Friday FGS
Off-duty NYPD officer shoots attempted carjacker, police say
Suspect ‘knocked on his window with a firearm,’ police say
By Stephanie Pagones
An off-duty New York City police officer shot an armed man who opened fire on him during a suspected attempted carjacking early Wednesday morning in Brooklyn, officials said.The officer, whose name and other information were not released, was on his way home in his car at the corner of East 87th Street and Foster Avenue in the Canarsie section of the borough around 2 a.m. when the 28-year-old suspect approached the vehicle and “knocked on his window with a firearm,” Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said during a news conference.
The officer then pulled his car over and got out of the vehicle, at which point the gunman fired off one round, “barely missing” the cop, Harrison said. The officer fired back, striking the suspect in the chest.
Video of the alleged attack was shared on Twitter by local station News12 and shows the car come to a stop before a struggle ensues.
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Read the rest here: Fox News
Link kindly forwarded to us by our own Gun Bunny.
Sheriff: Accused burglar shot by resident in Weslaco, killed
One man is dead and another on the lam after they allegedly attempted to burglarize a Weslaco residence and were met by an armed resident, the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s office reported Monday evening.
According to a release, the sheriff’s office responded to a location north of Mile 9 North Road on Mile 6 ½ West Road in rural Weslaco just before 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon in regards to a burglary of habitation with intent to commit a felony.
“Upon arrival, Sheriff’s Deputies met with the victim who stated two armed men wearing black masks entered his residence without permission,” the release reads. “The victim discharged his firearm and believed he’d struck one of the suspects. Both suspects quickly fled the location in a red passenger car.”
Not long after, the Weslaco Police Department found the wounded suspect and his vehicle at Knapp Medical Center, the release says.
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Read the rest here: The Monitor
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” — Edward R. Murrow
Category: Feel Good Stories, Guest Link
That one will in a boating accident, and it needs a “solvent trap”.
float.
fat fingered scroll…no report. Will self punish with cheap seegar and rot gut whiskey.
Cossack vodka like Nancy Pelosi.
Looks like the ones they sold in the Sears Catalog.
Usedta. AR7s have been around half a century or more, and are dandy little guns. And in the most successful cartridge chambering, .22 Long Rifle.
But as someone asked in the linkie, what would it take to add/convert to 22WMR?
Biggest problem will be that the .22WMR is longer than the magazine has space for, so besides rechambering you would probably need a magazine redesign, lower receiver redesign to accommodate the magazine, revised springs, and possibly feed ramp changes. Semi-auto .22 mags are prone to feeding issues, and very few have a spotless reputation. The cartridge itself is a great minute-of-rabbit round, but in general is not considered accurate by either centerfire or rimfire standards.
Nothing like the Sears Catalog back yonder. Buy anything from garter belts and stockings to a house. Some of their ads showing the whole family opening up their Christmas gunz gifts would make lib heads go POP today. And ain’t nothing like having a hide-away rifle that would fly OR float.
The off duty cop shooting will give the burn loot murder crowd the excuse to do a little early “Black” Friday Christmas shopping.
“…north of Mile 9 North Road on Mile 6 1/2 West Road…” Welp, that whole operation went South in a hurry for them.
Still a trifecta of sorts for our Wilted Willy, a total of 3 dirt bags whose criminal career has been curtailed, at least one forever.
The Colt .25 pocket pistol my late friends daughter went for five bucks in the 1910 reprint Sears & Robuck catalogue.
The Colt Pocket pistol was given to me by my late friends daughter. Disregard the top except for the 1910 catalogue I mentioned.
Sears used to sell them for like $60-70, IIRC.
The Henry version goes for $300-400. Not as bad as, say, a Browning .22, but certainly more than a Ruger 10-22.