Los Angeles gun roundup gets only one gun

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enough ammo to take out 59 bystanders huh?

well - let's do the math. 7.62x39 typically comes in 20 round boxes.... so that's 3 boxes worth minus one round.... I'll bet the papers will figure it out and write an article about an unknown murder of a bystander still yet to be solved.

"We know that an assault rifle round is missing. Now we need to find it, and who it took out." will be a quote by the police chief.

What's up with the "what we need is love" thing. It's 2007. Not 1967.
 
I left a comment as well. What a waste. I wonder how many crimes could have been attended to by the cops wasting their 3 hours.
 
Wow, I suppose I can stop buying other guns now that I have The Ultimate Weapon. What's the point of getting inferior guns when I can accomplish all my goals (e.g. hunting, self defense, world domination) with my trusty SSK.
 
Guess they didn't like the outcome of their turn in so they blew up what they did get into the "big one"

"It was this big!"
 
you know Chicago is going to host one now just so they can say, "Mine is bigger!"
 
59 rounds? I wonder if they thought to check the chamber?

Remember the "Cops" episode where the bad guy threw a Mossberg Cruiser on the roof and one of the cops picked it up by the trigger guard and it went off!

I wonder if one of the hands in the evidence room blew a hole in the ceiling?

Will that make the news, or will they conspire to cover it up with a flurry of personnel transfers or report it as a "drive-by"?
 
"If we can take one gun off the street, it's worth it," said Hun, a senior lead officer for the area. "If a gangster wanted to do a drive-by, it's the ultimate weapon."
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Those silly, fickle gangsters. Last week it was the dreaded AK47, then before that, the mac10, the tec9, the glock 9mm, and the street sweeper, but they've since found out the "SSK" trumps them all :neener:
 
59 rounds? I wonder if they thought to check the chamber?
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"You would not believe what we got," exclaimed LAPD Officer Brian Hun of the Southwest Division. "It's like catching the big one."
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Based on the quote from the officer, I'm willing to wager that they never did clear the weapon...

Every day the desire to see Congress pass a vote to forcibly kick California out of the United States strengthens.
 
Oh my. The writer would be a comedy genius if it weren't serious. I just posted this in the comments, just in case it gets removed before anyone else sees:

Is this article a satire or what? Calling (what I assume is) an SKS an "assault rifle" is like saying a Honda Civic with a plastic wing on the back is really an airplane. Seriously. Just go look at a picture of one on Wikipedia or something. The thing has a wooden body like a normal hunting rifle and was designed in the 1940s.

And judging by the dimensions and weight, it sounds about as easy to use in the confines of a car for drive-by shootings as using a pneumatic jackhammer for dentistry. Let alone being the "ultimate weapon."
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I had to write the reporter. Here's my E-mail:

Ms. Bartholomew,

This letter is in response to your article: "Assault rifle turned over in gun roundup"
How is one gun considered a success? The Taxpayers got a bad deal here, how many police officers were standing around for 3 hours twiddling their thumbs? Shouldn't they have been doing something useful instead? Like arresting criminals, or actually taking care of some of the problems that actually plague the city, like answering the endless 911 calls? Face the facts. The event was a monumental failure, not the astounding success your article paints it to be.

I have to ask if you actually did any confirmation of the information in the article. Your article got so many things wrong, it's hard to know where to begin. First of all, there is no such gun as an SSK. I believe what the "gun roundup" program brought in is an SKS rifle, a semi-automatic rifle that fires a mediocre intermediate round. Today's hunter's weapons are far more powerful. You further state that the rifle is an "assault" rifle, which is also incorrect. True Assault rifles are have a selecter switch that enables full automatic fire. The SKS rifle does not have that capability. Also, what is truly scary is that Hun, a "senior lead police officer" thinks that is true: ""If a gangster wanted to do a drive-by, it's the ultimate weapon." The overall length of a typical SKS is: 40.2 inches. That's NOT an easy weapon to try and operate from a car. If senior lead police officer Hun is a typical example of what LA Police are like, I fear for anyone who actually NEEDs them.

Please speak to someone who knows about such things next time prior to publishing bad information.
Your lack of knowledge and the emphasis placed on the astounding success of what should be viewed as a staggering failure make both you and your paper look ignorant and foolish.

v/r,
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BTW I just got my order from ammoman. I sure hope the 2000 bystanders are safe
 
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Cops waited. TV crews waited. And church officials standing under the broiling sun in South Los Angeles waited, hoping Angelenos would come and surrender their guns.

They got only one — but it was an SSK [sic: SKS] assault rifle, along with enough ammunition to blow away 59 bystanders.

"You would not believe what we got," exclaimed LAPD Officer Brian Hun of the Southwest Division. "It's like catching the big one."
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

One SKS and 59 rounds? That's like picking up one grain of sand on the beach and thinking you made a difference. Actually, that analogy is too generous. Try half a grain of sand in the Sahara desert.
 
If I were the chief of LAPD I would have done everything I could to quash that article before press time! What a bunch of BS
 
If it was not a mispelling of SKS it may be a modified version made by the Chinese with a selective fire trigger block.There was a version called SKK using the AK47 magazines so that they could cross use spare parts and magazines
 
I found this the most disturbing part of the article:

To thwart gun violence, the Rev. Eduardo Vickers said, society must convince the young.

"Get them while the clay is soft — you've got to mold them," he said...


I wonder what he exactly means by "molding"? :scrutiny:
 
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