sorry! i can still buy it out here in OR for 16.99 :)
There is NO WAY I would shoot black talons... Maybe stash a few boxes
of 'em for future cartridge collectors, but I can just imagine a
prosecutor's eyes lighting up...
"Yes, yer honor... Bogie here nailed that mugger, armed with only a
.38 special revolver, with 8 banned black talon bullets from that
semi-automatic firearm listed as Exhibit 1. It is commonly known that
this armor-piercing ammunition is so cruely lethal that it was banned,
so the state <and my forthcoming political campaign> aims to make an
example out of this criminal. Alas, his victim, an honest mugger, did
not survive to file civil suit..."
cc
The DA ( if, as the scenario above notes ) may have some political
ambition, and your case may just lead him/her/it? to glory. The jury is
going to hear sensational crap like the Talons are AP, or banned, and by
the time your lawyer presents the facts the damage is done. The jury has
it in their collective mind that you are some kind of wacked-out Rambo
wannabe, with hyper-active ammo designed to kill a charging rhino.
Remember folks, we may know the facts, but there are still a lot
of sheep out there who believe the media, and blindly accept the crap
that's being spewed out. How many people out there actually know that
full-auto weapons are LEGAL, and that Clinton's Crime Bill affected only
politically-ugly SEMI-AUTO weapons?? We've all met them. Just remember
that these are the folks sitting on the jury.
Something to think about,
APO
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The Bill of Rights: Void where prohibited by federal fiat.
Just think what would happen if you spent as much time writing your
elected officials as you do surfing the net...maybe things would change.
I know that... You know that... But your average juror is only going to
hear about how this inhumane bullet explodes into jagged shapes as it
rips its way through that poor innocent mugger's flesh... Joe Citizen
doesn't know, or remember, that it wasn't banned... He just knows that
something was in the news, and then it wasn't anymore.
Heck... If you are involved in a shooting situation, the prosecutor is
gonna trot out all sorts of crap. No sense in giving 'em more. Plus, if
your mugger survives, he may sue! More reason to use something that
sounds safe... If Winchester had named the Black Talon the "Safety
Protector" or something like that, it likely wouldn't have received the
bad press, etc.
My fictitious prosecutor can, and most probably WILL, say anything that
will persuade the jury to find you guilty, so his record will look good
come election time... If he can get away with using the round's bad
reputation in the eyes of the general 'Merican public, he will.
As far as most idjits on the street think, it probably IS a banned,
exploding, armor-piercing assault-pistol-only bullet...
Am I forgetting anything?
Oh yeah... Next time, instead of knee-jerking to demonstrate your
knowledge, read the post, and don't grab stuff out of context. You're
starting to sound like a Democrat.
But I beleive the point he was trying to make is this is what the DA
would tell the jury, he didn't say it was true. Ask Ayoob about cases
like this.
Landric
And BTW Black Talons are not Armor Piercing, nor are they banned
This is the kind of ridiculous argument that has NYC cops with 9mm FMJ
ammo!!! Yes sir, first they go to a .38 that is lightly loaded as not to
penetrate to a bystander, then to a round notorious for doing just that!!
aAaHHH The Northeast Democrats.......
Bill
bo...@vulcan.inlink.com (bogie) wrote:
###I have several boxes of Winchester Black Talon ammo in .45 ACP I want
##to sell.
#
#There is NO WAY I would shoot black talons... Maybe stash a few boxes
#of 'em for future cartridge collectors, but I can just imagine a
#prosecutor's eyes lighting up...
#
#"Yes, yer honor... Bogie here nailed that mugger, armed with only a
#.38 special revolver, with 8 banned black talon bullets from that
#semi-automatic firearm listed as Exhibit 1. It is commonly known that
#this armor-piercing ammunition is so cruely lethal that it was banned,
#so the state <and my forthcoming political campaign> aims to make an
#example out of this criminal. Alas, his victim, an honest mugger, did
#not survive to file civil suit..."
#
#cc
#
#
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