Wednesday, June 20, 2012

It'd make a good plot twist, though.

Jon notes the inanity of the CSI tech on Law'n'Order: Spinoff Victims Unit calling out that he'd found ".44 shell casings" at the crime scene.

My first thought?
Excellent! So we know that either the killer was mentally handicapped, or he used a Deagle. Johnson, go check the gun stores. Williams, ask the Special People Halfway House if they’re missing anybody.

34 comments:

Living in Babylon said...

Mothafuckin' snerk.

The killer could have also had an automag. Nobody wants Charles Bronson out there gunning folks down again.

Brandoch Daha said...

"Or"?

Anonymous said...

I just learned that an APB was issued for Elmer Keith and John Taffin.

Have them call the office and we'll talk about getting those warrants recalled.

Shootin' Buddy

Baddog said...

OR- the perp could have reloaded his S&W M29 and forgot to pick them up.??? Maybe the plastic cases some shooters use for their .44 round balls.

Divemedic said...

If you ignore the Automag, the Desert Eagles chambered in .44, the Deerfield Carbine, the Henry, the Ruger 44, and all of the other guns that use the .44 cartridge.

Tam said...

Divemedic,

That doesn't scan, though. ;)

Tam said...

Baddog,

"OR- the perp could have reloaded his S&W M29 and forgot to pick them up.???"

Right. That was the 'mentally handicapped' option. ;)

LawDog said...

And that's when ever-so-meticulous and slightly picky Detective LawDog snarls, "Oh, thank you! You found .44 cases! No mention if they're .44 Magnum, .44 Special, .44 Russian, .44 Colt, .44 American, .44 Rimfire, .44 Bulldog, or .44-40. Or maybe .44-77, .44-06, .44-90 or any other rifle calibre .44, but that's okay -- we'll just guess! Wait! I'll bet the next bit of helpful information you'll come up with is: 'the killer is probably human!'"

Huh.

I may have just figured out why I'm not doing crime scene anymore.

LawDog

Broken Andy said...

Divemedic got to it first. My Henry spews .44 casings. And I think that's a Schumer approved hunting weapon, so a plausible perp gun for NYC.

Tam said...

[deadpan] You mean there are guns other than a Deagle that eject .44 cases? Really?[/deadpan]

Drang said...

Well, really, their ballistics always match a bullet o a gun, and they still think microstamping has already happened.

Ed Foster said...

On a recent N.C.I.S., Abby took a fired bullet and put it in the magic machine to read it, then gave Jethro the name and address of the guy who fired it, straight from the national registry of all firearms, since they all have a fired projo in storage that has been scanned into the computer along with purchase information.

Any bets that the antis start clamoring for that next, as a "reasonable" law?

Let's see, U of Chicago has been doing an annual nationwide survey of firearms ownership since 1950. They claim there's 85 million owners, with an average 6 weapons apiece, or 510 million legal firearms in the U.S.

John DiIulio at U.Penn puts the number of illegal and untraceable firearms in the hands of criminals at somewhere in excess of 100 million. So somewhere north of 600 million weapons to be fired and logged.

Of course the badguys won't bring in their heaters, so that brings us back down to around half a billion rifles, shotguns (I know, no rifling in most of them, but we have to be consistent), and pistols.

At fifty bucks a pop, that's 25 billion dollars spent, and all of it wasted as the baddies weren't included, but it sure would look like we were doing something.

dave said...
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dave said...

...and I forgot to read the comments before I posted. We'll just delete that little example my my carelessness.

staghounds said...

I can always tell what is the most important piece of evidence at a crime scene

When I reach for it, the music gets louder.

Pakkinpoppa said...

This post, and ones like it, are why I have this blog bookmarked.

T'hee!

Moriarty said...

Hmph.

They'll never catch Mack Bolan...

Boat Guy said...

" I just learned that an APB was issued for Elmer Keith and John Taffin."

Prob'ly oughtta include Skeeter Skelton, just for "due dilligence" - hey it coulda been a .44 Special ...

og said...

No, no no. It was 44 shell casings,and they were 9mm. Obviously a Glock. Three 15 round magazines and one misfire. Look for a 9mm round with a shallow slot-type firing pin mark. An unfired round is heavier so it probably bounced further, it will be under the ledge of that flowerpot over there. The laser engraving on the firing pin will lead us right to the killer- er, shooter- er, sprayer.

Anonymous said...

Well, so much for my reading skills; I missed the decimal point and assumed "44" referred to the quantity of brass recovered rather than the caliber.

Which made me wonder just how big the conflict was that the scriptwriter envisioned and what the casualty count was. With 44 rounds downrange that might have been an episode I would have watched....

Gewehr98 said...

Bummer. And here I just bought a Mare's Leg in .44 Magnum/Special. Oops.

Anonymous said...

That is still better than the episode where the killer used a 25 mm semi-auto.

rickn8or said...

Anonymous, anybody that packs a 25mm semi-auto is probably too mean to mess with anyway.

Ed Foster said...

I saw the 25mm episode. Laughed so hard I almost broke something. I couldn't concentrate on the show after that, so I went in the cellar and loaded some 7mm Mauser.

montieth said...

Anyone with a 25mm Semi-Auto is too much for NYPD to handle. MOST 25mm will go through their armored vehicles front to back. Those that one, will go through and make a very nasty mess inside before embedding in the back.

Ygolonac said...

Ooops. Guess the brass fell out of my '58 Remington when I swapped the cap'n'ball cylinder back in, and put away the cartridge conversion one.

That, or it was Mad Dog with the Contender from HARD BOILED.

AuricTech said...

Here lies
Lester Moore
Four slugs
From a .44
No Les
No More

Critter said...

they'll never be able to finger me. nope. never gonna happen. no .44's in this house.

Firehand said...

Dammit, 'Dog, you beat me to it!

Daughter was taking some forensics classes, and in one the subject of someone being 'shot with a .38' came up and she asked me about it; I started listing "Ok, a .38 Special, or a .357 Mag, or a .38S&W, or a..." She made a list and annoyed hell out of most of the class next day.

perlhaqr said...

I don't even want to be in the same city as someone who is shooting people with a 25mm anything.

Joe in PNG said...

"A 25mm semi-auto? Check the hospitals for the guy who can clap with his shoulder blades."

Ken O said...

Let's see, NYC + 44 casings and a body- I am going to guess a Charter Bulldog in .44 spl and the gerbil told him to do it.

JimB said...

At fifty bucks a pop, that's 25 billion dollars spent, and all of it wasted as the baddies weren't included, but it sure would look like we were doing something.

...
BUT.... At least we're doing somthing..
That't the problem not the answer

Jerry said...

He reloaded the Bulldog. You can tell by the beryllium copper in the primer indentations.