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Posted on 11/30/2001 7:16:52 PM PST by technochick99
He forgot to pack his flame thrower, Derringer and brass knuckles. What a crock.
IowaHawk: World Mourns Larry Snitker, Jr.
Apparently concerned with the fate of his bowling ball and the loss of his 'hot hand,' Snitker inserted his head in the ball return to investigate. When he was unable to locate the swirl blue $89 Dick Weber Diamond Pro 16 model ball, he apparently convinced wife Brenda to search the adjacent ball return chute. When the machine creaked to life, it was too late. Their heads lodged firmly in the return chutes, Snitker and his wife waited helplessly for the certain death that would accompany the next ball.
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Urban legend cooked up by the BATF. Absolutety no proof has ever been given of this.
On February 27, 1992, a Wells Fargo armored delivery truck was attacked in a "military style operation" in Chamblee, Georgia, by several men using a smoke grenade and a Barrett 50 caliber sniper rifle. Two employees were wounded.
Yep, this one is real. So what. Armored trucks are attacked with all kinds of hardware.
On April 28, 1995, Albert Petrosky walked into an Albertson's Grocery Store in suburban Denver, Colorado, and gunned down his estranged wife and the store manager. Armed with an L.A.R. Grizzly 50 caliber sniper rifle, an SKS Chinese semi-automatic assault rifle, a .32 revolver, and a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, Petrosky then walked out into the shopping center parking lot, where he exchanged fire with a federal IRS agent passing by and killed Sgt. Timothy Mossbrucker of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Petrosky, who was known to his friends as "50-cal Al," fired all four weapons, including the 50 caliber rifle, during this murderous rampage.
He carried all that hardware in to kill his wife and her lover? Something don't smell right with that story.
On March 19, 1998, following an undercover investigation, federal law enforcement officers arrested three members of a radical Michigan group known as the North American Militia. The men were charged with plotting to bomb federal office buildings, destroy highways, utilities and public roads, and assassinate the state's governor, senior U.S. Senator, federal judges and other federal officials. All three were ultimately convicted. A 50 caliber sniper rifle was among the weapons found in their possession.
How were the weapons used in a crime? Just because they were possessed by criminals doesn't mean that the 50 was used in a crime.
Wisconsin father and son James and Theodore Oswald were sentenced in 1995 to multiple life terms for armed robbery and the murder of a Waukesha police captain. The two had "a small armory of sophisticated and expensive weapons, including two custom-made .50-caliber rifles powerful enough to assault an armored car—which the two were considering doing," according to the Waukesha county sheriff.
But was the 50 actually used in the murder? If I kill someone with my pocket knife, does that mean that all my firearms were used in the crime to?
In the summer of 1995, Canadian officials in British Columbia found a Barrett 50 caliber sniper rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition for it, and enough explosives to fill a five ton truck at a remote site. It is believed that members of a Texas militia group planned to set up a training camp at the site. Although at least one convicted felon was identified as a suspect, the investigation was dropped due to difficulties in prosecuting across national borders. The incident prompted one Texas Constitutional Militia official to observe, "We are not all raving maniacs. I'd kind of like to keep our lunatics on our side of the border."
Charges dropped, no crime here.
This sounds like they are really reaching for anything to get in the news.
I'll try to verify, but I'll wager that he used the automatic pistol and the other weapons were in his car.
This would certainly put a very different light on (some) of the events at Waco. I have a problem understanding how they boiled out of cattle trailers into a hail of bullets and yet it is reported that there was not one bullet hole in either of the cattle trailers parked right in front of the house. I never have understood how that happened unless the drivers took off leaving the agents to root, hog, or die.
Note the "bullpup" action which makes the weapon easier to conceal. This feature, and its light weight. makes it obvious that this gun is intended for criminal use only.
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