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Two Men Stole Guns at SHOT Show. Here’s the Hiccup They Didn’t Anticipate.(DOH!)
townhall.com ^ | 2/18/2019 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 02/19/2019 7:12:42 AM PST by rktman

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To: redfreedom
When Ziva took off so did I.
21 posted on 02/19/2019 8:42:50 AM PST by skimbell
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To: schurmann

Okay. Thanks for the info.


22 posted on 02/19/2019 8:45:56 AM PST by OKSooner (Whichever one you already have, go buy the other one and then you'll have both.)
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To: Romans Nine
Has anyone else noticed they way “ gun registration” keeps popping up lately? Seems like “they” are easing us into the idea by passively using the term.

Perhaps, but this has been around for quite some time, really.


23 posted on 02/19/2019 8:46:19 AM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: Romans Nine

“...’When agents searched Foster and Limon’s homes they found the stolen firearms, despite neither one of them having any guns registered to them.’
So there is a gun registration?...” [Romans Nine, post 13]

“Registration” - linking of a particular gun to a particular individual by officialdom, sometimes by prior permission of officialdom - is governed by state and local law. There is a tremendous patchwork of jurisdictions all across the country; requirements and responsibilities vary quite a bit.

In the State of Nevada, registration is under authority of county government (or was until recently). Clark County - where Las Vegas is located - requires registration of handgun possession with law enforcement agencies. So it was probably simple for LVPD (or whoever apprehended them) to check ownership status of the perps in this instance.

The original CSI television drama breezily ignored these “trivialities,” along with a lot of basic science, forensic technicalities/limitations, and legal-system procedure. Led to erroneous impressions on the part of citizens, as you and others noted.


24 posted on 02/19/2019 10:39:47 AM PST by schurmann
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To: gaijin; Leaning Right

“THAT is the barrier..??
Wow, that’s nothing for anyone except a total retard.
The vast majority of people walking into the Shot Show could rectify their ‘situation’ in an hour or two, maybe one day.” [gaijin, post 4]

If you are referring to firing pin replacement, it depends heavily on the design and construction of the individual gun.

Many forum members are familiar with the AR-15/M16 family of rifles: removing or replacing a firing pin takes only a few seconds, some field stripping, and rudimentary tools.

The whimsical image posted by Leaning Right [post 11] provides good examples of variety:

The P08 (Luger) is straightforward to disassemble, but any replacement striker (firing pin) must be custom-fitted to the pistol, by a technician both familiar with the gun and skilled in fitting. If a new striker isn’t fitted properly, the pistol is an accident waiting to happen.

The Mosin-Nagant Vintovka o1891g (Russian bolt action rifles at top and bottom of image) 7.62x54Rmm has a firing pin tip on its striker rod, which runs the length of the bolt. The bolt won’t hold together if it’s removed; on reassembly, fitting isn’t always required, but it must be staked in place after the cocking piece is threaded onto its rear end.

The Nagant o1895g revolver at middle left, and the hinged-frame revolver minus grip panels at lower right, have firing pins permanently installed in the hammer face. Installing a new pin (sometimes called the striker tip or hammer nose) required very careful fitting by a gunsmithing technician trained and experienced in the task: the pin is secured by a rivet.

The old rivet holding the old pin or broken stub must be ground away or drilled out, then a new pin is temporarily installed, held by an undersize dowel called a “try rivet,” and the firing pin is tested to see how precisely it fits through the aperture in the standing breech; the upper or lower edges of the firing pin are ground down using a sharpening stone, as needed to readjust the positioning of the tip so it will properly hit the primer of the round to be fired. Then everything is reassembled and the tip position is noted again. The entire sequence is repeated as often as needed, to get the alignment correct.

When the tip of the new firing pin hits the primer close enough to center, the try rivet is removed, and the real rivet is inserted, then struck to flare its ends. When the flaring operation is complete, the sides of the hammer must be reground and polished to enable the hammer to fit into its frame slot once again. Some repaired hammers are left “in the white,” some get refinished according to customer preference.

Can’t say for certain about firing pins for the two PPSh-41 submachine guns in the middle, nor the DP-26 light machine gun at upper right. Both were used extensively by the Soviet Red Army in WW2 and after.


25 posted on 02/19/2019 12:12:23 PM PST by schurmann
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To: skimbell

I agree Ziva was the last good female that created the appearance she could handle the job. Ziva was more impressive than femmy McGeek.

That little puke that took Ziva’s place, every 3rd word out of her mouth was “NSA”, spoken so often it was just sickening.


26 posted on 02/19/2019 1:42:11 PM PST by redfreedom (Elizabeth Warren has more Indian blood in her than journalism has truth.)
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To: outofsalt

Naw....Remington black assault killing machine guns...


27 posted on 02/19/2019 1:46:18 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: rktman

Remington machine guns?

Land Systems does not make either do they?


28 posted on 02/19/2019 2:41:04 PM PST by School of Rational Thought
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