Posted on 07/22/2006 12:13:33 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Police confiscate 'cop killer' gun in Far rockaway
By:Stephen Stirling 07/21/2006
Police in Far Rockaway arrested and charged three youths with criminal possession of a weapon Wednesday after a search of their home yielded a powerful type of handgun that has been responsible for more than two-thirds of police officer deaths since 1994, according to the Queens district attorney.
Police executed a court-authorized raid of the home of William Davis, 21, brother Clarence Davis, 18, and friend Gquan Lloyd, 18, Wednesday morning and found a notoriously powerful Fabrique Nationale 5.7 handgun along with another less-powerful handgun and a bag of cocaine, according to DA Richard Brown. The gun, called a "cop killer" by many for its ability to pierce 48 layers of bullet-proof Kevlar, is the first of its type to be recovered by authorities in New York City.
"The FN 5.7 is a lethal handgun imported from Belgium and capable of easily penetrating most police vets and plates," Brown said. "While this is the first time that such a deadly weapon has been recovered in New York City, its presence is troubling and makes the job of street cops that much more dangerous." Since 1994, 425 of the 616 police officers killed in the line of duty have been killed with a FN 5.7, the DA said.
The three Far Rockaway residents, all of the Hammel Houses on 81-10 Rockaway Beach Blvd., were arraigned Thursday on charges of criminal possession of a weapon and a controlled substance at Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens. If convicted, each could spend up to 15 years in prison.
I pride myself on keeping up with firearms. I have never even heard of this.
It must be costly..it keeping and feeding it. I doubt that your average gangbanger even know it is out there.
Apparently it doesn't, or they wouldn't write it.
Check out tables 34 and 35 in the same document.
Table 34
Law Enforcement Officers Feloniously Killed with Firearms
Point of Entry for Torso Wounds and Use of Body Armor, 1994-2003
Penetrated vest Total - 19
He reached back and pulled it out of the same orifice all BS and BS equivalents come from.
44 AUTO MAG, only way to go.
The ammo is quite pricey and at times very difficult to obtain . The ammo that is being offered now is geared more towards civilians, with the good stuff being available only to mil/LE agecies. The pistol reatils for over a $1000 and I very seriously doubt ganbangers even know what it is . The story is pure BS and it reminds me of the Glock hysteria of the late 80's .
92% of all statistics are just made up.
Thank you for meter!! That will come in handy!
Correct.
The "article" is just more of the desperate anti-RKBA seditionist effort to force their socialist agenda on us, lying is their only means of communication.
Cut and pasted from the article above.
…its ability to pierce 48 layers of bullet-proof Kevlar
My Letter...
Dear Mr. Stirling,
After reading your recent article I just had to comment on the extremely poor job of fact checking you did before you published such completely false and misleading information about the FN 5.7. In your article you state as fact:
"The gun, called a "cop killer" by many for its ability to pierce 48 layers of bullet-proof Kevlar, is the first of its type to be recovered by authorities in New York City.
"The FN 5.7 is a lethal handgun imported from Belgium and capable of easily penetrating most police vets and plates," Brown said. "While this is the first time that such a deadly weapon has been recovered in New York City, its presence is troubling and makes the job of street cops that much more dangerous."
Since 1994, 425 of the 616 police officers killed in the line of duty have been killed with a FN 5.7, the DA said."
First thing that needs to be pointed out is that the FN 5.7 has only been available in the US civilian market since early 2004.
Next, according to FBI Statistics, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/killed/leoka03.pdf, these are the facts as compiled by the US Government on the Law Enforcement Officer murders during the period of 1994-2003:
Table 29
Officers Killed...............616
Killed with Firearms.....568
Killed with Handguns...425
Table 30
Table 30 lists the caliber of weapons used in the murder of Law enforcement officers during the period. Notice that there is not even one instance of 5.7MM listed during that period.
Table 34
Table 34 tells us that only 19 Officers were killed by bullets penetrating their vests during that period.
Table 35
Table 35 then tells us that none of those bullets, that penetrated those 19 vests and killed their wearer, came from handguns. They in fact came from rifles.
Now Mr. Stirling, I certainly hope that this obvious factual oversight is not a result of your journalistic integrity being displaced by any personal bias on this issue. I think we can all agree that any murder of a police officer, or any person for that matter, is a horrible event. I also think we can all agree that your readers deserve to have information that is accurate and free of distortion. I certainly hope that you will use more dilligence, than you obviously did on this story, to insure that that future stories contain information that is a little more objective and correct.
Thanks for your time,
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It must be costly..it keeping and feeding it. I doubt that your average gangbanger even know it is out there.
Correct on all counts - the handgun is expensive, the ammo is expensive, and both are scarce enough for that fact alone to invalidate this article. FWIW, the cartridge is shared by the FN P-90 submachinegun and PS-90 semi-auto carbine.
Start holding your breath now, the minor league propagandist that told this big lie will get a kick out of seeing you turn blue waiting for a correction.
Just took a quick look on Gunbroker.com, there is a posting for 1000 rounds of the 5.7 x 28 with a "Buy Now" price of $500!
Has anyone bothered to make the conversion of 5.7mm to inches?
Semper Fi
An Old Man
FWIW, Hammels is not in Far Rockaway. They never seem to get right the "outer boroughs."
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