Geeks + Guns Keep up on the newest, geekiest weaponry in the planetary arsenals!
Promote peace through superior firepower!
Have we mentioned that this isn't your fathers' 2nd Amendment Website?
Something Completely Different
|
 The Boston Marathon bombings committed by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stunned an America that had largely dodged effective terrorist attacks since 2001. Days after the bombing, story photos of the suspects were released to the public by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and their release kicked off an unsettling and dangerous secondary chain of events as the suspects attempted to escape the city.
These events started with the ambush murder of MIT campus police officer Sean Collier. CBS News speculates that the Tsarnaev brothers targeted Collier because they intended to murder him for his weapons[1]:
The original question is they walked up to that car and appeared they shot the officer in the head unprovoked, that it was an assassination. But why? How did that fit into their plan? The operating theory now in the investigation is they were short one gun. The older brother had a gun. They wanted to get a gun for the younger brother and the fastest and most efficient way they could think of doing it was a surprise attack on a cop, to take his weapon and go. Officer Collier had a locking holster, it’s like a three-way lock. If you don’t know how to remove the gun, you’re not going to get it out. There was apparently an attempt to yank it and they couldn’t get it and left.
Retention holsters came about because of the significant number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty every year with their own firearms by suspects. The most recent incident[2] occurred on April 5 in Jackson, Mississippi.
Retention holsters are designed in such a way as to prevent a straight draw of a pistol. A locking mechanism (or mechanisms) in the holster grips the trigger guard and secures the weapon until the officer manipulates a device within the holster itself to release the pistol. In theory, the extra manipulation still enables a relatively quick draw for a trained officer, while greatly reducing the chance of a suspect pulling the gun if he does not understand how to release the locking mechanism.-[source]
 An NYU psychology student turned his Manhattan dorm room into an air rifle factory and was arrested on illegal weapons possession raps Monday, law enforcement sources told the Post.
Bernard Goal, 20, was busted after a startled maintenance crew spotted a pair of realistic looking rifles on his bed while he was out and alerted campus security.
Public safety officers swept the Texas native’s room and found four more Airsoft weapons that closely resembled AK-47s and a black Colt carbine rifles, sources said.
Goal allegedly assembled the weapons with parts he bought online and sold them for up to $500 each, sources said.
NYPD cops arrested Goal at 2:30 p.m. Monday and hit him with six misdemeanor violations of a local law that prohibits the possession or sale of air rifles and replica firearms, according to a law enforcement source.
The weapons fire pellets through compressed air and are routinely mistaken for actual firearms. They have a range of about 140 to 300 feet and can cause flesh wounds at a close range, sources said.
“It’s very scary to know there were guns one floor below me. I had no idea,” said one of Goal’s co-workers, who described him as pleasant and a hard worker. “But knowing Bernard I’m not scared.”-[source]
 In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, side effects Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country’s interpretation of the Constitution will “have to change” to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks.
“The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry, ed ” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex world where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”-[source]
 A would-be robber was fatally shot by a 23-year-old Humble man in the back seat of a car with his infant child.
The Humble man and his girlfriend had gone to a parking lot in the 10800 block of South Gessner about 9 p.m. Friday to buy a cell phone from a private individual, police said.
As the man and his baby sat in the back seat of the car, several men approached. One of them, armed with a loaded shotgun, tried to get into the car, Houston police spokesman Kese Smith said.
Because the car’s child safety locks were on, the man couldn’t get out and fearing for him life, he fired a pistol at the intruder, killing him, Smith said.-[source]
Before the call that changed Sergeant Timothy Gramins’ life forever, illness he typically carried 47 rounds of handgun ammunition on his person while on duty.
Today, store he carries 145, stomach “every day, without fail.”
He detailed the gunfight that caused the difference in a gripping presentation at the annual conference of the Assn. of SWAT Personnel-Wisconsin.
At the core of his desperate firefight was a murderous attacker who simply would not go down, even though he was shot 14 times with .45-cal. ammunition — six of those hits in supposedly fatal locations.
The most threatening encounter in Gramins’ nearly two-decade career with the Skokie (Ill.) PD north of Chicago came on a lazy August afternoon prior to his promotion to sergeant, on his first day back from a family vacation. He was about to take a quick break from his patrol circuit to buy a Star Wars game at a shopping center for his son’s eighth birthday.
An alert flashed out that a male black driving a two-door white car had robbed a bank at gunpoint in another suburb 11 miles north and had fled in an unknown direction. Gramins was only six blocks from a major expressway that was the most logical escape route into the city.
Unknown at the time, the suspect, a 37-year-old alleged Gangster Disciple, had vowed that he would kill a police officer if he got stopped.-[source]
A New York state senator is advocating using torture on terrorism suspects, including the Boston Marathon bombing suspect.
On Friday just after Boston authorities captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, state Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican from Patterson, N.Y., in Putnam County tweeted, “Who wouldn’t use torture on this punk to save more lives?”
