More than 400 crazed teens — who mistakenly thought the rapper Fabolous would perform — erupted into brawls all over Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin on Thursday at 5 p.m., sources said.
The troublemakers looted and ransacked several stores as panicked shoppers ran for the exits and clerks scrambled to pull down metal gates.Some of the teens staged a game of “knockout” on the top floor — and one may have been carrying a gun, sources said.
“They were playing the ‘knockout’ game,” said Shante, a 21-year-old perfume merchant, in reference to a violent trend in which teens try to knock out an unsuspecting victim with a single punch.
via Hundreds of teens trash mall in wild flash mob | New York Post.
Life has a way to make stupid people eat their words and suffer their action with unintended consequences.
The increase in high-number-assailant attacks is why I’m seriously considering transitioning from my 1911 of +20 years CCW to my G17. Loaded to cap and w/ spare mag = 17 rds with 1911, versus 35 rds with G17. (And, SD 9mm today vastly superior to where it was 20 yeaeres ago.)
–Andrew, @LawSelfDefense
two spares.. One is none and two is one as Clint Smith says.
It’s good advice, as always from Clint–but unless I’m willing to pack on a lot more pounds, I’m hitting the limits on accessible linear feet of belt space. 🙂
How much more does a double-mag carrier take up compared to a single?
I won’t be all macho and claim I don’t leave home without a reload, and there are a few times when my carry load is just a single magazine tucked in my pocket.
Still if I have a mag carrier the thing holds two.
It’s not so much the extra space taken up by one more mag carrier, it’s that so much space is already taken up by other stuff–cell phone, spare mag, Kabar TDI, Surefire. Adding another item begins to move stuff around to behind my back, seriously hampering the comfort of carrying (e.g., sitting at desk, driving). It’s been my observation that gear that doesn’t reasonably accommodate one’s daily tasks is gear that simply doesn’t get used.
But that’s just me. I know guys who carry 3 Glock mags, somehow they make it work for them. *shrug*
Then you need to start storing them in other locations.
Welcome to the results of liberal progressive policies that have been in place since decades before I was born/
This happened in Brooklyn. Not only do the people who CAN carry in NYC not go to the mall (they have people they can send to do that peasant work) but the magic magazine limit due to the SAFE act is SEVEN.
Even my Massachusetts daily loadout of a 1911 and two spare mags isn’t acceptable to SAFE as I only carry Wilson 47D mags which hold a HORRIBLE 8.
As I’m sure you know, Wilson also makes excellent 7-round mags for 1911. I know I’ll be buying a bunch once the new MA gun laws go into effect. Can’t risk carrying the 8-rounded loaded with only 7 (as the law would permit), only to have a cop “mis-count” how many were in the mag.
Fortunately no such laws are being pressed in Mass. Not that they would pass thanks to what a disaster SAFE has been to New York.
Are you certain? I’ve been getting all kinds of stuff from GOAL about a new tsunami of gun laws getting ready to pass the MA legislature.
People talk about “when the zombie apocalypse comes.”
It’s here, and it’s too late to prepare. It’s just breaking out piecemeal.
Which, actually, is in many ways much scarier than a full-blown zombie apocalypse.
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Oh, isn’t everyone aware that bad guys only come one at a time, head on facing you, and in well lit conditions??
Each magazine limit is not small enough. Gun banners, whenever possible, will reduce capacity to Barney Fife level, then the next step is 0.
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100 round drums.
4 of them please?