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Update: Range confirmed closed in case of Machias home hit by stray bullet
Poulsbo Gun Rights Examiner ^ | August 25, 2013 | Samuel Cadle

Posted on 08/26/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by WAGunRights

Machias, Wash - Updates and more information begin to come in regarding the alleged bullet strike. On August 24th, this column received confirmation from the Seattle Pistol & Rifle Association that the pistol and rifle ranges was indeed closed on the day of the incident, which could mean a few different things at this point, including that the bullet didn't come from the range in question.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; riflerange; secondamendment

1 posted on 08/26/2013 3:14:13 PM PDT by WAGunRights
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To: WAGunRights
I will take "How to shakedown a rifle range for $300, Alex"

While there is still no definitive information that would label this a hoax, the facts in this incident are beginning to tell a different tale than the one told by the homeowner in their original flyer. What the truth is, remains to be seen.

2 posted on 08/26/2013 3:22:45 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: WAGunRights

Yet another liberal hoax? That’s unexpected.


3 posted on 08/26/2013 3:25:57 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: WAGunRights

Welcome to FR


4 posted on 08/26/2013 3:26:04 PM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: 2banana
Somebody should drop a dime to CPS on the homeowner.

Give him a little taste of his own medicine.

5 posted on 08/26/2013 3:26:43 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: WAGunRights

They need this video firearms lesson.

http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/like-a-suppository-only-stronger/


6 posted on 08/26/2013 3:28:45 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: 2banana
I have said it would not be hard to fake such a bullet hit. I know of one formal range closed because a 45acp was suppose to have traveled two miles.

Another informal one a large gravel pit very high back stop bullet supposedly went over the top of like a 100 foot high back stop and a 158gr 357 bullet was found in a yard a mile plus away. Owner stopped letting people shoot there.

I wouldn't doubt that both were faked. by home owners complaining about the noise.

7 posted on 08/26/2013 3:31:12 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: WAGunRights

Some years ago, a person kept complaining about the nearby shooting range after he had bought a house in a new development. One day he called the police to complain that a bullet had hit his house. The police came out, and the homeowner handed them a bullet. The cops at least knew enough about guns, that when they looked at the bullet, which showed no rifling marks, but did have marks that appeared to have been made by a pair of pliers, that they told the homeowner never to call again.


8 posted on 08/26/2013 3:49:02 PM PDT by G-Bear (Always leave your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Now that’s funny right there!


9 posted on 08/26/2013 3:49:05 PM PDT by RetiredNavy ("Only accurate firearms are interesting")
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To: WAGunRights

Liberals trying to shut down a gun range that existed long before they move in.


10 posted on 08/26/2013 3:49:48 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the people. T Jefferson)
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To: G-Bear
Heard of a similar story right here on FR. The “aggrieved’ homeowner dropped an round in the cop's hand claiming it had hit his house.

Except it still had it's brass casing on it.

11 posted on 08/26/2013 3:53:55 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: WAGunRights
My own experience

I Learned .40 Handgun Ammunition Can Travel 500 Yards (Vanity)

12 posted on 08/26/2013 3:54:28 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: 2banana
I will take "How to shakedown a rifle range for $300, Alex"



Machias is like living in Sadr City.
13 posted on 08/26/2013 4:00:50 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: G-Bear
they told the homeowner never to call again

Should have arrested his 4$$ for filing a false report. Cops too lazy to do the work?

14 posted on 08/26/2013 4:34:57 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: WAGunRights

This reminds me of the 9mm round embeded in my front bumper.

It either came from the space station, or, someone shot up in the air and didn’t care where it came down.


15 posted on 08/26/2013 4:46:05 PM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Conan the Librarian

Child walking along with his dad and keeled over - bullet from gun fired in the air.

http://chesterfield.nbc12.com/news/news/137823-police-40-caliber-bullet-killed-child-brandermill-fireworks

Police are still looking for who did this ... have been going door to door ... which opens a whole ‘nother can of worms.


16 posted on 08/26/2013 5:13:38 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: Right Wing Assault

they told the homeowner never to call again
Should have arrested his 4$$ for filing a false report. Cops too lazy to do the work?

I agree. The homeowner was a local celebrity, and the weather geek on a TV station. Think that saved him.


17 posted on 08/26/2013 5:18:43 PM PDT by G-Bear (Always leave your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.)
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To: WAGunRights

Belonged to a range in the Philly suburb area. Woman moved in KNOWING the range was there.

Sure as sh!t, in about two months, doncha know her house got “hit” by a “stray” bullet from the rifle range.

Never mind that the position of her house and range position and direction, would have meant that a shooter would have had to stand up, turn XX number of degrees to starboard, raise the weapon to a 40 something degree angle, to have any hope of hitting her stupid house.

After a LOT of time and MONEY, it was found that the “rifle bullet” which she originally REFUSED to relinquish to police or Montgomery county DA, was in fact a .380 pistol round she got from her brother. The hole in her siding was proven to be caused by a ball peen hammer.

Like in the Beeyatch who cried “rape!” when no rape was committed, the witch was slapped on the wrist.

As a board member, I voted to take her house, car and a pound of flesh.

I was outvoted by a lot p**sys who didn’t want to be “bad neighbors.”

PS, the rifle range is STILL CLOSED after all these years.

Yup, good neighbors, yup!


18 posted on 08/26/2013 5:23:53 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: MissMagnolia

People of the “hispanic” and “mudslimz” persuasion, have a penchant for “celebrating” by firing their weapons into the air.

They are TOO STUPID to know, WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN.

You just can’t penetrate nor reason with that kind of stupidity.


19 posted on 08/26/2013 5:27:41 PM PDT by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: WAGunRights
From reading the flyer that was distributed by the homeowner, the bullet traveled through a layer of Hardiplank concrete siding, 5/8" oriented strand board and six layers of 5/8" sheetrock and do all this while maintaining a fairly flat looking trajectory.

I'm supposed to believe that shot came form the range?

20 posted on 08/27/2013 9:43:24 AM PDT by matt04
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