California Gets ‘Military-Grade’ Weapons Off the Streets!
CBS reports that police in Colton, California have struck a blow against domestic terrorism and removed dangerous weapons from the streets:
Two people, including a 13-year-old boy, were arrested Friday on suspicion of possessing a military-grade weapon believed to have been stolen…
Three weapons were recovered, including an inert M136 AT4 “LAW” anti-tank weapon, a b.b. [sic] gun rifle and a replica 9mm hand gun, police said.
A M136 AT-4 is “issued as a round of ammunition” and “comes with a disposable fiberglass launcher.” Here’s a picture of a soldier holding a M136 AT-4 that looks nearly identical to the one pictured by CBS, which called the weapon in their picture “inert.” This means the tube was disposed of after firing, and is structurally unsafe for further use. In short, it’s a fiberglass tube.
While a BB rifle can take out an eye, a replica handgun is likely just an inert hunk of plastic.
Colton is about an hour east of Los Angeles, and California has its priorities straight: LA’s sanctuary city policy provides a fertile breeding ground for some of America’s largest Hispanic gangs. But that’s okay, because California focuses law enforcement resources on real terrorists possessing non-functioning relic weapons that can be legally purchased in gun-hating England.
Comforting to know that those toys were readily confiscated – I feel safer already.
Meanwhile, last Thursday in Antioch, CA a daytime (1430) drive-by shooting occurred at Knoll Park, scattering women and children and other park-going folks as the white sedan shot REAL bullets into the park. One young man was hit in the leg, he hobbled off down a side street, not to be seen again…
Police arrived (1 patrol car), got out and sauntered around. Another arrived and they chatted for 2 or 3 minutes, neither of them making any effort to investigate or even TALK to the folks that were cautiously reentering the park to retrieve their items and leave. Antioch’s finest…
SHEESH – these police departments have it all wrong…
IT is not the Police it is the STUPID politicans and stupid Americans who come up with these laws, When Houston passed the 3 feet rule it was an EPIC with celebrations by Politicans and stupid people who pushed for it- ONE would of thought they ended all Crack Cocaine sales in Houston- WHAT was the 3 feet rule? It was Exotic or Stripppers WERE NOT ALLOWEED withing 3 feet of patrons
Well to be fair, the only thing that saved Ralphy’s eye was his glasses. Without them he could’ve been blinded (as predicted by Santa).
The story doesn’t say if this little guy was wearing glasses. Thanks Colton PD, you’ve probably saved this family the pain of their child losing an eye.
Idiots.
A little FYI for you folks that live in the real world. CA recently made it illegal to carry an unloaded firearm “in public.” I’m not sure what that means. Guaranteed, you can’t walk down the street with one. But I’m not sure if wearing a sidearm on my rural property is covered, too. So I’m sure the cops were just responding to the appearance of dangerous youths holding what they thought were dangerous weapons. What a screwed up state. It’s a liberal utopia!!
Friend lives near Adelanto. San Bern Sheriff there told him that the general rule of thumb is you are “in public” even if on your own property, if you are outdoors and visible to people not on your land. It’s contextual. My friend owns a large ranch in a remote region, no worries there. You walk around obviously armed on a property you own in downtown San Bernardino and aren’t a Security Guard or LEO, that’s a whole different ball of wax. You will get “interviewed”, to say the least. Common sense really on the level of if you just bought a butcher knife, you’d probably put it in a sack or something before getting on a city bus with it or walking down the sidewalk.
I have lived and/or spent time in a lot of legal open carry states. Even in AZ, where people seem most used to it, you will draw attention from some open carrying. This is 2012, not 1930 and a lot of the public are scared. Californians would be better served by getting a shall issue concealed law than scaring soccer moms. I’ve been stopped and interviewed more than once in open carry states because somebody called LEOs and said “there’s a man with a gun”. Hell, I got the law called on me in the TX once for cleaning my fingernails with a knife in public. Somebody made a cellphone call to the cops that a man at a restaurant had a knife. I kid you not. 2 3/4″ blade folder, at that, the most deadly of all knives in a restaurant, I’m sure.
Work on the concealed laws would be my call. Scaring nancyboys and their wives doesn’t do the cause any favors and none of us have time machines or else vote with your feet. I lived in cali 4 times in my life, note the PAST TENSE? I’d have to sell 30+ firearms from my collection and/or heavily mod them to live in California. So why would I want to live there?
The good news is cap and ball revolvers have no metallic cartriges, and thus are not firearms. No waiting period.
And they are as effective as ever they were. They are a bit slow loading, so use the New York reload: Carry a spare.