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Three teenagers beat up a 17-year-old Saturday afternoon, then opened fire on the victim’s father using a machine pistol, police said. No one was injured and the boys fled before police got there. Officers recovered the weapon hidden in a nearby garage, El Cajon police Lt. Ron Smithson said. Several residents called police to report hearing a burst of gunfire at 2:10 p.m. in an alley behind Millar Avenue, about a block west of El Cajon Boulevard. Smithson said officers were told the 17-year-old was on El Cajon Boulevard, near a liquor store, when three boys approached him and demanded...

An undercover cop chased a Times Square scam artist through sidewalks crowded with holiday shoppers and tourists Thursday, exchanged gunfire with the suspect and killed him near a landmark hotel, police said. (snip) When the officer approached, the man took off running the streets and through the Marriott Marquis hotel's passenger drop-off area, Browne said. The sergeant pursued, and the man turned and fired with a Mac-10 machine pistol that held 30 rounds; he got off two shots before it jammed, Browne said. The officer returned fire, killing the suspect, Browne said. It's not clear how many shots he fired....

Tom Maffin, senior gunsmith for Transformational Defense Industries Inc. demonstrates the company's revolutionary Kriss Super V 45 caliber submachine gun at a range on the Blackwater USA campus in Moyock, N.C. Stephen M. Katz photos | The Virginian-Pilot MOYOCK, N.C. His Ford Crown Victoria disabled by hostile fire, driver Tom Maffin scrambled from the car, crouched behind the hood and sprayed a target with automatic gunfire to cover for a passenger. Maffin's weapon: a KRISS Super V .45-caliber submachine gun.If you're military or law enforcement and haven't heard of it, chances are you soon will.Maffin is senior gunsmith for...

Police Find Assault Weapon Near Supreme Court Associated Press WorldStream via NewsEdge Corporation WASHINGTON_Police are investigating a loaded assault weapon found in a parking lot a block from the Supreme Court, a law enforcement official said. Members of the Supreme Court police force discovered the machine pistol on Dec. 2 in the lot in the residential Capitol Hill neighborhood east of the Court and turned it over to the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Friday. The U.S. Capitol is west of the Supreme Court. Officials at the Supreme Court and Metropolitan Police Department would...