What is that?
Interesting guns the police have taken off the street in Nassau county.
15 Responses to “What is that?”
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June 22nd, 2011 at 9:27 am
aren’t those…. flare guns?
June 22nd, 2011 at 9:30 am
yeah tango, thats exactly what they are. the little one is a 12.5mm and the big one is a 37mm.
Of note in the article: Police performed a “DNA Sweep.” WTF is that?
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:18 am
Wow. Two flare guns (and the brass thingy is a tear-gas-launching “Pengun“.)
IOW, of all the objects shown, half of them aren’t even guns.
Good work, Officers!
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:20 am
The big one would count as a grenade launcher, I guess, if there were any grenades with it. Otherwise, yeah, it’s just a flare gun.
The stainless smith revolver, sans grips… what’s with that hole in the frame?
Two pistols were shown later, one looked like a .22.
I’m guessing the brass tube thingie is a home-made zip gun.
So, one centerfire pistol, one gripless revolver that might be a parts gun, a .22, a zip gun, and some flare projectors. A veritable arsenal of destruction! I have more firepower than that by my bed.
June 22nd, 2011 at 10:34 am
Did any of them have the shoulder thing that goes up? That’s where it gets really dangerous.
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:06 am
37mm flare projectors are not regulated as firearms.
(Interestingly, neither are flamethrowers…)
June 22nd, 2011 at 11:48 am
District Attorney Kathleen Rice is a maliciously anti-gun prosecutor. She’s so rabidly anti-gun that it’s no surprise that she’s conflating flare launchers with firearms and grenade launchers to pad her resume. I pity the kid in Nassau County who walks down the street “armed” with a yellow and orange Super Soaker. Combine that with her propensity for DNA grabbing and she’s a vicious, one-woman, police state.
June 22nd, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Yeah, but look at the money they made selling those “Dangerous” Flare Guns to the Police. Wonder if they can convince that DumbAss D.A. that the Brooklyn Bridge is really a Rail Gun, ready to launch Freight cars into her Office? And I wonder how much of the Taxpayers Money she’d be willing to spend to “get it off the Streets?”
June 22nd, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Aren’t surplus flare guns usually pretty cheap — like less than $50? I see the potential for arbitrage when the police set up “gun buy-backs” for $100 or more….
June 22nd, 2011 at 5:29 pm
@Blobber:
Brilliant!
June 22nd, 2011 at 5:56 pm
It looks like a modified m79 grenade launcher
June 22nd, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Mike: Even better, the “zip gun” is really a tear-gas pen.
If it’s not capable of firing projectiles, it’s not even a firearm under Federal law.
(If it is, as some of them are, it’s an AOW, and I think the Feds might be upset about the local cops taking in a Federal felony without asking questions…)
LKP: Naw. M79s don’t have an octagonal barrel. It’s just a very-vaguely-similar break-action.
(Also, I cry at the very idea of an M79 being sent to those savages; if it’s NFA registered it’s worth a fortune – and if it isn’t, there’s a registration amnesty coming up or in discussion in the Senate, I believe…)
June 23rd, 2011 at 12:41 am
Thank God they reduced the chance of drive-by flaring…for the children.
June 23rd, 2011 at 1:17 am
Operation IMPACT is also why they nailed all those gun shops here with… uh, false charges and lost sales for a few days. Remember the stuff about T&T Gunnery?
June 23rd, 2011 at 8:58 am
I always have a couple of grenade launchers with me at all times. My left arm and my right arm. That’s why I’m always “armed” with grenade launchers. I just never have any grenades to go with them. Those things are dangerous, because here’s no such thing as “muzzle control”, either with a grenade or with Kathleen Rice. However, between them, I would say that it’s Kathleen Rice’s lack of “muzzle control” that’s more of a threat to our freedom. She needs to relocate from New York to America.