Spray firing from the hip
Looks like the NY court bought that bogus claim. The only gun I can think of designed to be fired from the hip is a BAR, which does not have a pistol grip.
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January 2nd, 2014 at 12:50 pm
I was taught how to fire an M60 from the hip during an assault in Infantry School. The objective being to keep the enemy’s heads down while we maneuvered. Obviously the tracers are the only way to even keep it close to the target. Actual hits aren’t expected – just suppression.
January 2nd, 2014 at 12:57 pm
Liberals love to restrict products based on nothing more than their fantasies…
DDT (Silent Spring)
Nuclear Power (The China Syndrome)
Rail Guns (Eraser)
January 2nd, 2014 at 1:29 pm
It was called “Walking Fire” in WW1 and led to the invention of the BAR. If found it interesting that although he declared ARs and AKs to be in common use, he said they could be banned anyway. This flies in the face of Heller as I understand it.
January 2nd, 2014 at 1:44 pm
Wait till they read about plunging fire. Their panties will be in a bind for sure.
January 2nd, 2014 at 2:26 pm
The idiocy of this is that based on human wrist anatomy, a more vertical handgrip is more ergonomic for firing from the shoulder, and less suitable for hip shooting, than a traditional styled straight stock.
The Sten and PPSh used straight stocks for hip/point shooting, whereas Olympic biathlon rifles and most serious top-tier competition bolt-actions almost always have a vertical grip for the most accurate sighted fire.
In short, the judge was either extraordinarily gullible, or a dolt incapable of unprompted examination of his own limb anatomy….never mind the rarity of rifle homicide and the utter irrelevance of handgrip shape to same.
January 2nd, 2014 at 5:27 pm
You have to wonder if these judges have any sensitivity to being shown to be completely ignorant and gullible.
January 2nd, 2014 at 11:33 pm
You say “completely ignorant and gullible”, I say “deliberately obtuse.”
January 3rd, 2014 at 5:52 pm
Later Breytenbach heard the full story from two escaped prisoners who had overheard the Cubans discussing the encounter with Roxo with some awe. As Roxo had moved forward to check the bridge he had seen a Cuban on the far side and shot him. Roxo began to move back and more enemy troops then emerged from cover and began shooting at him. He returned fire from the hip, killing eleven of the enemy, four of them Cubans. He was later awarded the Honoris Crux for this encounter.(2)
http://www.rhodesia.nl/bridge14.htm