First it was the insidious danger presented by a pizza gun. Now comes the deadly threat that is the Pop-Tart pistol. Is no school safe any more? WBFFs MyFace page reports that “7-Year-Old Joshua was suspended this morning from Park Elementary School in Brooklyn Park (MD). Joshua says he was eating a pastry during snack time and trying to shape it into a mountain, the teacher said it looked like a gun and took him to the principal’s office. Joshua’s parents were called, he has been suspended for two days.” Principal Sandy Blondell who suspended the tyke, being the good government school employee she is, deflected press requests for comment with the standard ‘to protect the student’s privacy, we can’t talk about it’ B.S. Whew! Another tragedy narrowly averted.
[h/t reason.com]
This has to be a joke. WTF?
OH THANK THE LORD WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE THE CHILDREN THIS TIME!
I’m a relatively new gun owner and the thought of stock-piling ammo never occurred to me when I bought my first weapon. Note I said “first” because once the bug hit I found myself window shopping for my next gun everywhere I went. It’s frustrating as all hell that I can’t afford to go and practice but I keep telling myself I waited this long to get into the sport, it won’t kill me to wait a bit longer.
Unless it does.
Approach with caution, he’s frosted and dangerous.
Hahahaha!
He probably shaped it into a SBR AR15, give him 20 years, that will teach tha kid to have respect for….well….pastries, Randy
20 years is a little steep, I mean did he have the under barrel missle laucher made out of doritos also?
No one can EVER teach about the states of Idaho or Florida…the look like guns too!
i know, and those wall pencil sharpeners crank like a gatling. sounds dangerous.
I spoke with my kids’ elementary school’s principal last week. She’s a sport fisherman, and has a gigantic marlin in her office. (weird for the philly suburbs) We had a nice conversation about firearms, and my apprehension about my kids getting suspended for something stupid. (they ‘understand’ firearms). She was totally cool, and caught me off guard when she said “yes, i carry a shotgun all the time when we go fishing.” I didn’t know they shoot the things before they bring ’em on the boat.
Anyway, i recommended that the school nurse and main office lady start packin’, and we had a good laugh. (they’re like 90 years old)
Discussion with your local school districts is half the battle. Remember, you’re the taxpayer, which means you’re the customer as well as the boss.
when i saw that this occured in my state,MD, i’d have to say i’m not supried people have completely lost their minds here regarding 2a.
&^%$
and: wait, according to this story they sent the whole school home with a letter??
http://foxbaltimore.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/7yearold-suspended-teacher-says-he-shaped-pastry-into-gun-18192.shtml#.UTJvMVemU1I
WTF???
can someone tell me under the new legislation, do i need to register this?
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Nerf-N-Strike-Elite-Rampage-Blaster/20925211
we have two, and some high capacity magazines.
I would love a single stack .40 s&w from glock. The walther pps shoots and carries well for me.
Regardless of mag limits or not I would really be into 10+1 single stack 9mm or .40 s&w.
Does anyone who lives in a mag restricted state know (given a 10 round mag limit for example) if 10 + 1 is legal?
I saw this story earlier today. How pathetic the sheeple have become.
I’m afraid I don’t get the criticism of the Ruger’s trigger. I am a police detective, and sufficiently skilled to shoot 100% on my department’s qualification course almost every year. I’ve been a cop 12 years, and have seen our department go from S&W 6906s, to 5946s, to Glock 17s, and now we’re about to switch to Glock 21s. When we got the Glocks, our range personnel instructed us to feel the trigger reset when we were shooting, but I can tell you that no one at our range, or the other LEO-focused training I’ve attended has EVER taught me to feel when the trigger is about to break. It’s a complete non-issue. Your finger is supposed to stay off the trigger until you decide to shoot. When you decide to shoot, you just press the trigger back in one smooth motion and shoot. You don’t need to feel when the gun is about to shoot, because you have already decided to shoot before even putting your finger on the trigger. If you are in any way uncertain as to whether or not you need to take the shot, your finger should not yet be on the trigger.
It actually sounds to me like you’ve got it exactly backward. Staging a trigger is something target shooters have done with double action revolvers for decades because it allows them to shoot consistent, tight groups on the range. But combat shooters are taught to execute a smooth, complete trigger stroke in one continuous motion.
