Posted on 07/31/2023 1:13:59 PM PDT by grundle
A bullet hit Austin’s left arm and traveled through his chest, lungs, and all the way to his right arm, according to Tarrant County Medical Examiner Kendall Crowns.
An hour after police responded to the scene at the apartment complex, Austin’s neighbor, 21-year-old Gabriel Nathaniel Brown, turned himself in to the police. He told police he did not commit a crime, but that he shot Austin by accident. The events leading up to the shooting
According to police reports, Brown told investigators that he had just received a micro conversion kit for his pistol.
A micro conversion kit is used to turn a firearm into an automatic weapon, described by Brown as a “submachine gun.”
Brown stated that the night before Austin was found shot in his apartment, Brown was trying to install the kit when the weapon fired.
He told police that he had just recently received the pistol and never fired it before. He called his father on the night of Sept. 15, 2021, while he was installing the kit and was “showing it off,” Brown’s sister told police.
“I put the conversion kit on and I guess one got stuck in the head because I never pulled the trigger but it dislodged,” Brown said. His girlfriend and sister also were in the apartment next to Austin’s, where Brown lived with his girlfriend, at the time he discharged the gun.
“I honestly don’t know what happened because I am not very familiar with guns. I’m going to be completely honest with you, that was my first handgun purchase,” Brown told police. “Like I said, this is a complete accident.”
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And therein lies the problem. All children should receive firearms training. My father taught me how to handle guns when I was 5 years old, and in the 60 years since then I have never shot anyone.
Learning to handle a gun is not hard. There is one overriding rule you have to learn and every other rule flows from it: Every gun is loaded.
The three main corollaries from that rule are:
1. Always keep your gun pointed in a safe direction, i.e., never point your gun at anything you do not intend to kill or destroy.
2. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
3. Always be sure of your target AND what is behind it.
Every accidental gun shooting arises from the violation of at least one of these rules.
To who is he politically connected?
While I wouldn’t be surprised if the journalist was wrong about guns, full-auto Glock switches are commonplace in the ‘hood these days and can be acquired very easily on-line.
Yes, you are right, plenty of YouTube videos with the glock switches. There was a point where they were available on Amazon!
Only one shot fired in this case, and no ATF involved though, so I still think the reporter is just an idiot.
This Ft Worth Star-Telegram more clearly describes what happened, no mention of full auto.
“Gabriel called his father, Gregory, on FaceTime to “show off his semi-automatic pistol and the micro conversion kit,” the lawsuit said. A micro conversion kit is used to turn a semi-automatic pistol into an assault rifle, according to the suit. While on the call with his father, Gabriel Brown fired his pistol while installing the micro conversion kit, the lawsuit states.”
We have sex ed in schools, Nx sex is not a right. Mandatory gun safety in schools to support our 2nd A rights, and minimum negligent homicide or reckless endangerment for gun “accidents.”
I looked up “micro conversion for Glock” and concur with your take on it. The murderer and the writer are unburdened with knowledge. I originally thought the child-murderer was referring to a small card (that looks much like a cellphone sim chip), that can supposedly be “dropped in” to convert Glocks to full auto.
Next poject: convert a Garand into a water-cooled heavy MG by bolting on three concrete wheel stops and a plastic rain barrel.
SSS solution with prejudice in 92 days...
no pic of the shooter - Gabriel Brown - at the link. why not?
anyways, there’s one in the following:
Well that explains a lot.
Probably not a machinegun part. This sounds like one of those shell-like stocks for the pistol which kind of make it into a quasi-short barreled rifle, with a wrist brace that functions like a shoulder stock. Google Micro-Roni, although I am pretty sure the ATF treats them as an SBR now.
I do not know if you need to disassemble a pistol to get it installed, but if you do, Glocks require you pull the trigger to get the slide off. Obviously you are supposed to completely unload it first. I had an instructor speak about, in the military, seeing a guy rack the slide of his pistol, pop the mag and then he was about to pull the trigger into this big steel tube/pipe they dry-fire into before returning the gun to the armory, which would have caused an ND, which would have been a big deal and write-up, when the instructor was just able to yell and stop him, and show him he still had one in the chamber. But the guy was on autopilot, and talking to his buddy, and lost concentration for a moment.
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