UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot - 12/9 UPDATE: CAUGHT

Looks like the pistol cost about 2K. I would believe he would have to complete the form for ATF before he could buy one but not positive.

 

Shouldnt be long to track him down now that they have a pretty good picture

 

The silence from the left on gun control in the wake of this shooting is, well, interesting.

 

Probably because it's a dead rich CEO rather than a bunch of dead kids. Also, it didn't involve an assault rifle.

 

For real though, more CEOs getting shot in the streets probably would do more to advance gun control than anything I could do personally by participating in the electoral system. The constitution is for bosses not school children. For now the gun people can enjoy the fruits of their ideal society.

 

Silence from the right on brutal white on white gun violence is equally interesting.

 

And happened in a place with more gun laws than anywhere else in America I am sure. Amazing he didn't follow the gun laws of the State and City of New York. Looks like gun laws work as well as drug laws.

 

What that incident really illustrates is that state and local gun laws are relatively ineffective in the absence of serious federal gun laws.

 

Unless he made the can or stole it.

 

No way, unless he's long gone from the US or off'd himself. They got his mug on cam now. If he's hiding, they will find him.

 

Gun laws are essentially the same everywhere now thanks to the Supreme Court. NY had to kill its old gun laws and update them to comply with federal rulings. This argument is nearly irrelevant now!

New York Gun Policies Rebuked by Supreme Court on First, Second Amendment Grounds - New York State Bar Association

 

That ship has sailed. There will never be a serious attempt to address this issue on a national level. Part of modern life in America: shootings. Get used to it.

 

Yep, saw that this afternoon. Starbucks.

 

Suppressors have the most serious federal laws around them you can get. Price of the suppressor plus $200 plus a months long wait with fingerprints and photos submitted before you can take possession

 

It's all a ruse. The real shooter was on the grassy knoll.

 

He was masked at Starbucks. The picture that shows him without a mask was at the hostel he stayed at

 

Can't knock your honesty.

 

But not novel.

 

Calling @cocodrilo. Come back

 

It’s a really weird (and largely impractical) and ridiculously expensive gun, so I can’t imagine there’s many in circulation.

It’s a modernized take on Britain’s WWII Welrod covert operations (ie “wet work”) pistol. It’s a neat gun in terms of the concept of how it works, and supposedly ridiculously quiet in its original configuration, but it’s effective and accurate range is sub-10 yards because of what it was made for.

The original Welrod was integrally suppressed with a wiped suppressor (meaning the suppressor was built into the pistol barrel and packed full of rubber discs). B&T’s take on it is not integrally suppressed. It is sold packaged with a wiped suppressor, but the wiped suppressor is removable so that you can use a standard suppressor instead “for training.” The reason for doing that is wiped suppressors have to have the rubber discs or “wipes” replaced very frequently (as in every 20 or so shots), and ATF takes the position that wipes are suppressor parts and thus legally constitute suppressors in and of themselves, which effectively makes it impossible to self-service wiped suppressors and you have to either replace the suppressor outright or take it to an SOT FFL to have them order and replace the wipes.

B&T originally reintroduced it for large animal vets in Europe as a way to quietly euthanize horses (the original “VP9” designation stood for “veterinary pistol”), but they made some updates when they realized there was at least a small civilian market that thought an updated Welrod was cool.