Posted on 04/08/2014 6:39:23 AM PDT by marktwain
A man attempted to board a bus in Battle Creek, Michigan, with an SKS rifle in his carry on baggage. The rifle was longer than the bag, so the butt stuck out and was visible.
Some people called 911. I was not there, so I do not know the totality of the circumstances. It is clear that that no one was threatened by the man, and that the rifle was unloaded. The police showed up and arrested the fellow... for what? From wkzo.com:
The City’s Gang Suppression Unit responded and took the 25-year-old into custody seizing the gun and a fully loaded magazine.
He has not yet been charged. It wasn’t exactly a concealed weapon and it wasn’t loaded but it quickly could have been.
If he would have taken off the stock, he could likely have fit the disassembled rifle into his carryon.
He would have to saw off the stock or get a bigger bag.
I say ban whiny, chicken5h!t, drama queens(both men and women), from owning cell phones. How many people got to die or be arrested for nothing because dumba55e5 got cellphones and get a thrill watching cops arrest somebody after they make a call. Better than a soap opera for them. Immediate thrill. Ban these subhuman people (so called). Not guns.
>>>The City’s Gang Suppression Unit responded and took the 25-year-old into custody seizing the gun and a fully loaded magazine.<<<
Can the media ever get any gun story right? They always incorrectly refer to magazines as “clips”. Finally, someone is actually arrested with an ammunition “clip”, and they call it a magazine.
Years ago teenagers used to take their empty .22’s to school via the bus because they had shooting practice at school.
Strictly speaking, the stripper clips are used to load the internal magazine.
A "magazine" in firearms parlance is just a place to store ammunition. We have detachable magazines or internal magazines.
Sounds like this reporter actually knows something about firearms...
Don’t magazines have to be unloaded for legal transport in MI?
I think I read in the hunting rules something like that.
It has one of those scary bayonet thingies.
In 1977 I took my grandfathers model 97 trench gun to school with me as a demonstration in my “War and Armament” class that was an elective at the time. Didn’t have a case so mom wrapped it in and old bed sheet for me, and when I got on the bus I handed it to the driver who stuck it next to her. Carried it in, handed it to the teacher, he used it as a demonstration, let everyone hold it, and I took it home.
No one even looked at me strange and they all knew what I had, but Brighton Michigan was a completely different place back then.
The left has succeeded in convincing the idiots that a gun in an honest person’s hands is bad.
Also, the cops are being forced by corrupt administrations to arrest innocent people.
Meanwhile, the left deliberately and intentionally leaves guns in the hands of violent criminals.
In 63, I used to walk down the hallway full of kids with my shotgun or .22 over my shoulder, without a case...Principle would put it in her office til school was over...I wouldn't load it until I got outside tho...
Later, they removed the Ten Commandments from the walls of the school so no one knows that God says we shouldn't kill each other...No one even knows anymore that there is a God...
It might have been a mag. You can get after market conversions for the SKS. However sometimes they don’t feed too well. Wish I’d have spent the extra and gotten an AK.
I suspect that what he should have said was “fully loaded clip” as the article stated that the gun was unloaded.
Of the limited SKS rifles that I have encountered, there is an internal magazine that is then loaded by clip (you already know this I’m sure). So it sounds to me like the internal magazine was empty but the clip was full.
Or at least that is the best that I can make out from the article.
If he was really arrested before police had a real charge, there is money in his future.
OTOH, he appeared to be getting on a bus for a long trip, this was not a city bus because he had “baggage”.
While there are many people who travel by bus, the proportion who aren’t “all there” is higher than the average for the entire population. Wait and see. There may end up being a reason for not wanting this individual to travel with a weapon.
Personally, I would call a weapon "unloaded" if it had a full magazine but no round chambered.
I can see some thinking a loaded magazine = a "loaded gun"... but I wouldn't call it that.
(shrug)
In the late 60’s when in Junior High we had a rifle club in school. The school had .22 rifles for the clubs use and we even had a rifle range in the school for practice and competition.
Imagine all the liberal today getting the vapors over the mere idea of this happening today.
When I went to school (1962), when kids carried guns and large knives to school, you knew they were in Leathercraft classes in SHOP.
No one ever raised an eyebrow.
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