I like that nickel Colt Python, which doesn’t appear to have the orange tip on the muzzle.

Maybe the perp actually removed the orange tip, which has to be the same class felony of removing the label on a mattress.

Tho, tho, thscawy.

My guess is he is OK with the lying because it helps to defeat gun rights, but you never can tell. He might actually have a piece of a journalistic ethic still rattling around somewhere.

The guy’s 29 years old and lives with his family, and is stupid enough to get a domestic assault charge placed against him. I find it hard to defend him, but I find it harder to believe he has 4000 USD worth of functional firearms and real swords spread across his bed.

Most of those swords and knives were peices of junk you can get from any catalog.

Now the fun comes as to where they trace all those guns to assuming they were real and not AS.

Clarification Of Video Report: Silencers are illegal nation-wide, without a permit. Sixteen states ban them altogether.

Other that that though, the new article was [sarcasm] fair, balanced, and totally unbiased. [/sarcasm]

Anyone know the legality of those deadly assault airsoft silencers? Packing.org seems to be down.

This article includes a very small photo. The NYC police are all lined up like they killed a lion or caught a shark or something. Breathless quote:

Deputy Inspector Matthew Whelan, 109th Commanding Officer, said “When they [the officers] stepped inside the doorway, they found approximately 14 handguns laid out in plain view on the defendant’s bed.”

After a further search, cops found a sizeable arsenal, including a total of 46 handguns, 12 rifles, a shotgun, 7 silencers, a large amount of various sized firearm cartridges, a compound bow and arrows, swords, daggers and other bladed weapons.

Several of the rifles were of military style and police say that two were capable of fully automatic fire.

(emphasis mine)

Second article seems to have a photo, but I’ll just bet it’s a stock photo. There is a video, but it’s real audio or some crap and I haven’t figured out how to watch them on w/ linux yet. Can anyone report?

“Most bloggers wouldn’t last an hour under the journalistic quality control that a newspaper demands.” -Liz Garrigan

Are the press and the police really going to leave that fact out of the story?

Of COURSE they are! If the general public can’t tell the difference, why would the media want to inform them? To paraphrase the VPC, “imitation weapons” are a new problem – anything that looks like a machine gun is perceived to be a machine gun.