The good ol’ Gock 7 quote from the movie Die Hard:

That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me. You know what that is? It’s a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn’t show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than you make here in a month.

Of course, it’s crap. Buy Nylar tells us about more crap. Seems some sheriff in Jersey is all alarmed:

Cops recover assault weapon, all but invisible to X-rays

Of course, if the headline were accurate, it would read Cops recover pistol, not at all invisible to X-rays. More

Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said yesterday he will issue a warning to other police agencies after his officers seized an assault weapon made with so little metal it does not clearly show up on a security X-ray.

Narcotics officers found the Professional Ordnance Carbon-15 Type-97 pistol in the car of a drug suspect in Newark and noticed it was a cut above the usual weaponry employed by local drug dealers, Fontoura said.

Officers in his ballistics laboratory, who said they had never seen an assault weapon made with so much plastic, had it taken to Newark Liberty International Airport yesterday for a test-run through the security scanners — minus its 30-round clip.

The image on the X-ray appeared as a straight metal rod, with no outline of a stock or a trigger guard, something an inattentive security guard may view as no more threatening than a curling iron, the sheriff said.

These are the popular Carbon rifles. Sure, they’re made of quite a bit of plastic (like a Glock) but they have a great many metal parts (also, like a Glock) that will show up on a metal detector, like the barrels, springs, hammer, disconnector, buffer tubes, etc. Plus, ammo is easy to see on an X-ray machine.

Lame hysteria but the anti-gunnies may push it soon.

Posted in uncategorized on May 6th, 2006 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |