[cosmos7]

Beer Helps Bexar Co. Deputies End Standoff (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=391&e=1&u=/ibsys/20031016/lo_ksat/1834537)
Thu Oct 16, 5:39 PM ET


Thanks to a can of beer, Bexar County sheriff's deputies successfully and peacefully ended a brief hostage standoff with a man he used to live with.

Deputies said Ronald Rhodes, 35, went into a friend's home in the 4100 block of Waterwood Pass late Thursday morning and grabbed a semiautomatic revolver out of a night stand.

After a struggle ensued, Rhodes' sister and a caregiver ran out of the house while the suspect allegedly took the homeowner, Robert Scholler, hostage, deputies said. Rhodes is accused of putting a gun to Scholler's head, deputies said.

When the lawmen arrived, Rhodes was apparently intoxicated and asked them for a beer. The deputies complied and during the delivery a deputy grabbed the pistol while another lawman held the suspect.

Rhodes was taken into custody and charged with three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Deputies said Rhodes was upset for being kicked out of the home over the weekend. He apparently had called his mother earlier and told her he had plans to go to the home and confront Scholler.

The homeowner was treated for minor injuries.

:p

[Standing Wolf]

I suppose it could have been a Mateba, but it's more likely it was an assault semi-automatic sniper rifle handgun, the same kind that go around slaughtering innocent victims because they're instantly accessible at gun shows, <i>et cetera.</i>

[Justin]

Could be a Mateba, the only currently produced semi-auto revolver. Odds are, though, that this one is simply incompetence on the part of the author.

[C.R.Sam]

Be a hoot if it actually was a Mateba or a Webley-Fosbury and the reporter was right.

Nah....fat chance of that.

Sam

[Triad]

Wasn't there another one that fired "trounds"?

Webley-Fosbury
Isn't that the one that was developed for pilots during WWI?

[geekWithA.45]

I believe these notorious semi-auto revolvers saturday night special handguns are only made in .50 bmg, and are renowned for the quality of their flash hider, bayonet mount, and grenade launcher. Criminals like them because they readily accept 200 round SAW buckets.

Ironically, they have no pistol grip

[keederdag]

See what a guy has to do to get a beer there. Good thing I gave it up:D

[Trempel]

In media, anything that is not single shot or bolt action becomes semi-auto. Idiots.

[Mike Irwin]

"Developed for pilots during WW I?"

No, that was the Webley Mks I and II self-loading pistol.

The Webley-Fosberry was a revolver that employed recoil to rotate the cylinder and cock the hammer.


The grip section was one part, and the cylinder, barrel, and upper frame another, which slid in a groove in the grip section.

Here's a very nice image from "The Gun Zone."


http://www.thegunzone.com/images/webley-fosbery.jpg

You can clearly see the upper and lower halves. You'll also notice the safety lever on the upper part of the grip.

What's really interesting about this design is that it was EXTREMELY accurate, and for many years held quite a few records at NRA Bisley, the British shooting range.


This, on the other hand, is the Webley Mk I automatic pistol, and was used by the Royal Flying Corps during WW I.

http://www.classicfirearms.co.uk/455%20web%201.jpg

[MagKnightX]

Well, I have heard of an odd gun that actually uses a magazine to feed a revolving cylinder, and then ejects the case, being a truely semi-auto revolver, but I can't for the life of me remember what that was...

Although I suppose one COULD say that any double-action revolver is semi-auto, it's not technically semi-auto unless it ejects the spent case after each shot.

[Triad]

Thanks for clearing that up for me Mike.

[Mike Irwin]

"Well, I have heard of an odd gun that actually uses a magazine to feed a revolving cylinder, and then ejects the case, being a truely semi-auto revolver, but I can't for the life of me remember what that was..."

The Dardik, which used the aforementioned "trounds."

It wasn't really a cylinder perse, but a 3-round carrier open on one side. The tround slipped in, and in the firing position the top of the action closed off the open side.

[BluesBear]

Thank Heavens he didn't grab a FULLY-Automatic Revolver.

Maybe we ought to close up that full-auto-revolver loophole before somebody builds one. :rolleyes:

[4v50 Gary]

The Webley Fosbery semi-automatic revolver was used to kill Stan Archer, Sam Spade's partner in The Maltese Falcon. It's the only crime that I'm aware of with this unique gun and since it's fiction, it doesn't count.

BTW, sounds like an ignorant journalist throwing out "buzz-words" to stir up public emotion. Typical yellow journalist scavenger-swine-dog.