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Tonight (7/8/04) on The Discovery Channel there was an episode of The Real LAPD " In the Line of Fire" (BB's by the way). I caught the last 15 mins. of the show. I am really smoked at the way they talked about this guy that died. First off he may have been a little eccentric and a touch on the weird side but the way that talked about him was totally un-called for and not just the Cops, the narrator was very condescending also. The guy had a quite paltry gun collection as I see it with some interesting tidbits.

They pull up to the house and call the bomb squad because the guy had died about 5 days before and they thought that the house might be booby trapped because, to quote the narrator, “He was a right-wing nut survivalist.†That got me quite mad right away, but it got worse. There were a few Enfields and some shotguns and other rifles (no EBRs or semis that I could tell). He had half a dozen hand guns [shocked voice/ON] All Loaded [shocked voice/OFF]. The guy also had a Brit Boys .50/.55 (not sure) anti-tank rifle that wigged them out.

The bad thing about it was the cop that was going through this seemed to be quite the firearms aficionado. He was calling out the names of the guns he was pulling out like he knew what he was talking about. At the end he said that this was not the type of guy he wanted to own guns. There were a few other comments of why would anyone need this many guns, obviously posing for the camera. At the end they walked out of his garage and on his truck the deceased had some shooting range/club stickers and an NRA sticker on there, the cop pointed to them for the camera to zoom in on and said “That explains it all right there.†The narrator came on then and said that most of the guns were military surplus and in The State of California they are not required to be registered nor did he need a permit to own them.

I thought I was going to throw something at the TV, now I know why I don’t watch much TV anymore.

I hate being demonized for doing perfectly legal things like owning firearms. The total ignorance of these holier than thou LEO’s was place on display for the world to see and the sad part of it is the uneducated sheep think that the cops are the oracle of truth on firearms when most of the younger ones are not too sure which end of the tube the pointy thing goes into and out of.
 
In the same show a few minutes before that part, the policeman and his brother go shooting. They go to a gun store and load up on ammo. The store has a sign outside reading "Freedom is the sound you only hear when it's gone".

The narrator says that the brothers (both cops) have been going to that store and shooting for many years and have a preference for military style weapons.

They go shooting in the desert a Garand and what looks like a FAL in additon to various handguns.

One of the cops says he doesn't have a problem with civilians owning guns as long as they're not criminals, and they go through the background checks to get one.
 
One of the cops says he doesn't have a problem with civilians owning guns as long as they're not criminals, and they go through the background checks to get one.
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Of course, criminals are always deterred from having guns by background checks. :rolleyes:

We've all heard the "civilian" keyword - unless said cop is a member of the armed forces, he's a civilian, too. ;)
 
I caught the last 20 minutes of that "show". They should have called it "In the Line of Stupidity:More L.A. Bull????".

They way they made the guy sound like some kind of terrorist really smoked my cookies. It looked like most of his rifles were mil surp, the kind a lot of guys collect. Couldn't really tell about the handguns, other than the .357.

What the hell else could you expect from a show (?) filmed in Kallynogunforya?
 
Did you get to see the apartment entry where the rookie runs in front of the "Tactical 870" LEO and he gets ribbed for "Crossing the 2's" What a bunch of SWAT wannabe's. Buy the way you can now be a sniper with a BB gun FYI watch your 6, 2, 2:30, and 11:35. ( I like be tactical ) ;)
 
The Real LAPD sux


Give me COPs 24/7

LAPD has no toothless hilljacks (I'm using that term as a term of endearment, I come from a long line of hilljacks) in sweat stained wife beaters yelling "Wanda, Wanda I love youuuu. I didn't mean to kick your teeth out but you blocked my view of the NASCAR race." That is entertainment.

LAPD just seemed like a commercial from The VPC, only LEO's need guns they are the only ones that understand them, civilians just don't have the ability to own guns and remain law abiding.
 
I watched an episode of the Real LAPD once where they had to qualify at the range. One cop's gun was so dirty it wouldn't even fire most of the time. I felt really bad for her partner. If he ever had to depend on her in a life threatening situation he was SOL.
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It's the narrator and producer that make that episode offensive. If you watch what's happening, the cops themselves are really enjoying seeing the different guns. They aren't freaking out over the guns. None of the cops say, "it's bad that these guns are loaded." They just say they're loaded, which is quite appropriate to say when handling firearms. The only gun they point to and say "bad gun" is the .50.

It's the ominous music in the background and the narration makes it seem like something really evil is going on. You see cops smiling and laughing and admiring the guns while this music plays that makes it sounds like the bad guy is about to spring out of a closet and kill them all.

I suspect the "guys like that" comments were moments out of hours of tape. I also think that tape is quite old. I didn't see it last night, but several years ago, and it might even predate the Rodney King riots or the millenium meltdown fears, which made having some water, food and ammo seem a little more reasonable.
 
The best is when a LEO finds a gun in a suspects car, they always ask "what do you need thif for?" The reply is usually "for protection" and 9 times out of 10 the LEO says back "protection from what?"
 
what do you think would happen if you responded to the cop's question of "protection from what?" with "protection from you?"

I'm thinkin it wouldn't go to well.
 
Did you get to see the apartment entry where the rookie runs in front of the "Tactical 870" LEO and he gets ribbed for "Crossing the 2's" What a bunch of SWAT wannabe's.
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It's crossing the "Tubes" not the 2's. It is refering to the guy holding the shotgun aimed in the door, basicly it is saying stay out of the line of fire, a very basic concept in room entry.

I saw most the show last night, I agree it potraied the guy with guns in a bad light, and the one cop who owned guns seemed a little high and mighty at times, but much better then some cops who feel only they should have guns.
 
LA is an open festering cesspool. I grew up in LA and during my younger years had some "interactions" with the LAPD. You did not give them ANY crap. One LA cop could pull over a car full of yahoos, and they'd BETTER follow commands, or the driver would have pulled out through the windwing. LA was a safe place to live. Those days are gone. Thanks, liberal Democrats.
 
I caught just about the same amount of this episode last night and was actually enjoying it at first....

When the gun lovin cop was out of camera range and he said: "Whoa, I want THIS" I thought right on! ! ! ! !

Then the part (already mentioned) about the .50 and the comments made by them and the narrator started the whole downhill slide...

It really was too bad that they had to throw stupid crap in there like that...

I remember thinking... "Hmmm, and the problem with normal people collecting military surplus rifles is what again??"
 
It's crossing the "Tubes" not the 2's
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OK that makes me feel a little stupid :eek:

Please understand I was pretty well steamed when I typed that.

At least when the two guys went back in the dead guys house at the end they were gagging on the stench :neener:
 
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