Adam Powell; failed assassin
In Vallejo, California, 41-year-old Adam Powell dramatically appeared in the door of a Starbucks, wearing body armor and armed with some sort of scary black rifle.
He attempted to murder two police officers in the coffee shop, but his broke-dick gun wouldn’t fire;
The officers were not injured because the battered weapon, its butt covered with duct tape or foil, appeared to jam. Powell of Suisan City was in critical condition after being shot by the officers during a foot chase.
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Authorities said Powell had served prison time for robbery and drug-related offenses and was barred from possessing guns.
Bidou said Powell is the father of a 2-year-old boy who may have accidentally shot himself earlier Sunday in Suisun City, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. The child was taken to a hospital for a gunshot wound.
Police said preliminary information indicates the wound was accidental and self-inflicted. Powell was present when the child was shot and left the home before officers arrived, police said.
Apparently, while he was running away from the scene and with police in pusuit, Powell was trying to pull immediate action on his rifle so the officers shot him three times before he could clear the malfunction. I’ve always said that we should issue those 100-round drums to the criminals, because they all jam.
It’s hard to buy a legal gun in California, but a felon like Powell had no problem getting a gun – or a reasonable facsimile – and a scary black gun and a 100-round round magazine both of which are generally illegal in California. If he had the gun that his child had used the day before, there would have been a very different outcome. The fact remains that a felon had at least one gun…in California…where law abiding citizens can’t own a gun. But, yeah, let’s write some more laws to limit legal owners’ possession of firearms.
Category: Guns
The low capacity caused the evil rifle to jam and he didn’t have time to use the grenade launcher. California gun laws do work. Tomorrow the unicorns will reappear riding rainbows.
why is he still wasting good oxygen??
I think the low capacity is probably his IQ. There is no grenade launcher. That is the barrel shroud on a 11.5 inch illegal barrel, making the gun a short barreled rifle which must be permitted and registered with the ATF, not that criminals and felons care about gun laws.
Paramedics on the scene treated the police officers for extreme shortness of breath when they could not stop laughing at the sight of that broke-dick “weapon”.
Another pack of Bubblicious(gotta be the pink kind)and he would have killed everyone. Plus everyone knows OD green duct tape works better that the grey. Amateur.
It looks like an attempted AR pistol. I hope he is out in time to vote.
Democrats are counting on his 17 fraudulent votes this year…
everybody knows the buffer is highly overrated as a functional part of the weapon. And those drum magazines always work and allow you to kill hundreds of the po-po with a single trigger pull…just ask Gavin Newsome.
From the attached article:
“The officers “were ambushed by somebody who has superior firepower,” Bidou said.
That comment, in itself, is almost as funny as the felon’s version of “superior firepower.”
“Superior firepower?” He pulled the trigger and *nothing* happened!
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means…
Words fail me. Da stoopied shows up and I haven’t even had breakfast. I’m stumped AS TO what to do, other than make a fresh pot of tea.
What kind of tea? I prefer green jasmine.
Hot, strong and deep dark chestnut brown in color, opaque enough to need Xray vision to see through it. I can’t stand weak stuff.
WTF is that thing?
Just how “superior” could it have been if it failed to function?
If Gavin Newsom had a gay lover…
I think the towel-heads have better shooting iron than that piece of junk.
Note to journalists:
It ain’t “superior” if it don’t work.
It ain’t legal in the californicated state, but a felon managed to get it.
I’m wondering what kind of “body armor” he was wearing – a weight-vest? A wannabe vest from one of those places that sell cool-looking trash to teenage boys?
Another “pillar of the community”, with a severe case of the stoopid, in action. Guess he must be missing some of that “home-style cooking” offered at the local poundhimintheass prison by BTJT Deli (home of the Cockmeat Sammich).
Also, no protest or outcry from the local BLM community organizers?
Cocksucker.
It was his superior brainpower in taping his weapon together that made the difference here. Nothing says MENSA candidate like using duct tape to effect repairs to a firearm.
The police and sheriffs have sold out to Jerry Brown and his libtards out here. They were all for getting the money from the state to release state prisoners to probation instead of parole. Now that the poor misunderstood victims of society are targeting cops for murder, they still will not give law abiding citizens CCW licenses. Even though the cops are “outgunned”. Cops in California are reaping what they sowed.
“In theory, this ought to work. I have done exhaustive calculations and, yes, this should work. And, now, for my body armor. All set!”
“Damn! Shit! [Gotta run, now!]”
BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!
THUD.
See, this is why I have gone exclusively to Gorilla Tape. Its superior in its strength and durability. If you decide you really don’t need that buffer assembly of the fly, let the Gorilla handle it.
Plus its versatile and nothing performs better when you find yourself in those pesky hostage taking situations.
Accept no other tape…its a jungle out there.
Southern Engineering 101 teaches “If it ain’t s’posed to move, and moves – duct tape. If don’t move, and is s’posed to – WD40.”
But in the South (not south Californicate) we also teach the proper use of duct tape, 100mph tape, what have you.
That abomination is not the proper use of duct tape.
Gorilla tape does NOT come in hot pink with kittens printed on it.
Does that even count as duct tape?
I guess if the same company sells it – but I think that stuff it targeted to teachers. I received something like that in my teacher-goodie-bag and it was worthless for anything but decorating a poster.
Gave it to my teacher daughter-in-law. I’m not sure she wanted it either, though…
BLM. So says illary.
Well that was a lucky outcome, it could very easily have gone the other way had numbnuts had a functional firearm…
Ah Drum Magazines! The cool accessory that never works! Is that thing even real? I guess it would have been too tough to, I don’t know, test fire it? Guess this was beyond the professors ability.
about the very best outcome for this. I’m so glad he failed and failed magnificently. My cousin is CHP and I worry about her when I hear stories like this.
He’ll probably get off on a technicality. That concoction of mismatched parts and tape probably couldn’t even be called a gun. And it would only be a weapon if he swung it like a bat. He didn’t, so no crime, right?
/SARC/?
Pity he didn’t end up DRT, now he’ll enjoy free meals, clothing, lodging and medical care at CA taxpayers’ expense. Now JUST how many existing gun laws did he violate, not to mention trying to kill LEO’s?
On the brighter side, maybe he will get ass-raped and forced to suck prison cock for the next 30 years.
According to the report, he was in “critical condition”, so there is still a chance he becomes DOT.
This guy did end up dead. http://woodtv.com/2016/10/18/officer-involved-shooting-in-benton-harbor/
Of course, the family and friends are saying he dindu nuffin. And, they can’t imagine him firing at the police.
If Obama had a son…