Machine pistol (MAC-10) found in San Diego Children's Pool

[jpak]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/11/state/n072324D95.DTL

San Diego police say a machine pistol and several rounds of ammunition have been found in Children's Pool beach in La Jolla.

Detective Gary Hassen told the San Diego Union-Tribune ( http://bit.ly/oTH0hQ) that someone walking along the seawall on Tuesday spotted the high-powered MAC-10 in about 2 to 3 feet of water and notified a lifeguard.

Hassen says a police diver recovered the unloaded weapon and 44 assorted bullets of different calibers.

The detective says it does not appear the gun had been in the water very long.

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[rfranklin]

1. What a shameful way to treat a great weapon!

Someone needs an NRA training class.

[SteveM]

16. 'You think da thug would take a class?

BTW, who said this was a "great weapon?"

[oneshooter]

20. Our tunnel rats loved the one I "liberated" from a passing Green Beanie unit.

With the suppressor attached it was a little long, but the suppressor saved a lot of hearing problems. And the rate of fire, in a close area, was tremendous!

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[Remmah2]

2. Still a higher chance of kids drowning. nt

nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. OFFS

.........

[YllwFvr]

3. Spin

High power

[rrneck]

4. Well, they do make good trot line sinkers. nt

[ileus]

15. We always used weight bench plates.

[GreenStormCloud]

6. They got a police DIVER to recover it from less than 3 ft of water?

What is wrong with having a cop wade out and pick it up?

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. The diver probably said the same thing -

"You called me out for THIS? Wassamatta? Afraid of getting your feet wet?"

[RSillsbee]

27. I bet that diver was getting union scale a nsd a 4 hour minimum

he was probably smilin' his ass off

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

40. Your tax $ at work! ;) n/t

[Union Scribe]

11. Then they called out CSU to dust the water for prints. nt

[dtexdem]

8. Good -- toss them all into swimming pools.

A little temporarily increased chances of shooting deaths at the pools would be more than offset by getting rid of the guns in the long term. ;-)

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[gejohnston]

17. umm

if it is in the water, it is not likely to fire. If it is unloaded it will not fire, so the chances of shooting deaths would be zero. But the pile may decrease drownings.

[iverglas]

10. omg they were right

Swimming pools are more dangerous to kids than ... uh ... guns ...




... 10 words ... one typo ...

[gejohnston]

12. If it is a full auto Mac 10 these things I know

it is illegal in California
I seriously doubt it was registered to anyone
no one bought it at Wal Mart.
that with the ammo of various calibers, I am guessing it is a ditched crime gun.

What is your point?

[Atypical Liberal]

13. Note that this is NOT a swimming pool.

This is the Pacific Ocean. Someone threw a gun (and various ammunition) into the ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Pool_Beach

[gejohnston]

18. at least that explains the call for a

diver.

[petronius]

28. Sounds like a frightening escalation in the decade-long battle between the

seals and the children. If the seals now have machine pistols, I sure hope those Fisher-Price anti-pinniped homing torpedoes arrive soon. For the children, don't ya know... :scared:

[ileus]

14. That's no way to treat a classic firearm....another gun victimized

Hopefully it can get back into the hands of it's rightful owner if it was registered.

[SteveM]

19. Strange report (mostly unreadable due to self-advertisement):

"Hassen says a police diver recovered the unloaded weapon and 44 assorted bullets of different calibers."

Maybe that's why they threw it away -- using several calibers would have jammed it up. I sure wouldn't want to shoot it.

[Atypical Liberal]

21. More likely....

This is an ocean beach. I'm sure in addition to the gun and various ammunition bits, they probably turned up a bunch of beer cans as well.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

22. a mac 10 is not a "high power wepon"

Its not even intermediate powered... it shoots a pistol round.

[ileus]

23. a 9mm.....

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

24. Natively, the mac 10 was intended to shoot the .45acp...

but it also, less frequently, came in 9mm and kits exist to convert any MAC 10 to 9mm, 45acp, or 22lr. Unfortunately it's younger brother, the Mac 11/9, only came in 9mm so it can only be converted to .22lr with aftermarket parts. However, the advantage of not being the size/weight of a brick and shooting ammo twice as expensive makes the the tradeoff worth it.

[pipoman]

25. Just fyi, children do not swim in "Children's Pool",

Harbor seals do. It is the home of many seals, nobody swims there. The seawall is on the left side of this pic, it is used by many visitors to watch the seals. You can see the seals on the beach.

[Kennah]

34. It was still 2-3 feet of water, which still leaves me wondering about the need for a diver.

[pipoman]

36. It was likely

deemed a crime scene..photos..they probably wouldn't have found the ammo without goggles. There is a beach patrol station at the beginning of the seawall, they keep a close eye on the seals.

[Kennah]

43. OK, that makes sense. I'm letting go of any feelings of weirdness about the diver.

[gravity556]

44. Crap! This means that the local wildlife

has finally mastered machining and automatic weapons. I've long been without much pity for pinnipeds and cetaceans, figuring that, well, they've had just as much time as we have to figure out firearms and RPGs... Looks like the next season of Whale Wars will be worth watching for more than just Paul Watson's histrionics.

[PavePusher]

26. Wow, misleading titles, Exhibit Fuckin' A.

Perpetuated by our favorite banner-wannabe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1DEG6BWgp0

[RSillsbee]

29. You make it sound like you're surprised NT

[PavePusher]

30. Shocked, actually... 8>) n/t

[friendly_iconoclast]

31. And the other wannabes piped right in without researching what they spoke of.

I'm shocked as well... :P

[iverglas]

32. and who is surprised at your own vilely false allegation?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/08/11/state/n072324D95.DTL

-- Link posted in OP.


"Machine pistol found in San Diego Children's Pool"

-- Headline of newspaper article found at that link.


"San Diego police say a machine pistol and several rounds of ammunition have been found in Children's Pool beach in La Jolla."

-- First paragraph of article, quoted in OP.


When one reads the headline, one notices that the words "pistol" and "found" are not capitalized, while the words "Children's Pool" are. This suggests that "Children's Pool" is a proper noun, a title, the name of a beach.

I missed it myself, I was just too anxious to be facetious.

By this point, I don't know how you could possibly have missed it.

So I can only think of a couple of words to use to characterize your 100% false allegation that ANYONE was either being misleading or "perpetuating" any misleading by anyone else.

[PavePusher]

33. Well, seeing as how I've never been to San Fran, except to change planes at the airport...

and am thus completely unfamiliar with the city except that they have some sort of bridge there... and given the demonstrated incompetence of modern mass media...

Draw your own conclusions.

Lime or Cherry?

[petronius]

35. What and where is this "San Fran" you speak of? Surely you're not using that

abomination to refer to The City ... are you? :mad:

(Not that knowledge of SF would help here; the OP is about San Diego. :) )

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

39. LOL, people from Frisco are so uptight about the names of cities.

:rofl:

[petronius]

42. Smartass!

:)

[PavePusher]

41. Massive Head-Desk for me.....

My bad....

[RSillsbee]

37. I drove through San Fran on my way to the DLI . NT

[rl6214]

38. Just another drive-by news reporting

you should apply for a job with Fox news.