I know!…

Your post is very informative….

This is why I like to combine great tweeters, woofer, and even a subwoofer in back….

Cool……

Cool……

soundingboard on August 16, 2007 at 9:24 PM

It’s a Scott Thomas Beauchamp reference….
Frank is quick, like a marsupial….you gotta watch for his supreme sneaky powers.

Catseye on August 17, 2007 at 12:22 PM

What the (probably totally firearms-ignorant) reporter most likely did was garble a report on recovered (expended) cartridge cases.

Expended cases from a Glock are easy to discern; you just look at the fired primer. All Glock pistols have a “square” (actually rectangular cross-section) firing-pin impact head, and thus leave a rectangular depression in the fired primer, unlike most other small arms that have round firing-pin tips.

Other than a couple of early 20 m/m automatic cannon from the pre- World War Two era (the HAIHA from Sweden and the similar Solothurn from Switzerland), the only other centerfire weapon I know of that leaves this kind of firing-pin imprint is the old British Sten submachine gun. This was because the Sten was a typical “slamfire” (aka “Advanced Primer Ignition) SMG, with a fixed firing pin. Unlike the others of its generation (the German MP-38/40, Italian Beretta, and U.S. M1/M1A1 Thompson and M3 “Grease Gun”), all of which had a cylindrical firing pin secured in the breechblock by a cross-pin, the Sten just had a “block” of steel left behind by the milling machine when the breechblock forging was machined down. (It and the barrel were about the only parts of the Sten that weren’t just stamped out of sheet metal.)

And while (a) there are still some Stens floating around (at least some showed up with the Zapatista rebels in Mexico a few years ago) and (b) both the Sten and the most common Glock models (17, 19, etc.) fire the 9 x 19mm round, the imprints are still different enough that you can tell. Besides, AFAIK, no Stens have showed up in Iraq. Yet.

BTW, I’ve used the Glocks off and on since they were introduced in the late 1970s (and generated the first “plastic gun” panic in the MSM). And at the same time, I was doing a good bit of full-auto weapons training for law-enforcement purposes, and one of the weapons we trained with (for comparison and familiarization purposes) was the MK II Sten. So I’m speaking from personal experience here, if anyone’s interested.

cheers

eon

Caption: An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition…

“Square back…only be fired from a Glock”?
Did I miss something?
soundingboard on August 16, 2007 at 9:24 PM

About a month back there was another faux story, don’t remember the exact details, but it the writer indicated that he was basically at a “crime scene” and the weapons were glock used by the Iraqi police because the bullets fired had square back and only glocks bullets have square backs. Another case of either someone obviously not knowing their firearms or that someone trying to pull one over on everyone.

Could it be the new 6.8mm?

soundingboard on August 16, 2007 at 9:27 PM

Given the configuration of bullet seating, shape of case, and relative size to the fingers, these are some type of .22cal/5.56mm bullets/rounds. What is missing in this picture is perspective on length of the casings and the diameter of the base.

Bullets of bigger caliber generally have different bullet seating depths, something hand-loaders can recongnize, and the bullets and casings would appear bigger in diameter.

The new 6.8mm is simply the old .270cal bullet configured into a military style round based on an older necked down .30-30 case. The 6.8mm bullet is also a 115gr bullet, whereas the bullets seated in the rounds in the picture can’t be much bigger than standard 55gr 22cal/5.56mm bullets.

Bryan on August 15, 2007 at 8:08 PM

Not very nice, Bryan. We may be notorious pigs, but my God, man. Have you no decency, at long last?

Lookin’ at the pics it’s hard to tell caliber.

I notice many commenters have mentioned 5.56/.223.

Could it be the new 6.8mm?

I just noticed that if you look closely at the bullets they have a square back and could only be fired by a Glock.

frankj on August 15, 2007 at 12:54 PM

“Square back…only be fired from a Glock”?

Did I miss something?

It doesn’t look the same woman in both photos to me, either…the bottom one looks older and they seem to have different facial characteristics.

Bob’s Kid on August 15, 2007 at 4:24 PM

Me either it is obvious one is real ugly and the other one is hideous.

I’m floored. They aren’t even trying hard to hide their deception anymore.

TheBigOldDog on August 15, 2007 at 9:18 AM

They don’t have to worry about that. You see their deception is bought hook, line and sinker by the Fn morons on the left and of course the idjits. They just keep stacking the crap up so high and so deep that the truth gets obfuscated completely.

If you can’t win them with your logic
Then
Baffle them with your BS

It doesn’t look the same woman in both photos to me, either…the bottom one looks older and they seem to have different facial characteristics.

Bob’s Kid on August 15, 2007 at 4:24 PM

You talking ’bout those ‘Uncle Leo’ eyebrows she’s got painted on her face?