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June 19, 2018, 02:12 PM | #1 | |
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Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day - weapons cache seized in Los Angeles
So the media got one right.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/550-guns-s...ry?id=55994959 http://www.newsweek.com/la-police-se...ns-home-983512 Quote:
That is enough weapons to nearly equip a battalion. About the size of small Revolutionary era Armory. I do see a ton of AR uppers and not many lowers so I think the count is suspect but it is still a respectable amount of guns.
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Looks like lots of 94' and 98' Mausers and 'other historical' relics out there.
But a fair number of other weapons most of us might be happy to have. I believe this is the first legitimate "arsenal" that the news media has reported on. (vs the 2 rifles and a pistol in Chicago last year) Here's high def picture:
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I see a lot of Mausers, Mosins, various milsurps and a variety of cheap old shotguns, along with a few handguns. I would not consider something like this a threat, but he is a convicted felon after all. I mean, he spent 6 months in prison.
Good 6 o'clock news fodder, but nothing to really worry about. Unless you happen to be the State of California.
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A person can only effectively use one gun at a time. I don’t see any additional harm in having an “arsenal”. Especially a bunch of orphan uppers, lol; I did notice they managed to put the scariest looking parts of the collection in the foreground of the photo.
I spotted a Mini14 in the bunch, so the guy didn’t need all those others anyway. :P |
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I think it's similar to: "The man owns 27 cars! That means he could drive from Los Angels to New York in like an hour!!!" |
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June 20, 2018, 03:53 PM | #7 |
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Why do some of those guns look like they are bent?
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June 20, 2018, 04:35 PM | #8 |
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Bent
The rifles look bent because of the camera lens used. Wide angle lenses tend to bend things to fit them in the frame.
Take a look at the beams above and especially the fan blades. |
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What felony was he convicted of in the first place?
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I am an insurance adjuster and see a lot of patios and porches with ceiling fans and they all droop to some extent from the basicly paper blades absorbing the moisture from the outside air. Thats not from the lens. Hanging a ceiling fan outside is a bad idea unless it has metal blades. Maybe it is just the camera but it still looks strange. |
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June 20, 2018, 06:32 PM | #11 |
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circumstances
Apparently the guy was recently convicted. I'm thinking he likely owned those firearms prior the conviction. Once convicted, he did not dispose or separate himself from them. I'm also thinking that other parties involved in his conviction were aware of that fact and turned him in.
Who knows, he might have run a shop. None of which absolves him of any guilt. |
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"Bent guns"
The camera didn't do it. This time.
A close zoom shows the "bent gun's" muzzles are propped on the stocks of the next row. There are some choice items there. Picture needs one of those gun mag numbered silhouette ID guides. p_r
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boxes
I'm surprised too by the number of gun boxes for the handguns,and what appears to be the good condition of most of the guns. I'd think that stolen guns seldom come with boxes.......unless it was a retail/stockroom theft.
The rest of the investigation should be interesting. |
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Lots of expensive manhole covers.
A chronically broke jurisdiction could realize a profit if they could resist left liberal posturing. |
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ouch
Man, that makes we wince just thinking about it. Looks like a 1917 S&W or a Colt in the lower right.....darn shame.
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Did anyone ever find out what he was convicted of?
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Either way, it's a tragedy that all those firearms will likely get melted down and scrapped. A police department could make some serious cash auctioning them off to "legal" gun owners/gun shops. ROCK6 |
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Even a blind hog finds a truffle once in a while . . . . . I've got to give the media this one. I think that warrants the term "arsenal," unlike so many other stories we've seen.
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Well this picture came up in a panel discussion hosted by Bill Maher with NRA spokesperson Colion Noir on the panel at about the 7:30 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_qHZEfyTQ The panel (and audience) gasp with alarm when the picture is shown. Quote:
Colion Noir was calm, cool and collected during the panel which, IMhO, was very anti-gun. |
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The quote isn't quite on target, but the general principle applies. There's really very little point to worrying about a person who wants to own 500 firearms. Having 500 doesn't really make a person any more dangerous than the person who has 2 or 3.
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I still wonder what felony he was convicted of, that he was let out so easily (I heard on another board that he might have used the wrong gendered pronoun for somebody; that's a felony in CA) and if he had any opportunity at all to have his attorney take possession of the guns until he could sell them or give them to relatives. The word "arsenal" probably fits. The rest of the story is probably BS.
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