Assault rifle turned over in gun roundup ("It's like catching the big one.")

L.A. Daily News ^ | 04/28/2007 | DANA BARTHOLOMEW

[holymoly]

The Chinese-made SSK assault rifle with two, 30-round banana clips

"Journalism is what you do when you're too stupid to flip hamburgers."
- Unknown Freeper

[D.P.Roberts]

LOL! What a maroon!

[rellimpank]

--" exclaimed LAPD Officer Brian Hun of the Southwest Division. "It's like catching the big one."--

--some LA cops apparently fit the "stupid" category, also--

[Menehune56]

the 15th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots

Also known as ''the uprising,'' per the wonderful congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of the reasons I no longer live in the golden state.

[DemforBush]

“...along with enough ammunition to blow away 59 bystanders.”

Well, at least the writer isn’t resorting to hysteria or fear mongering.

/sarc

[kittymyrib]

You can bet that one gun wasn’t turned in by a Korean shop owner.
I guess the AME preacher doesn’t remember the Watts riots. Obviously, most business owners do.

[jdub]

This has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read.

I can understand the reporters not having a clue, but the police? It sounds to me like their program was a complete failure, and they were trying to hype the only gun turned in by making it sound like they got something that was truly egregious.

[whd23]

Quoting the article out of order:

"If we can take one gun off the street, it's worth it," said Hun, a senior lead officer for the area. "If a gangster wanted to do a drive-by, it's the ultimate weapon."

The Chinese-made SSK assault rifle with two, 30-round banana clips was dropped off by a dad whose son had long ago left it at his house.

So the firearm wasn't "on" the street in the first place. I think it's safe to conclude that it was quietly rusting away in Dad's closet.

Wow, the citizens of L.A. were so well served by this use of police time. It's not as if the police who manned this photo-op could have been out catching, oh I don't know, actual criminals, or anything like that.

[Malichi]

OOOOOOOOO soda cracker! We caught the big one boys!!!!

[SampleMan]

Likely a murder weapon, given in a gun amnesty buy back, so that it can’t ever be used as evidence.

If you want to shoot someone and ensure the weapon can’t be used as evidence, just wait until these idiots are doing a buy back.

I bought by two SKS rifles for $90 each ten years ago and I got a can of 1000 rounds for an additional $20 (enough ammo to take out 999 bystanders and 1 reporter!). What are they going for today?

[D Rider]

So what does a SSK look like. I have one of those Chinese made SKS toys. Sort of fun to plink with.

[dynoman]

It would almost be worth turning a piece of crap like that just to watch and laugh over the reaction.

[DeFault User]

"People want to protect themselves; that's why they have guns," said Amelia Quinn, 39, of Los Angeles

I wonder how that quote that snuck past the editor.

[Izzy Dunne]

dropped off by a dad whose son had long ago left it at his house.

Somehow, I don't think this guy was about to commit a crime.

"If we can take one gun off the street, it's worth it," said Hun

Maybe Attila here thinks otherwise...

[mountainlyons]

Are Ca. police really that stupid. An SKS is more like a 5 to 10 round internal clip rifle. An ak47 has a larger clip and is external fed. No wonder ca is in such a fix!

[Izzy Dunne]

enough ammo to take out 999 bystanders and 1 reporter!

If you go postal on us, do the reporter first, just in case you miscounted.

[Parmy]

The rifle had to be an SKS. Has anyone emailed this moron?

[tcostell]

For those lurkers who are not especially firearms literate, there is a custom gun manufacturer out there called SSK who makes high accuracy modifications to common hunting and target firearms, but it's extremely unlikely that this is what they're talking about.

More than likely, what was turned in was a Chinese "SKS" rifle, which is a very inexpensive but reliable, semi automatic firearm.

It fires an inexpensive round which is suitable for hunting everything from rabbits to Deer, and is considered one of the very best "bang's for the buck" in the firearms industry. It can do a wide variety of things effectively and do it on the cheap.

They aren't very pretty, but they get the job done.

In the meantime the police have apparently played this up, knowing full well that the reporters are a bunch of trained chimps who don't know any better.

The SKS is NOT, ans Assault weapon:

[holymoly]

An SKS is more like a 5 to 10 round internal clip non-detachable magazine rifle. An ak47 has a larger clip magazine and is external fed detachable.

;o)

Actually, I have a WASR-10 (AK look-alike), with magazines holding from 5 to 75 rounds.

Some people had/have converted SKS carbines to accept detachable magazines.

I'm not familiar with California law, but anyone making this type of modification runs the chance of violating BATF regulations 922r, 922v, the Import ban of 1989, etc.

[tcostell]

you can retro fit a larger clip into an SKS... but that still doesn't make it an assault rifle. Referring to this as "The big one is the funny part.

If there were a firearm literate freeper there at the time I think they would have laughed out loud at the suggestion and said something like "The big one?!...Yeah ... woohoo ... good for you guys.... you got the $200 piece of Chinese made crap off the streets ROFLMAO......"