Hit this new CCW poll in my home town paper (St. Louis)

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Well here is a 30mm round from an Apache.

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FYI

U.S. 30mm Ammunition:
M789 (HEDP) High Explosive Dual Purpose
M799 (HEI) High Explosive Incendiary
M788 (TP) Target Practice


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Try shooting that in a handgun!!!
 
That article isn't strictly correct.

I was in that class, and remember that reporter. He was late, and only was present for the range session. The photographer showed up earlier during the classroom portion; that pistol shown is a plastic demo piece.

The class was NOT consisting of 8 St. Louis County residents; although there were a few from the county, I myself am from St. Charles County and several people were from Jefferson County.

I am surprised that it was a fair story though. I didn't expect that out of the SLPD.
 
Heh, they corrected the caliber of the handgun lol nitpickers.

I think a 38mm handgun could theorectically be created, but it wouldnt hold a lot of rounds. Just like many an 18mm two shot pistol has been created by sawing off the extra bits on a shotgun.
 
69 up..

I wonder if they toss the polls when they are regularly hit with saw 1000 votes and now they get 9000 and it seems 'lopsided' towards the 'gunlobby'.

=)
 
I must have missed the part of gun school that taught us to grasp the muzzle by two fingers and let the thing dangle loosely like a dead rat.

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Dale Schmid, shows his hand-gun training class how he will handle a pistol at the shooting range. ( SAM LEONE/P-D)
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What the hell are they teaching these folks?
 
I was sitting about 3 feet away from him when he was doing that. Every time he was handling the plastic pistol (that is a FAKE), the shutter was snapping wildly. He was not showing how the thing would be handled at the range at that time. For a demonstration of picking up a gun, he actually handed that thing to me (I took it; finger off trigger, dropped the FAKE magazine, retracted the FAKE slide, and checked the FAKE chamber- passed with flying colors).

Did I mention that the gun was FAKE? The class took part in the basement of the Florissant branch of the St. Louis County Public Library, where real firearms are not allowed.

And BTW, Dale Schmid is no weenie- he is the head of the Second Amendment Coalition in MO, and he played a huge part in getting our CCW bill passed. The only reason the Post-Dispatch was there was because he had sent a rather nasty letter to the St. Louis County Council, accusing them of being "pawns for the paid staff," and he coped the paper in on it.

So Geek and Chris, I can vouch for what was being taught in that class- the lib photog just grabbed the worst shot he could.
 
looks like the story got corrected...they must read THR: :p

"An earlier version of this story incorrectly noted the caliber of the handgun fired by Audrey Sementilli. The corrected version appears below.
The blast from the 38 caliber handgun produced a surprisingly strong kick, one that caused Audrey Sementilli to shake her head as she placed the pistol back on the counter in front of her."

69% yes, 31% no
 
So Geek and Chris, I can vouch for what was being taught in that class- the lib photog just grabbed the worst shot he could.
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Duly noted.

Thanks for confirming media bias!

Ain't the 'net a wunnerful thing?
 
You will have to look far and wide to find a paper more biased than the SLPD.

Notice how the story was pretty obvious in its omission of the effects of CCW law in MO. It has been a year, cops aren't dying by the thousands, the streets aren't red with blood, and the law abiding CCW holders are, guess what, law abiding.

I guess that doesn't fit with their predictions, so they just hope people forget about it.
 
the Minneapolis star and sycle oops i mean tribune is the worst paper on the planet as far a biased and knowing it but feinting innocense. It makes a 1968 Pravda seem positively fair and reasoned. The paper constantly uses phrases like "it feels" or "some say" or "public opinion seems" to try and shape stories that alter the truth. The level of factual errors on small items are so terrrible that you have a sense that nothing they print is true.

do papers not realize that all people are experts on somethings? Meaning I am a contractor and if I see a story on a building that is patently wrong, I suspect all stories as being wrong. If I see a Dodge truck pictured as being involved in a traffic accident and it is identified as a Ford, I mistrust everything else they print that day. and the next...It is not hard to call someone and send them a pic and say ford or dodge, or to read a bill that says fees and wonder if it is instead a tax?
An over and under twelve gauge is not a 20 caliber semi auto. A POS tech 9 is not a assualt rifle, or a sub machine gun.
 
Voted "yes".

I thought that the proper way to hold a gun at the range was muzzle down range, not up in the air.

So Geek and Chris, I can vouch for what was being taught in that class- the lib photog just grabbed the worst shot he could.
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