Goodwill grenade launcher donation
From Manatee County, Florida comes the story of Goodwill workers who found a grenade launcher in their donation bins. They called the local sheriff who took it away. The LEOs locked up the “live grenade” in their HazMat locker. The grenade doesn’t look like any I’d ever seen, after spending years as a grenadier in infantry units.
As you can imagine, it was big news this morning in social media.
But if you wait awhile, the truth will eventually come out;
The device is a toy Airsoft replica of the military’s M203 grenade launcher.
It was made by ICS Airsoft in Taiwan.
The toy grenade found in the Airsoft launcher shoots multiple pellets.
Airsoft toys are designed to shoot plastic pellets at a relatively low, harmless velocity.
Many Airsoft enthusiasts form teams and play war games, during which they shoot at each other with the replica firearms.
Whew. Another lethal toy is off the streets.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Aaaannnd – Chicken Little gets the crap scared out of him again by a toy.
These people…
Hillary Clinton’s Chocolate Starfish Extension & Dilation Device.
That must keep Huma very busy…
With Wiener in the corner watching. He gives off that cuck vibe.
Now that weiner is having to take care of other weiners in prison, Huma has a lot more time to keep busy with Hillary. Especially since she’s not president (thank God, Buddha, Allah, Kelly Clarkson, etc.)
I’m glad I ate before reading this but later that image will have to be ‘Scotched’ out.
Thanks for that…
It keeps her from developing the Old Pink Sock.
Well, there went that keyboard.
It’s bad enough it’s a toy that causes the ruckus, but it’s worse that it’s only half a toy.
Ah, that silver and gold thingy is the lower half of a plastic Star Warz Light Saber.
Just sayin’.
Well, I for one am glad to see another light saber off the streets.
How many kids have to die in gang-related light saber duels before the American people finally get sick of it and stand up to the National Light Saber Association (NLSA) and it’s paid-for politicians?
How many kids have to get rushed to the emergency room because they were playing with Daddy’s light saber (that he keeps by the bed in case Darth Burglar breaks in) and it “went off” by accident and now little jimmy has a new hole in his head?
How many barroom assaults will we have to see where someone gets into an argument over some crappy horn band and before you know it, some drunk jedi has carved off somebody’s arm?
Let’s face it, nobody needs a light saber but the police and the military.
Ban ’em all, I say!
If light sabers are banned, only criminals will have light sabers.
Your right and I have seen the light and saber the moment they are banned.
You’ll have to pry my light saber from my cold dead hands!
OK, its really more like a light pocket knife, but still…
I’m selling 80% LiteSabres for $169.
No FFL required.
Comes with approval letter from The Imperial Senate.
The kit includes:
> 80% SureFire aluminum Flashlight tube
> 35 2″ carbon drill bits
> Lens assembly
> 1,000,000,000,000 Lumens LED
The horror! Pearls clutched!
Ya think the plastic barrel mitta been a clue..
Someone missed out on a $100 Visa Card during a “gun buyback”
Maybe some liberal moonbat Goodwill Employee or Manager just wanted to have a “HEY, look at me!!” moment, thus he/she/it didn’t bother to check and see if it was a toy?
Some mother in Manatee County got good and mad at her teen-age sonny for continuously playing with his toys and not doing his house chores and threw his airsoft “grenade launcher” into the donation bin, thereby provoking a massive media meltdown, as usual…
Cry “Wolf!” often enough, Mr. Media Nitwit, and no one will listen to you….
And guess what’s outside your door. That’s right, Sport. A jungle awaits thee.
And the Sheriff’s couldn’t recognize it as a toy? C’mon man….
Can somebody ‘splain to those of us on the short bus how the fake grenade actually works. According to the news story it fires multiple harmless pellets. What I’m having trouble wrapping my head around is what acts as a propellant. Does it pick up an air supply from the other main air-soft weapon?
I’d also disagree with those ragging on the reporter for pearl clutching. Lee Williams is the gun writer at the Herald-Tribune and apparently does a shooting podcast with retired Special Forces vet Arden Tams. I realize it might be mind boggling to some that a newspaper reporter might actually know something about firearms, but there you go.
If anybody was freaking out in this incident, it was Lekesha Dunbar who manages the Goodwill, and was the one who called the Sheriff. The deputy who showed up might have been just following standard procedure.
They have a small CO2 charge in them, and when you trip the trigger, the cartridge pops, and out go the pellets.
Thanks
I haven’t told this story in years so here goes. I’m at Jackson and it’s M79 firing day. Everyone gets to fire one round at a cluster of 50 gal drum targets. My turn comes up and I lay that puppy smack dab in the middle of the cluster and blow the shit out of the barrels. Drill SGT runs over, “Who was that?” and bets my Drill SGT that I couldn’t do it again. 17 and I’m scared to death becuse I “felt” the target rather than truly sight it and I knew damn well what was going to happen. And it did.
So this is at ROTC Advanced Camp back in sheeesh I think Summer of 83. After we prior enlisted types kind of got over being BACK in some form of basic training and got our crap in a stack, the company goes out to the rife range at Ft Lewis, and then onto the M203 Range.
Being the tanker that I am, I am fascinated by the little cannon thing hanging off the front end of the M16.
It was actually pretty fun to fire. We were only firing the training grenades that had the orange powder in them. Our platoon of cadets makes it through with no major embarrassment.
The next platoon comes up and as time goes on, one enterprising young man decides he is NOT GOING TO MISS firing the training grenade into the window frame target downrange. SUperCadet places the barrel of his M16 on the edge of the barricade we were behind on the firing line and pulls the M203 trigger. Im thinking as I sit in the bleachers…where did all that orange come from…who is that orange dude? My buddy pipes up with HEY EVERYONE ITS AGENT ORANGE.
