Being a shooter myself and possessing several magazines I'm going to call them whatever I damned well please vocabulary cop.
You're the kinda guy that get pissed off if it's called 45 Colt ammo when it should be 45 Long Colt aren't you?
Posted on 04/24/2007 5:44:58 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
Memphis police were looking Monday night for the thieves who stole seven weapons from a North Carolina SWAT team van parked in South Memphis.
Members of the SWAT team based in Raleigh, N.C., were eating at Interstate Bar-B-Que, 2265 S. Third, about 3:30 p.m. Monday when they realized their van had been broken into, said Lt. Jerry Gwyn of Memphis felony response.
Taken were three machine guns, two semi-automatic handguns, and two 12-gauge shot guns, Gwyn said.
The officers, who were traveling from Raleigh to Little Rock for training, noticed two thieves driving away in a burgundy Ford Expedition, Gwyn said. A video surveillance camera also caught the thieves in action.
"We’re concerned with getting these guns off the street," Gwyn said. "We have a lot of folks working on it right now."
The theft was reminiscent of a heist in 1997, when thieves stole a Little Rock FBI team’s Suburban. Inside the SUV were grenade launchers, M-16 rifles, submachine guns and other potent weapons, which were found after an intense three-day search.
If I hear the term “clips” I am going to puke. They are called magazines Tupac.
Piss on them, let em eat crow!
Nearly all the cho stories used ‘clip’. I made my displeasure clear across the net as best as I could. Ignorant journalism isn’t going to wake up though.
Being a shooter myself and possessing several magazines I'm going to call them whatever I damned well please vocabulary cop.
You're the kinda guy that get pissed off if it's called 45 Colt ammo when it should be 45 Long Colt aren't you?
SWAT doesn’t need and shouldn’t have automatic weapons. It’s just more of the idiotic and dangerous game of playing soldiers.
And Elian Gonzalez, and the post 9/11 search and seizure regime, etc.
"Memphis police were looking Monday night for the thieves who stole seven weapons from a North Carolina SWAT team van parked in South Memphis.Members of the SWAT team based in Raleigh, N.C., were eating at Interstate Bar-B-Que, 2265 S. Third, about 3:30 p.m. Monday when they realized their van had been broken into, said Lt. Jerry Gwyn of Memphis felony response."
“They are trained professionals. They can be trusted with selective fire assault riflers, classified as “machine guns” under the NFA act of 1934.”
True.
However, it seems they can’t be trusted to attend a training seminar with a van loaded with weapons.
(chuckle)
I'll take a wild guess and say that they're for tear gas. But you can never be sure.
What? no CS gas stolen?
I have noticed over the years that our public servents are much more professional and polite if your gun is held to their head than if the opposite is the case.
I'll take a wild guess and say that they're for tear gas. But you can never be sure.
The FBI is fond of using military parachute flares as incendiary grenades, as during FBI sieges at Whidbey Island, in Arkansas, and, of course, at Waco.
To add insult to injury, the perps in that earlier case also torched the FBI Blazer from which the buzzguns, M79s and grenades and ammo were taken. The little detail left out of the much-touted arrest of a couple of the usual suspects a few days later was that the ammo and grenades were not recovered; M203 grenades were going for $25-$50 each in one Memphis biker bar just after the event and I do not think that was an unrelated coincidence.
But I certainly concur with your Chamber of Commerce-unapproved warning for prospective tourists.
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Militarized law enforcement forces are the standing army our founders feared.
“Nor do we need 99% of the SWAT Teams we have now. It is really a bad trend over the last twenty years that needs to be reversed. There are over 40,000 SWAT Raids a year now, even for things like child support payments, where 20 years ago there were less than 1000”
You might like this study on botched police paramilitary raids done by the Cato Institute:
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/index.php#
It angers and scares me at the same time...
“It angers and scares me at the same time...”
Which tells me you are not a doofus. These paramilitary raids ARE frightening and I think unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment.
These are the guys who
try to kick in your door and
break their own ankle . . .
“You’re the kinda guy that get pissed off if it’s called 45 Colt ammo when it should be 45 Long Colt aren’t you?”
The proper name is .45 Colt. The other revolver ammo issued at the time was the .45 S&W, which was shorter. Soldiers called the different kinds of ammo “.45 long” and “.45 short”. The Colt round survived the test of time and the “long” name somehow stuck with it but the proper name for the cartridge is .45 Colt.
I love this game!
Lots of these "bashers" would argue thet the fabric of America is far more seriously damaged by the militarification of our police forces.
I'd rather spend my time wishing that the proliferation of SWAT teams in every podunk town across the country was false, but it's not.
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