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New York shooting pistol has been sighted
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LVSteve
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Looks like one of the many 80% polymer frames out there that take Glock slides and fire control parts. Threaded barrel is likely an aftermarket thing from one of many vendors. Add homebrew, single-use suppressor and you're off to the races.
Not wanting to be seemingly disrespectful but the idea of a Welrod was first put forward by the main stream "news" media. Although not specifically named by the original description on the "news", I did a search on what was described and it led me to the Welrod. Never heard of it. That was absurd because they were .32 acp and the caliber used was 9mm.
OK so everyone that knows, or knew it wasn't a Welrod so maybe a B&T VP9. Obviously not so maybe a B&T Station 6. It was reported, that detectives went to Connecticut. They weren't going there to find the history of a printed pistol.
Not all our fault for being "foolish" and speculating about what the weapon was. We were just going by the Main Stream Media with THEIR foolish talk and or speculation.
Besides that, other than the very tragic murder, being gun guys it's natural to try to figure stuff out. Right?
Jim
News reports say "ghost gun" and "maybe 3D printed."
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The report this morning was a ghost gun with a Glock slide? Glock slides have the serial numbers which means its not a ghost gun.
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It amazes me that after recent revelations anyone believes anything being reported about this incident or almost any other. Whatever happened, we are being fed someone's version of it, not what actually happened. I watched a video of two retired NY detectives discussing it last night, and after all their idiot rambling my thought was, "New York's finest, eh? Pathetic..."
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I never bought that it was a Welrod, or the modern version. Seemed so improbable.
This is where that nonsense came from:
"Fox News reported Bill Melugin [a Fox News reporter] said in a post on X that the "bolt action, suppressed pistol first used in WW2" was likely used to assassinate Brian Thompson. He also provided the quote of a contact, who was ready to "bet his pension" that it was the Welrod.
"I'd bet my pension that this is the weapon that was used on the United CEO," the source was quoted as saying by Melugin." It's very very quiet and requires manual cycling after each round fired. Top choice by pros for up-close, quiet work."
This is where that nonsense came from:
"Fox News reported Bill Melugin [a Fox News reporter] said in a post on X that the "bolt action, suppressed pistol first used in WW2" was likely used to assassinate Brian Thompson. He also provided the quote of a contact, who was ready to "bet his pension" that it was the Welrod.
"I'd bet my pension that this is the weapon that was used on the United CEO," the source was quoted as saying by Melugin." It's very very quiet and requires manual cycling after each round fired. Top choice by pros for up-close, quiet work."
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Yup, right up there with "assault weapons" and "gun buybacks".
So, who is the guy giving his pension to you reckon?
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Per the ATF, the receiver/frame is the serialized part. You can have numbers on all sorts of other parts, but the ATF wants to know the one on the receiver/frame. The ATF got sniffy about this with all the imported Mosin rifles that have the original serials on the barrel shank. Worse, they include Cyrillic characters. This is why all the more recent imports have huge, ghastly import marks with importer made up serials placed on the receiver.
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From the very low resolution video images, to me the gun in question looked like a generic semi-auto pistol and suppressor. Having three out of six rounds fire…I don't know how you get from that to a suppressed bolt action handgun, but ok.
Well a hyperactive imagination would certainly help!
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It looked like a Glock to me, but given the image quality, how would one know one black plastic pistol from another? It seemed obvious he had fired the gun beforehand enough to be familiar with it since he seemed adept at keeping it in action when it malfunctioned. In the bigger picture, I guess none of this stuff matters.
What puzzles me is this handsome, well educated young man, with an apparently honorable and privileged background, and potentially promising future, giving up everything he had to make an essentially meaningless statement that won't affect anyone except the victim's family, and will cause great embarrassment and infamy for himself and his own family. If his pain was the motivator, it must have been terrible. What a shame.
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Very well said! It is too bad more of the former posts on this subject were not as well thought out!
Some of his social media is still up, at least it was last night. It's interesting. But then, again, it's tough to know what's legit.
Actually, the first report I heard was "a modern version of an antique pistol". Or words to that effect. So I literally typed that into a search and a Welrod came up.
I had no idea if that was right or not, nor did I care, but that's exactly how the whole thing started.
I hope the punk fries.....oh, wait, I can't say that anymore, it's not PC, and "Old Sparky" is out of use.
Too bad............
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