Boston Police Seize Marijuana, Assault Rifle and Banana Clips

[ColdDayInHell]

So.. a 10/22 isn't considered a high-cap rifle is it? A junior (or FID holder) could buy one.
So because he had it with high-cap mags (clearly post ban) does that warrant the "Unlawful Possession of High Capacity Firearm" charge? Or did they mischarge him?

An FID holder can buy a 10/22?

Nevermind, I forgot it wasn't built to accept hi caps. I am also surprised he wasn't nabbed for the AWB. That is a side folder too?

 

[josh2600]

Cost/Benefit is pretty lob-sided on this one.
What does the BPD care though, it's not their money being wasted in these fruitless endeavors.

I think that for every "raid" they go through with they should have to post the total amount of $$ spent vs. the amount of product recovered so the MA taxpayers can see that we are throwing our money away on with these cavalier ding-dongs.

That is an excellent idea.

 

[Prepper]

Sorry I had to burst out laughing at the article saying it was a "Ruger assault rifle".

And what's with the media's fascination over using the term "banana clips"? Does that make it sound more killy? I never use it nor hear anyone else ever use it. I guess it might be occasionally used, but that's not the first thing I think of saying when I see a magazine that's curved.

 

[Waher]

I'm surprised there was no Boston AWB charge on the 10/22.

Crickets from MDA/Rosenthal/etc. that the city has a poster child opportunity to prosecute with their AWB ban but isn't. Funny how that works.

 

[Mbian1122]

Boston shooter lost another customer. Watch out for those rugers he could have mowed down 22 people with 1p shots.

 

[The5thDentist]

I get that the stock isn't cheap, but that's the gun equivalent of putting a stick-on hood scoop and portholes and spinner hubcaps on a Ford Escort ZX2.

None of what those people did should be illegal. Just legalize pot and be done with it. And no, don't tax the heck out of it. If someone wants to grow a little for themselves, have at it. The only thing I can't stand is when someone smokes and drives. That enters the realm of affecting my life. But otherwise, have at it.

 

[Gillham]

10/22, that's like it can kill 10 people in 22 seconds right?


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[RHJJ]

Another police thread with the evil words "assault rifle" the media hyping up a pos gun.

 

[MaverickNH]

They must have missed the illegal Ninja Throwing Stars that EVERY pothead with hi-cap 22lr mags and paraphernalia has on hand. Just in case a rival Kung Fu gang busts in to take their stuff.

 

[Glockster30]

My guess would be either Creole or African. Canez is not a french name. His last name, "Tout Puissant", means almighty, which is one heck of a Christian name. I've seen names like that in Burundi, Burkina Faso, and a few other assorted shitholes.

Most likely he is from Haiti.

 

[Another_David]

So fugly....^

I thought my M1935 was bad

But that rifle is ugly as hell too, must just be a cheap 10/22 kit.

I love the 70 series! I have one in .22 and it's so much nicer than the plastic crap auto 22's they make these days.

Right, if it is a 70 there are no greater than 10 round mags. Maybe they did mean the 10/22. That would be consistent with the cmr that states that having a high cap magazine inserted makes something a large capacity weapon.

the .22 will hold 10 but this 380 (maybe .32?) would hold like 7 or less.

 

[browncoat]

I get that the stock isn't cheap, but that's the gun equivalent of putting a stick-on hood scoop and portholes and spinner hubcaps on a Ford Escort ZX2.

None of what those people did should be illegal. Just legalize pot and be done with it. And no, don't tax the heck out of it. If someone wants to grow a little for themselves, have at it. The only thing I can't stand is when someone smokes and drives. That enters the realm of affecting my life. But otherwise, have at it.

Habitual pot smokers regain much more function while under the influence than routine drinkers. Without rehashing the drinking and driving = precrime argument, if drinking and driving should be legal, pot and driving should be much more so.

 

[Matt2109]

Cost/Benefit is pretty lob-sided on this one.
What does the BPD care though, it's not their money being wasted in these fruitless endeavors.

I think that for every "raid" they go through with they should have to post the total amount of $$ spent vs. the amount of product recovered so the MA taxpayers can see that we are throwing our money away on with these cavalier ding-dongs.

THIS THIS This This This

Lets start publishing The cost of this "War on Drugs"

 

[Chevy 2 65]

the world is a safer place.

