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an invisible AR?
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This would be comical if it weren't for a large portion of the general public swallowing this load of BS without question.
Officers Recover Gun Almost Invisible To X-Rays
WNBC-TV
NEWARK, N.J. 5/1/2006
A pistol found in the car of a drug suspect arrested recently in Newark was made of plastic, so it might pass through a security scan unnoticed.
The unusual find concerned Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura so much that he took the Professional Ordnance Carbon-15 Type-97 pistol to Newark Liberty Airport and saw that in a security scanner, it did not look like a weapon.
Only the stainless steel barrel was visible. The rest of the weapon -- including the trigger and stock -- did not appear because it's made of plastic. While weapons like this one are known to police, they do not turn up often.
Though they are plastic, they are hardly toys. The one found in Newark fires .233-caliber ammunition so fast it can penetrate a bulletproof vest. "This a nasty weapon," Fontoura told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers. "That's the ammunition we're using in Iraq. If we're not alert, this could go right past security."
Fontoura said he would warn other law enforcement agencies that drug dealers may be getting their hands on the hard-to-detect guns.
Officers Recover Gun Almost Invisible To X-Rays
WNBC-TV
NEWARK, N.J. 5/1/2006
A pistol found in the car of a drug suspect arrested recently in Newark was made of plastic, so it might pass through a security scan unnoticed.
The unusual find concerned Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura so much that he took the Professional Ordnance Carbon-15 Type-97 pistol to Newark Liberty Airport and saw that in a security scanner, it did not look like a weapon.
Only the stainless steel barrel was visible. The rest of the weapon -- including the trigger and stock -- did not appear because it's made of plastic. While weapons like this one are known to police, they do not turn up often.
Though they are plastic, they are hardly toys. The one found in Newark fires .233-caliber ammunition so fast it can penetrate a bulletproof vest. "This a nasty weapon," Fontoura told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers. "That's the ammunition we're using in Iraq. If we're not alert, this could go right past security."
Fontoura said he would warn other law enforcement agencies that drug dealers may be getting their hands on the hard-to-detect guns.
Comments
gee, so you can pass a carbon 15 past incompetent screeners. Are they also so incompetent that they do not detect ammunition as well?
Well, considering that the screeners/x-ray-folks let a man through with two fully loaded AK's shortly after 9/11... the bags got xrayed and they saw nothing...
He was pulled aside on a routine check.. where they found the AK's..
Take a wild guess... but apparently the machine was set to find nailfiles and Zippo's... [:D]
Officers Recover Gun Almost Invisible To X-Rays
Is that like "almost pregnant"?
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Though they are plastic,
Except for the metal parts. . .
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they are hardly toys. The one found in Newark fires .233-caliber ammunition so fast it can penetrate a bulletproof vest.
IE, its the same as every other .223 (er 233?) rifle on the planet.
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"This a nasty weapon," Fontoura told The Star-Ledger of Newark for Friday's newspapers. "That's the ammunition we're using in Iraq. If we're not alert, this could go right past security."
Yup. . .
Sucks that the security screeners actually have to "pay attention" while they are working, doesn't it?
Anyone who can miss this thing on a scanner needs to be in a different line of work.
...does anybody else get a mental image of this one, ugly fool...bent over in the airplane, TRYING to light his tennie grippers, I do, and since it ended well..I find the mental pic hilarious...[:D]