You're safe, New Yorkers! This dangerous weapon was confiscated!
Posted on 04/05/2021 7:00:24 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
Last week the NYPD proudly tweeted about how they removed an "illegal gun" from the streets of the Bronx, only to get owned in the comment section. It would be one thing if they had tweeted a cache of weapons from a known drug dealer or human trafficker, but that wasn't the case. Instead, the gun was an old Rohm RG .22 revolver, which was barely functional when new, let alone the condition the NYPD tweeted it in.
You're safe, New Yorkers! This dangerous weapon was confiscated!
If it could even get more comical, the precinct proudly displayed the five rounds of .22 LR that were also recovered with the gun. Yes, you heard us right, they displayed the five rounds of .22 LR like a prize haul of illegal drugs. The obvious and misplaced show of chest-beating about gun control aside, they never even explained why the gun was confiscated. For all we know, it was taken away from a lawful gun owner with zero justification provided. So, without further ado, here is the tweet.
Of course, the Twittersphere wasn't going to let a ripe opportunity like this pass by without throwing some stones. Here is a smattering of some of the best comments we saw:
Big Tom said, "This is embarrassing - why would you even post it? A .22 revolver? Oooooooh spooooooooky"Finally, I think Justin Klumker summed it up best and said what everyone was thinking, "Hahahahahahaha how is that illegal?"Wyld Works said, "So glad Dutch Van Der Linde has been brought to justice."
Mack said, "Was the ruffian preparing to ride with Teddy and the Rough Riders?"
Slideshow Bob said, "The ammo shortage is so bad we can't even fill 22 revolvers"
Burnz Fernandez said, "hahahah... yeah, I'm sure 5 rabbits are rejoicing now for keeping them safe."
Chris Epler said, "Thank you for arresting the gun, i know it's too hard to arrest criminals."
The Big Esh said, "Now how are they going to start their track meet?"
Hopefully the NYPD can start shifting their focus away from taking antique and curio relic firearms off the streets and turn toward solving actual crimes in the coming weeks and months. Only time will tell.
i count six shots...
THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS though.
Ironically, that .22 revolver just jumped in value if it goes to auction.
Looks black so it must be a assult weapon of so sort
In FFS. Go away.
“A .22 can be plenty deadly. These comments are stupid.”
I had one pulled on me in Mexico on a street. I was in crappy mood and didn’t really care if he shot me, and besides, the gun was so tiny that it couldn’t hurt me...so I kept walking and he faded away.
It was later that I was ‘schooled’ regarding just what that gun could have done to me. Anyway, next time I’ll hand him my wallet, I think.
His English was pretty good, by the way, could have made a living just off that capability, down there.
The track meet comment is great.
Hinkly used the same gun to shoot Reagan. Loaded with explosive tips bullets. Damn near killed Reagan.
Heh ... nice.
Thing about orange muzzles is that when you think about it there is absolutely nothing preventing people from painting the tip of any actual gun barrel orange.
Explosive tip?
How come they have the exact same picture on the Rohm wikipedia page? What came first the picture or the bust by the NYPD?
The gun is not illegal. The law classifying it as “illegal” is illegal
The stupid comments are only reflecting the stupid that the police department is projecting. They don’t have to be technically correct.
Dang. Ya beat me to it. haha
See if you can extract the original picture from the guns.com website. Have fun combing through the source code.
“are only reflecting the stupid that the police department is projecting.”
PR department, probably some college grad and you know college grads at 21 to 24 can be kind of (remplir les trous)...
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