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2 charged with accidentally shooting woman with machine gun
The Montana Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell, MT] ^ | Monday June 30, 2003 | staff report

Posted on 06/30/2003 11:18:43 AM PDT by archy

2 charged with accidentally shooting woman with machine gun

Two Polson-area boys are charged with felonies after they accidentally shot a woman with a machine gun Tuesday.

Lake County Undersheriff Mike Sargent said the boys, ages 13 and 16, were target practicing on Bisson Lane, south of Polson, when a shot went astray and struck a woman in the leg. She was in a field with her husband on a tractor, he said.

"They were out there, throwing rounds down," Sargent said.

The woman was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital where she underwent surgery and is recovering, Sargent said.

Deputies Cory Anderson and Mike Carlson responded. They confiscated the .233-caliber Ruger mini-14. One of the boys' fathers has a permit to own the machine gun, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms was notified because of the type of gun used in the accident, Sargent said.

The boys won't be identified because of their ages. At the end of the week, they were charged with felony criminal endangerment.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: ac556; banglist; classiii; fullauto; gb; machinegun; polson; ruger; titleii
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If I had *led* or begun the headline of a news story with a number back in my own newspaper days, I believe my editor would have shot me with a machinegun.
1 posted on 06/30/2003 11:18:43 AM PDT by archy
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To: archy; *bang_list; Joe Brower; Shooter 2.5; Squantos
Montana oops ping!
2 posted on 06/30/2003 11:21:46 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: archy; *bang_list
Either this reporter has their head up their typical arse in terming a Mini-14 an MG, or they are really referring to an AC-556.


3 posted on 06/30/2003 11:22:41 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." -- Sallust)
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To: Joe Brower
That's exactly what I was thinking.
4 posted on 06/30/2003 11:23:38 AM PDT by SoDak
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To: archy
It's always fun until somebody gets shot.
5 posted on 06/30/2003 11:23:43 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: archy
Gun control advocates are licking their chops.
6 posted on 06/30/2003 11:24:44 AM PDT by tdadams
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To: Blood of Tyrants
It's always fun until somebody gets shot.

And then it gets even funnier.

7 posted on 06/30/2003 11:24:49 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
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To: archy
Since when is a Ruger mini-14 a machine gun?
8 posted on 06/30/2003 11:25:03 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (South-south-west, south, south-east, east....)
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To: Joe Brower
All presstitutes have their heads up their ass with regards to properly describing any firearm ........

Stay Safe Joe !

9 posted on 06/30/2003 11:25:31 AM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
thats my question, may look nasty but its still only a .223
10 posted on 06/30/2003 11:26:55 AM PDT by boxerblues (God bless the 101st and keep them safe)
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To: Joe Brower
Either this reporter has their head up their typical arse in terming a Mini-14

You left out the possibility of deliberate disinformation. This seems likely now that the media drumroll has started to make the semiauto ban permanent, and anything that makes the soccor moms hyperventilate about guns goes along with the media's agenda.

11 posted on 06/30/2003 11:27:22 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: archy
What are the chances that this Mini-14 is actually fully automatic (and therefore a "machine gun")?
12 posted on 06/30/2003 11:27:50 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tagline. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
When I built and flew one of these little 2 seat amphibs was it an F14? Both carry two people and have wings!


13 posted on 06/30/2003 11:29:45 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Read Buddy's, (the labrador retriever), new book about the Clintons, "Living Hell")
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To: from occupied ga
True, true. Heck, I'm surprised they didn't just pull their usual fast one and just use the dreaded "AK 47" label. That always good for whipping the ignorant sucker-moms into an unthinking frenzy with bloody visions of Rambo movies.


14 posted on 06/30/2003 11:29:57 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." -- Sallust)
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To: spodefly
Check this out: AC-556

Don't tell the ninja-goons at the ATF, but I can get my Mini-14 to empty a 30-round mag in about two seconds, from the shoulder, by simply using a variation of the tried-and-true "belt-loop" trick. Always good for effect, allowing for an adequate backstop.


15 posted on 06/30/2003 11:33:06 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." -- Sallust)
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To: spodefly
What are the chances that this Mini-14 is actually fully automatic (and therefore a "machine gun")?

If it's a Ruger AC-556, the chances are very good, particularly if the *juveniles not identified due to their tender ages* are sons of a local cop or former cop. But I'm aware of at least one Title II dealer in Montana, and I'd be much more inclined to bet that a Montana sheriff's department and newspaper would get it right than their corresponding counterparts in New York or Los Angeles.

The full-auto Ruger AC-556 version of the Mini-14 goes for around $6000 from one NFA dealer in Maine I'm aware of, pricey, but not as steep as a more collectable early Thompson.

-archy-/-


16 posted on 06/30/2003 11:47:03 AM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: archy
Pretty little thang...ain't it
17 posted on 06/30/2003 11:51:21 AM PDT by montomike
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To: archy
Well, my God! The woman had a machine gun!!!!
19 posted on 06/30/2003 11:54:34 AM PDT by zook
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I observe that in 15 comments, not a single expression of empathy toward the innocent victim of this shootin' safari has been expressed. Lotsa talk about how cool the guns are though.
20 posted on 06/30/2003 11:55:15 AM PDT by Company Man
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