Remember folks, if you can't get it done with the first 16 rounds the last one has your name on it.

I was competing in USPSA / IPSC / IDPA matches for years. It was nothing for me to have 30,000 rds on hand when loading ammo for an upcoming match. Of course, I only have one machete. Maybe that's why they never came knocking.

MBooda: Shoot, a feller etc.
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"...could have a pretty good time in Big D [Dallas] with all this stuff."

Changed to "weekend in Vegas" cuz JFK had just been killed.

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The more you eat the more you fart: Boy, I'm glad they never saw my gun safe....

If you don't want the cops going through your gun safe and its contents plastered all over news for people to think you are a deranged lunatic, don't go around firing off guns in the air in a residential neighborhood.

Relatively Obscure: If civilization breaks down, he'll be so busy jacking off to the idea that his entire house will be stripped of everything not bolted down anyway.

You think jacking off is the best way to make the most of your situation? Do you think everybody else thinks that, too?

Snargi: So some gangsta walked by and popped a couple of shots off at a rival's car and this poor guy is immediately accused of shooting his guns in the air?

Either that or the cops haven't told the media the details of the raid, so the reporter went with what he had.

OgreMagi: Birnone: Two handguns is an arsenal now? I have zero guns so I'm very close to having an arsenal, yay me!

One pistol, one shotgun, 200 rounds of 9mm, and about a dozen shotgun shells was described as an "arsenal" in one news story I read. I use up more ammo than that on a single trip to the range. I typically bought the ammo in bulk boxes of 500 to save money (and I typically bought 2 or 3 boxes at a time). I expect to be described as some kind of "lone anarchist militia member" if they ever search my apartment. Especially after they find the swords, daggers, and other bladed objects.

When i was in high school me and my buddy arranged to have a 1 1/2 hour lunch break so we could check our trap lines. Depending on the day we would have at least two guns, a bat, some traps, and even some dead animals in my car. Back then it was no big deal. I'm not sure if you could even bring the bat to school anymore. Probably not a good idea to have friends and family in the Michigan Militia either anymore...(yeah yeah i grew up redneck)

The article says that they found illegal weapons, handguns and machetes. Okay, Queens might be one of those areas that has a draconian, arguably unconstitutional ban on handguns, but machetes??? How are those illegal to own? This may be the first time I have ever heard about the illegal possession of a machete.

Hell if 2 is a arsenal then what do I have?

Two guns, one cop.

Great Janitor: The article says that they found illegal weapons, handguns and machetes. Okay, Queens might be one of those areas that has a draconian, arguably unconstitutional ban on handguns, but machetes??? How are those illegal to own? This may be the first time I have ever heard about the illegal possession of a machete.

I'm guessing it was the brass knuckles that were illegal. According to wiki New york has banned them.

JackalRabbit: Pribar:

Hell if 2 is a arsenal then what do I have?

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Look I already explained that it was white silicone on that barrel....

INeedAName: I know all the gun nuts want to immediately cry about this shiat, but this sentence explains it: Michael Millazzo, 53, of Shore Blvd. in Astoria, was arrested by cops investigating reports of shots fired in the air in front of his home on Aug. 26.

He fired his gun off into the air, in a residential area, and the police executed a warrant to search. This is the exact jackarse you guys should be lambasting for giving real gun nuts a bad name.

First thing I was ever taught about handling a gun, never point it at something you don't intend to kill.

/Grew up in a hunting family, but I always got bored sitting in the woods for hours on end.

I'm a gun nut, but I am also not defending this guy. He's the guy who should not have guns. Guns are a responsibility, if you don't use them safely and responsibly, you should lose to your right to them. When you accept gun ownership, you must accept the responsibility that you are holding a tool that can end someone's life, and take that seriously and not treat it as a toy. I put his fool into the same category as those people who claim to have shot someone accidentally because they were cleaning their loaded gun and it went off (maybe they and I have the wrong definition of cleaning a weapon, because when I do it, I take the gun apart after I've cleared the chamber). The right to free speech, the right to bare arms isn't just a blank check to allow us to say what we want and do with guns as we want and then use the constitution as the excuse to get away with those actions. The rights laid out in the Bill of Rights does grant us wonderful freedoms, freedoms that I would hate to see go away. But they also come with the requirement that we take responsibilities for those actions. You're free to say what you want about Romney or Obama, but you must also take responsibility for what you say. Say something blatantly false about either one of them and expect to defend yourself or face being called an idiot or worse by your audience. You are free to own a firearm in this country, but you must take responsibility for what you do with that firearm. You can't point it into the air and fire out two rounds to scare people. And yes, I am in favor of the second amendment and support those who fight for it's existence, I am also in favor of people who refuse to treat that right responsibly to be stripped of it.

Oh_Enough_Already: Blah, blah, liberal hysteria and whargarble, TWO GUNS, hysteria and whargarble.

Then again, "man arrested with two guns" is what, a blotter entry?

Well said. You are an eloquent spokesman for your cause...whatever it is.

Ok, so he discharged a weapon into the air within city limits. That appears to be a Class A misdemeanor in New York.

He also had an additional firearm, bladed weapons, and 10,000+ rounds of ammo.
So? Is there additional information I'm missing which indicates he is otherwise unfit to own these weapons?

Maybe living in Texas for so long has jaded me, but I'm not seeing the big deal here. Charge him appropriately for discharging the weapon, lecture him sternly about firearms safety, and call it a day.

corn-bread: Ok, so he discharged a weapon into the air within city limits. That appears to be a Class A misdemeanor in New York.

He also had an additional firearm, bladed weapons, and 10,000+ rounds of ammo.
So? Is there additional information I'm missing which indicates he is otherwise unfit to own these weapons?

Maybe living in Texas for so long has jaded me, but I'm not seeing the big deal here. Charge him appropriately for discharging the weapon, lecture him sternly about firearms safety, and call it a day.

Only a misdemeanor??? I thought firing a gun into the air was a felony everywhere.