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Man Caught With AK47

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  • #52
    marco murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,715 ✭✭✭marco murphy


    He must have had the ammo seperate from the AR. You can't use .22 in an AK.


  • #53
    Lemming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,148 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    quackquackBOOM wrote: »
    im just asking a stupid question, anybody know if this was actually real or a BB gun they do come pretty realistic looking these days made in full metal, and arnt they illegal to own without a FA cert

    A 'BB' gun IS an _actual_ firearm, not to be confused with something like airsoft (if that's what you're trying to hint at). The 'BB' refers to the gauge of shot, not the type of projectile fired. You can get 'B', 'BB' and 'BBB'.


  • #54
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Also 'BBC' (1 and 2 are free-to-air).


  • #55
    utick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 562 ✭✭✭utick


    somehow this seems a little bit more serious than a bb gun, i dont think the gardai would mix an ak up with a bb gun


  • #56
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    DaveMcG wrote: »
    Also 'BBC' (1 and 2 are free-to-air).
    3 and 4 too.


  • #57
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Not on my TV!


  • #58
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Hagar wrote: »
    He borrowed it as was going to Limerick for the week-end and didn't want to be the only one down there who was un-armed.

    This needs more love.


  • #59
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    jackpalance wrote: »
    The reason they're easy to get hold of is because Russia lost the Cold War. They found themselves with an awful lot of rifles they no longer needed and sold them off to arms dealers.

    They've been in use here long before that.


  • #60
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,519 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Most Kalashnikov style rifles are made outside of Russia, the Chinese make a lot, huge amount made in arse of nowhere towns all over the the planet with handtools and foot powered lathes.
    They didn't all appear after the cold war.

    As for the IRA etc. i believe they got their hands on quite a few libyan bits and bobs back in the day.

    As a model the original AK47 isn't as common as the "gun experts" in the newspapers and Gardai make them out to be.
    It could be anything from a Chinese type 56 to a Saiga shotgun and it would still be reported as an AK47.

    The cold war ended alright, not sure anybody won though ;)


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  • #61
    MrJoeSoap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,117 ✭✭✭✭MrJoeSoap


    Gavin shels wrote: »
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1124/rifle.html

    Supposely he is a member of the INLA I've been told. There's a good few INLA members living in Dublin 8 so he's probably from the area around Camden St.

    You mean the Gardai use intelligence now? We should mark this date as a public holiday!


  • #62
    quackquackBOOM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭quackquackBOOM


    Lemming wrote: »
    A 'BB' gun IS an _actual_ firearm, not to be confused with something like airsoft (if that's what you're trying to hint at). The 'BB' refers to the gauge of shot, not the type of projectile fired. You can get 'B', 'BB' and 'BBB'.

    a bb gun and a bb round is two totally different things you can get bb rounds for 9mm rifles,shotguns,.22 rifles and other firearms
    BB stands for either ball bearing or bullet breach i for get which.

    this is an ak47 BB gun
    http://gun-sword.stores.yahoo.net/kaak47airri.html


  • #63
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    quackquackBOOM wrote: »
    BB stands for either ball bearing or bullet breach i for get which.
    No it doesn't.
    BB is a shot size. BB guns are airguns designed to fire BBs.
    More here-
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun#Shot
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB_gun#History


  • #64
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    I always believed BB to stand for Ball Bearing which is what US airguns fire.
    Link to US definition of the term BB.


  • #65
    quackquackBOOM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭quackquackBOOM


    Rovi wrote: »
    No it doesn't.
    BB is a shot size. BB guns are airguns designed to fire BBs.
    More here-
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun#Shot
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BB_gun#History

    barrel breech a different rund altogether but hey!!!
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_BB


  • #66
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,265 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    quackquackBOOM wrote: »
    this is an ak47 BB gun
    http://gun-sword.stores.yahoo.net/kaak47airri.html

    No it's not. It's an airsoft gun. Not an airgun. Or 'bb gun' . The "bbs" they refer to are plastic spherical projectiles. Which is what airsoft guns shoot. Not bbs in the sense of firearms.

    It's just a dodgy website.


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  • #67
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    when is the last time an ak47 was used in anger as they say in ireland?


  • #68
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    lostexpectation wrote: »
    when is the last time an ak47 was used in anger as they say in ireland?


    You mean when official reported used.


  • #69
    mixervilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭mixervilla


    Maybe he just wanted to get into Flannerys without the customary 1/2hr queue!:)


  • #70
    Laslo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 831 ✭✭✭Laslo


    mixervilla wrote: »
    Maybe he just wanted to get into Flannerys without the customary 1/2hr queue!:)

    Nah, he was from Dublin.


  • #71
    eroo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,084 ✭✭✭eroo


    It is no surprise he was INLA.as he is thick transporting a weapon in a hold-all through the city centre!im delighted GS nabbed him and took another dangerous thug off the streets!

    btw,he was arrested by officers from Harcourt Square and was later brought there.That means SDU(http://www.garda.ie/angarda/sdu.html) arrested him which means they must have hadprior knowledge of him..either that or they were passing by and recognised him as INLA man..


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