“[Richard] Shoop, dressed all in black and wearing a motorcycle helmet, walked through the mall armed with a rifle modified to look like an AK-47. The rifle was taken from Shoop’s brother, [Bergen County Prosecutor John] Molinelli said.” TTAG commentator OIBL reckons it was a “Ruger 10-22 using a drop-in stock kit that makes it look really, really mean.” And so the calls will come for safe storage laws to prevent the Shoops of the world (not to mention the Lanzas) from gaining access to family members’ firerarms. Only the great state of New Jersey already has such a law . . .
New Jersey law (Statute 2C:58-15) requires that all firearms be inaccessible to minors.
“A person who knows or reasonably should know that a minor is likely to gain access to a loaded firearm at a premises under the person’s control commits a disorderly persons offense if a minor gains access to the firearm, unless the person: (1) Stores the firearm in a securely locked box or container; (2) Stores the firearm in a location which a reasonable person would believe to be secure; or (3) Secures the firearm with a trigger lock.” Other states have similar laws restricting a minor’s access to firearms and including exclusions where applicable.
Oh wait. Richard Shoop wasn’t a minor. Huzzah! Another loophole for the Garden State gun grabbers to close. Not that it will do any good . . .
Well in modern gungrabber parlance, “AK-47” is just anything with a “banana clip”, and perhaps wood furniture. I bet they would even mistake a stock 1022 with a BX-25 for an AK.
Well, it was a little more even-paced than The Walking Dead, so there’s that.
BREAKING?
BREAKING II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO
Ha!
Made me laugh. I remember when all the cool kids in school were breakin’ and Electric Boogaloo was the only movie in town.
SEE! Another reason to ban assault 10-22’s!™ It took the life of several innocent little cameras! And he died by gun violence!™ Oh the humanity! More laws!™ Rabble, rabble rabble!
/sarc
Well, sorry this kid couldn’t find a responsible way to deal with his problems, but with no bodies but his own to parade on, it’s going to be another disappointment for the anti-gun crowd. Hell, even CNN can’t do any more around the clock coverage. It’ll be back to Obamacare by 6.
I’d probably be depressed and might consider offing myself too, if I’d defaced my body with all that hideous ink work.
Cuccinelli doesn’t stand a chance, McAuliffe has a double-digit lead in polling.
As gun rights advocates, we should take this as a warning that we shouldn’t hitch our wagon to the Tea Party movement.
The Tea Party simply lacks the mainstream appeal. It’s one thing to win some gerrymandered congressional districts, it’s quite another to win Governorships and state Senate races.
I just want to say I love this paragraph. A really lot.
Nice review – appreciate the pro tips. Seems like a pain to have to keep switching targets based on caliber. We felt that was the strength of cardboard because you can hit it with any caliber and its very cheap to replace. (Along with no ricochet).
I wonder if the rifle was locked up.
This is the last straw. I’m on my way to the local police department with my firearms, knives, jack handles, bricks, rocks, tree branches and all of the other “scarey” things, so the authorities will not have to worry about me. What a relief.
Grey man, people. Don’t be bragging about your armed status and don’t pull that card as leverage in a dispute.
If, and I know this is a very big if, moms was trying to intimidate or win the argument by hinting around at her armed status then she needs to be reviewed by the 5-0. It’s a school. The only time your gun should be known is if you’re trading fire with the next Lanza. In the meantime, don’t give off Lanza vibes.
“But debating the nuances of this very specific hypothetical situation misses the point broader point that it doesn’t make sense to fixate on these extraordinarily uncommon cases.”
aren’t these uncommon cases the reason they want to ban “the scary black battle rifles, with extenda banana mag clips and foldy thingy”?
My all time favorite trump card is to quote the hatchet job on the kleck study.The author dismissed the 2.5MM DGU/yr and claimed that it couldn’t possibly be more than 72k or so. Which incidentally is about 4-5 times the number of homicides, heh it’s still 2x more than all firearms related fatalities.
Wow, they try and say Lott’s “more guns, less crime” is wrong because of a SALON article???
Are these people high or just really stupid?
