GUNS OF THE DAY - 14 April 2004

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My gun of the day is the French 75mm howitzer. It marks the first practical application of hydraulic recoil systems being used in breech loading towed artillery pieces. Employed heavily in WWI, the French 75 can be seen on most Army posts today, used primarily as salute howitzers.

the German Dora gun.

Effective range 40k
max elevation 53 degrees
total weight 1350 tons
barrel weight 400 tons
overall length 43m
shell 3.75 meters long
shell weight 3.5 tons
Calibers used 700mm, 800mm and 1000mm

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his reply was "I don't care".

Well, the answer to THAT was so obvious as to be ridiculous.

Great one.

Just how many "Posts Of The Day" get deleted?

:shrug:

And it was funny as all hell.

And apparently, neither did the mods.

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didn't find it funny.

BTW, just b/c the mods deleted doesn't mean they weren't laughing their asses off while they did it.

please be very careful in your response.

Gang, time for a tone change - again. Posts calling out other DUers are not permitted anywhere on the board, let alone in this forum. In the past when one of the RKBAers have fucked up and said something stupid we have not permitted the continued belittling of that individual. I haven't followed the thread totally, but it would seem that a Pro Gun Control indivudal made a similar error. Points were made - now, move on.

thanks,

Lunabush,

DU Gungeon Schoolmarm

"An arrest is expected soon in connection with the shooting death of a local restaurant manager last year, according to police.
Few details are available, but WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Jonathan Hawgood reported that David Parsons could face a murder charge for allegedly killing Mark Smith.
A cleaning crew found the body of Mark Smith, 36, of Burlington, Ky., at the Applebee's restaurant near Turkeyfoot Road in Crestview Hills, police said. Smith was the manager there, and was closing the restaurant when he was shot to death in the face by a disgruntled former employee, according to police. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040414/lo_wlwt/2093809

Once again the state is Kentucky, not Ohio. Deja vu. Didn't we do this yesterday? Check before you post.

GUNS OF THE DAY :D

But then who is surprised....

...it has "Cincinnati" all over it. Very easy to assume the story was from Ohio.

It turns out that Crestview Hills is 8 miles south of Cincinnati, so it's almost Ohio....

so you answer first, then I will answer your questions...if you don't like it, then tough shit.

Your turn....

"if you don't like it, then tough shit."
Jeeze, I don't care that you show yourself for what you are....keep on running for all I care.

or perhaps Kentucky...

"A man being chased by police fired a shotgun at officers, but no injuries were reported.
The shooting happened at about 8:45 p.m. in the area of Hickory and Jay avenues in Avondale near the Cincinnati Zoo, WLWT Eyewitness News 5 reported.
The suspect was arrested a short time after he allegedly fired at the officers. He had a seizure and was taken to University Hospital, according to WLWT. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040414/lo_wlwt/2094598

"LAWRENCEVILLE — No one disputes that the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old Lilburn man was the result of “deadly horseplay” with a gun. But was it murder?
That’s what jurors will decide this week in the case of 19-year-old Juan Luis Anaya-Plasencia, accused of murder and aggravated assault in the death of his friend and co-worker Martin Gomez.
Anaya was just 17 years old on New Year’s Day 2003 when he playfully pointed the gun at the victim’s brother, Juan Gomez, and pulled the trigger, police allege. The gun didn’t discharge, so Anaya spun the chamber, pointed the gun at Martin Gomez, and fired a single shot toward where Gomez was laying on a bed. The bullet struck Gomez in the cheek and killed him."

http://www.gwinnettdailyonline.com/GDP/archive/articleCE94994CB4D24E9B8F61EF923F0D45B1.asp

"There aren't many details, but police said a man was shot in the chest Tuesday night and is expected to survive. Investigators said the victim is not being cooperative, and they have made no arrests."

http://www.thewmurchannel.com/news/3004376/detail.html

More of that stunning intellect gun owners display so frequently...

"SEATTLE — A 21-year-old University of Washington student was charged yesterday with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of his friend in Wallingford last week.
Prosecutors say Craig Ulrich accidentally shot Ryan Daniel Schaller, 23, with an assault rifle Thursday after an evening of drinking. Documents say Schaller held the barrel of the gun, which the men thought was unloaded, to his own chin and dared his friend to pull the trigger. "

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001902694_dige14m.html

Yeah, that's the sort of crowd you want coming to YOUR neighborhood to buy a gun under the radar....

yet again, Darwin at work.

"A high school student from Missouri City was shot to death early Monday morning outside a southwest Houston nightclub.
Keneshia Scott, 17, was shot just after midnight during a fight in a nightclub parking lot in the 9300 block of Bissonnet.
Scott was transported to Ben Taub General Hospital. She was pronounced dead around 10 a.m. Monday.
Scott was an honor student at Elkins High School and planned on attending Prairie View A&M in the fall. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040414/lo_kprc/2094707

What in the world is a 17yr old doing hanging out at a nightclub, she's too young to go in legally?

I was going to ask that, but did'nt feel like putting up with all the crap.

