Posted on 12/26/2011 6:47:08 AM PST by marktwain
Ya guns have such a bad reputation nowadays its hard for them to find mates so they remain single. lol
44mm pistol? Wow!!! That’d be like a 1.73 cal. bullet!
That’s bigger than a 40mm grenade launcher on an M-203!
Who makes that?
I know the Ruskies during WW2 had the 45mm M1937 anti-tank gun. I wonder if they ever converted one into a pistol?
LOL!
It's not just journalists. A guy I work with was on trial for a weapons charge several years ago and the Federal Prosecutor for the BATF actually tried to load a 30mm round into a 30 cal rifle in the courtroom. The judge finally stopped him and told him that it seems that the only firearms expert in the room was the guy on trial.
The gun fires once - all by itself. It’s a wonder somebody wasn’t killed. :0
It would have to be. An automatic pistol? Not sensible as a toll for a stick up.
That’s right. It’d be two if dey has two in hand. And automatics are illegal aren’t they. Ohhhhh dey ment auto-loader pistol.
Sick of this too— can’t report properly what you don’t understand to begin with.
Location: Town 'n Country, Florida
The night of the shooting, 18-year-old Mustelier had walked to the Beverage King beer store on Waters Avenue with a 16-year-old friend. No one under the age of 21 is allowed to consume or possess alcohol in the state of Florida. On their way, they passed Baker. Mustelier told the friend he planned to rob Baker, according to the Sheriff's Office report.
After going to the store, they passed Baker again, and Mustelier said, "I'm gonna knock him out," according to the report.
That's when Mustelier lunged at Baker, swinging his fists, the report states.
The 16-year-old told detectives that Baker responded, "You wanna play games? You wanna play games?"
The unidentified 16-year-old's mother said he has faced retaliation because he ran and because he spoke to detectives.
Friends of Mustelier say the story the jogger is providing is out of character for their friend.
"He's not like that. It's not like him. It sucks we're down a friend because someone decided to pull a gun on a teenager who had his whole life to live," Miguel Felipe said. Felipe says he grew up with Mustelier.
He says the Mustelier was planning on going to school to get his CNA (certified nursing assistant).
Felipe says he doesn't know who the 16-year-old is, but says he knows Mustelier was walking to a friends house and the teenager was walking with him to the house.
"He wasn't looking for trouble," said Felipe.
"Sheriff David Gee has made gangs a focus of his first term, forming the gang task force soon after he took office in January 2005.
In September, he stood in Town 'N Country's Jackson Springs Park and announced that a six-month push by the task force resulted in the arrests of more than 100 gang members and associates on charges including attempted murder, robbery, home invasion, drug trafficking and assault.
Friday, Gee said his agency will continue to put pressure on the county's three dozen or so gangs. The push is imperative for public safety, Gee said, because gang members aren't just mischievous teenagers hanging out together and vandalizing property.
"Gang members call it the thug life, and they really aspire to that," Gee said. "With gangs, the activity is more organized, it's violent. The graffiti you see is a sign of their territory, but it's not as much about property crimes as it is hurting people.
Absolutely. That clerk should be dead right now; he’s extremely lucky.
Thanks for the rest of the story.
You are absolutely right. I am 67 years old and consider myself in good condition for my age but traded fist fighting for gun fighting many years ago. If some 18 year old punk attempts to put a fist in my face he will be met with a SIG 229 in 40. An older person can easily prove serious injury or bodily harm from a young punk and justify the use of deadly force.
A rich, autoloader who’s playing the field?
“Insanity” should be used to describe the attacker, not the one who defended himself/herself against the insanity.
> Our so called ‘professional media’ are idiots when it comes to guns. I still want one of those 44mm pistols I read about.
>> LOL! As I recall, the pistol in question was actually a .44 cal.
>> Idiot journalist didn’t know the difference between calibre and mm.
Back during the Koresh siege, then Cong. Schumer intentionally pulled the same thing on NRA’s Waye LaPierre.
They were on some TV talk show with Bob Schieffer talking about the firearms in the compound. Schumer holds up two cartridges: a 50 cal and a 9MM and says (paraphrsed) “Koresh has THIS (50 cal) 50MM while the police have this 9MM.” LaPierre says nothing. I about threw my cup at the TV in disgust. Here was a great chance for LaPierre to point out Shumer’s trick by saying something like “This man does not know the difference between the metric and decimal system who is writing gun laws. He is either ignorant or lying, and in either case should not be in office”
Some time later I happened to catch a TV news segment where Shumer was in the hallway and some other pol comes up to him and says “Good job on Schieffer’s show” and the puke just gave that slimy smile you always see him with.
I wrote the NRA taking LaPierre to task over the lost opportunity. Never got a reply.
< sarc >Is that a new firearms technology? < /sarc >
IIRC, naval anti-aircraft guns from WWII came in 40mm.
No, the author is clueless, and should take two day firearms instrruction class before writing columns involving firearms.
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