{"id":45508,"date":"2014-07-02T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45508"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:53:56","slug":"snipers-in-the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45508","title":{"rendered":"Snipers In The Mist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Police discovered a “sniper nest”<\/a> atop a public parking garage near a Chicago college:<\/p>\n

Officials say they found a high-powered semi-automatic rifle about a block from the campus of Kennedy King college, near 64th and Lowe last Thursday. Officers say the nest was found on top of a garage across from a soccer field on campus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Snipers. \u00a0Deadly, cold-eyed marksmen…<\/p>\n

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A US Marine sniper. With his rifle. With a long, match-grade barrel, to use the most of the high-powered round’s power to give the bullet the highest velocity and straightest flight path possible.<\/p><\/div>\n

…with weapons that can reach out hundreds of yards – sometime over a mile – to put a bullet precisely into a human head.<\/p>\n

At the scene, officers recovered a fully loaded Mac-10<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(SCREAAAAAAAATCH)<\/p>\n

A MAC-10?<\/p>\n

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A MAC-10<\/p><\/div>\n

The MAC10 is a civilianized version of the MAC-10 submachine gun – an ultra-short-barreled weapon designed to “Spray and Pray”; fire 20 shots a second at point-blank range.\u00a0 But being civilianized, it doesn’t\u00a0“spray” – it’s semi-automatic.\u00a0 \u00a0It has a four-inch barrel – the same as a modestly-respectable handgun.\u00a0 But it’s not even as accurate as a modest-quality handgun (and even a high-quality\u00a0target handgun is useless beyond about\u00a030-50 yards).\u00a0\u00a0The MAC’s\u00a0 “sights” are a v-notch cut in a piece of steel. \u00a0It’s got a trigger pull like an old Mattel cap gun.\u00a0 \u00a0And it fires pistol ammunition<\/em>, meaning by definition it is not “high-powered”.<\/p>\n

It is a glorified, heavy, badly-balanced,\u00a0expensive handgun, with an effective, aimed range of about 30 feet. \u00a0Not “a block and a soccer field and change”.<\/p>\n

Kennedy King officials say they have notified students. Although, it does not appear that anyone on campus was ever in any danger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed.<\/p>\n

I know that the NRA and other Second Amendment groups offer classes to journalists about how not to sound stupid when talking about firearms. \u00a0Someone might want to send the TV station behind this story a gift certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Police discovered a “sniper nest” atop a public parking garage near a Chicago college: Officials say they found a high-powered semi-automatic rifle about a block from the campus of Kennedy King college, near 64th and Lowe last Thursday. Officers say the nest was found on top of a garage across from a soccer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45535,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45508\/revisions\/45535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}