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December 7th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Not only was it a Tech-9, it was a Tech-9 semiautomatic machine pistol.
December 7th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Free the Tech 9!
December 7th, 2009 at 11:22 am
wizardoc–
That’s “Tech-9 semiautomatic machine ASSAULT pistol”.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Hey, this was Baltimore. As a former inmate of that city for 10 years, and as the only one of the 6 kids in my family NOT to have fired an Uzi, I can attest with authority that if it was not an Uzi this time, it well could be next time.
However, it is much more likely to be a crappy HiPoint or 20-year-old Glock.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Take group of teenagers, add alcohol (not mentioned but a VERY safe assumption), simmer for several hours on a Saturday night. That only 2 were injured is cause for wonder. I am also surprised that the weapon was still around when the officers arrived.
Obligatory Tasteless Comment: Shot in the face and in “critical condition?” Further proof the 9mm is inferior to the .45acp.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
rickn8or: That’s how it’s described in the second article, Tech-9 semiautomatic machine pistol. The journalist must be of the “big words are scarier” school of thought.
The Tec 9 was never manufactured as a machine pistol, BTW.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Hmmm – it looks more like a “single-shot Tech-9 semiautomatic machine pistol”. Maybe the “h” in the model means it’s a single-shot.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Mikee, i have several 20 year old glocks that still function as good as the day i got them. Please don’t put them in the same sentence as (shudders) a HiPoint.
December 7th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
At 8PM that night, the Baltimore SUN had it as a “heavy duty weapon”. This morning, it’s a result of “Americas gun culture”. These folks at the Sun are clueless.
December 7th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
This just confirms that the last thing so called journalists are interested in is FACTS.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
When I saw the article Saturday, it was “Machine Gun” with no other details. Sunday it mentioned an UZI… And people wonder why I don’t believe anything the press reports.
December 7th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
One of the morning NewsDolls in Memphis twice called it an “assault rifle”.
December 7th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
What, no AK-47?
December 7th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
No, if its a pistol its an Uzi. If its a rifle its an AK-47, come on, get with the times, man.
December 8th, 2009 at 2:59 am
wizardpc– I know that; you know that. I was just commenting on these “journalists” missing the opportunity to get the buzzword “ASSAULT OMG It fires more than once a century!” into the weapon description.
December 8th, 2009 at 3:00 am
And they missed the “Weapon of Choice for street gangs” too.
Amateurs.