Colibri in 10/22
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:00:00 GMT
Guardian Unlimited -
N.y. Jews To Start Armed Patrols - in Brooklyn
neighborhoods. Wonder if we'll see this story in the
U.S. press. [geneice]
NEW YORK (AP) - Citizens armed with shotguns will patrol the streets of the heavily Jewish Brooklyn neighborhoods because of comments a suspected terrorist made about targeting them, a rabbi said.
The patrols, to begin June 16, are in response to comments Abdul Rahman Yasin made during an interview on CBS' ``60 Minutes'' on June 2, said Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, founder and president of the right-wing Jewish Defense Group.
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Lloyd said the street patrols would include 50 to 200 people of various religious faiths, mainly Jews, carrying shotguns in bags, along with people licensed to own and carry other types of firearms. Others will carry bats, pipes, cell phones and walkie- talkies and will patrol the streets daily from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. except Friday, the Jewish Sabbath.
"This will be a very effective deterrent against terrorism directed at American Jews and other targets," Lloyd said.
The rabbi criticized the police department for not adequately protecting the neighborhoods and said, "the only people who will view us as vigilantes already look at us that way anyway."
It is illegal to carry an exposed shotgun on city streets, New York Police Department spokeswoman Valerie St. Rose said. She said it was unclear whether carrying one in a bag is illegal.
After reading some responses to my query on this Firing Line thread, I fired about 10 rounds of Aguila Colibri ammo through my Ruger 10/22. It made less noise than our pump-up Crossman BB gun. The first round left a trail of soot on the bottom of the nice shiny rifling (I looked, to make sure the bullet wasn't stuck in the barrel). I didn't expect these rounds to cycle the action, but they don't even feed from the magazine. Had to load them by hand, somewhat of a pain. Fun to shoot, though, and the neighbors can't even hear it.