The tweet drew critical responses.
Over the weekend, Ball issued a statement defending his comment and appeared on Fox News on Monday to stress that torture should be used to thwart terrorism.
“And it comes down to this,” Ball said. “When you talk about terrorism, information matters. And if getting that information, including torture, would save one innocent life — including, that we’ve seen, children — would you use torture? I can tell you I would be first in line.”
Ball, who said he was just speaking his opinion, said he believed it is one shared by most Americans.
The second-term senator said he, like most New Yorkers, would have liked some time alone with Osama bin Laden.
“How many New Yorkers who wouldn’t have appreciated at least 30 minutes in a room alone with Osama bin Laden? I know I would,” Ball said. “It would have been me, Osama bin Laden and a baseball bat.”
Ball said the country needs to be more aggressive in its pursuit of potential terrorists.
“In the United States of America, we have people who believe that we can play patty cake,” he said. “These terrorists play by a different set of rules. … You have to take the fight to them.”-[source]
The Obama administration could have and should have deported Boston immigrant terrorist after he had a criminal conviction in 2009. This terrorist should have never had a chance to complete this terrorist attack because he should have been out of the country years ago after his assault conviction. This is what happens when Obama tries to pick and choose which criminals to deport. I am all for people coming to America to have a better life, salve but they should want to become an American, viagra sale follow our laws, search and not become dependent on the government. Obama wanted to give this guy a second chance because his administration did not see him as a threat even after the guy got a criminal conviction. Still think he is not a threat Obama? There are dead Americans and others with no legs who would beg to differ.-[source]
 Authorities in Flagstaff, a city in Northern Arizona, x-rayed the box and determined it contained an explosive device. A bomb squad was deployed and neutralized it.
Flagstaff Police, the FBI and U.S. Postal inspectors are working the case and authorities there say they already have investigative leads.
This follows a string of attacks on law enforcement that started a little over two months ago.
Kaufman County,Texas saw the assassination of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, who was shot dead in public on January 31. District Attorney Mike McLelland, and his wife, Cynthia McLelland, were shot dead in their home two months after McLelland publicly vowed to track down Hasse’s killer.
An intruder was also recently gunned down in a Colorado prosecutor’s home:
An intruder who forced his way into the mountain home of a Colorado deputy district attorney was shot dead by either the prosecutor or her police officer husband, authorities said on Tuesday.
The shooting, shortly before midnight Monday, comes two weeks after Colorado’s prisons director was slain as he answered the front door to his home, and two days after the district attorney of Kaufman County in Texas was found shot to death with his wife.
And a West Virginia Sheriff who was known for being very tough on drug dealers,was gunned down at a spot where he routinely lunched so he could keep an eye on an area that was once a “pill mill.”
“America’s Sheriff” Joe Arpaio has made many enemies throughout his tenure, earning a reputation for being tough on crime and illegal immigration, and for being one of the current president’s fiercest critics.-[source]
 A Connecticut father is accusing his son’s school district of teaching children that Americans do not have a constitutional right to bear arms. Steven Boibeaux of Bristol, Connecticut, is claiming that his child, an eighth-grader at Northeast Middle School, was given a social studies worksheet that is anti-Second Amendment in nature — or, at the least, opposed to the conservative view of the provision.
In an interview with Fox News’ Todd Starnes, Boibeaux said that he’s “appalled” and that the school seems to be “trying to indoctrinate our kids.” The worksheet in question, published by Instructional Fair, is entitled, “The Second Amendment Today,” and it allegedly proclaims that American citizens do not have the right to guns.
“The courts have consistently determined that the Second Amendment does not ensure each individual the right to bear arms,” it purportedly reads. “The courts have never found a law regulating the private ownership of weapons unconstitutional.”
When it comes to interpreting the Second Amendment, the worksheet provides additional parameters through which the constitutional provision should be viewed. Starnes explains:
The worksheet, published by Instructional Fair, goes on to say that the Second Amendment is not incorporated against the states.
“This means that the rights of this amendment are not extended to the individual citizens of the states,” the worksheet reads. “So a person has no right to complain about a Second Amendment violation by state laws.”
According to the document, the Second Amendment “only provides the right of a state to keep an armed National Guard.”-[source]
A local FOX Houston reporter caught up with a student at Lone Star College who was in the building when a male suspect reportedly began stabbing people inside a classroom. Fourteen people were injured in the attack, price with four of those victims airlifted to the hospital.
The student said he heard commotion and screams of pain from a neighboring classroom, and then about 50 students huddled into that classroom unsure of what was taking place.
“God protected us in our classroom. We wish we could protect ourselves with guns and stuff. We wish that the law would let us carry guns because we’re legal adults, and carry guns on campus to protect ourselves. But so far what we have to rely on is God. We’d love to have God and the law on our side,” he said.-[source]
|
|
Loading ...
.Com Chatter