It's a cheap-ass, metal-stamped SEMI-AUTOMATIC pistol that sprays "many bullets over a wide area in a few seconds" because it is so innacurate.
It looks scary, though. That's the important thing.
Posted on 12/12/2005 1:32:25 PM PST by Frapster
Police Find Assault Weapon Near Supreme Court Associated Press WorldStream via NewsEdge Corporation
WASHINGTON_Police are investigating a loaded assault weapon found in a parking lot a block from the Supreme Court, a law enforcement official said.
Members of the Supreme Court police force discovered the machine pistol on Dec. 2 in the lot in the residential Capitol Hill neighborhood east of the Court and turned it over to the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Friday. The U.S. Capitol is west of the Supreme Court.
Officials at the Supreme Court and Metropolitan Police Department would not identify the kind of weapon found, but a senior federal law enforcement official said it was a loaded MAC-10 machine pistol. It is capable of firing many bullets over a wide area in a few seconds. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because an investigation is under way.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has joined the investigation, said Officer Josue Alvida, a Washington police spokesman. No arrests have been made.
The area is heavily patrolled by police from several jurisdictions, including the U.S. Capitol Police since many members of Congress live in the neighborhood.
There are no guns in DC...............
can't be. guns are outlawed in DC.
Was it a semi-auto MAC-10?
Jams repeatedly and has zero accuracy.
It's a cheap-ass, metal-stamped SEMI-AUTOMATIC pistol that sprays "many bullets over a wide area in a few seconds" because it is so innacurate.
It looks scary, though. That's the important thing.
Was the machine pistol travelling alone?
They can be dangerous when angered.
Yes there are... but they're only in the hands of criminals. Law abiding citizens are not allowed to own firearms.
where's the Chuckie Schumer picture when you need it?
But there are no guns in...Darn I thought I had something original!!
But Carl said there are no guns in DC............
it was a Mac10 automatic revolver ausault weapon.
The LE community sometimes wonders where their 'emotional capital' in the community has gone? Here 'officer.com' is parroting anti-freedom gun-grabber propaganda. Cops jus' wanna have fun - First Class Citizens and all that. Democracy is the rule of fools by fools.
The supreme court is an assault weapon as far as the Constitution is concerned.
Big shit.
It's either a machine pistol or an "assault weapon".
By definition assault weapons are semiautomatic.
Perhaps one of the esteemed Justices dropped it during a morning jog?
I hear several of them pack heat.
no, of course not. it was a full auto spit wad gun and Zell Miller put it there.
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