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Henry Frontier Carbine “Evil Roy”
Police: Off-duty Detroit cop faced with gun shoots teen suspect
Darcie Moran
An off-duty Detroit police officer shot a 16-year-old suspect after a group pointed a gun at the officer Thursday morning, police say.The officer was in a parked vehicle about 12:10 a.m. Thursday in the 6000 block of Brace Street when three men approached him on foot, according to a Detroit Police Department release Thursday night.
One of the men pointed a gun at the officer and the officer fired a shot in their direction, police said.
Later, the 16-year-old boy was found at a hospital in temporary serious condition from the shot, said Detroit Police Sgt. Nicole Kirkwood.
The teen was detained at the hospital and police learned two men in a red 2006 Pontiac Vibe dropped the teen off, police said.
Police are now searching for the two other suspects in that vehicle. They are described as being between the ages of 16 and 18 years old.
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Grizzly bear shot after injuring Montana hunters during ‘surprise encounter,’ wildlife officials say
The father and son were hunting north of Whitefish Lake
By Janine Puhak
Two Montana outdoorsmen shot and killed a grizzly bear after the animal attacked and injured the father and son during a hunting excursion over the weekend.On Saturday, the hunters from Flathead Valley were near a gated road by Smith Lake, north of Whitefish Lake, when the grizzly charged out of a thickly wooded area “at very close range” and attacked, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) said a statement.
“The two individuals sustained significant injuries before they were able to shoot and kill the bear,” the agency said.
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“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” — RONALD REAGAN
Category: Feel Good Stories
When will the burn loot murder crowd show up to mostly peacefully protest the brutal assault by the po po on the young urban entrepreneurs. They were simply rehearsing their parts in a rap video.
Sympathies for the bear…and her orphaned cub. Most hunters have a bit more SA when in bear country.
Lubs me some Henry Rifles. But for the politicing of Mrs. Winchester in the mid 1860s and crooked grubmint procurement ossifers, Henry might still be an American Company.
Henry is US-founded and owned. ThT being said, the current company was started by a New Yawker in the late 20th Century and is NOT the same as the original Henry company of Civil War fame. One of the reasons Henry fared poorly with Army procurement, by the way, was cost: Henrys cost four times as much as a Springfield. And while armies spend prodigiously, they are in some ways chintzy as possible. And by shortly after the war, Winchester was simply making a better rifle.
You need to dig a little deeper into that whole time frames history and the politics of Union Army Procurement. Ben Henry perfected or rather improved not only the lever action but more importantly the brass cartridges. Higher didn’t want the private to have a repeater, concerned that he would waste ammunition. And yeah, dud huh, a lever action Henry is gonna cost more that an 1858 single shot rifled musket, $50 – 60 each V 13-18 USD. And you can bet that Springfield was steadily influencing buyers then. Bribing defense contractors is not just a modern problem for the taxpayer. Most troopers that carried the Henry’s repeaters paid for them out of their own pocket. Oliver Winchester was a dirty politician of the era and insured that he screwed Henry out of his company AND monies owed him by the Federal Grubmint in ’65/66. Upon Winchester death , his wife, Sarah, a highly connected and darkly sinister woman, used her family’s political influence to further her control of Winchester, meanwhile, Springfield was keeping a lock on Military Arms. Sarah’s family had also made a bloody fortune off the taxpayer providing the Union Army with Ambulances. Did I make mention that they were all well connected with the Yale crowd too.
Ben Henry lost it all while Sarah became one of the richest women in the world, having $20 million cash, 50% of the company, and the royalties from Henry’s designs making her over a $1K a day. Winchesters basically stole the New Haven Arms Company and put their name on it.
Edit…”Henry might still be an OLD American Company.”
Her house is just down the road from me. It is huge … but was huger before the 1906 earthquake.
https://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/
From 1886 to 1922 construction seemingly never ceased as the original eight-room farmhouse grew into the world’s most unusual and sprawling mansion, featuring:
24,000 square feet
10,000 windows
2,000 doors
160 rooms
52 skylights
47 stairways and fireplaces
17 chimneys
13 bathrooms
6 kitchens
Built at a price tag of the $5 million dollars in 1923 or $71 million today
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Much, much more on wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House
Hunter seeking a deer, instead bags an alligator
In Minnesota.
Yup, its 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/minnesota-hunter-shooots-alligator-deer-2020