Ever had the cops called on you? How did that go.
Would a suppressor help reduce the chance of a nuisance call to the police?
Good suppressors make good neighbors.
I was asked already by the cops to try some stuff out once while working at their range.
It was AA county near Davidsonville as I recall.
Im guessing they dont do that sort of thing any longer.
I wonder if they still have what they had in their inventory?
If they dont, hopefully one of them ended up with it at their house or in their personal collection.
Would a suppressor help reduce the chance of a nuisance call to the police?
Good suppressors make good neighbors.
Maybe, it depends on what you are shooting. Supersonic is still going to crack loud and the frequency is still the same.
For 22LR and 9mm suppressor on FA are nice. On 223... its not really that worth doing, loud and really cooks the suppressors quickly.
Yeah. I can't imagine a can on a 1919 or worse, a MG42.
Was it a tri pod mounted Maxim/Vickers MG by any chance?
Yeah. I can't imagine a can on a 1919 or worse, a MG42.
Yeah. I can't imagine a can on a 1919 or worse, a MG42.
Ever had the cops called on you? How did that go.
Not an owner but the couple on a “farmette” neighboring a farm I used to caretake in So AA County called 911 when an old partner brought his AC556K-64 01E and a MAC in .45 ACP over one lunch hour.
A third one and I can’t recall what that was. Possibly a rimfire. My partner, “Danny” also mentioned his desire to start thinking about getting ready to contemplate maybe someday considering selling the AC556 and MAC so he could buy something else and “would you like to try them out?” “Sure,” says I. Evening shift.
It was that 10” Ruger that did it. We had our fun and were packing his trunk up to return to work when a string of blue bubbles sticking up past a hedgerow down the country lane I lived off caught my eye. Finally, one of the marked cruisers going like 2mph inched down the road and into the entrance of the driveway, driver wide-eyed as Opey Taylor when we waved him up the driveway.
That lead to him summonsing the others, most of whom didn’t exit their vehicles, as my partner displayed all the necessary ATF paperwork for each firearm. It was evident they had positively NO idea what they were looking at, with respect to either the firearms or the paperwork. I remember feeling kind of sorry for them in that respect. They were clueless anyone other than their own swat guys could even handle such items.
Which is right about the time they mentioned that was precisely who were “on their way here, right now,” from Crownsville, possibly with the same contingent, from MSP. And, possibly something about, “a helicopter.” “Our supervisor says we need you guys to wait here til they arrive.”
We were like, “WTF did you just say? We’re on our lunch hour, we need to get back to work, here’s our business cards and feel free to tell whomever to call us later. Bye!” The poor uniformed guys were like, “Uh ... duh ... uh ...”
We went about our business and late, late that night learned our returning to work led to whomever was the Station Commander for the Southern District at the time trying to file a formal complaint against us. Seriously. Our own IAD told us the prick sounded like a shrill old woman screaming into the phone. Circa 1990 so I’ve no idea what the term for a male, uniformed “Karen” was back then. But, from what I learned in the ensuing weeks from some shooting acquaintances with the AAPD and MSP I’d go with “Southern AA District Commander” at that time, fer sure. Name probably was Ken, that’d be an irony.
Anyhoo, as it turned out, that g*dd*mn ACC556 10” bbl was SO loud the 911 operator actually heard it for a second while the neighbors were on the phone with them. That turned into someone in the chain of communications inserting an assumption that currently-feuding biker gangs in So AA County / Northern Calvert County were having “a battle out” on the vacant land under the BGE power lines that ran alongside all the properties involved. “Yeah, lets go with THAT” and all of a sudden it wasn’t such a stretch to see how either AAPD or MSP felt it necessary to kick off a SWAT response and that bit about some agency’s helicopter turned out to be true ...
Anyhoo, ASAP the next morning I made sure I reported everything to the retired couple who owned the now non-working farm and who are in Myrtle Beach (the real authorities in all this, they were my landlords!). Originally from East TN and a retired iron worker he was pissed the neighbor had the temerity to not reach out to him directly, before calling 911. (Turns out the neighbor did try but called the Lothian house number and not the number to the Myrtle Beach residence (this was way way before cell phones).
Oh, I probably should mention and the land owner is my bro-in-laws Father and Mom who were doing me a solid providing me with a roof over my head at same time I was doing them a favor keeping an eye on their MD property while they golfed 6 mos every year. So, I receive orders to go apologize and “make things right“ with the neighbors who’ve been told to expect me.
When I get go their house the evening or two after “the incident” THINGS FROM THEIR SIDE KF THE STORY BECAME EVIDENT TO ME. Turns out they had recently adopted two Doberman puppies and those 2 puppies were in a back bedroom with the door closed and an open window facing exactly in the direction we had been firing that AC556 into a dirt berm.
There. Was. Not. A. Shred. Of. Drywall. Paint. Or. Wallpaper. Intact. Inside. That. Room.
Turns out for the 20 or 30 minutes we were shooting, unbeknownst to us, those puppies were literally climbing the walls!
So, in the end, EVERYONE - including my old partner - wound up PISSED AT ME!
That was the end of my interest in 10” Mini-14’s and that is all I have to say about that.