A point of interest and something I never thought I would ever have to worry about. The other day on a local Facebook post someone had mentioned the Reacher movie and the obvious mistake that a 95gr. 9mm bullet is used for subsonic ballistics. I pointed out that in order to be subsonic a bullet needs to travel below the speed of sound and one of the reliable ways to do that with 9mm equipped with a suppressor is to use a 147 gr. bullet. That way the weight of the bullet will reduce the speed to subsonic levels. I was always one of those guys that pointed out errors in westerns like using a model 92 Winchester in a movie with an earlier setting, or using a muzzleloader on horse back firing repeatedly without the ability to reload like in The Revenent. Spoiler alert...
I had been down to the rifle club earlier in the day yesterday, finished shooting my smoothbore muzzleloader before the heat really set in. Decided to stop at the store to get my wife an iced Mocha that she really likes, bought a few groceries. While there I get a phone call from her, I'm thinking she sees I'm at the store and needs something. I answer and she tells me, "Two guys came to the door in a big SUV, I didn't answer the door." She then told me they went across the street and talked to the neighbor who then call her telling her they were from the Kalispel Tribe and were looking for me. That was how she was able to tell me "Two officers from the Kalispel Tribe were here looking for you." She said, "They went across the street and talked to our neighbor and took off." I told her "If they come back tell them I am on my way home, be there in fifteen minutes." I have nothing to be concerned about, but of course my mind went off in a dozen different directions and oddly I hoped I would be given time to change out of my shorts and t-shirt. Anyway, on my way home I get a call from the rifle club, the range officer said, "Two officers from the Kalispel Tribe were here looking for you, your neighbor told them what color your car was and that you often frequent the club if you're not home that's probably where you are." This is true but what ever happened to keeping your mouth shut? Anyway I get home and here they are in an unmarked SUV, talking to my wife outside. I get out, give her the mocha and ask them "What can I do for you fellas?" Both guys come over and flash their badges and allow me to read their I.D.s, one guy has an FBI I.D.
One guy shows me a piece of paper downloaded from a computer that came off of Facebook. He asked me did you make this reply? I told him that yes I did. He said, "What did you mean by this reply?" I told him I was correcting an error about the use of light weight bullets to make 9mm subsonic, as was used in the Reacher movie. I told him you need to use a 147gr. bullet to make 9mm subsonic with a suppressor, I told him I've been doing that stuff all my life. The FBI guy said "I do that too, especially military and cop movies, etc." I told him that was all I meant, what was the problem. He said, "One of the people reading your reply thought it was made in a threatening way." THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK
I'm not upset at the officers, they have a job to do, and they were very friendly shaking my hand when I arrived and identifications were secured and again when they left....No apologies because none was expected or deserved, I understand their job. It's just that this is where we are going and, in many respects, where we already are or have been. Trust me to say that it will be a long time before I ever do any correcting and I will have a word with my neighbor about his ability to rat me out in an instant, of course I should probably not do that because I might appear to be threatening to him. I now have a red flag on me and truly need to be careful. Never thought it would come to this; my wife has been right all along.
I had been down to the rifle club earlier in the day yesterday, finished shooting my smoothbore muzzleloader before the heat really set in. Decided to stop at the store to get my wife an iced Mocha that she really likes, bought a few groceries. While there I get a phone call from her, I'm thinking she sees I'm at the store and needs something. I answer and she tells me, "Two guys came to the door in a big SUV, I didn't answer the door." She then told me they went across the street and talked to the neighbor who then call her telling her they were from the Kalispel Tribe and were looking for me. That was how she was able to tell me "Two officers from the Kalispel Tribe were here looking for you." She said, "They went across the street and talked to our neighbor and took off." I told her "If they come back tell them I am on my way home, be there in fifteen minutes." I have nothing to be concerned about, but of course my mind went off in a dozen different directions and oddly I hoped I would be given time to change out of my shorts and t-shirt. Anyway, on my way home I get a call from the rifle club, the range officer said, "Two officers from the Kalispel Tribe were here looking for you, your neighbor told them what color your car was and that you often frequent the club if you're not home that's probably where you are." This is true but what ever happened to keeping your mouth shut? Anyway I get home and here they are in an unmarked SUV, talking to my wife outside. I get out, give her the mocha and ask them "What can I do for you fellas?" Both guys come over and flash their badges and allow me to read their I.D.s, one guy has an FBI I.D.
One guy shows me a piece of paper downloaded from a computer that came off of Facebook. He asked me did you make this reply? I told him that yes I did. He said, "What did you mean by this reply?" I told him I was correcting an error about the use of light weight bullets to make 9mm subsonic, as was used in the Reacher movie. I told him you need to use a 147gr. bullet to make 9mm subsonic with a suppressor, I told him I've been doing that stuff all my life. The FBI guy said "I do that too, especially military and cop movies, etc." I told him that was all I meant, what was the problem. He said, "One of the people reading your reply thought it was made in a threatening way." THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK
I'm not upset at the officers, they have a job to do, and they were very friendly shaking my hand when I arrived and identifications were secured and again when they left....No apologies because none was expected or deserved, I understand their job. It's just that this is where we are going and, in many respects, where we already are or have been. Trust me to say that it will be a long time before I ever do any correcting and I will have a word with my neighbor about his ability to rat me out in an instant, of course I should probably not do that because I might appear to be threatening to him. I now have a red flag on me and truly need to be careful. Never thought it would come to this; my wife has been right all along.
