Police seize stash of weapons from home
FALL RIVER, M.A (WPRI) - A local man is arrested after police seize a stash of weapons from a Fall River home.
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Once inside, police discovered a loaded handgun and shotgun, a sniper rifle and
semi-automatic rifle, and more than 600 rounds of ammunition.
ZOMG! 600 rounds! Or, as I like to call it, a short day at the range... Look, I know it makes good copy to scare the white people (thanks for that one Unc!), but I buy my .22LR ammo in boxes of 550 rounds. It is entirely possible that I might have 750+ rounds of just .22LR in my range bag alongside another 2-300 rounds of centerfire ammunition. 600 rounds of anything isn't news - well, maybe 10mm, but that's for another reason entirely.
And go look at that picture. There's four long arms and one sorry-looking handgun. Of the longarms, it appears that one is a semi-auto shotgun, one is a banged-up break-top H&R shotgun, one Marlin model 60, and what might be a Rem 700 - the aforementioned ZOMG SNIPER RIFLE... Got that, Fudds? Your beloved deer rifle is now a sniper rifle... And, not for nothing, but four out of five of those weapons could be purchased with the MA "shall issue" FID card.
Perspective. MA has none.
That is all.
15 comments:
Heh! I expect they'd have a bit of an embolism if they went to the home of most of your readers...
I can put my hands on at least that many rounds just by reaching into the bedside table! :-)
What a piker! I don't have much of a collection compared to some folks we know, and I've got about four times that without even trying hard. And they'd have kittens at my ammo stash...
I'm with Loki. I feel bad that I only have a couple hundred rounds of some of my calibers.
I'm about to order a 440 round spam can of mosin nagant fodder. I also have ammo for guns that I don't yet own. I bet that would give these "journalists" a massive case of the vapors.
- Brad
There's a few fellows at work who believe they are "well equipped" if they have a couple boxes of slugs for the Bambi blaster.
There was a while when I had more ammunition for things I not only didn't have, but wasn't sure I wanted to buy (a free can of 7.62x54 from a bud, couple boxes of 8mm Mauser, random ammo leftover from guns I'd sold) than several people at work had total for all their stuff.
My new hobby is filling .30 caliber ammo cans with .22 LR (you can fit 6 bricks in one plus a dessicant, in case you wondered). Since Meijer stocks the Gold .22 that are recommended for the Advantage Glock conversion I try to get a brick or two a week, though it's only a recent hobby of mine.
If I hadn't already read the article for context, I'd have thought that photo was the Fall River PD showing off their arsenal.
If they hyperventilate over a collection like that, the Mosin and PSL in my "stash of weapons" would probably get SWAT called out. As for ammo, I probably have 500 rounds of centerfire (100 of which are the evil looking x54R to feed my Commie comrades) and another thousand in .22lr.
Makes me glad I live in NY for a change. Our regs are almost as good as MA's, but at least -some- of the officials here have their heads on straight. I was printed for a background check last week and the police officer who did my prints was bragging about his new LCP and complaining that he had to get another background check to add it onto his permit.
"600 rounds of .22LR" - or, as my kids would say "a modestly entertaining afternoon."
I made the mistake of only bringing 400 or 500 for them last time. Thankfully, there's nothing like a sweet 10 year old girl to talk fellow range-goers out of some of their .22 stash...
You brought all of that yourself for Black Rifle Friday...and that's not counting the Machine Guns and Supressors Wally brought!
Holy Bullets!!!
600 rounds?
Damn...Lemme see here, am at the office so am trying to recollect and I have 8, no nine, different calibers in the armory and probably a "couple" hundred in my lowest stock which is the 9x18 mak and .32 Win Special. All others? more then enough!!!
Is the DoJ, FBI or any of them other Guv'mint groups monitoring this site??
Along with buy a gun day and ammo day, we should start sending the journalists a case of Depends once a year.
One loaded handgun
One shotgun
One "sniper" rifle
One semi-automatic rifle
600 rounds of ammunition
That's what you call an amateur around my parts.
I've had more than 600 rounds (mostly 22LR) in my pants pockets at a time.
They were deep pockets and I have a sturdy belt.
As a general rule, if I get down to only 600 rounds of a particular caliber, I consider myself to be out of that ammo.
Unbelievable. I love how they lined up all those eeevil boolets next to each other for the trophy shot.
600 rounds? I tell people to bring more to an Appleseed Shoot here in MA. We usually have the shooters run through better than a thousand rounds.
Maybe the next earthquake will drop Boston into the harbor. Preferably with most of the General Court in it. (with the exception of my rep - he's pretty darned cool. )
If I have less than 1000 rounds of target ammo for any of my pistol calibers, I feel like I need to go scavenge more. Good quality hollow points maybe 200 per pistol. Magnum rifle 200 or so and 2-300 rounds of buck and slug foor the 12Ga. .223 is cheaper by the thousand and a single Appleseed weekend (4 shooters in the family) can burn 12-1500 so I need to keep 3 or 4k on hand and then there is .22LR with 5 or 6k on hand. They would need a bigger garage floor to display part of my supply.
I have over 600 fired brasses, dies, and components in a caliber for which I don't even, and never have, owned a gun. But I might. Some day. I also have one of the world's heaviest steel office desks.
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