I have my doubts
It’s being reported about the Houston shooter:
Police said DeSai used a .45-caliber handgun during the assault and they later found 2,600 rounds of ammunition and a Thompson submachine gun in his car, a black convertible Porsche parked near where he was killed.
DeSai lived in a condominium complex near the scene of the shooting at Weslayan and Law streets.
A search of his home turned up additional weapons and several pieces of military regalia and other items going back to the Civil War. The .45-caliber handgun was bought in 2011. The Thompson submachine gun was purchased in 2009.
I’m a bit skeptical. I would think if you were going to shoot at people seemingly arbitrarily that the Thompson would be better suited to that than a 45 caliber handgun.
September 27th, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Bet ya a hundred bucks it was a semi auto only Thompson, and therefore NOT a submachine gun but a 45 ACP carbine with a 16″ barrel. And they’re heavy bastards, something like ten frickin’ pounds dry, and so the handgun may be the more “effective” weapon after all.
Or did the guy drop twenty grand or more on a pre ’86 registered, for real Thompson in 2009? Is that what the retard-media are reporting?
September 27th, 2016 at 6:46 pm
What; his name isn’t HakkaLakka Muhamed Jihad DirkaDirka?
September 28th, 2016 at 9:57 am
Well, you know, I’ve read gun grabbers who have complained that handguns are too easily concealed, and can be walked past security people without anyone knowing they are hidden in a pocket, and that therefore handguns should be outlawed. This may be an actual example of that happening.
Then again, I’ve read gun grabbers who have complained that semiauto rifles like a Thompson carbine with high capacity magazines are nothing but weapons of mass murder, allowing shooters to spray death all over the place faster than anyone should be allowed to do so, and that therefore semiauto rifles and large capacity magazines should be outlawed.
Perhaps the shooter was trying to be politically correct in only using the handgun instead of the WMD Thompson. Then again, perhaps he knew the carbine jammed a lot when fired rapidly.
Had he used a five gallon can of gasoline and a match to burn a whole building full of people to death, I’d expect gun grabbers to agree that gasoline sales should be more regulated, because of this incident.
September 28th, 2016 at 11:23 am
The Houston P.D. spokesman was very careful to clearly describe the Thompson as a Semi-Auto, while giving the on teevee briefings. I mean “careful”, as in he slowed the pace of his speaking, and said it was a SEMI-automatic carbine. He did though, say that it was most well known as the “Tommy Gun”.
At no time, did the Houston P.D. refer to it as a “submachine gun”.
The above is a prime example of media ignorance, OR fabrication, misdirection and propagandizing.
I’d put odds on the latter part of the preceding sentence.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX