bank robbery

[springfield art]

Well, most bank tellers are probably not educated in the ways of firearms in general, much less black powder versions. I know for a fact that many criminals have used Airsoft guns or similar after painting over the orange muzzle piece, so the "weapon" looks more realistic to those who might find themselves on the business end of said device.

Tellers are trained to just give up the money without any fuss. No one wants to get hurt and it's insured. The robbers are stupid enough to keep getting fooled by the Dye Packs they get.

That's all we need to have them going after our BP guns

It was only a matter of time before this happened.

 

[64Springer]

Tellers are trained to just give up the money without any fuss. No one wants to get hurt and it's insured. The robbers are stupid enough to keep getting fooled by the Dye Packs they get.

It was only a matter of time before this happened.

Using black powder pistols to commit felonies has happened on several occasions.

There's been talk of closing the black powder "Loophole", their word not mine, for years.

This just adds ammunition to their cause.

 

[Felonious]

I would say that if that revolver was not available, the robbery would have still happened anyway, but another weapon would have been used. I saw a video where a guy robbed the convenience store with an 8 foot long stick. It's almost irrelevant what the weapon is, if somebody wants to rob someone, they're going to find a way to do it.

Also, I could be completely wrong, but it appears that revolver is a conversion. I think I can see a shiny brass cartridge in the cylinders. It looks too big to be a cap.

It wouldn't surprise me if a few incidents like this happen, and they end up turning the conversion cylinders into FFL items.

 

[Urban Coyote]

i would bet it wasnt loaded.

Probably wasn't loaded, there's no place to find caps.

 

[tenngun]

Criminals are going to criminal. Some years ago a Brit upset about UKs gun laws built a gun from hardware store stuff. I bet there are a hunk of us on this forum who could.
Colt and Browning were first building guns in back yard shops, across my street is a Home Depot that sells tools those two could only dream about
A churchman invented percussion
If all guns in America were siezed, it wouldn’t be long till criminals started rearming
And a guy who can cook you a pot of meth has tge brains to make you a gun or powder.

 

[FishDFly]

i would bet it wasnt loaded.

Probably could not get either caps or powder.

 

[Piquant]

I bet he won't rob Popeyes!

 

[akroguy]

That's the very last thing we need.

"Earlier today, a man who couldn't buy a regular revolver due to his criminal history bought a black powder revolver online and had it shipped to his house without a background check."

I can hear the uproar in the congress already.

And with the loading lever dropped, can be used as an evil foregrip making it an assault revolver.

 

[brushblind]

Well, while I'm at it, his next stop will most likely be a nearby 711 where he'll purchase a 2 day supply of ranch doritos, 4 hotdogs with all the fixins, a mega diet coke, then back to momma's hse. to binge on video games till the heat cools off.

 

[Felonious]

Probably could not get either caps or powder.

And with the price they are now, he wouldn't have had to do a robbery if he could afford them.

 

[tenngun]

I bet he won't rob Popeyes!

Popeyes is awful good.
Money is just money but Popeyes is goooood chicken

 

[tenngun]

And with the loading lever dropped, can be used as an evil foregrip making it an assault revolver.

Thank God it wasn’t a LeMat white supremacy gun, with its rocket launcher

 

[64Springer]

And with the loading lever dropped, can be used as an evil foregrip making it an assault revolver.

And the way people tip their muzzle up to make the spent primer fall free will make the revolver more reliable.

More assaulty.

And no one needs more than 5 bullets to kill a deer. That's why the old timers left one cylinder empty.

 

[FishDFly]

I would say that if that revolver was not available, the robbery would have still happened anyway, but another weapon would have been used. I saw a video where a guy robbed the convenience store with an 8 foot long stick. It's almost irrelevant what the weapon is, if somebody wants to rob someone, they're going to find a way to do it.

Also, I could be completely wrong, but it appears that revolver is a conversion. I think I can see a shiny brass cartridge in the cylinders. It looks too big to be a cap.
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It wouldn't surprise me if a few incidents like this happen, and they end up turning the conversion cylinders into FFL items.

 

[FishDFly]

"Also, I could be completely wrong, but it appears that revolver is a conversion. I think I can see a shiny brass cartridge in the cylinders. It looks too big to be a cap."

Folks here cannot figure out if a skull picture posted previously here is either a hog or coyote, it went to 4 pages.

How can folks here tell by a fuzzy picture it is either a Pietta or Uberti and them the model?

Neechi is right.

 

[kid_couteau]

Looks like a Glock 40 to me
Yup a Glock 40

 

[FishDFly]

Looks like a Glock 40 to me
Yup a Glock 40

Thanks!

 

[Urban Coyote]

I don't know anything about what cap & ball revolvers are suitable for cartridge conversion but I'd question whether a brass frame gun would be a good choice, but then robbing a bank ain't too bright.

 

[Urban Coyote]

"Also, I could be completely wrong, but it appears that revolver is a conversion. I think I can see a shiny brass cartridge in the cylinders. It looks too big to be a cap."

Folks here cannot figure out if a skull picture posted previously here is either a hog or coyote, it went to 4 pages.

How can folks here tell by a fuzzy picture it is either a Pietta or Uberti and them the model?

Neechi is right.

Uberti doesn't make a brass framed 1858 type cap & ball with a 12" barrel, Pietta does.

 

[Flintlock Whiskey]

Today a man robbed a bank in Denison, Texas, using what appears to be a black powder cap-and-ball percussion revolver (brass frame)...View attachment 182408

Looks like a Remington 1858. Pretty hoky looking beard.