 

[ToddDubya]

They had an awful lot of specific details on the arsenal and then there were some alleged nondescript containers of what might be marijuana.


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[Bonesinium]

The most impressive thing to me is that the police raided an apartment with 8 dogs, pitbulls no less, 6 adults with drugs and guns present, and didn't shoot anyone. Forget the BS reasons for the raid, these cops seemingly managed the unimaginable. If only they could train the Buffalo PD, for example.

 

[Reptile]

I don't see any

banana clips...

I find it offensive that the "banana clip" has brown spots.
I don't know why I am offended but I am.

 

[Andreas]

There is so goddamn much wrong with this beyond the fact that CLEARLY the police were in grave danger if a bunch of hippies with an amount of pot that would last a weekend were picked up during a "wild drug bust" in which nobody was harmed despite the fact that they had an extra-killy-looking 10/22.
I expect those first two.
I hate those first two, as we all do, but I expect them.
But for the love of christ, would the media stop painting pit bulls as some kind of vicious wild animal that only wants to kill? I mean, dear god, any pit bull I've ever met, the only danger you're in is getting slobbered to death while they try and snuggle with you. Obviously they were in grave danger, and these brave officers handled 8 of said teddy-bears ALL BY THEMSELVES.
What heroes.

What I'm wondering is what the person who wrote this STORY was smoking.....

 

[Gillham]

I love my GF's pitbull. She slobbers the crap out of me. Only problem is that I come home covered in her white hairs!

 

[ToddDubya]

I don't see any

banana clips...

Some day I'm going to paint some mags yellow. I just hope it doesn't affect the collector value of my ancient eastern bloc klips.

 

[exojam]

I am still laughing they have those 3 bullets just sitting out there by themselves. Are they trying to show people what a bullet looks like or make the picture more scary?

 

[Horrible]

Crickets from MDA/Rosenthal/etc. that the city has a poster child opportunity to prosecute with their AWB ban but isn't. Funny how that works.

Silly rabbit, those laws are only there to persecute and prosecute LEGAL gun owners!

 

[Horrible]

Another police thread with the evil words "assault rifle" the media hyping up a pos gun.

I feel so much safer knowing that deadly marijuana and uber-evil looking 10/22 are "off the street".

 

[P-14]

I find it offensive that the "banana clip" has brown spots.
I don't know why I am offended but I am.

Its a pre-ban banana clip. Spots are because it's not fresh.

 

[Squire]

Post-ban pit bulls, no doubt.

 

[Palladin]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/19...vi-captured/5xfDlnGIUssY3LSnPp5xwO/story.html

Salvi used a 10/22 with a folding stock

 

[StevensMarksman]

Cost/Benefit is pretty lob-sided on this one.
What does the BPD care though, it's not their money being wasted in these fruitless endeavors.

I think that for every "raid" they go through with they should have to post the total amount of $$ spent vs. the amount of product recovered so the MA taxpayers can see that we are throwing our money away on with these cavalier ding-dongs.

Well, if it saves just one pint of Ben & Jerry's...

StevensMarksman

 

[Shovelheddrew]

Way to get the marijuana off the street 50. Great police work. /sarcasm

 

[OfficerObie59]

Right, if it is a 70 there are no greater than 10 round mags. Maybe they did mean the 10/22. That would be consistent with the cmr that states that having a high cap magazine inserted makes something a large capacity weapon.

This.

The Beretta in the picture looks to be a Beretta 70, which uses magazines that have 7-10 round capacity (a single stack 7 rounder is pictured). Moreover, the trend of the Massachusetts courts has been to hold large capacity firearms as a fourth category of guns under state law (in addition to "rifles", "shotguns", and the catch-all "firearms") rather than merely a modifier of the other three categories, though to my knowlege there hasn't been any solid case law on the issue.

In my view, BPD correctly charged the large capacity firearm since, despite not being on the large capacity roster, a large capacity feeding device was found in the control of a person who also had a semi-auto weapon capable of accepting that device. See 501 CMR 7.02.

 

[M.Bison]

I just spent way too long reading older entries on that BPD site. I noticed that when they recover a gun and show the ammo it's often a mishmash mixture of ball and HP, lead, FMJ, or whatever all in the same mag.
Odd.

Edit: Ugh, that poor Kimber Custom Target..