“A reliable, accurate, good-looking gun that doesn’t ‘get’ self-defense?” I think it gets it just fine. If you’re planning on staging your trigger in a self-defense shooting, on the other hand, I think maybe you don’t.
Yeah well check out the yahoo story about the fresh prince of bel air theme song sending a school into lockdown and the kid being taken into custody for having it as his voicemail….
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/fresh-prince-theme-leads-school-lockdown-224259936.html
Its funny that Cabelas is on the bad list today. I stopped in the Wichita KS store this morning on my way home to OKC. I saw some black rifles on display – mostly .22 Mossbergs so maybe they don’t count. They had a reasonable amount of ammunition, lots of steel case 7.62×39,a BIG stack of plastic AR magazines of uncertain pedigree and a pretty good collection of handguns, mostly revolvers and 1911’s. They also had some reloading components – lots of brass in the non tactical calibers like .45 LC, .25-06, .243, even a little .38 special. I didn’t see any .223, .45ACP, or 9mm brass or bullets. Sorry I don’t remember looking for .40 since I don’t own one. They also had powder but no rifle or handgun primers. In rimfire no .22 but lots of .17HMR.
They had a 10 box limit on ammunition and I believe a 2 pound limit on powder. I found some Pritzi 7.5mm Swiss soft point and grabbed a couple of boxes of that. I don’t have 7.5 Swiss dies. That’s on the want list now that I’ve got some brass.
I walked out out of the store happy with my 7.5 ammo. Momma hit the sale rack and found some clothes so we had a fairly decent day. I know that this post doesn’t really address the back order issue but it does say that a guy can still find a few things in the stores. And it also says that I might want to think about a .17 so I can shoot little holes in somethimng.
If this was my child, I would have an apology and reinstatement, or I wouldn’t rest until I had a scalp. Seriously, are the end times neigh? People are losing their fvcking minds.
So how hard would it be for an unscrupulous LEO to pull the seventh round out of one of your magazines and slip it into another? Bam – FELONY!
The purpose of our legal system is to make everyone felons so the ruling class can selectively target their subjects for prosecution. It’s called tyranny.
Yep. The patients have officially taken over the asylum.
the media has a pretty easy job — due to globalization and the fact that there are 7 billion people on earth, there doesn’t have to be more than a few weeks lull before another gun-related issue can come up and they can start beating the drums in favor of gun control. So they can pick up right where they left off when a new tragedy occurs, and reporters who have never shot a gun can advocate inane and unworkable solutions and shift the burden of proof to gun owners for why they should get to keep their firearms. Unsurprising, but it gets so old.
Move out of the fascist Republik of New York as fast as you can . You and your loved ones lives are at risk . They are vulnerable ,defenseless sitting ducks for real armed criminals. Your hypocrite governor is afforded an armed security detail utilizing high capacity magazines and automatic firearms… but you the taxpayer are denied . The government is supposed to fear the citizens…not the citizens fear the government. When Injustice Becomes Law, Rebellion Becomes Duty. Molan Labe.
Let’s all hope that noone in the CD camp thinks to send in agents provocateur.
That would be bad.
The local news is reporting resistance from the Governor and others. Someone suggested and the Governor agrees that Constitutional carry should only apply in rural areas. I think the future of Utah Constitional carry is still up in the air.
Colt 6920 for $3595.00 Nope not forgiven, will never shop there again. They are talking out of the side of their mouths while ripping off the very people who put them on the map. CTD is dead to me and money.
In my little high school here in southern Ohio way back in the early 90’s it was common for boys to wear their hunting clothes and bring their shotguns to school on the first day of deer season so that they wouldn’t lose any time getting to the woods after school. For a couple of days each year the principles office looked like a used gun shop. No one was ever shot, and obviously no one arrested or suspended. I suppose they thought of us as citizens; you know with rights and responsibilities.
On one occasion in my junior year I realized just after homeroom that I was still in possession of my uncles S&W chiefs special (forgotten in a coat pocket). When I realized it was still there I went to the principle, and left with him for the day. When school let out he returned the pistol to me, with ammunition and the admonition not to bring it back. No call to the parents, no cops, no bother. I suppose these days such an event would require dynamic entry by a SWAT team complete with flash-bangs and a helicopter on the roof.