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The Gun

posted 18 years ago by mars-65
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In the interrogation room. Can someone tell me the reason for the potato on the gun with Bobby's finger print.

[–] pippin4life 18 years ago

If you ask me, I'd say Bobby put the potato on the gun as substitute for an actual silencer.

[–] Eclectic_Flamingo 17 years ago

putting a potato on a revolver in real life wouldn't work you'd have to have a semi-auto

[–] didimatien 17 years ago

howd they get the gun in the 1st place

[–] StoneGriffin 14 years ago

Duh. Being street gang members, they joined the NRA, took the CA Hand gun certificate test, paid their fee, went through their background check, went to a licensed store and purchased a pistol, filled out the paperwork, provided legal ID, waited the waiting period and then killed the rival gangster.

Isn't that how most street thugs get their guns? Or is this another cannard as to how we have too much easy access to guns. The ones who don't follow the rules do, the rest of us do not.

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.

[–] docmananoff-885-218028 13 years ago

Hahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!

"Duh. Being street gang members, they joined the NRA, took the CA Hand gun certificate test, paid their fee, went through their background check, went to a licensed store and purchased a pistol, filled out the paperwork, provided legal ID, waited the waiting period and then killed the rival gangster.

Isn't that how most street thugs get their guns? Or is this another cannard as to how we have too much easy access to guns. The ones who don't follow the rules do, the rest of us do not.
"

[–] DreTam2000 12 years ago

...while the sarcasm in your post was absolutely Grade-A hilarious, I'm afraid the
above-poster was asking how the police got the gun.

Which is also the same thing I was wondering when I watched the movie recently for the first time in years. My girlfriend asked the same thing. How the hell did the police get the gun? I guess we have to assume that the "gangsters" negligently tossed the gun somewhere, or maybe they lost it somewhere at a later date in an unrelated location, assuming that police wouldn't match the type of gun with the type of bullets taken out of a corpse at a different location. Yo no se...

Aside from that, your sarcasm made me burst out with laughter. Nicely done..

I'm not a control freak, I just like things my way

[–] StoneGriffin 14 years ago

A potatoe is used like a pillow. A makeshift suppressor. It doesn't silence the gun, but it muffles the noise enough so that you can't hear it a block away. Heck, in a busy city with traffic noise, you probably won't hear it 50 steps away if they're inside a courtyard. It's messy and it' useful only one time, but it works to suppress the shot.

Dr. Kila Marr was right. Kill the Crystalline Entity.