Posted on 09/30/2005 9:00:39 PM PDT by HolgerDansk
Firing 77 bullets, cops wounded an ex-con early yesterday after he shot at another man and turned his weapon on police outside a Manhattan housing project, authorities and witnesses said.[...]
Six officers from Manhattan's 23rd and 28th Precincts and an NYPD housing unit fired at least 77 rounds at Rooks in two bursts of gunfire, said Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.[...]
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77 and he's still making CO2? Range time and maybe an NHRA beginners program.
Lemme guess... 9MM?
sure, you got 17 rounds in there... and you need every single damn one of them. :-)
Sounds like good clean fun to me ! Always carry plenty-o-ammo!
Whoa! Someone needs some more Range time.
Wonder if they hit him more than once?
National Hot Rod Association?
They were just laying a barrage on him to discourage him from being too rambunctious.
77!? Either they are firing BBs or they need some better training.
77 and he's still making CO2? Range time and maybe an NHRA beginners program.""
NHRA as fas as I know stands for National Hot Rod Association, the main group that organises Drag Racing Events. I hope you really mean NRA beginners program.
The only "bullets" we use in NHRA is the term "bullets" is used to refer to more engines in the trailer to insert between rounds when you have ruined an engine.
Bet he can dance now.
Police not the only ones. Read our troops are using 250,000 rounds per terrorist In Iraq. Ammo being ordered fro Israel to make up for the shortfall.
LOL my bad.
Several cops on the scene complained that NYPD Housing Bureau Inspection Capt. Vincent Salerno, who had been talking to officers before the shooting, sped off in an unmarked car despite hearing the gunfire.
NYPD officials said the captain could not immediately respond to the shooting because a frightened civilian had jumped into his car, possibly thinking it was a livery cab. The captain went to the shooting scene after getting the civilian out of his car, officials said.
He could not be reached for comment.
There's an interesting subplot. Captain Salerno had to drop off a "fare" before returning to the scene of the shooting?
Zoiks!
Meanwhile, I was unaware that the NYPD had adopted the Soviet infantry doctrine of "spray and pray".
But hey, it seems to have worked.
Heh. Indeed. Bet it at least kept his head down.
There was a story from Lacey WA, near my hometown, several years ago just after the department switched to the 9mm auto for their standard issue.
One guy with a machete, in a parking lot. He was surrounded by a semicircle of six cops in a standoff when he lunged at one of the officers with the machete. All six opened up on him. He was still swinging the machete until the 19th round hit him. Two or three times that were expended.
One or two hits center mass with a .45 or even a .357 would have ended the matter.
I'm not a big fan of the 9mm for law enforcement purposes.
Practice, gentlemen, practice. The only thing I know about self-defense with a gun is don't waste your shots.
That's what I was wondering, too.
Well, what you people have to realize is that the weapon issued is a Glock 9mm. Which will pass though a suspect and the wall and so on.
These guys need to be armed with a 357. Sig 40 s&w or a 45. but the liberal powers that be will never allow that.
This is from the mouth of a NYPD officer I spoke to at the National Law Enforcement Memorial.
What is the world coming to? Killing Muslim terrorists with Israeli Ammo? I can't think of anything more politically Incorrect- or fitting!
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