Connecticut news station talks to the CEO of Colt:
Wow, actual facts and unbiased reporting. Shocking. This is the type of thing that needs to be put in people’s faces on a national news level.
Full story over at NEWS8
Thoughts?
Hat tip: John
news
Products currently haunting my dreams:
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
The gun store guys have a gripe a lot of your are familiar with:
The gun show loophole is such a load of crap. They cover it all in the video, but basically it’s just a typical example of the media blowing everything out of proportion and getting the core facts wrong.
Thoughts?
Blah blah blah Americans buy guns and sell them to criminals and smugglers to bring back to mexico… same old story, but there is a funny surprise at the end…
http://www.10news.com/video/23272503/
(Sorry can’t embed video, they removed it from YouTube. Thanks for the link Marcus)
Her stance and cheek weld is terrible. I would have expected the ATF agents to give her better instruction, considering she could have ended up with a nice bruise on her cheek bone from the stock hitting it.
The highlight of the video:
“And they are so easily converted, you can buy semi and make it fully automatic. They know how to drop those chambers in, and it doesn’t take long.”
-Kimberly Hunt (ABC 10 news)
LOL whaaaatt? That definitely rivals the “shoulder thing that goes up” line from Carolyn McCarthy
Lucky to see the California assault weapons ban is working :roll: Well I guess it is working… against the law abiding citizens.
I guess Batman must have special New York City (Gotham City) weapon privileges because he is a celebrity.
Lots More pictures of Batman with various guns over at Silver Age Comics
Also If you haven’t seen The Dark Knight by now.. you’re slackin. Buy it HERE for Cheap
In my previous post ABC News – How to get a grenade launcher we talked about how the media always gets their facts wrong, and time and time again manages to blow everything way out of proportion.
A new development from a frequent commenter Josh:
Regardless of all that, one of the stories I ran across said it was a 37mm Cobray grenade launcher. Obviously, 37mm is a flare, not a grenade, and the Cobray website doesn’t indicate that what they manufacture is anything other than a flare launcher. Way to go ABC. I think they might appropriately be called the “Alarmist Broadcasting Company.”
Here is the actual excerpt from the Fox News article he is referring to:
Detectives later searched the room where Woodson had been staying at the Red Mill Inn in Branchburg. Forrest said they seized another Bushmaster .308-caliber semiautomatic rifle with a defaced serial number, a 37 mm Cobray grenade launcher, a second bulletproof vest, a Russian-made night vision scope, a police scanner, a map of a U.S. military installation and a map of an out-of-state civilian community, a Middle Eastern red and white colored traditional headdress and hundreds of rounds of .50-caliber and .308-caliber ammunition.
BIG difference ABC.. BIG difference. One is a Destructive Device (40mm) and one is not (37mm).
There is no such thing as “grenades” for the 37mm.
Now I don’t look at FOX as being an authority on gun related news either, but I believe that a lot more than the crap ABC tried to tell us in that newscast.
FOX likely did mess up on this, if it was presumably an AR-15 they are referring to:
Forrest said the .223-caliber assault rifle (Bushmaster) that Woodson was carrying had a defaced serial number and had been altered to fire .50-caliber ammunition.
Altered? as in had a new upper attached to it? :roll:
Also, an AR-15 is not an assault rifle.
Cobray sells their 37mm flare launchers online (price approx. $500) if you are interested – HERE
-Thanks again for the tip Josh.
I love how at the start of the video starts with “A simple google search got us 164000 entries…”
The picture they show at 40seconds is from the destructive device section of AutoWeapons.com. My guess is ABC fabricated that whole phone call and stole the picture, because I doubt anyone that works at AutoWeapons is not familiar with the ATF rules, nor would they bother risking their business on something like this.
DD1-152 – COLT M203 GRENADE LAUNCHER, SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE HK G3 7.62x51mm MACHINE GUN (ALSO KNOWN AS THE AK4)…THIS LAUNCHER IS FROM A GOVERNMENT EXPORT CONTRACT FOR THE SWEDISH MILITARY… (Source)
The lady they talked to on phone apparently said the only restrictions are:
- A buyer has to be a resident of a state that allows them to have a grenade launcher
- The buyer needs a gun permit
40mm grenade launchers are actually considered “Destructive Devices” by the ATF and they are highly regulated.
37mm copies of them are actually flare launchers so they are not regulated at all. People often refer to these as “grenade launchers” as well, even though there is no such thing as a 37mm grenade.