’t write every option for every license type, State regs, etc. for every gun on their site! Buds is the best thing to happen to gun prices for consumers in 20 years! I don’t have to pay rediculous prices from some rude jerk in my local gun shop anymore – they aren’t perfect I’m sure, but they sell hundreds of guns a day and they probably are not interested in you lecturing them on how to sell guns.
Merde.
I’m with the cops up until the use of force against the vehicle. (The baton in the window). Yes indeed they could have surrounded her without the need to use force. With no place to go she would have had to eventually come out and face the music. The kid is a punk in training.
People can get pissed off. So can cops. Imagine how this could have played out if the second cop simply brought his car in and blocked the minivan; he had to know the woman had already driven off once. Then the second cop says to the first cop – go sit the f* down and cool off for 5. He says something similar to the woman driver and gives her time to get her kids calmed down and everyone under control. Once no one’s screaming, maybe then we are all going to have a nice conversation back by the back bumper.
Regardless of whatever happened before, there is simply no excuse for shooting at the van but the first and second cops on the scene both made the biggest professional mistakes and that is they did not control the scene. The mom and son are not faultless, but things should never have gotten that far.