“You look like you have money, I’m having a bad day.” That’s what a panhandler on a bus in Brooklyn, New York said just before he opened fire with a 9mm yesterday morning. He fired four rounds, striking one man, Jowainza Moloney, in the hand and nearly hitting a pregnant woman sitting nearby. After the panhandler asked Moloney for money and then moved on to a mother with a young child, Moloney stepped in, telling the beggar he needed to get a job and leave other people alone. The beggar then threatened and cursed at Moloney before pulling out the gun. Despite being hit with one round, Moloney wrestled the man to the floor of the bus while the driver drove a couple blocks to the nearest police precinct, where the gunman was arrested. [h/t JaxD] Read on . . .
Attorneys for the retired Tampa cop who shot a man in a movie theatre last month are saying he acted in self-defense. They say that after he left the theatre to complain to management, Curtis Reeves returned and the argument continued. Witnesses say that the deceased, Chad Oulson, threw a bag of popcorn at Reeves, and Reeves’ attorneys say that their client was hit by an unknown dark object and feeling threatened, pulled his .380 from his pocket and fired. Reeves’ attorney went on to say in his motion that “Oulson committed one, possibly two felony crimes against Mr. Reeves prior to the use of deadly force.” One of those is a state law that elevates battery to a felony when the victim is 65 or older. Reeves is still in custody, having been denied bail on his second-degree murder charge. The comments above were made as part of a motion to reduce that charge to manslaughter and grant him bail. That motion has not yet been ruled upon.
New York state officials have touted the SAFE Act as revolutionary legislation, but once you get out of the Big Apple, there’s actually very little love for it. Allegany County prosecutors have brought zero SAFE Act-specific cases since its passage, because, according to DA Keith Slep, “there’s still a second amendment in Allegany County.” He went on to say that “I told (law enforcement agencies) early on don’t even bother bringing me a case if somebody’s not a felon who has eight bullets — I don’t want to hear it; I’ll dismiss it because it’s nonsense.” Kudos to Mr. Slep for understanding what this country is about.
This popped up on my Google Alert for ‘ammunition’ and I’m including it to show you the Aussies know how to party. Also, they talk funny. Police seized weapons, ammunition, and animals at the home of a man associated with the Finks bikie gang. In addition to a rifle, replica firearms, BB guns, ammunition, handcuffs, knives, a baton, and electronic control devices [shock collars], they seized cannabis, cocaine, and methylamphetamines, a 50cm saltwater crocodile, a South American Bird Spider, and an Albino Python. The owner was arrested and taken to the Dee Why Police Station. Yes, that’s an actual place.
A couple weeks ago, MattV2099 introduced his first firearm purchase of 2014, a Draco AK47 Pistol. Here he gives us a quick walkaround.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwyJD8w6GfA
If that video was a little dry, here’s his first normal (for him) video with that gun. Cooking bacon on the barrel. Yum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHYVHjY9Y7M
Gotta love the muzzle flash off that Dynacomp. Don’t take it to a crowded range, though, unless you like dirty looks.
Here’s how to amplify this list:
TTAG should set up a database on their server(s) somewhere. The DB should be able to be queried by name, political affiliation, town/city/Census Designated Place/Zip Code, etc. It should contain the name, date of election, verified statements against guns, campaign contributors, legislative or policy action(s) taken against guns and gun owners, the whole nine yards.
We (People of the Gun) should be able to populate this database with credible and verified information, and then throw open the database to everyone who wants to see the record of these clowns.
From the time I’ve first been active in RKBA stuff, we pro-gun people have lacked this type of rapid-access information. We should have this information available to all pro-RKBA people at the tips of their fingers. Politicians have become very, very comfortable with flushing their misdeeds down a memory hole, and newspapers and the press are perfectly happy to help cover the tracks of these clowns. We need to rectify this situation and make these people aware, painfully aware, that gun owners have more credibility in politics than anyone else, that we never forget and even more rarely forgive.
Got a box on the way.
Even with the test results, I still plan to use these for my preferred defense rounds when I plan to be around hostile chickens, pumpkins, and watermelons.
Joshua Cohen also lost re-election in Annapolis MD. Mike Pantiledes is now mayor.
Click on the link to the New York post bus shooting article. Read the last line. Close your eyes, open them and read it again. Oy- Veh
That’s about what I expected.
L-A = Ladasha………cause the – don’t be silent ( If I’m quoting her mom correctly)
I believe the name is Le-a if I remember correctly.
Who will put money with me on the popcorn cop getting acquitted? He’s an ex-cop, on the same team as the prosecutors and judges. They are all government employees.
It’s called the thin blue line.
If that SOB walks I will personally make sure the OJ riots look like a freaking pride rally.
We’ve all benefitted from the many historical intersections of ingenuity and entrepreneurship which have delivered to us countless advances in bullets, powders, and firearms themselves. This could well be another, or at least the CNC approach in general could be, and twenty-five years from now we’ll all giggle about how this commonplace, standard design was once considered cutting edge and controversial. (Think GLOCK circa 1988.)
