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Seattle police investigate trio of unrelated shootings
By Caitlyn Freeman
Seattle police officers investigated a trio of separate shootings that occurred between early Friday and early Saturday, police officials said. One involved a business owner allegedly shooting a burglar in self-defense; a second altercation involved a chain saw.Police began investigating one incident around 2:05 a.m. Friday, responding to a reported burglary at a commercial building in the 4200 block of Rainier Avenue South. A 42-year-old man was shot after he broke into the business and was confronted by the armed 71-year-old owner, who allegedly shot the intruder in self-defense, the Seattle Police Department said in a blog post.
The man was shot in the hand and was found by police a few blocks away from the business. He was taken to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition and was placed under arrest for investigation of burglary.
The business owner told detectives that the alleged burglar was armed with a blade. The gun used in the shooting was seized for evidence, as were the shears that the police believe were wielded by the 42-year-old suspect.
Another shooting occurred early Friday in North Seattle, SPD said in a separate blog post. It happened about a half-hour before the attempted burglary.
Police responded to North 90th Street and Aurora Avenue North around 12:51 a.m. Friday after reports of a shooting and a woman screaming. They found a man, 24, with a gunshot wound to the leg near Nesbit Avenue North. He was taken to Harborview in serious condition.
The 24-year-old and another man were reportedly threatening people with a chain saw before the shooting, police say. The events of the shooting are under investigation. At the scene, police found “multiple shell casings, suspected narcotics and the chainsaw.”
Finally, at 3:40 a.m. Saturday, SPD posted on the social platform X about a shooting in the 900 block of 10th Avenue East. Two victims were allegedly injured by gunfire, and police advised the public to avoid the area.
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Seattle Times
Good advice better- avoid Seattle entirely.
Ga. man holds escaped inmate at gunpoint until deputies arrive to arrest him
TOWNS COUNTY, Ga. — An inmate who escaped during his work detail earlier this week is back in custody thanks to a man protecting his property and family.
Bruce Douglas Partin Jr., 39, walked away from his work detail in Towns County on Monday afternoon. He’d been working at the county dump.
On Thursday afternoon, someone called 911 saying they had spotted Partin in his orange jail uniform.
A few hours later, Steven Kirby, who lives in the same area as the 911 caller, when his Labradoodle named Odie began barking at someone outside the house.
Kirby got a gun and went outside where he saw Partin and ordered him to the ground.
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Who’s a good boy? Sis-in-Law has a pooch like Odie- he’s large, smart and friendly. And very protective of Sis-in-Law. Thanks, Gun Bunny.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Wow! Looks like a two-fer for entries for the 3″ three ring loose leaf binder encyclopedia coffee table edition of T2NB2AGF. After the severe drought of new idiocy lately, this is a plethora of idiocy.
First off, “armed with a blade”. Meh. You’re thinking, “a knife, BTDT, no big deal”. Until you read further, “seized as evidence, as were the shears….”. Shears? Different story. Worthy of entry into The Books.
Then we get to our second candidate, a chainsaw. Really. A chainsaw. Whoever thought that was a good idea must have been under the influence of the drugs found at the scene.
All in all, it’s been a busy weekend for Seattle’s Finest. They definitely earned their pay.
He will face additional charges, as the chainsaw was not electric.
The SKS. What’s not to love about it? Simple to use, easy to field strip for occasional cleaning. A worthy truck gun, an urban battle rifle.
Not sure I’d want to out-range anything 308, or even 5.56. But for block-to-block city fighting, just right.
True, in a sense the SKS was the much more successful combloc equivalent of the M14. While it predated the US rifle by about 10 years, both rifles mark the last time traditional full-length wood stocks were used by their respective nations, used “intermediate” cartridges (7.62×39 being a true intermediate, while 7.62×51 is basically just a shortened .30-06 [7.62×63]). Both were also based on earlier semi-auto rifles (AVS-36 and of course the M1 Garand).
In its original form, the SKS is a perfectly capable multi-purpose rifle. Keep some stripper clips handy and the 10-round fixed magazine isn’t much of a hindrance. More modern versions, or adding aftermarket parts, can turn the SKS into a budget AK of sorts.