“Faux AK” sounds kinda wussy, no? I suggest that “fAKe” would be a more appropriate appellation.
I have mixed feelings about the timing of the guy open carrying a rifle at an airport. On the one hand, might be best not to freak out the sheep right now. On the other hand, it’s good to let people see that rifle need not equal spree killer. I remain neutral regarding whether what he did is a net plus or minus for freedom, because I honestly don’t know.
Ammonia and fertilizer is still available in near limitless amounts and a copy of “The Anarchist’s Cookbook” can be bought from Barnes and Noble.com for $16.17…ANOTHER DAY IN AMERICA UNDER THE THREAT OF A BOMBING!!!111
Burn her twitter down.
https://twitter.com/candacesutton1
Aw damnit, Australia seemed like a pretty cool place until you guys mentioned this…maybe New Zealand?
Rebecca, the thing has been proven: Any freaked-by-guns screaming chick is better than MikeBNumbers when it comes (yep) to generating hits (not that kind). That aside, I happily reflect that Wonkette seems to have moved on from insulting little kids with Down Syndrome. I find the whole guns-are-penises line a bit confused, but if it just reflects your subconscious wish that Shotgun Joe resembles, deep down, a shotgun, well then, we all understand. He’s more famous for his ‘buy a shotgun’ comments than any piece of legislation he ever sponsored, aside from the bit letting MBNA impoversh its credit card users. As for Eastwood, he and liberal VT senator Leahy proved not long ago at the NRA range that they’re both pretty good with a handgun. (Calm down. I knew you’d feel a thrill.) As for the gun as compensation for a small one, darlin’ you just haven’t been following the woes of the NBA ‘oops, I forgot I had a gun’ problem.
The more I look at her, the more she resembles a female Bizarro version of Robert Farago sans glasses.
I’ve been a LEO for 23 years and carried a .38 spl model 10, a 9mm 5906 and finally, a Glock 22 in .40 S&W. I have never felt at a disadvantage because of my issue sidearm or its ammo. Regardless of jello ballistics, there are just too many factors that can determine the performance of a round in an actual shooting.
The Miami shootout was an example of poor FBI tactics and a couple of very well trained and aggressive bad guys. The infamous 9mm round that stopped just shy of Platts heart performed exactly as tested by Winchester in jello but was in inch short in real flesh and bone. Platt and Matix had been hit by .38s, buckshot and 9mm numerous times and it’s unlikely that any reasonable law enforcement caliber would have performed any better given the poor hollowpoint design of that era.
The .40 S&W is simply an attempt to squeeze a 10mm size projectile into 9mm sized pistol. I’m up in Canada and about 20,000 RCMP members carry a Smith 5946 in 9mm with 147 grain Winchester Ranger ammo. In a significant number of shootings, the 9mm has performed as well or better than expected.
The majority of other Canadian police forces seem equally divided between .40 and 9mm.
I did not find the recoil of .40 cal uncomfortable at all and I don’t have huge hands. The only criteria I consider in a handgun caliber are at least 16 inches of penetration in jello, [ no one in Canada has ever been killed by the magical “overpenetrating” handgun round], good hollowpoint design and reliable feeding in a reliable firearm. The rest of the show is entirely the human factor.
Do you train ? Can you hit what you aim at ? Are you confident in your abilities and are you realistic in your self assessment ?
I think that the three common calibers, 9, 40 and .45 will be around for a very long time yet.
For the wank:
http://www.nbc12.com/story/23874589/77-increase-in-women-carrying-guns-since-2005
12 Investigates: More Women Carrying Guns
The number of women carrying guns is reaching record highs nationwide.
Nearly one in four woman in the United States are packing heat, an increase of 77 percent in just a few years.
Why are so many moms carrying firearms? Rachel DePompa talks to Central Virginia women to see what’s motivating them to learn to fire a weapon. Tune in for her special report tonight on 12News at 11.
For those hating on libertarians, the exit polling is showing that McAuliffe still would have won by 2%. Haven’t yet seen any exit polling from Virginia on the significance of gun control. I can’t imagine that exit polling on gun control was not done considering the parties involved in this race.