Tuesday FGS
Off-duty police officer shoots armed robbery suspect at Dearborn Heights 7-Eleven
By David Komer
An off-duty Detroit police officer shot and wounded an armed robber inside a 7-Eleven on Cherry Hill Friday.Just before 4 p.m., a male suspect entered the store near Inkster for an armed robbery in Dearborn Heights. The off-duty police officer had words with him, before an exchange of shots, Michigan State Police say.
The officer was not injured, but the suspect was wounded.
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Read the rest here: Fox 2 Detroit
Business owner shoots suspect trying to take catalytic converters
by Matt Dillane
A person suspected of trying to steal catalytic converters in Berkeley County was transported to the hospital after being shot by a business owner.According to the sheriff’s office, the owner of PA Auto Sales off Highway 52 shot the suspect in the leg on Tuesday morning.
Authorities said the suspect had already removed several catalytic converters from vehicles.
Daniel Wesley Springs is the suspect injured and now charged for the incident.
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Read the rest here: ABC News 4
“An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.” –Col. Jeff Cooper
Category: Feel Good Stories
Seems as if our young urban entrepreneur crapped out at 7/11…Pity. BZ to the officer for “loading” the dice. May the dirtbags’ Nurse be named Ratched.
Our SC friend’s friend “catalyst” was heroin? He was a trifecta of charges on his own. “…malicious cruelty to animals…”?!? Hang the bastard.
Just HAD to post that Gatling Gun linky…didn’t ya? DIDN’T YA!!!? Knowing I’d slobber all over this screen and get lost in it for a good while. Well played, Good Sir…Well played. Many a Southern Boy survived the WBTS because Big Army refused to buy Dr. Gatlings invention for true deployment. The article didn’t make mention of this but as most of us know, the majority of the ones purchased were deployed for the defence of the politicians in DC. And another reason that Maj Gen John B. Gordon picked Fort Stedman as the axis of the final assault to break Grant’s line in Petersburg was the lack of forward deployed Gatlings. And, too, as we all well know, Custer would have bode well to listen to his subordinate commanders and drug his rotating Artillery Pieces with him on his March to Infamy at Greasy Grass.
I guess my all time favorite Gatling type gun would have to be the one they built that aerial Artillery Platform around. Anybody remember that farce Pawn Stars Show where dickhead (Rick) insulted old boy on his offer of that original piece?
When I first read the preview of the article on the home page, it almost read as if an off duty police shot an armed robber with a Gatling gun.
Way to get my hopes up AW1.
So I saw a few people testing a new Gatling gun that fires 9mm rounds. It is perfectly legal to own without a Tax Stamp since it fires one shot each time you advance the trigger (the handle), obviously you would not want to do something illegal like hook up a portable drill to it to make it illegal!
I wonder if anyone makes a new one that fires bigger rounds like .308 for those pesky boar problems! (asking for a friend)!?
Gatling Gun Off-duty police officer shoots armed robbery suspect at Dearborn Heights 7-Eleven. The LEO carries a Gatling gun??. How does it fit in his holster?????
Izzat a Gatling Gun in yer holster or are you just happy to see me?
*grin*
Forgot to mention that when batteries came out, The Brits used them on their Gattling guns but had to stop using them because back in the late 1800’s, they didn’t last long. I think the batteries were used in the 1890’s. Todays electric Gattlings are not considered machines guns if they still use the chain drives like the first ones that came out. Got to check my machine gun book which also has a chapter on the above.
Might want to check with BATFE on that. My understanding is that only a manual-driven/cranked Gatling gun is a non-NFA weapon. Add motor and the switch becomes the legal trigger, and one push produces the BLAAAAAAWP so NFA paper is required, and the registry for those as “transferable/non-dealer” items closed in 1986.
-dont- motorize the toys.
11B-Mailclerk, I was mentioning the ones the Military uses that run on electricity. I should have said that, plus if there are multiple barrels that rotate, the rounds are going through each barrel one at a time but not just one barrel so that would be the same as hand cranking but a little faster so that wouldn’t be a machine gun.
A powered Getting is an NFA item. There are a handful of pre-86 transferable to examples, at something like $300k a blawp. Plus the $200 stamp.
Motorized = MG, because the button is the trigger, and produces more than one shot per pull.
Go look. Don’t take my word for it
Nice video. A number of years ago a dealer had two M-1 carbine receivers hooked up into the gattling gun configuration over at the Palm Beach gun show in the fairgrounds.
May have boxed myself into a corner…
Me: Ain’t that purty?
Wife” Oooh, look at all the brass!
Me: Tell ya what, you polish the brass, I’ll shoot it.
Wife: OK… but I get to shoot it sometime too.
So now I gotta figure out a) how to pay for one and b) how to cast sufficient 405 grainers to feed that beast!
You can load 300 grain bullets in 45-70, which helps a little with costs.
I had opportunities to fire several varieties of Gatling gun, from a repro of the original cap-n-ball version (vertical stick magazine of capped firing chambers) in .50 roundball, to a .22LR miniature, to a full-scale replica in .45-70 with that honkin-big brass magazine.
For that latter gun, two hundred bucks of reloaded .45-70 ammo goes oh so fast…. But oh what fun…