"Local police shot and killed a man during an undercover drug transaction Tuesday.
Jonathan Crenshaw, 22, died after the shooting, which took place at 333 Donald St. in Columbia Township at about 4:30 p.m., WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Joelle Girone reported. He suffered gunshot wounds to the legs and torso.
Agent John Mercado was the undercover officer who shot Crenshaw. Mercado, a veteran agent, was working with the Regional Enforcement Narcotics Unit -- made up of officers from several jurisdictions -- Tuesday, according to Hamilton County Sheriff Simon Leis Jr.
"The deceased turned around and pointed a gun at Agent Mercado, who responded by firing a round at the suspect, striking him in the right thigh," Leis said. "The round spun the suspect around, then again, the suspect pointed his gun at Agent Mercado, who responded by firing two more rounds." "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040414/lo_wlwt/2094234

"CUYAHOGA FALLS - A Twinsburg man accused of repeatedly striking another man with a baseball bat and threatening to shoot him appeared before Cuyahoga Falls Municipal Court Judge Lisa Coates on Tuesday on charges of felonious assault and aggravated menacing.
Melvin Lomax, 36, of Gettysburg Drive, and Eugene Lawson, 35, were smoking marijuana at Lomax's home Monday when Lomax accused Lawson of having an affair with his wife, said Twinsburg Detective Sgt. Chris Noga.
Noga said Lomax then grabbed a metal baseball bat and hit Lawson several times on the back, arms, legs and chest. Lomax then allegedly pointed a gun at Lawson and threatened to shoot him."

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/8426991.htm

Yeah, there's the voters we should be pandering to...

"The man police believe was behind a rash of drive-by shootings in the town of Bernalillo has been arrested. Border patrol agents arrested Vicente Gutierrez Sunday night on a warrant for a firearms violation out of Albuquerque. He's in custody tonight in El Paso.
At one point, that violence prompted school officials to close a Bernalillo elementary school. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=375&ncid=375&e=7&u=/ibsys/20040413/lo_koat/2092420

"An accidental shooting has left a woman in critical condition at the UC Davis Medical Center, according to authorities.
Police officials say it happened around 6 a.m. Wednesday at a house in north Sacramento. They say someone was showing off a loaded gun, and it accidentally fired.
Investigators say that they still don't know exactly who shot the woman, but that they did take into custody a man with outstanding warrants. They say they are now trying to find out how or if he was involved. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040414/lo_kcra/2095425

"A long-standing feud between neighbors may have contributed to a shoot-out Monday night that killed a man in a typically peaceful Somerville neighborhood, investigators said.
Kent Evan Delcamp, 44, was found shot to death outside his home on Spanish Trails Drive in the Somerville Place subdivision shortly after 9:30 p.m. He apparently had been shot by a neighbor in self-defense, Burleson County Chief Deputy Mike Brackman said.
The neighbor who was involved in the altercation was interviewed by investigators Monday night. Based on that interview, Brackman said, the department decided not to file charges against the man.
Brackman said the case will be taken in the next six weeks to a grand jury, which will decide if charges should be filed. He would not identify the man.
“ There was a confrontation in the street, and a gunbattle took place there in the street,” he said. “Based on the information in his interview and the evidence we obtained at the crime scene, there is no reason to charge him."

http://www.theeagle.com/region/localregional/041404shootout.php

Gun owners bring so much to a neighborhood...

"A mother was gunned down, begging for her life, early Wednesday morning as she went to a relative's southwest Houston apartment complex to pick up her 4-month-old baby.
Witnesses told police Lashantra Foster, 27, was shot once in the head around 1:15 a.m. as she pleaded for her life in the courtyard of her cousin's apartment complex, located on the 5400 block of Chimney Rock near Westpark.
"I heard, 'No, no, please don't!' and a shot. I came outside and found her (on the ground)," Keith Guthrie, the husband of the victim's cousin, said.
Police said two men were seen leaving the courtyard -- one in a northward direction, the other heading west. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040414/lo_kprc/2095178

"BUFFALO, Minn. - A 20-year-old man was under arrest on Wednesday after a deadly shooting in Wright County.
Deputies arrested the man Tuesday night after finding another man's body outside a home in Silver Creek Township. He apparently died of a gunshot wound.
The suspect was being held in the Wright County Jail. Charges were pending."

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/8430540.htm

"McALESTER, Okla. - A gun collector testified Wednesday that a man wearing a ski mask and military-style clothing bound him and covered his eyes with duct tape during a robbery that prosecutors say financed the Oklahoma City bombing.
Roger E. Moore testified at bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' state murder trial that the gunman took dozens of rifles and handguns, $8,700 in cash, and coins and jewels in the 1994 robbery at his home near Hot Springs, Ark.
Moore said he could not identify the gunman but is convinced he was not executed bomber Timothy McVeigh, who had stayed with Moore several times. The gunman was shorter and stockier than McVeigh and had darker skin, he said.
However, Moore said he suspected McVeigh might know something about the robbery and asked McVeigh to help him find out who was responsible. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_re_us/nichols_trial_6

Birds of a feather...

"McALESTER, Okla. - Weapons and ammunition found in bombing conspirator Terry Nichols' home after the Oklahoma City bombing were stolen months earlier from an Arkansas gun dealer, the dealer's girlfriend testified Tuesday.
Karen Anderson identified photographs of some of the stolen items as she was questioned about the Nov. 5, 1994, robbery of Roger Moore at his home near Hot Springs, Ark., and her contacts with executed bomber Timothy McVeigh.
Anderson said she and Moore operated a gun-show business called American Assault Co.; she sold ammunition and Moore sold guns.
She said as many as 35 rifles and handguns and packages of armor-piercing ammunition found in Nichols' home in Herington, Kan., were taken from Moore less than five months earlier. "

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_re_us/nichols_trial_3