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Cops told NBC not to use gun clip
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Posted on 12/26/2012 11:29:20 AM PST by ConservativeMan55

NBC was told by the Washington, D.C., police that it was “not permissible” to show a high-capacity gun magazine on air before Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” according to a statement Wednesday from the cops.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abovethelaw; banglist; davidgregory; democrats; gregory; gun; guncontrol; nbc; secondamendment
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To: COBOL2Java
Gregory will say some low-level aide was told

Ah yes, the ol' "ignorance IS and excuse" get out of jail card. Doesn't work for me or you, but if you're a blow dried shill for the police state you get to do just about anything.

61 posted on 12/26/2012 2:03:30 PM PST by Sirius Lee (Sarah Palin - "Republicans like Rove... are said to be concerned she will win.")
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To: Kadric

That nails it; thanks.


62 posted on 12/26/2012 2:06:38 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Have A Very Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

gun clip - is that something to hold the gun in the holster?


63 posted on 12/26/2012 2:06:55 PM PST by RitchieAprile (the obstreperous gentleman..)
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To: MarkL
Both 7.62 and 5.56mm NATO as well as .30 M-1 Carbine come on 10-round "Stripper clips". Insert one end of the clip into a receptacle in the rifle's action, then push down on the top cartridge to shove them all down into the magazine.

The empty clip is then removed and discarded or will be ejected when the bolt is run into battery.

We used to be able to get 7.62X39mm on 10-rd strippers too - for the SKS. I don't think they work on AKs, do they?
Never had much luck using them on the SKS, but those who know the trick can re load those fixed magazines with a clip pretty quickly.

64 posted on 12/26/2012 2:11:08 PM PST by George Varnum (Liberty, like our Forefather's Flintlock Musket, must be kept clean, oiled, and READY!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Your little laws are for the little people.


65 posted on 12/26/2012 2:12:58 PM PST by Tzimisce (What do you do when every every branch of the government is corrupt and aligned against you?)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Watch them use the rather plain language of the First Amendment to make the case that they are exempt from restriction, completely missing the irony of their stance supporting - nay, promoting - the myriad restrictions “permissible” under the equally plain Second Amendment.


66 posted on 12/26/2012 2:15:38 PM PST by NonValueAdded (If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

David Gergory should be in jail. Now they cannot pretend they didn’t know.


67 posted on 12/26/2012 2:17:29 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: lacrew

Was wondering that myself.


68 posted on 12/26/2012 2:36:44 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: GeronL

NBC should be embarrassed that there are many people in the Washington, DC, area who understand gun laws better than one of its own prominent journalists to whom they pay a large salary to inform the nation about issues such as gun laws.

That’s why the phones rang off the hook at police headquarters when David Gregory broke the law on national television. David Gregory has besmirched the reputation of ‘’Meet the Press,’’ and if he doesn’t actually wear a dunce cap on his head from now on, many of his viewers will know that he deserves one.


69 posted on 12/26/2012 2:40:08 PM PST by Bluestocking
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To: ConservativeMan55

Why do nitwits keep referring to magazines as clips!!!


70 posted on 12/26/2012 2:45:24 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Ignorance is no defense — it was Gregory who had it on the air and is unable to claim otherwise.


71 posted on 12/26/2012 2:47:05 PM PST by expat2
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To: Cyber Liberty

Not necessarily — many cops are pro-gun.


72 posted on 12/26/2012 2:49:02 PM PST by expat2
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To: InvisibleChurch

Doesn’t matter — the law says that possession of a 30 rd mag in DC is a crime, even without cartridges in it. The law may be an ass, but it IS the law there.


73 posted on 12/26/2012 2:50:54 PM PST by expat2
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To: lacrew

30-rd mags are legal in VA.


74 posted on 12/26/2012 2:51:40 PM PST by expat2
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To: Gene Eric

Only when they are hoist by their own petard.


75 posted on 12/26/2012 2:52:33 PM PST by expat2
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To: expat2

Jail him and the asshats that gave it to him. Let them live by their laws.


76 posted on 12/26/2012 2:52:47 PM PST by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: Last of the Mohicans

Thats exactly the point of why we want Gregory arrested. If we all marched into DC waving 30 round mags, we would all be immediately be arrested. David Gregory would not. THAT is the issue.

And yes, the head of the executive branch does indeed have the ability to display evidence for the public. Police chiefs do it every day. A president can most certainly display some crack that DEA agents have seized. Afterwards, he returns it to the agent who gave it to him, to return to it evidence or send it for destruction. A news reporter has no such right.


77 posted on 12/26/2012 2:58:38 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

He was clearly stoned.


78 posted on 12/26/2012 3:01:33 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: George Varnum

Hmm... Why did I think the 5.56mm were on 5rd stripper clips?

Brain fart! Thanks!

Mark


79 posted on 12/26/2012 3:01:39 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: dsrtsage
Metal and plastic in specific shapes can not be seen, no matter how inanimate!

I remember Chong (of Cheech and Chong) getting hauled off to federal prison for selling glass and metal in shapes that could be used to smoke marijuana, among other dried leaves.

Made no sense then, makes no sense now.

80 posted on 12/26/2012 3:05:04 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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