COPS and Hollowpoints

[gryphon]

Back in the good 'ole days when a department switched over to another firearm (revolver to semi's in particular) their old side arms would be sold to the public by distributers retailors etc. It's pretty easy to accept that one or more found their way into a pawn shop in NY or thereabouts

They still sell ex-police firearms here in Ohio. There are at least 3 different stores in the central Ohio area that I can think of that sell them.

 

[Andrew Rothman]

Personally, if I had to take a bullet, I'd want it to be a hollowpoint. I'd stand a much higher chance of survival.

HP's have better stopping power. They do more internal damage. You are MORE likely to die from HP.

Unless you're wearing a flak jacket or something that could stop HP.

 

[rayra]

How did a P.D. gun get into the hands of a kid on a bike?

(shrug) I'm sitting here in L.A. with one of a pair of .357 revolvers my father and I purchased at a gun store in San Diego 12-13yrs ago which are engraved with NYSP - New York State Police.
Surplused weapons, don't mean a thing.

 

[Ben Shepherd]

I picked up a stainless security six with NIS (Naval Intellegence Service) stamped on it a while back.

Someone gave it a good front sight and a nice trigger job, I paid $200.

Glad they still sell turn-ins around here.

 

[gunsmith]

Old episode

I saw that too,and it said Oakland PD.
Who knows how the 17yrold idiot got the gun. Probably as hot as the girls bike he was riding (what an idiot).

I was angered by that stupid comment about ammo as well but as far as his choice of plainclothes wear,well I guess he knows about as much about fashion as he does ammo

 

[cracked butt]

I haven't seen that episode, but I saw some horrendous gun handling in another- a cop (LA I think) pulls over a guy and finds what looks like a loaded savage semiauto .22 in the backseat. While the cop is lecturing about how he just took an illegal deadly semiauto assault rifle off the street, he proceeds to unload it by holding it up at a 30 degree angle, working the bolt back and forth while fumbling around catching the .22 rounds as they eject. I feel so much safer now. :banghead:

 

[7677]

ExtremeDooty,
This is the number one reason why I do not watch cops. If I didn't personally know some of the officers that have been on cops I would swear that it is filmed along with the Jerry Springer show!

 

[ExtremeDooty]

I don't take COPS seriously unless they make blatant anti gun statements. Most of my extended family are less conservative than I am, and I can just hear them repeating some of this stuff as gospel.

I also think the camera changes a lot of what goes on. You can tell some of the Leo's have just re-read the Academy handbook when they found out the camera would be riding with them.

The reason I like COPS is that it's just fun watching somebody else get into trouble and then trying to lie their way out of it. Some of the things they say is just hilarious.

 

[Archangel]

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Personally, if I had to take a bullet, I'd want it to be a hollowpoint. I'd stand a much higher chance of survival.
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HP's have better stopping power. They do more internal damage. You are MORE likely to die from HP.

In a way, you're both right.

A HP does have more "stopping power," and as a result, a person is more likely to be stopped with fewer shots than had they been shot with FMJ's. It's the number of shots, not the actual bullet design / performance, that makes you more likely to survive if you are shot with hollow points.

 

[fish2xs]

I love COPS

I can live with the gun-fumbling and sporadic anti comments, but where can you get some of the lines that the suspects come up with? They are classic.

Last week (I think) there was a group of 'inner city' people involved in a large scuffle. Apparently person 1 hit his girlfriend. The girlfriends brother then punched person 1 right in front of a cop. As the show 'fades to black' at the end of the half hour, the brother's voice is heard:

"ain't nobody gonna hit my sister...." (long pause) "unless he's married to her."

truely classic...