Los Angeles upset at Kimber marketing

[RRangel]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sis12jan12,0,3495142.story?coll=la-home-center



City leaders criticize the modified version of a gun originally made for an elite unit of the Los Angeles Police Department that has a history of fatal shootings.
To the dismay of some city leaders, a gun company is marketing a line of high-end pistols named for the LAPD's Special Investigation Section, an elite group of plainclothes detectives with a history of fatally shooting suspects.

Kimber is selling an "SIS" LAPD branded 1911. Nothing really special about it over anything else that is customized, except for some lettering. What we have is typical rhetoric from anti-gun forces within the city.

You may have to register, but here are some nice excerpts:

"It is very disturbing," said Councilman Jack Weiss. "If any member of the public is shot with one of these guns or, heaven forbid, a cop is shot with one these guns, what would be the explanation?"



"There is something fundamentally wrong with the commercial sales of these highly specialized weapons to the public," said civil rights attorney Carol Sobel.

[capo]

stupid.

[damon1272]

Guess I need to buy another Kimber.

[artherd]

I didn't want one until I read this 'article'.

[Charliegone]

So if these "councilmen" get stabbed by a pen with the city's logo on it....:rolleyes: frickin idiots...

[CalNRA]

note to self, buy a kimber, I can live with the series-80 firing pin block.

[Harrison_Bergeron]

Why does the gun having SIS embossed affect anything? Is the person inferring that a criminal would shoot someone then leave the gun to make cops think SIS first? Why would a member of an elite team of police officers leave their gun at the scene of a crime they commited? Doesn't sound like the council members think very highly of their police force's intelligence. Unless, the SIS member did leave their gun at the scene so detectives would automatically rule them out thinking it would have to be a civilian who left it because no cop would be that stupid! Now how to deal with serial numbers?

[CitaDeL]

Why does the gun having SIS embossed affect anything? Is the person inferring that a criminal would shoot someone then leave the gun to make cops think SIS first? Why would a member of an elite team of police officers leave their gun at the scene of a crime they commited? Doesn't sound like the council members think very highly of their police force's intelligence. Unless, the SIS member did leave their gun at the scene so detectives would automatically rule them out thinking it would have to be a civilian who left it because no cop would be that stupid! Now how to deal with serial numbers?

Well, by this logic then the same could be said of microstamping numbers on bullet casings. But the powers that be didnt think much about it before ramming it through the legislature.

[Hunter]

DUPE

A thread was started on this topic earlier today in the appropriate forum.

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=82119

[Ech0Sierra]

:dupe::dupe::dupe::dupe::dupe::dupe:

[383green]

note to self, buy a kimber, I can live with the series-80 firing pin block.

My Kimber Stainless Ultra Carry doesn't have a firing pin block, and I didn't see one mentioned on their pages for the SIS gun. Have they added them in their later models?