Big drug bust locally, replete with obligatory photo of "gun table."

[12many]

I see they put out the flashlight too. Someday I expect to see the set of steak knives on the table. What did they catch them with? Please tell me it was not an 1/8 ounce of weed?

 

[GAF]

Here is another article that uses the same picture.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahae...rom-angry-people-and-reduce-firearm-violence/

 

[Bexar]

Bigdog 57 I once bought four 20-round boxes of .223Rem at Wally's along with a 550-bulk-pack of .22LR. The gal behind the counter asked if I was getting ready to 'wage a war'. Sheesh. I told her, "Naw, this will barely get me through a range session!"
Actually a very LIGHT range session!

Must have moved her from Houston. I bought three boxes of 22LR about three years ago and the clerk asked me who I was mad at. But...she was obviously trying to be funny. Problem is if she'd have asked me why aI had bought it nd I said I was mad at someone in the the same humor she could have refused to sell me the ammo.

 

[bannockburn]

Maybe a new trend for drug dealers: going Old School/Low Profile with .22s, lever action rifles, and revolvers.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

It is true that weapons recovered from actual crime are usually whatever is available through the local black market, stolen from the general public, police or military. Only on TV do the bad guys always have the latest and best weaponry.

On the other hand, some illegal drug distributors (I include moonshiners) don't have or use guns as weapons of offense or defense in furtherance of their illegal enterprise (defense of their business or intimidation of rivals), but do own guns for less sinister reasons. This may come out later in sentencing. But the initial confiscation as evidence and display for news will include anything remotely usable as a weapon, whether it was used as such or not.

If there is an anti-gun agenda intended by these perp walk displays, displaying what looks like Uncle Joe's deer rifle may not have the intended effect, and may make fence sitters think twice about which side to choose in the gun control/gun rights divide.

 

[maxxhavoc]

At least they had an SKS

 

[Sheepdog1968]

It does make for a nice photo op. I worry that doing so could paint an innocent person as a villain. Also, I've see some where the media have said that an individual had hundreds of rounds of ammo. Back then I was shooting 1,000 rounds a month a kept at least a six month supply at hand. I,would chuckle at the news given the table had basically a weekends worth of ammo on it. Then I would worry if I got pulled over when I had made a six month supply purchase and was driving it home and some how it was discovered though perfectly legal to own and transport. At the time I was living in San Francisco so it was a wee bit more liberal and anti gun than most places.

 

[Aragon]

I see they put out the flashlight too. Someday I expect to see the set of steak knives on the table. What did they catch them with? Please tell me it was not an 1/8 ounce of weed?

No, no they're serious drug-dealing scumbags...

 

[SVTOhio]

That looks like a normal collection someone would have in a gun safe out here in the country. I'm sure they are all stolen guns from home robberies.

 

[Midwest]

This should work

 

[Lycidas Janwor]

At least they had an SKS

if there's one on that table I sure don't see it...

 

[David4516]

I think the SKS is the 6th one from the right, or 5th long gun from the left. Looks like black synthetic stock.

 

[maxxhavoc]

Another angle:

 

[lxd55]

Here is another article that uses the same picture.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahae...rom-angry-people-and-reduce-firearm-violence/

did you read that article? read the last paragraph and especially the weapons effect part.
if ya own a gun your angry and it hints the more firearms you own the angrier you are.
then it purports that just seeing a gun can make you more aggressive.

reading this stuff helps me understand these nitwits.
the ACA has a mental health aspect/angle to it. beware.

 

[lxd55]

I can't remember the rules. Is this an "arsenal" or still just a "cache"?

a cache is a hiding place. a weapons cache means a hoard of weapons.
a arsenal is where you make and store weapons
and munitions.

now when you start seeing this it is time to pay attention.
http://national.bgnnews.com/large-a...d-in-vehicle-en-route-to-istanbul-haberi/4490

http://www.anhuapolice.com/news/thai-police-seized-a-large-number-of-weapons-and-ammunition.html

 

[lxd55]

if there's one on that table I sure don't see it...

from the angle shown it is really hard to see,
the slant cut on the receiver cover was my only clue,
the other angle is a little better. don't giggle at the .22's
some of the old semi, bolt, lever and pumps can be worth good money.

IMO the reason they show firearms is for the wow factor.
because for most people, that are not used to firearms, to see 17 together
is a lot, then add in the factor of being seized at a drug bust and you get
DAMN LOOK AT THAT!!

 

[alexander45]

Lol I want to see the guy doing all these hold ups with a ruger bearcat store clerk will probably think it's a toy

 

[Lycidas Janwor]

Another angle:

I see it now!

 

[Sol]

That assault flashlight scared me the most. Got to get me one of those. If it's the one with the strobe, they are going down for a long time.
My wife has family in Cali, they came to visit 3 years ago for a week, and where freaked out that I could/would walk out my back door, sit in my chair, and shoot targets in the back yard. The people out there DO LIVE IN ANOTHER WORLD.

I really lost it at the long range tactical death batons.

I'm on the phone to get those banned right now!

 

[HEAVY METAL 1]

In a city I used to live in a similar scenario unfolded, BUT 2 of the guns of the "arsenal" were plainly Crosman BB guns....Oooo scary!

 

[tark]

When I lived in California in the 80s the Oakland Tribune Newspaper decided to do a study on what weapons were used in crime. It took them a year. When it was over, they released their results, and to their great credit, they told the truth! They reported that the average weapon used in crimes in the city was: a five or six shot revolver, or a small auto pistol. In 22 caliber. Most long guns were very mundane sporting guns that were stolen. Many of these were cut down with a hacksaw to make them more concealable. Very few semi-automatic centerfire guns were used, either shotguns or rifles.

At the time, AKs and ARs and everything else was legal in California, but to the liberals enormous disappointment, they weren't being used in robberies and holdups. The crooks wanted something small and concealable, not a three foot long AK.

There was a picture released of a large number of guns, and it looked just like this one. I think the reason pictures like this are released is because the anti-gunners know nothing about guns. All they see is a large number of guns and they just KNOW that any gun is evil. The Appointed Cops, as opposed to the Elected and the Hired ones, are usually anti-gun. They know that all they have to show is a lot of guns , doesn't matter what kind they are, and the housewives and the eunuchs will throw up their hands in horror and demand that the government save them.

There is a word for these kind of people , but the moderator would delete it and issue me a speeding ticket..... so I'll leave it up to you to make up your own.

 

[DHJenkins]

That's new. Usually criminals have stuff I want.

 

[Dale Gribble]

Thank god that lever action is off the streets, maybe that will put a stop to drive-by lever gun shootings

 

[22250Rem]

They just have to reinforce the mantra that anyone with guns must be some kind of criminal. To go along with the old routine that "only the police and military need guns". All so they can push for more "reasonable" and "common sense" gun control measures.