Boy Hurt By Homemade Firearm
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Post subject: Boy Hurt By Homemade Firearm Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:24 am |
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http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articl ... ction=News
Boy injured by malfunctioning firearm near Cotton
Duluth News Tribune
Published Tuesday, July 01, 2008
A 10-year-old boy was injured south of Cotton today when the weapon he was firing malfunctioned.
According to a press release from the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, the boy, from St. Paul, was visiting his family’s cabin in Northland Township when the accident happened about 9 a.m. Tuesday. The boy and his father, Paul Schmidt, had been firing “an old homemade type of firearm” they had used in the past, the press release said.
The weapon broke apart and sent shrapnel into the boy’s head and face. He was airlifted to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth and remained in intensive care after surgery this evening, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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EJSG19
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:46 am |
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Yikes, home made gun? Not made well enough apparently. Poor kid probably had all the faith in the world in it too.
I wonder why it failed? Logic tells me if the gun was home made, so was the ammo, maybe a chamber pressure issue? I wonder how they went about making the action/barrel, if it was truly home made as in forged in the garage i'd have a hard time trusting it myself.
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Macx
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:06 am |
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Cabin + homemade firearm = potato cannon in my mind. . . Or some variant cannon.
In a newspaper writers mind any homemade firearm must be an AK47 & I just don't see that unless they built a reciever from a flat and didn't heat treat it. Very unlikely.
I'd bet on the spud gun thing.
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plblark
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:32 am |
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BP musket from a kit gets my vote.
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Selurcspi
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:34 am |
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Zip gun
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e5usmc
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:51 am |
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Shot a single shot 12 gauge breech load pistol of the 3 inch variety once (only once).
Made for a missionary friend of mine by the local metalsmith in a small Ivory Coast village.
That was about 9 years ago, hand still hurts...
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ttousi
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:37 pm |
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Selurcspi wrote: Zip gun
Showing your age slurpee....................
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Selurcspi
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:28 pm |
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"If you expect the police to always be able to protect you, why are the ones who show up at crimes called 'detectives' instead of 'defenders'? Detectives try to find a criminal after they've committed a crime."
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ttousi
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:33 pm |
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Had to do exhaustive research to figure it out.........way before my time
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Selurcspi
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:37 pm |
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Traveler
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:08 am |
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If automakers hadn't changed the design of their antenna's you would still see zip guns arround.
I am (cough) not all that old, but I do remember quite well the adolescent miscreants I attended high school with. They couldn't operate a lathe well enough to produce a class requirement that would pass muster. What they could do is produce nifty little hand guns with a screw-in breach and a 6" barrel that would accomodate either BB's or small steel ball bearings.
I remember a movement well over 30 years ago to put BP weapons in the same category as "modern" weapons for purposes of background checks at time of purchase, etc. One argument that I remember is that the "bad people" would be using them for robberies in lieu of weapons that required a paper trail. My take is that the "bad people" never opted for that due to environmental concerns of the large clouds of sulfur smoke.
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:41 am |
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Traveler wrote: I remember a movement well over 30 years ago to put BP weapons in the same category as "modern" weapons for purposes of background checks at time of purchase, etc. One argument that I remember is that the "bad people" would be using them for robberies in lieu of weapons that required a paper trail.
"They" still are pushing that. 6 months ago or so a police officer out in NY was shot twice by a BP rifle. The news also likes to push the "50 caliber" aspect.
Last edited by SultanOfBrunei on Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
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sigman
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:11 am |
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ttousi wrote: Selurcspi wrote: Zip gun Showing your age slurpee....................
Oops. Zip gun was the first thing that came to my mind also. Age is telltale.
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lance22
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:20 pm |
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Yep, zip gun gets my vote also.
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Traveler
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:09 pm |
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Quote: "They" still are pushing that. 6 months ago or so a police officer out in NY was shot twice by a BP rifle. The news also likes to push the "50 caliber" aspect.
For some reason I see a felon furiously ramming a ball and patch down the barrel to get off the second shot.
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