I’ve owned a few. My very first SKS was “bubba-ized” in a manner only the ’90s Assault Weapon Ban (AWB) could produce. It wasn’t too bad, but it had been converted to take a detachable Zytel magazine. The only mag I had for it had a cracked baseplate and would dump rounds if I wasn’t careful. Not the biggest of deals, since I got my MAK-90 and some 75-round drums a few months later. My first Paratrooper SKS was bartered away at an appliance and gun store in Hopkinsville, KY for $40 and a few M9 magazines. I was a broke E-2, SKS’ could still be had for $100, and the AWB had full capacity magazines selling for $40+, so I felt okay with my $160 or so in compensation. To say I regretted it since is an understatement. I got another full-length SKS from a now-deceased friend in a trade, sold that one, and then bought a Yugo M59/66 which I still own. I lucked out last year and paid $600 for a new-in-box Norinco SKS Sporter, basically a Paratrooper length version that was factory produced to take AK mags, and which was only imported for a year or two before the ban on Chinese firearms.
I’ve seen something odd on a ChiComm bloc SKS (that a friend owns).
A wedge of iron riveted to the left side of the receiver. Looks like it might be a mount for a scope, but I’ve never seen anything like it, or anything for it.
I’ll have to find my friend, take a pic (or several) and send it to a’y’all for educated opinion and education (mine, that is).
Odds are that it is a scope mount. The SKS borrowed the basic design from the AK and other Soviet/Chinese rifles. I found this site earlier, and saved it in a tab to dig through later: KENGS (weebly.com)
The SKS is a fun rifle to collect, because it’s the last and most modern of the cheap mil-surps to come into the country. Of course, a lot of the Chinese ones were produced for the civilian market, but the Yugoslavian M59 variants were imported relatively recently, and the Type 56 was probably one of the last rifles to be commonly brought home as war trophies.
During the summer of 2003, we trained Iraqi Border Police north of Tal Afar, who’d been issued arsenal new Tula SKS carbines with 1955 dates. One of those would have been nice to get back, but unfortunately, my time in the military was long after the days when Soldiers could simply get an officer’s signature and bring back rifles and pistols. We had a SSG get caught trying to smuggle AK bayonets home in a microwave. He didn’t get busted, but he lost his squad and took over as the battalion Retention NCO. After we got back, CID was roving around trying to find out who’d brought back a Lee-Enfield MkI (pre-WWI-era MkIII, probably dated to the late 1890s) that was found disassembled behind the panels of an LMTV. It had likely been put there in Afghanistan in 2002, went to Iraq in ’03, and was only found in mid-’04. 100-year-old-plus non-functioning rifle or not, CID wanted to hold someone accountable.
Went to the linkie for a quickie lookie.
Good possibility that’s what the “wedge” on my friend’s SKS receiver is for. It would have been nice if there had been a pic or two of the KENGS SKS receiver without the scope mount.
Is there a “registry” that correlates s/n to date of manufacture? I’m sure that the one my friend has is a ChiComm AWB era, but it would be nice to know….if possible.
There’s this at the same site: Dating The Chinese SKS (weebly.com)
I saw the chain of sheer stupidity of the Seattle perps right quickly. Just as our Beloved AW1Ed saw the chain of sheer stupidity that was the Boeing Test Engineers and saw a way to break the chain that held him there.
Who’s a Good Boy! If you wanna love me, then you’d best be prepared to love my dog. Brucie Boi is lucky that Odie didn’t rip his lungs out thru his nose and Mountain Man Citizen throw his worthless azz in a hollar.
Ike gave us several warnings that were a prophesy…and here we are.
The worst thing about a Chyneseum Norinco SKS is they don’t float. Damn a leaky boat. *sigh*
Tsk. Darn those rifles that don’t float.
Between Seattle and the prison I was teaching in this morning, I would rather be in the prison (able to go home at the end of the day).
The Far Leftist Coast is just getting worse.
In my AO, were I to find an escapee on the GB Compound said individual would quickly become an example to those still inside of the wisdom of staying put. Some post-mortem evaluation of bullet effectiveness might also occur.