Three people hoping to attend The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were detained on Sunday (21Sep08), after police found a rifle inside their car at a checkpoint near the show.I'm familiar with "air rifle" and "CO2 guns," but I really can't recall ever hearing the term "aerosol rifle." Is it a term hobbyists use and I'm just out of that loop? Or is it more "Authorized Journalism"?
Three people were detained by authorities when an aerosol rifle, similar to a BB gun, was found in the trunk of the car.
All I know is, another Skip Coolzip opportunity for television history has come and gone.
Those elites sure are protected, aren't they?
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"Aerosol," because it can spray bullets when fired from the hip. Or something.
You have to be really hip to fire it from the hip, though.
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I wonder if they mean an aerosol rifle like a potato gun that combusts flammable gas to propel the projectile down the barrel.
The part that gets me is how the term "checkpoint" is used so often that no one gets excited about them and have accepted "checkpoints" as a common occurrence in these United States.
Maybe they meant "Airsoft"
I think someone garbled "airsoft" from a cell phone or speech impediment. Yes, it could be caused by talking with your mouth full of doughnut.
The "checkpoint" thing also bothers the heck out of me. OTOH, I have never understood how ANY "checkpoints" are Constitutional. Yes, I know that SCOTUS has stated that they are. I would love to get my hands on the copy of the Constitution that they have since it contradicts the copies that I have been able to find.
Since most news articles involving guns read like they were dictated over Alexander Graham Bell's original telephone to someone to whom English is a second or third language... I agree with Anonymous.
The Sacred Scribes figure a gun is a gun is a gun so details don't matter, even the difference between lethal weapon and ouch-that-stings.
"Clinging to religion and guns" alert (!!insulting anti-Christian blasphemy warning!!): I see that Kathy Griffin, alleged comedian, was prominent in the show. Remember when SHE won some award, she did a little comedy routine about how people always thank God for their successes. Well, she thought that was immature and wanted to set herself apart, so she lifted her award high and proclaimed "Suck it, Jesus!"
Didn't hurt her popularity any ... with people who matter, that is. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and celebrities come from Uranus.
In my AO, the conditioning continues. Norfolk Va. police hassled a man A SECOND TIME for legal open carry. A "well-trained" bus driver saw the gun on his belt, made a phone call and delayed her route until police arrived. (If the man had intended harm, she gave him a stable shooting platform.) The cops gave him grief about since he has a concealed handgun permit, he should just carry concealed instead of "causing a public nuisance."
Regardless of state law that says he was entirely within his rights.
Aerosol huh? Was it CFC free? I am betting that they press environmental charges against them. Fine them for the hole in the ozone layer, etc.
Aerosolt rifle - shoots holes in the ozone layer! From the hip!
Ah, I think I grok it now--someone gave them a new demonizing term, "air assault rifle" and the "Authorized Journalist" didn't understand...
Defender - That was Danbus over at opencarry.org. This incident happened right after Norfolk paid him $10,000 in a lawsuit for the same thing. Methinks NPD aren't so bright.
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