I love the Army.
Dinotanker. We need to do a TAH phuk-up thread.
2/17 that would be awesome, but a lot of my phuk-up tales usually highlight what I would call personal learning moments. LOL!
Kind of like the time I buckled (this was back when the buckle was metal and not the monster plastic thing of later years) my web gear to the bustle rack of the tank and wondered where my shtuff went about 10 km later… Fortunately that was while I was PFC and a 2LT. Can ya imagine?
Nice. Personal learning moments. Yes, I like that. I had a few of those, including learning that one should obey the prohibition about smoking or carrying matches around JP4. I used to disregard that–until I was at the Campbell bowling alley drinking beer, reached into my Nomex pants pocket and sploded the pocket when I inadvertently pushed a match that was in a booklet across the striker. Whoa! Learned me but quick. Sometimes, Army signs and rules make sense.
Anyone can play, by the way. What the hell. If you can’t laugh about this shit, you’re at the wrong blog.
Oh, yeah.
Or sending an obnoxious boot looking for Cable Stretching Oil the day before a Command Inspection, I got my ass smoked raw for that, but it at least got him out of my way so I could work!
I was trying to correct this last evening, but for some reason it wasn’t taking.
I lost the web gear as described above back when I was a PFC in Troop 3, 303rd Cavalry, WA ARNG, in 79.
One of my MANY 2LT FUBARS was landing ass first on a cactus. OH YEAH fun was had by all especially the PSG who pulled cactus quills out of areas of my anatomy I had no idea existed. This was when I was newly commissioned and assigned to Troop G, 2nd Squadron, 163rh ACR of the MT ARNG.
Got beaten with a clearing rod once at BCT. We were supposed to be firing in three-round bursts. All I knew was I was on full auto and let her rip. Ouch. That rod hurt.
And while I’m proving what I phuk-up I was, I was forced to dry shave in Basic, too. Bled like a pig.
Its a kick thinking of all the times I stepped on my crank, and by the grace of God, had my stuff in one sock when I needed to take of the soldiers entrusted to me.
I just realized that I have managed to make typographical errors in damn near all of my posts…LMAO! Sheeeesh.
It was Troop E not Troop 3.
The one phuk up I managed to avoid during my time as a company grade ossifer was NOT listening to my PSG or 1SG or the CSM.
My THANKS to the many NCO’s who took the time to educate this dilettante soldier.
It only works once. Of course as the old saying goes, “air today, gone 2 moro”.
OT, I came across a TM on the M-203 while cleaning out a connex while at Ft Riley. While skimming through it I saw,included in it’s (the M-203) ammo capability was the “multi purpose” round. Later found out it’s basically a 40mm buckshot round….yikes.
We had those in the Viet of the Nam for our M-79’s and the XM-203’s. It was what the M-79 gunners carried in the chamber when we in in the thick double canopy jungle. You don’t want to shoot the HE round where it is likely hit something after it travels 16 meters (the arming range of the round) and hits something with in 25 meters (the bursting radius). LT Lurch Kerry learned the hard way what happens when that happens–shrapnel wounds to you and the guys around you.
I seem to vaguely recall something about a 40mm flechette round being available. You ever hear anything about that?
We had the flechette 40mm rounds as well. They also issued 12 gauge shotgun shells loaded with very small flechettes. The RTO for my arty forward observer carried an army issue shotgun and he had a box of those. Since it was late in the war we had all of the newest ordnance.
Thanks for answering. Good to know the old memory isn’t totally shot … yet.
I always liked the M-79, and thought it was interesting how you could follow the flight of the HE round when you fired it. Almost like throwing a baseball.
Never saw a 40mm flechette, only what I was told were 105mm “Beehive,” but I did see rounds for both 40mm 00 Buck and CS tear gas. There is also apparently an illumination round produced now that is specific to the M-203. If memory serves, all we had that was that portable back in the day were those parachute flares that came in an aluminum tube. Pop the cap off, slip it over the base, and bang the base on a solid surface to launch.
I remember beehive rounds … seem to recall reading an account of a firebase in danger of being overun. Charlie was in the wire, so the redlegs cranked the barrels of the howitzers down and let ’em have it with beehive rounds. Probably part of their FPF.
Wouldn’t wanna be on the receiving of that!
Yeah, the 40mm HE (M406) round had a muzzle velocity of 75 meters per second.
Not exactly the Speedy Gonzales or Road Runner of rounds./smile
We had illumination rounds for the M-79. But I really liked the parachute flares in the tubes.
Go thru a couple dozen a night on guard duty.
When I was in the NYANG 1975-1977, we were up in Camp Drum during the summer and the last day had the Officers checking every ones duffel/suitcases and found belts of M 60 ammo plus an assortment of red/green flares. Just confiscated with a warning. One of my former shipmates from A Gang (Div.) was assigned to check out the Marine Officers berthing spaces and used to find Hand Grenades and other ordinance inside the HVAC duct work access panels. This was when the OKIE 3 was over in Viet-Nam.
But…but…but…what about the children?
They are safe now that weapons of war have been surrendered.
They have to learn how to play with those toys somehow, Sparks.
Bet the owner bought it using the “mail order” loophole and avoided the background check. Horrors! What about the children?
Hmmmm……I thought this happened in the P.R.Kalifornia.
Just another Florida thing.
The bedwetters would really freak out if they knew you could buy 37mm grenade launchers (bloop-gun and M-203 versions) in the civilian market. It’s just the thing to buy for your husband for Valentine’s Day! Every man likes to accessorize his Bushmaster/AR!
For the guns. . .
http://www.americanspecialtyammo.com/37mm-launchers.html
And the ammo. . .
http://www.americanspecialtyammo.com/37_mm.html
It really comes down to this: Ladies, do you really love your man? Then he really needs this.
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