feh...
Posted on 08/04/2012 5:40:26 AM PDT by marktwain
In 1989, I came close — we’ll never know how close — to shooting a producer and cameraman with a TEC-9 assault weapon.
We were at a suburban gun range with a law-enforcement agent doing a story on how semiautomatic weapons can be illegally modified into automatic weapons, making them deadlier still.
The gun I was given to fire was a fully automatic TEC-9 pistol with a magazine of bullets. The target was straight ahead. My crew was far off to the right and safely — or so we all thought — out of the way.
But with one trigger pull, the weapon took control. My right arm jolted in an arc upward and to the right.
My crew, with lightning speed, dropped to the ground. The whole thing took just seconds.
Terrified?
We all were.
You could argue that’s what happens when an inexperienced person handles an assault weapon.
Tom Ahern, senior special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Chicago and an expert marksman, would tell you otherwise.
“I’ve been shooting for 32 years,” he said by phone Thursday. “If I fired a fully automatic TEC-9 one-handed, it could jump up or down, right or left . . . the gun could flutter . . . and you could dump a 50-round clip in under five seconds. It’s going to spray all over the place.”
And holding it with both hands, he said, won’t significantly improve accuracy.
Why are we talking about this?
Because on the streets of Chicago, there are all kinds of guns — legal and illegal. And all kinds of people getting shot — intended victims plus people who end up as the collateral damage of a barrage of bullets.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
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Yes, and give “a complete and clueless” man the same weapon and all is well.
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Because she’s inept, my rights need to be curtailed? Leftist “logic” if you can call it that.
***Giving a complete and clueless woman a fully loaded machine pistol and expecting her to be “safe” with it is the height of irresponsibility.****
Kind of like Jill St John in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER when she picks up a submachine gun and fires it, the recoil backs her off the oil platform.
“I found her argument about a trigger getting easier to operate at variance with the laws of physics and basic metallurgy......”
I kinda think what she was talking about is how the trigger pull of DA pistols gets easier when the pistol shifts into single action after the first shot. Her evident lack of firearms knowledge might lead her to believe this also applies to rifles? If, so, she is a mite ignerent.
“I found her argument about a trigger getting easier to operate at variance with the laws of physics and basic metallurgy......”
I kinda think what she was talking about is how the trigger pull of DA pistols gets easier when the pistol shifts into single action after the first shot. Her evident lack of firearms knowledge might lead her to believe this also applies to rifles? If, so, she is a mite ignerent.
7. If guns make you nervous, drink a bottle of whiskey before heading to the practice range.
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