Outgunned!!!

Outlander_Systems · August 13, 2009, 8:36pm

Just came back from doing some disaster prep shopping at Wally.

I was listening to a report on NPR about the California Corrections System, and apparently the cops here in Georgia are seriously outgunned by their Californian counterparts.

I wish I had a link:

“Joe Officer, a guard at the correctional facility, carries a Mini-14 for when lethal firepower is needed. In addition to that, he carries a 40 MILILIMETER!!! sidearm, loaded with precision ammunition…”

:rolleyes:

“It’s the shoulder thing. That goes up.”

citizensoldier16 · August 13, 2009, 10:26pm

Ignorance is bliss…its also painfully obvious.

1859sharps · August 14, 2009, 2:56am

I can only dream of being “outgunned” because I only have a 40mm sidearm

Amicus · August 14, 2009, 2:59am

Perhaps the press is thinking of a ‘phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range.’

freakshow10mm · August 14, 2009, 3:03am

Probably that new 40mm Glock semi automatic revolver.

nightw50 · August 14, 2009, 3:08am

I think the reason CO’s are issued Mini-14’s (AC556) is because accuracy in the yard is not a big issue, there are no innocent bystanders in a prison yard. I’ve had 2 Mini’s and there is no comparison to a high quality modern AR.

freakshow10mm · August 14, 2009, 3:14am

That and you buy them at $350 a piece.

Tweightwee · August 14, 2009, 4:18am

I had a Mini 14 GB at one time. Very A team.
I think that a magazine full of xm193 would have doubbled its value.

dwhitehorne · August 14, 2009, 10:08am

[QUOTE=I was listening to a report on NPR [/QUOTE]

Oh dear

SoDak · August 14, 2009, 2:11pm

Maybe the guard figured out how to turn an M79 into a sidearm?

Thomas_M-4 · August 14, 2009, 2:17pm

I guess he had one of these

Combat_Diver · August 14, 2009, 2:24pm

Someone need a M79…

CD

loupav · August 14, 2009, 3:06pm

I will soon have two mini’s.

They’re fun little rifles. But I won’t depend my life on them.

gringop · August 15, 2009, 12:11am

You need to clean out your ears.

“He is armed with a Mini-14…a 40 mm Exact Impact round and he has a 38 caliber revolver…”

They are talking about a less-than-lethal gun.

At the 2:00 minute mark.
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=111843426&m=111851651

Exact Impact info
http://www.defense-technology.com/pdfs/specs/Sponge_Round.pdf

Gringop

SteyrAUG · August 15, 2009, 5:31am

40mm will make the yard shut up and behave for 5 minutes.

lol

Parabellum9x19mm · August 15, 2009, 7:55am

NEVERMIND (again)

Mac5.56 · August 15, 2009, 9:27am

That’s what I thought.

Outlander_Systems · August 15, 2009, 1:44pm

I stand corrected. Between talking to my brother, and hearing the report, the two of us attempted to put together what we thought we just heard.

Thanks for the link.