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zBrown

Ice climber

Brujò de la Playa

Dec 19, 2014 - 03:11pm PT

Seattle 2013

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0128/Seattle-gun-buyback-nets-Stinger-missile-launcher-video

Seattle police are tracking down the history of a nonfunctional missile launcher that showed up at a weapons buyback program.

Detective Mark Jamieson says a man standing outside the event on Saturday bought the military weapon for $100 from another person there. The single-use device had already been used. It's a launch tube assembly for a Stinger portable surface-to-air missile.

He says detectives will notify the Army Criminal Investigation Command on Monday.

GDavis

Social climber

SOL CAL

Dec 19, 2014 - 03:13pm PT

"I know a guy who has something illegal" is a lot different than "I have something illegal."

nobody gives a sh#t about the rocket launcher.

ZBrown, I suggest to Tad's brother NOT to take the missile launcher to one of those 'give your gun away' events.

Ksolem

Trad climber

Monrovia, California

Dec 19, 2014 - 03:13pm PT

I know a lot of those hand held launchers are single use weapons. The TOW missile for example, so once fired the launcher is inert. Is that true of the stinger?

zBrown

Ice climber

Brujò de la Playa

Dec 19, 2014 - 03:28pm PT

I wonder how many of those laser syringes you could get in a swap with some uninformed (not uniformed) Baja American wannabe drug enforcer for that launcher?

Que sabe?

In any event if a uniformed policeman either Baja American or Upper Baja American comes to your door, do not put your head down and charge him like a futbol/football player.

life is a bivouac

Trad climber

Dec 19, 2014 - 03:29pm PT

Dudes, really?
Quen es mas macho? Punch in to solider of fortune...
You're off belay.

Ksolem

Trad climber

Monrovia, California

Dec 19, 2014 - 05:36pm PT

ZBrown, I suggest to Tad's brother NOT to take the missile launcher to one of those 'give your gun away' events.

Actually somebody did that at a recent LA gun buyback. Got himself $200 for an inert single use launcher tube. Later our genius Chief of Police Beck was parading around on TV showing how they got a rocket launcher out of circulation.

Has anyone figured out that these "no questions asked" gun buybacks actually pay criminals to get rid of hot guns used in shootings? Idiocy. Plain and simple.

On top of that these guys get paid $200 to spend on ammo for the guns they have that work.

Flip Flop

Trad climber

Truckee, CA

Dec 19, 2014 - 08:54pm PT

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Dec 19, 2014 - 10:18pm PT

Fear: Although I'm still a fan of the old WWII era massive artillery on naval ships. Good Lord that must have been a sight on D-Day...

Spent a year six-on-six-off in a 1938 5"-38 gun mount and fed it several tens of thousands of rounds till we were deaf - a sight, just not a pleasant one from either end.

zBrown

Ice climber

Brujò de la Playa

Dec 20, 2014 - 07:23am PT

Maybe it's not a case of whether you have 'em, but rather how you use them.

I do not have exact pricing, but $200 would buy an awful lot of laser syringes. How much does smack cost these days? Or is smack now passe'?

pyro

Big Wall climber

Calabasas

Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2014 - 08:08am PT

Dudes, really?
Quen es mas macho? Punch in to solider of fortune...
You're off belay.

Russ you sound like werner!!

TGT

Social climber

So Cal

Dec 20, 2014 - 09:42am PT

[Click to View YouTube Video]

mucci

Trad climber

The pitch of Bagalaar above you

Dec 20, 2014 - 10:29am PT

COLORADBRO!

Man I love Honky munitions.

God Bless middle amorika!

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Dec 20, 2014 - 10:52am PT

TGT, how is that legal if I can't even use the 15 round mag my Glock came with?

hooblie

climber

from out where the anecdotes roam

Dec 20, 2014 - 11:07am PT

I've never felt fully relaxed beneath a kettlefull of boiling oil even with Werner doing the tipping

life is a bivouac

Trad climber

Dec 20, 2014 - 04:47pm PT

OK, I know I'm on thin ice here, (air pocked and brittle).
But, it seems to me, in the universe, there are, when it boils down, 2 basic things; pluses and minuses, darkness or light, yin and yang, construction, deconstruction, these things exist. Life itself can be and is overwhelming, with much feed back, continuing demands, counter intuitive situations, craziness of our times...
The simplicity of climbing has an allure, an elegance I'm drawn to; the urge to do battle with myself, not to destroy, rather to reconstruct. None bested but me, thru struggle and focus, taking movement to the boundaries of friction and power. This is at least for me, creative and difficult , I feel we can agree. "If it was easy, every body would be doing it..." of course.
Climbing is our common vocabulary, the binder that brought us to this site.
Blowing things up, destroying, deconstructing, this is all around us, a part of the human condition , an easy act, no contest.
Does one need to dilute or confuse this climbing forum with such negative aspects of human expression? Aren't there plenty of other places to talk about that?
This, of course, may all be contested, argued; however, aren't we here to celebrate climbing? Talk amongst yourselves... I'm verklemmt.

Stewart

Trad climber

Courtenay, B.C.

Dec 20, 2014 - 06:11pm PT

life is a bivouac: Lots of luck with your admirable sentiments. These guys don't care that these weapons are designed to kill people, or even that the human beings on the receiving end of this firepower are often innocent non-combatants.

It doesn't even seem to embarrass them that this is a particularly tasteless time to be drooling over the latest instruments of death when we are supposed to enjoying a celebration of the birth of The Prince of Peace.