Santa Rosa man arrested on suspicion of possessing loaded ‘ghost gun’

Given this headline some questions leap to mind, such as “why did they suspect him of possessing a loaded gun?” “Why did the suspect it was a ‘ghost gun’?” And maybe the biggest, since when can you be arrested because they suspect you of something?

The image the Santa Rosa police department released shows a glock like firearm with a magazine with at least on full metal jacketed round.

Hmm, that sounds to me like “arrested for having a loaded firearm”, not suspected.

The firearm could very well be an 80% frame that has been finished.

Digging a bit deeper we find that the suspect was arrested after a traffic stop. The old statement that if a cop follows your car long enough he will find a reason to pull you over seems to be in action here. Given that “members” (plural) of the “Special Enforcement Team” did the stop.

The old black and white pulls the car over and six more vehicles appear out of nowhere with flashing lights.

They found the gun in the trunk of the car. They also claim that there was a 30 round extended magazine for the firearm. Of course they only show a standard magazine.

Regardless, diving into any headline with the word “ghost gun” is likely to find more misinformation than reallity.

This dude was likely a bad guy. They had reason to suspect him of carrying something that he was not legally supposed to have at that time and place. So they waited till they could stop him for a traffic violation and in the process searched his vehicle and found a gun.

Maybe if we all had Constitutional Carry this sort of stop would not happen.

I do want bad people arrested, charged, convicted and punished correctly. If you can’t do it correctly, then the police have no business attempting it.

Santa Rosa man arrested on suspicion of possessing loaded ‘ghost gun’

The new narrative used in attacking Governor DeSantis is that he failed to call for an evacuation of Lee County until it was too late.

DeSantis has pushed back saying that the projections at the time didn’t show Lee County in the strike path of the danger zone of the hurricane until 21 hours before landfall.  At which point he told Lee County to evacuate.

DeSantis is correct about the timeline of the storm and evacuation orders, but the Leftist media has to do their thing and destroy him anyway.

The worst of these types are fact checkers, especially the assholes over at Politifact.

Most of Lee County was outside the cone of prediction, including most of Lee County’s population.  But a small, sparsely populated island hanging off the corner of the County pit into the gulf was in the path, therefore Lee County was ackchyually in the path of the hurricane and do DeSantis was mostly wrong and completely evil.

This is such mendacious bullshit.

The purpose isn’t to fact check DeSantis, the purpose is to destroy DeSantis with hacks operating under the cover of impartial fact checkers.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – A briefing meant to show off the good in New York City may have cast a not-so-good light on the Midwest.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams briefed the media on Tuesday about his recent trips to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. He said in both locations, he said the people welcomed him because they recognized New York City and its “brand,” something he said a place like Kansas lacks.

“We have a brand. And when people see it, it means something,” said Mayor Adams. “You know when we go there…Kansas doesn’t have a brand. When you go there, okay, you’re from Kansas. But New York has a brand, and that brand means diversity,” the mayor continued.

New York City mayor: ‘Kansas doesn’t have a brand’ (kwch.com)

Oh yeah, we understand your brand. You can keep it.

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Man Makes $21,000 Bringing 3D-printed Guns To New York Gun Buyback Event https://t.co/X8pTw1QRyn

— Newsradio WTAM 1100 (@wtam1100) October 4, 2022

From the article in the Tweet:

The man, only identified as Kem, told WKTV that he used a $200 3D printer to print the lower receivers and drove over 6 hours to sell them back to the police.

When Kem arrived, he told officers he had 110 lower receivers to turn in and had to negotiate a price for the homemade parts, which are considered a firearm by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Eventually, officials agreed to give him $21,000 in gift cards.

A spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James blasted Kem for taking advantage of the gun buyback event, which was sponsored by her office.

“It’s shameful that this individual exploited a program that has successfully taken thousands of guns off the streets to protect our communities from gun violence. We have partnered with local police throughout the state to recover more than 3,500 guns, and one individual’s greedy behavior won’t tarnish our work to promote public safety. We have adjusted our policies to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain,” the statement said.

“I’m sure handing over $21,000 in gift cards to some punk kid after getting a bunch of plastic junk was a rousing success,” Kem said. “Gun buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, number one, that your policies don’t work, and, number two, you’re creating perverse demand. You’re causing people to show up to these events, and they don’t actually reduce crime whatsoever.”

I see a lot of people going all “yassss queen” for this guy.

I understand the sentiment, but he fucked over New York for $21,000.

Do you honestly think they will let him get away with that.

I can guarantee that the AG’s office is figuring out what to charge him with.

Remember, NY has one of the strongest ghost gun bans in the country, so if he didn’t serialize them, that’s 110 ghost guns.

If he did, I could see him being charged for manufacturing without a license.

The state won’t take it on the chin and let themselves be embarrassed by a guy with a 3D printer.

J.Kb. mentioned the Ruger LC Carbine in 5.7×28. There was recently a YouTube review on the LC Carbine. It seems like a nice place between a pistol caliber carbine and a full up “deer rifle” Only $1000.

Somebody else mentioned a lever action in .357 Magnum. $700 for a Rossi and north of $1200 for a Henry, Marlin or Winchester.

Not to mention I want a .50Cal bolt action or semi auto. Call it $2000 to $10,000 depending on make and model.

There is the acres of land I want so I can have a private range.

There is the collage education for my children.

Would it have been so bad for God to have made me a rich man?

I keep bumping into variations of the same theme with the same result.

If you are told to get in, might as well start fighting right there and then.

New World Record Set for Farthest Long-Range Rifle Shot: 4.4 Miles

The long-range shooting world record was broken yet again when a team of spotters and a shooter hit a target at 4.4 miles (7,744 yards) in the Wyoming desert earlier this month. The marksmanship feat was orchestrated by Scott Austin and Shepard Humphries, who run Nomad Rifleman, a long-range shooting school out of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Together with a group of friends they spent several hours launching bullets downrange before connecting on their 69th shot, according to a release on Nomad Rifleman’s website.

Making that many shot attempts isn’t unusual when trying to set records of this type. Humphries noted that the previous record, a four-mile shot made by Paul Phillips in 2019, required 69 attempts as well before the shooter connected.

The target they shot at was constructed of thin sheet metal and measured 10 feet wide by 7.6 feet tall. It was also placed at a steep angle so it would be more in line with the fall of the bullet as it came back to earth. The target’s dimensions (120 inches by 92 inches) made it 1.54 MOA wide and 1.18 MOA tall at 4.4 miles.

The rifle is a custom built 416 Barrett.  They sunk over 1,500 man hours into modifying everything, including the optic, to pull this off.

But they did.

It’s not a reasonable shot for the vast majority of people to take, but consider what it means for a person to be able to reach out and touch a target at what is typically air strike or artillery distances.