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Cops told NBC not to use gun clip
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Posted on 12/26/2012 11:29:20 AM PST by ConservativeMan55

NBC was told by the Washington, D.C., police that it was “not permissible” to show a high-capacity gun magazine on air before Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” according to a statement Wednesday from the cops.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abovethelaw; banglist; davidgregory; democrats; gregory; gun; guncontrol; nbc; secondamendment
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To: Dead Corpse
Um Katie? Clip and magazine are not interchangeable terms.

Sure they are. Nothing wrong with calling this device a clip. You've got to write to your audience and for most Americans a "magazine" is something you read.

Use "30 round magazines" and people won't know what you're talking about. They know what a "clip" is. And if it is technically incorrect, who really cares?

41 posted on 12/26/2012 12:23:38 PM PST by Drew68
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To: ConservativeMan55

Was that a clip showing a magazine? But then, you’ll never know when one of those empty things might go off on its own. Never be too careful. Was that magazine filled?


42 posted on 12/26/2012 12:26:42 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Last of the Mohicans

“This is a stupid story. We should be pointing out the stupidity of the law.”

Agreed. It reminds me of Gary North’s Law of Bureaucracy:

“There is no government regulation, no matter how plausible it initially appears, that will not eventually be applied by some bureaucrat in a way that defies common sense.”


43 posted on 12/26/2012 12:30:53 PM PST by TIElniff (Autonomy is the guise of every graceless heart.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Arrest him. Case closed.


44 posted on 12/26/2012 12:31:09 PM PST by Dallas59 (America died a little bit more on 11/6/2012)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I think you have an overblown idea of executive power; RR, just like BO, was not the law. I just think it’s silly to cry for the enforcement of laws we believe to be ridiculous. Better that everyone of us march to NBC’s Washington bureau with 30-rd mags in our hands daring them to arrest us.


45 posted on 12/26/2012 12:32:27 PM PST by Last of the Mohicans
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To: ConservativeMan55

This is a pretty clear example of media arrogance.

There is no question that Gregory could have waived around a picture of a high-capacity gun magazine or shown a video of one and he would have had no problems whatsoever. But he wanted a prop and decided that laws (even laws he supports) only apply to the little people and not to the intelligentsia class in the MSM.


46 posted on 12/26/2012 12:33:37 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Last of the Mohicans
I just think it’s silly to cry for the enforcement of laws we believe to be ridiculous.

It is ridiculous, and that is the point. A magazine, high capacity or not, a rifle, pistol or revolver are simply inanimate objects that do not harm on their own. So there is Gregory, not harming anyone with his magazine, other than advocating to eliminate our 2nd Amendment Rights. He needs to learn a lesson and it makes a point about how ridiculous a law is.

47 posted on 12/26/2012 12:47:34 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (It is impossible to have a good faith negotiations with terrorists or any Muslim.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
ok, but why is THAT a big deal? bullets dont go off on their own do they?

Not in my experience.
DC wants a (legal) gun free zone for the common people.

48 posted on 12/26/2012 12:47:52 PM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: carriage_hill

Yes it would. The law states or easily restored.


49 posted on 12/26/2012 1:01:36 PM PST by Kadric
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To: ConservativeMan55

If they are so innocent, why would the police even know they were going to film him with the magazine before it aired? Reads as though they felt guilty, inquired, told not to commit a crime, then proceeded anyways.


50 posted on 12/26/2012 1:14:16 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

MAGAZINE. DA#%@T! MAGAZINE.

I don’t even have to read the comments to know that this has already been mentioned 50 times. Someone, please, free us from the fools.


51 posted on 12/26/2012 1:22:01 PM PST by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: Gene Eric

I agree, these leftist in the MSM support these stupid laws. Let him see firsthand the stupidity of putting law abiding citizens in jail as a means to stopping criminal activity. Makes no sense.


52 posted on 12/26/2012 1:30:49 PM PST by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (I AM ANDREW BREITBART)
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To: ConservativeMan55

I see that the first amendment is not safe from the police either.


53 posted on 12/26/2012 1:32:17 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: ConservativeMan55

This is SO WEIRD!

I’ve never seen a “clip” hold more than 8 rounds!

A “30 round clip?”

Sounds mighty difficult to deal with!

Mark


54 posted on 12/26/2012 1:33:26 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: InvisibleChurch
so whats the big deal about showing a clip on tv?

I don't think the problem was showing it on TV. I believe that the problem is that the possession of a 30 round magazine by anyone other than police is a series crime in DC, which is where the show was taped.

Mark

55 posted on 12/26/2012 1:36:50 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: ConservativeMan55
All you younger folks on this thread might want to goggle “Carl Rowan” to see what the *worst* outcome for Monsieur Gregory might be.
56 posted on 12/26/2012 1:47:35 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
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To: ConservativeMan55

57 posted on 12/26/2012 1:50:19 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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58 posted on 12/26/2012 1:51:44 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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59 posted on 12/26/2012 1:53:40 PM PST by timestax (AMERICAN MEDIA= DOMESTIC ENEMY)
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To: Drew68

>>Sure they are. Nothing wrong with calling this device a clip. You’ve got to write to your audience and for most Americans a “magazine” is something you read.

They are NOT the same. And one of the purposes of journalism is (was?) to educate. If Americans don’t know the difference and can’t learn the difference, then those Americans need to stay out of the discussion and let the grownups discuss grownup things.


60 posted on 12/26/2012 1:57:57 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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