“Philadelphia police have released surveillance video of a man shooting up a strip club with an assault rifle,” abclocal.go.com reports. Only no, no they haven’t. That would be an AK pistol. And if you thought firearms terminology is a slippery customer, check out 21-year-old Henry Pettigrew’s fancy footwork as he is seen “firing wildly” (they got that bit right) inside the Purple Orchid Gentleman’s Club. Yup, the Philly po-po have ID’ed the shooter. And how. “Henry Pettigrew is described as a black male standing 5’11” tall, weighing 180 pounds. He also has a thin beard. Pettigrew’s last known address is in the 5500 block of Belmar Terrace.” No word yet whether the Philadelphia police have officially ditched their .40’s for .45’s to up their stopping power (in theory). FYI.
Philly 5-0 also does not know the difference between the 4th Amendment and the 23rd Psalm. Only the LAPD is worse. BTW, the LAPD was just released from Federal oversight (due to excessive force, natch). But — miracle of miracles — LA’s been totally reformed! Now it shoots everybody without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin or make and model of vehicle.
We can all breathe a little easier now.
If Obama had a son he would look like Henry Pettigrew…
Why does “Pettigrew” make me think of a rat? Probably watching too many movies with my kids.
Expelliarmus!
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So, for double what I paid for my 91/30 I can turn it into a mallninja abomination that’s still only really accurate out to about 200-250 yards, or I can save my money and find an SKS for about the same price instead.
Choices…
po-ta-to, po-tah-to
The philly police are about as likely to identify a firearm from a grainy surveillance video as they are to identify the actual suspect. or the car, which is a light colored sedan “possibly a Hyundai or Mitsubishi.” Thanks for narrowing that down.
If this happened in Los Angeles, you wouldn’t want to be seen by the police driving around in a light colored Mitsubishi or Hyundai. Or a dark colored ’92 Suburban. Or delivering newspapers on foot.
SFP scopes are useless for range estimation.
1. Who knows what magnification you’re actually at? Is it really 10X or is it 9.5X, and is it the same as it was the last time it was set there? I hope the numbers in my shot book don’t stay the same size when I get closer to them.
2. Do I really have to use a different formula for each power setting? I sure am glad I have a FFP scope.
I can’t even believe I had to just say that.
State cops are the worst.
Southern Maine might as well be part of the Comintern of Massachusetts. There really are two Maines. The north is cool, the south is an abomination.
As far as cops are concerned, some get into the business to do good and some to make a living. Some become cops because they have no idea what they want to do.
The rest become cops in order to exercise power and control. Those in the power and control group are among the most dangerous people on the face of the Earth.
Since it can be hard to tell one from the other until they shove a plunger handle up your @ss, I tend to treat them all with a modicum of suspicion.
Don’t let Feinstein & Co. find out about T/C or we’ll be hearing about “assault sniper muskets”.
On a side note, is it just me, or when I hear people correcting the grabbers on their nomenclature, isn’t it gonna give them more stuff to work with? “Grandpa’s ole bolt action 30-06 does more damage than a .223!” “Semi auto’s aren’t assault weapons! Besides, they’re way more controllable than a machine gun.” But then again we’re all gun nuts who spout lies to protect our guns which we love more than our kids, so they’d never believe it anyway.
Looks like a 3G Taurus to me.
To mag lite guy, a good $65 quark from foursevens with the ability to throw 360 lumens for 2 hrs, down to .2 lumens for 600 hrs, throws a really nice clean beam and fits in your pocket like its not even there . . . As stated above, just try one and yo wll never buy a cheap torch again. What I like to do is give them as gifts. People open them and think “um, ok, a flashlight. Thanks?” And then they start playing with it and can’t stop talking about how cool it is. 🙂
Love my PT-709. Love the direction Taurus seems to be going these days. Just sayin.
Cant be any worse than my buddies Diamondback. Spring is stiff as hell and ball ammo gets stuck on the feed ramp. BALL AMMO! We’ve put 100-200 rnds through it and he’s sending it back. Its crap.
SOOOOO….. Definitely going to look at this one for my wife (and me).
It ain’t over yet. There is a bill pending I California to ban all lead ammo used for hunting. There is now a partial ban in Condor territory (that has had no appreciable effect on reducing lead poisoning of condors), and just BECAUSE it has been ineffectual, these guys think that it is necessary and proper to extend the ban to the whole state, so that maybe THEN it will be effective…..The fact that science does not support their proposition has not dissuaded the Legislature from moving forward.