Posted on 07/31/2009 5:48:34 PM PDT by Misterioso
Alleged Drug Dealers, Robbers Had Been Under Surveillance By Officers Before All Hell Broke Loose Thursday Morning
Pump-Action Automatic Shotgun Used Against Cops, 5 Wounded
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBS) ―Jersey city looked more like a war zone early Thursday morning.
In the hours since the deadly shootout that injured five police officers doctors have been working furiously to save the lives of the two most critically hurt.
The gunfight erupted just before dawn Thursday during a police stakeout in Jersey City.
Officers were tracking the two people seen in a surveillance video robbing and shooting a man last month.
But they said the suspects -- Hassan Shakur and Amanda Anderson -- were ready for them and armed with lethal firepower.
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They should get the criminals off the streets, then the guns won’t matter.
He’s probably not forced to do a PFT on a yearly basis. Having spent time in Jersey City many years ago it’s a dump and has always been dangerous.
Don’t know but my Dad had one that I used as a kid to rabbit hunt. Don’t remember hitting anything, must have been the gun.
The guy hates the NRA about as much as some Freepers.
JC Higgins? My guess would be Savage as they made some of the private brand guns. Only a guess as it has been a long time.
barbra ann
And then you consider that he IS the chief it kind of makes you wonder about those he leads doesn't it.
OK I guessed wrong. It was Hi Standard now that I think on it.
barbra ann
flip a coin.We will have to conquer both.
Bravo!!
Excellent post.
Keep up the good work.
I think that it was Savage arms Co.
IMO he is guilty of attempted murder. In my day officers who used their troops lives as ladder steps of their career climbing .....were fragged !
Doom on him an his actions
No, but you need a state issued permit to buy one, and another to carry it, but not in ones home, place of business, or going to and from a licensed range, with the weapon unloaded and locked away. They are also registered.
Wanna bet this one wasn't registered, and the guy wielding it did not get a permit to purchase it, nor one to carry it.
But of course police training and tactics were fine, according to the "director".
Jersey City Police Director Sam Jefferson said the incident went according to training police officers receive, despite the seemingly violent outcome of the shootout.
High Standard, mostly, but also several others. Here's a good cross reference link, which includes all sorts of guns, not just pump shotguns. I know mine, a plain Jane mid sixties version in 20 gauge, and my father's late 40s/early 50s really plain Jane 12 gauge where both High Standard. Some years, about 8, after I got it, I saw a High Standard just like it, in the early '70s. That was at what today would be a standard "stop and rob". Not then. It was Holiday gas station and convince store. They had some junk food, some decent food, car chains, hammers, shovels, bait, fishing supplies, ammunition and guns. Don't recall if they any handguns, but they did have both .22 and center fire rifles, along with the shotguns Not more than one of each model/caliber in the rack. They did have, I think, handgun ammunition.
Sadly today, while still around they are just another stop and rob, sometimes with bait and fishing tackle, depending on location.
Around 50, yes fifty, years after my Mom bought my Dad that 12 gauge, I saw one, branded High Standard, but made by Armscor in the Philippines, that was pretty much it's twin, right down to the jeweled bolt and the general "feel" of the action. Although some of the cosmetics weren't quite as nice. Just like Dad's but not mine, if you would hold the gun vertically, barrel up, with your hand off the fore grip, and trip the slide release, the action would open about half way. They were really smooth.
The '40s JC Higgins is still soldiering on, at least it was a couple of years ago. My brother had it refinished, and the cracked stock repaired, for his son,the youngest grandchild of the original owner, to use in high school level trap competitions. He's got a new Remington now, it's a might lighter than the JC Higgins, but the Higgens/High Standard still get's 'er done.
So was mine, and neither have I, but if I start, it won't be with my "serious social purposes shotgun", it'll be with my 7.62x51 Ugly Black Sniper Rifle, most likely anyway. Unlike pheasants, men often shoot back, and I want to be as far away as possible, in case the target has friends nearby.
That's not to say shotguns have no place in self defense, and in certain limited scenarios in offense as well. Else why would I have an Ugly Black Shotgun? Hmm?
Thanks for your insights. It’s what makes America what she is: the one and only.
It is never “We Gotta Get These Criminals Off Streets” from the leftist aka progressive gun haters.
The leftist aka progressive gun haters have one goal. And that is to ban the right to bear arms.
It’s the latest thing in double barrels, a Remington 870 pump combined with a Benelli automatic, two magazines, two barrels but mounted on a common stock. First you fire the whole magazine from the Benelli in one burst, then you use the pump action to clean up what you missed, the extra weight makes the felt recoil minimal. I’ll bet you didn’t even know about it did you?
My old Wingmaster is obsolete?
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