So I’ll let all the early adopters, equipment reviewers, naysayers and salivaters alike have their fun, have their say, and I’ll see how it all shakes out in the end. The exotic and novelty stuff is fun to talk about and maybe even play around with; but let’s not lose sight of the fact that firearms within their primary purpose are deadly serious business. I’m not responding to a bump in the night with something as yet unproven to be more than an interesting idea and a marketing gimmick.
Kind of what I expected, thanks. Seeing the promo vid I was thinking “needler”.
Need some other sites to check this stuff out. Is the box o’ truth guy still doing testing? Would want to send some his way.
Thankfully I don’t live under a mayor but the mayor of a city near me is on it. No surprise there, it’s easier for him to blame guns than the people who voted for him.
Don’t forget about the survival gun folk out there. rather than having a single shot of 1 style insert the ability to have a 12 gauge in the bottom and almost any other in the top with a scope mount makes for a very attractive option.
I think it’s a very valid point about what your local DA will make of a ‘self defense’ shooting by someone using such a ‘deadly’ round. Sure it’s better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6, but if the round doesn’t perform some sort of magic trick, is it worth the risk of spending the rest of your life in prison?
Second, you’ll need to drop a few HUNDRED dollars worth of this ammo, just to see if it cycles in your weapon reliably and hits to point of aim.
Third, the bottom line is that it takes energy to damage tissue and a round has only as much potential for tissue damage as it has energy. A 9mm with 350 or 400 ft/lbs. of energy simply cannot inflict the damage of a .308 rifle with 2500 ft/lbs. of energy. Sure bullet performance is a significant part of the equation, but that mostly comes down to under or over-penetration. If the projectile doesn’t penetrate deep enough it might not reach the vital organs, especially if it enters the body from an angle. If it penetrates too deeply it will carry some of that energy on to damage other non-targets. These rounds seem to cause more of the damage in shallow tissue and less in deep tissue, which is counterproductive. And with a 9mm (or .40S&W or .45acp) you need all the energy you can get to the vital organs.
Not only guys, I had some of those battery operated “real looking” (sort of) water guns in the oh so distant 1980s growing up.
I think it’d be cool if someone made a really accurate mini model of an AR15 or M16.
Though I couldn’t imagine such a thing ending up on a hobby store shelf today.
I made it 28 seconds..
No mention of accuracy?
That can’t be right. Everybody in Hollywood knows that when a good guy is shot he is immediately incapacitated or dead and that when bad guys are shot they keep on doing evil until completely dismembered or the police arrive…
So, I guess its not the last bullet I’ll ever need.
I think the R.I.P. round began as a marketing idea and then went from there.
Bad decision.
I have yet to figure out what the big deal is about these AK and AR “pistols.”
Aside from being fun and loud…..the purpose of them is … what?
Make sure you all email the clowns from your state who are on this list, even something simple will do. let them know they are on the list and we are watching..if nothing else the volume of emails will get their attention.
I’m going to read the full article but the caption under his picture describing him as not a “gun nut” rubbed me the wrong way.
This is a very common meme which I find very offensive and I’m going to contact the author and make my point.
Given that the anti’s genuinely believe that outside of the military, police, or private security, only crazy people own firearms or would ever want to, it’s difficult squaring that with their politically correct posturing.
Anybody else with a mental defect or limitation is off limits from being described in disparaging terms. We can’t call “slow” people retarded anymore. In an interesting example of how euphemisms build on and replace each other, we can’t call “special education” kids “SPEDS” anymore. Now they’re “special needs” (SPEEDS?) children. Hell, the ACLU spent much of the 1980’s suing to keep dangerous mental defectives from being institutionalized, freeing them to roam the streets and terrorize people, lest they suffer self-esteem issues for being labeled.
Yet, it’s perfectly ok to call firearms owners “gun nuts” and capitalize on the mental deficiencies that the anti’s believe firearms owners possess.
Just take the list for your area and vote these folks out of office. Let them know that you did.
Hey guys for those of you that don’t have a SR 762 get one then let’s see what you say, it may not be the weapon for you,, but I love to shoot mine and at 500 Yrds. I pull out 1.5 moa consecutive and at 100 Yrds I pull out .75 moa some are probably same hole but that’s kinda hard to tell when your sending 10 rds down before you go check,, still either way its definitely a kill shot either way,, that’s with a 5/12/50 and my short barrel that came with it so let’s give it a try before we bash a really sweet shooting AR!!!
Imagine that, a gun set up to run SAAMI Spec ammo did not run non-SAAMI Spec ammo.
Wayne L Pierre and his ilk have hijacked the NRA I joined 40 years ago, made themselves very rich and back every far right idea most of which are unrelated to the 2nd Amendment. The NRA has become a bee hive of dark political operations.
Constitutional Carry inn Colorado is about as likely as some fey, pencil-necked brewpub operator from Pennsylvania becoming governor of The Centennial State.
Oh, wait . . . .
“why would gun control advocates deny Americans a fighting chance against bad guys?”
For the same reason they can’t stomach putting offenders in prison.
It disrupts their schema which idealizes human nature.