What handgun was it?

TEC-9, or a similar POS.

Rap music favorite, next to Glock.

And that's the way they work!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEC-9

rc

Looked like a semi auto machine pistol.

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You're not in journalism, are you?

^ymmd.

Anyone old enough to remember the nut in San Francisco that shot up his former office with a Tec 9 or perhaps two of them? It was sometime in the mid 1990's IIRC. One of the "news" shows at the time did a story on it that focused a lot on how "deadly" the Tec 9 was and the general lean of the program was that such a weapon had no business being available to the public. They had a clip of someone firing one they had purchased on the range. The kicker was that it was so unreliable that they couldn't get off more than a couple or rounds before it jammed so they kept rerunning the same footage over and over making it look like it was firing the whole magazine quickly, but it always ended with the bolt closing partway and then stopping due to a stovepipe malfunction after the second round fired, then the clip would recycle.

I have a Tec-9M

Its fun to shoot but the last few outings to the range it has jammed badly.

Looked like a semi auto machine pistol.

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Oh it did?
What, pray tell, do those look like?

Don't let it get too you friend.

It's just that we hate it when people use buzz words that the liberal media uses to constantly vilify firearms. That's all.

Don't take it personally. Neither I nor MedWheeler intended it as a personal attack.
He was poking at the same thing I mentioned above, when the antis write about guns. They often include terms like that one. That's all.

Happy shooting.

I have a Tec 9 and it runs like a top. Keep it clean and load good ammo it shoots fine.

Jeez, it's a blowback. How cheaply does it have to be made to jam with so few moving parts?

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Looked like a semi auto machine pistol.
Oh it did?
What, pray tell, do those look like?

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Maybe like one of these with stock 1911 parts?

Arkansas Paul said:

Oh it did?
What, pray tell, do those look like?

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IDK, Roughly what a TEC-9, MAC-10, MAC-11, Skorpion vz.61, MP5k, Micro-Uzi, HK97, or Scorpion EVO 3 look like?

That was actually a pretty descriptive term.

OP, please don't think I'm ripping on you. As I said earlier I certainly am not trying to.

IDK, Roughly what a TEC-9, MAC-10, MAC-11, Skorpion vz.61, MP5k, Micro-Uzi, HK97, or Scorpion EVO 3 look like?

That was actually a pretty descriptive term.

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Those are semi automatic machine pistols?
The definition of a machine gun from a quick Google search is as follows:

an automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed.

A semi automatic is exactly not that.

It cannot be a semi automatic and a machine gun. It is one or the other.
It could be a select fire weapon I suppose but the term "semi automatic machine pistol" is the terminology that the liberal media makes up to scare other liberals. Much like words such as "assault rifle" and "assault clip".

That's all I'm saying.
We should discourage the use of such inaccurate terminology.


And jmorris, that may be the craziest thing I've ever seen. lol

Several criminals did.

See this about that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_S._Lehman

http://www.nfatoys.com/tsmg/web/dillinger.htm

rc

Wow.
Dillinger had quite the collection. And yes, criminals have historically been known to convert their semi autos to fire full auto. No doubt about it.

I guess the bottom line is that the guy who survived should thank his lucky stars that the criminal had a piece of crap gun. I guess the criminal found out that because something looks cool on tv doesn't mean it's good for real.

The Tec-9 was last produced in 2001.

So that one has been floating around the gang-banger underworld for at least 14 years or more.

They were never reliable when new.

And they don't get any better or more reliable spending 14+ years stuffed down someone's baggy sweaty pants!!

It wouldn't even surprise me if he had it loaded with the wrong caliber ammo, like .380 for instance.

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Arkansas Paul, I know what type saying, you're just incorrect. Machine Pistol is an accepted subcategory of FA guns. Semi Auto Machine Pistol is clearly a semi auto version of a machine pistol. It's an accurate descriptor.

IDK, Roughly what a TEC-9, MAC-10, MAC-11, Skorpion vz.61, MP5k, Micro-Uzi, HK97, or Scorpion EVO 3 look like?

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Depends on if they are a semiautomatic pistol or a machine gun.

A semiautomatic Mac 10 pistol.



A full auto MAC 10 machine gun.



If you put the wire stock on the pistol you would turn it into a short barreled rifle, there is no such thing as an SBR machine gun.

Maybe if the guy had held it sideways, it would have worked! ; )

Just thank God they would rather spend money on gold plated wheels than firearms that run and don't have the mental capacity to clear a malfunction or we would have lost another "good guy".