News story... media and police spin...shaking my head

[Bill Bates]

I saw this news story a few days ago.

Cops find arsenal of guns, swords in Brooklyn apartment | New York Post

I'm have no comment on the guys busted which are likely bad guys. I understand the police trying to taint the future pool of jurors but can we keep it a little real.

"It was enough to arm a small army or militia," a police source said of the bust. "These guys were ready for war."

If I looked in my ammo cabinet and saw what they had I would feel out of ammo. Five BB guns and four real firearms is less fire power than I take when heading to the range with my grand kids. Oh no, knives and swords that make it look like the guys hang out at Comic-Con or swap meets.

The sad part of this is we here understand how silly that statement was but so many of the non-shooting public believe this BS. Heck, even a bunch of 12 year old gang bangers are laughing at that story.

 

[NYlakesider]

Well to some people(mostly the talking heads types) anything more than having one gun is having an arsenal.

More ammo than necessary to fill a magazine or a revolver cylinder once is having a large stock pile of ammo.

 

[mjlabs]

Whats with the 3 cell phones in the center of the table? I suppose that's considered a weapon nowadays if you don't use it properly....

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My second son got married 6 weeks ago. It was not a military wedding and there were 4 swords longer than any of those pictured there. There were 6 to 8 CCW handguns (including those on the retired LEO's) and about that much ammo. The cars in the parking lot held enough to inspire another set of NY restrictions. This was just a family from Ohio and a family from Kentucky having a fun wedding. Ivan

 

[MrTrolleyguy]

Spin is right. That is mostly what it is. Cough cough Will some one hand me one of my cold pills.

What they say about my "stash of weapons"?

Give me a break, please!

And a loaded gun? Yeah, of course it is loaded numbchuck!

Oh, I forgot, this is in NYistan.

to those idiots that created this un-Constitutional problem!

No, I am not childish. I p'd off. Some day that could be my house.

 

[Mule Packer]

What caught my attention is where the article states that the police also recovered "67 rounds of 347 caliber ammunition." Whoa! Hold on there! That's enough to take out an entire city block! I mean, those 347's are devastating when put in the wrong hands!...and they had 67 rounds!!!

 

[CoMF]

Oh, it's a hack piece from the New Yawk Compost? There's your problem right there.

That fish wrap is only marginally better than the Daily Nuts, and the latter makes the former look like the New York Times.

 

[rwsmith]

I've been hammering on this

Any time I have the opportunity to put my two cents in that anything more than 1 or 2 guns and a couple of hundred rounds of ammunition is an 'arsenal' I do. I have 4 guns and about 1000 rounds of ammunition, therefore I have an 'arsenal' and I'm 'ready for war'. Plus, I have a 'factory' set up to make more by 'reusing spent shell casings'.

When they break into a competitive shooter's house and find those thousands of rounds of ammuntion they will stroke out. And do you have a chance to explain that nearly all of that ammo is designated to be shot downrange?

 

[Damn Yankee]

I heard a guy say that when they come for his guns that he would give them the bullets first.

What was the search warrant for?

 

[Bill Bates]

All I knows I think our local boy scout troop could whip their small army or militia.

 

[Fishslayer]

What caught my attention is where the article states that the police also recovered "67 rounds of 347 caliber ammunition." Whoa! Hold on there! That's enough to take out an entire city block! I mean, those 347's are devastating when put in the wrong hands!...and they had 67 rounds!!!

Were they "deadly high powered military style armor piercing FMJ" or "Deadly high powered cop killer exploding hollow points?"

 

[Jessie]

Are you kidding?! Look at that, there's a pair of candy striped nunchakus!! Those boys are BAD news for sure.
Yep, that most definatley is an arsenal.... For a 12 year old maybe.

 

[3dots]

Are you kidding?! Look at that, there's a pair of candy striped nunchakus!! Those boys are BAD news for sure.
Yep, that most definatley is an arsenal.... For a 12 year old maybe.

I was gonna say, I had more gear than that when I was 15. God I love Texas!

 

[Bill Bates]

I do wonder if the .45 magazine was a safe seven round magazine or the much more deadly 8 round magazine??? How could they leave out that important information.

 

[Arik]

I have more ammo than that In my office desk at work. And i don't work for anything related to guns.

I can imagine what they would say about me [emoji33] Especially when I'm a fan of AKs.

I've figured out that basically all you need is a magazine or cylinder worth of ammo. Anything else is a stockpile. Funny thing is, while this is a stockpile they will gladly stock up on anything on sale [emoji35] [emoji49]

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[the ringo kid]

At the age of 21, I had over 20 rifles....ARE THEY KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!??????!

 

[jdyer225]

Ready for war with a couple hundred rounds??? How does that work


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[BLACKHAWKNJ]

It's NYC, what do you expect ? They'll make it look like they've nipped a major terrorist group in the bud.

 

[BigCityChief]

Notice the "police source" is unnamed? I'm betting that's because there wasn't one. We all know we can't believe everything we read in the paper. That said, I wish all forum members a safe Memorial Day weekend as we pause to remember our fallen brothers and sisters.


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[Collo Rosso]

"It was enough to arm a small army or militia,"

That's one sorry looking militia.