Posted on 10/17/2016 7:09:54 AM PDT by Califreak
Vallejo Police officers at the scene of a shooting in Vallejo, Calif. on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016. Police said two officers were inside a Starbucks coffee shop on Lincoln Road West when a man with an "assault style weapon" opened the
Vallejo police shot a suspect who pointed an assault-style weapon at officers at a Starbucks on Sunday night, according to the Vallejo Police Department. Police say the incident started at a Starbucks near Lincoln Road and Pine Street in Vallejo at 8:50 p.m. on Sunday night. Police said a male suspect opened the door of the Starbucks and pointed what appeared to be an assault rifle with a "high-capacity drum" at two police officers inside. The police say the gun appeared to have malfunctioned.
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I would think there would be security video on this
Hopefully things will stay kind of quiet here.
We don’t usually get rioters here.
No description...my bet is he is not a white man.
They make drums for EVERYTHING nowadays.
You can even get one for a Glock pistol.
Could’ve been”
AR-15 type
AK-47/AK-74 type
Saiga shotgun (30rnd drum)
The list goes on...
There are drum magazines for AR-15 style rifles. They don’t work very well.
Used to be able to pick them up at the gun show, have been outlawed in CA for about 10-15 years.
I saw a video of a guy shooting a shotgun with a drum magazine and it seem like the thing jammed about every fourth shot. Same with the AK
Gads, what a poorly written article.
You can get drum magazines for AKs and ARs. Since the gun malfunctioned I’ll say most likely an AR or poor cleaning habits.
You can get drum magazines for AKs and ARs. Since the gun malfunctioned I’ll say most likely an AR or poor cleaning habits.
WASR 10, check. Romanian 75 round drum, check. Body armor, check. Slidefire, check.
Take off upper wood forestock so it don’t catch on fire, check.
First round jam—dayum!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho! God Bless Texas!
He was wearing body armor.
Then that sucker would definitely put out some awesome suppressive fire.
Gads, what a poorly written article.
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Not in ‘their’ minds.
They managed to include ‘assault weapon’, ‘negative cop’, got to call an (attempted)assassin a ‘suspect’ —all in one sentence.
It depends on the drum.
The Saiga shotgun is very popular (over $1000) and more and more aftermarket companies are making magazines and drums. Some of them are really cheap. I’ve shot some Saiga drums that work flawlessly, while the cheaper models could barely cycle a single round.
We used to go to Sea Food City on Redwood all the time, over near Mare Island. I always thought Vallejo was a dump, though there were nice homes on the east side of I-80.
Perhaps if the officers would have offered the man a Starbucks coffee of his choice, this wouldn’t have happened.
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