Posted on 04/10/2012 5:27:11 AM PDT by lowbridge
Four cops shot inside a Brooklyn apartment would likely have been killed if the ex-con had reached for another weapon in his arsenal a sawed-off assault rifle with military-grade bullets.
After the smoke cleared from the Easter Sunday gun battle, police found a Ruger Mini-14 known as a poor mans assault rifle. It was loaded with bullets powerful enough to penetrate the ballistics shield Detective Kenneth Ayala carried into the apartment to protect the cops as they entered single file behind him.
Suspect Nakwon Foxworth, who was critically wounded in the shootout, fired a dozen shots from a 9-mm. handgun, but was steps away from the rifle.
Foxworth was shot before he could reach for his sawed-off assault rifle. And a good thing, too, said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. It was loaded with 20 .223-caliber bullets, the kind the military uses. Kelly couldnt help but consider the worst-case scenario. He could have done a lot more damage with an assault weapon he had no business possessing, the citys top cop said.
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ooooowwwwww. Military-grade bullets. Those are really scary. Their only purpose is to kill people. Run for the hills. They use them in those assualt rifles like the mini 14. LOL
Perhaps in NYC a rifle that retails for ~$700 is for a "poor man."
If it were a mini-30 it would have been more impressive story,,, imho
****with military-grade bullets. ****
I’m glad I set my coffee down before I read this. I would have spewed all over my computer.
Military FMJ bullets are banned from hunting because they are NOT DEADLY ENOUGH.
Hunting bullets are banned by the rules of war as being TOO DEADLY.
Both would punch right through a vest.
A question: Did Ray Kelley wet himself when he talked about the “assault” rifle?
We had Mini-14. It was a POS. Talk about inaccurate. Thats with a full barrel. Saw it off and who knows where the shot will go.
There’s not a pickup cab in North Dakota that doesn’t have a Ranch Rifle in it somewhere.
Ruger completely redesigned the Mini-14 & 30 a few years ago. Both in the gun itself and how it was made.
The new ones are indeed accurate.
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