Question about robbery photo

[Angel Eyes]

At this link: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/robber-forces-stick-up-victim-to-drink-multiple-bottles-of-soap/

Is it my imagination or is the slide on that pistol locked back?

[AmbulanceDriver]

Sure does look like it, don't it.......

[TechMan]

I vote for a future Darwin Award winner.

[SADShooter]

In the video, the robber draws the pistol with slide locked.

[vaskidmark]

The newest tactikool gangsta technique is to have the pistol at slide lock as well as 90* from vertical.  When you press the trigger and release the slide lock at the same time the momentum of the slide going forward imparts so much more momentum to the bullet that even a .22 will pass right through the victim, the guy behind the victim, brick walls, and the school on the nexct block.

I read about it in the May 2011 issue of Gangstas 'n' Guns.

stay safe.

[Scout26]

Yep, gun is a slide lock.  I like the comments.

[Perd Hapley]

Angel eyes, did you watch the video? You can see it very clearly there. No mistake, it's either locked back or way, way out of battery for some other reason.

Someone in the comments suggested that he may have racked the slide for dramatic effect, and it stayed back, due to an empty magazine. (Or no magazine, if Glocks roll like that.) The twerp has seen too many movies.

[Angel Eyes]

Angel eyes, did you watch the video?

Youtube is blocked at work.

[French G.]

Many short barrel pistols you can see the breech face looking down the barrel. 1911 you can often see light around the ejector if unloaded. Revolvers, easy to assess from the wrong end. Glocks, trigger to the rear, no go bang. I sincerely hope that most thugs are not hand to hand experts, because if some thug ever points a gun at me and I can determine that it is not Condition one I am going to be a wee bit mad and I will do my level best to make surgical removal of said gun from crook a necessity.

[Scout26]

Many short barrel pistols you can see the breech face looking down the barrel. 1911 you can often see light around the ejector if unloaded. Revolvers, easy to assess from the wrong end. Glocks, trigger to the rear, no go bang. I sincerely hope that most thugs are not hand to hand experts, because if some thug ever points a gun at me and I can determine that it is not Condition one I am going to be a wee bit mad and I will do my level best to make surgical removal of said gun from crook a necessity.

OSHA regs require that you advise said bad guy that he should have filed down the front sight.....

[Monkeyleg]

I really wonder if the robber knew the pistol was disabled in slide lock. After all, I don't think anybody's going to get a big haul robbing a donut shop.

[Perd Hapley]

I really wonder if the robber knew the pistol was disabled in slide lock. After all, I don't think anybody's going to get a big haul robbing a donut shop.

You don't do it for the money, man, you do it for the DONUTS. And you don't load your piece, on a donut heist, lest you put holes in the donuts.

[Monkeyleg]

You don't do it for the money, man, you do it for the DONUTS. And you don't load your piece, on a donut heist, lest you put holes in the donuts.

Must be some serious reefer to have the munchies like that.

[TechMan]

The poor worker had to drink liquid soap.   

[brimic]

Mr slidelock is going to pull his gat on the wrong hombre someday and end up either eating it or find out what a pistol ready to fire looks like.

[Pharmacology]

I wonder how long he's going to have irritated bowels

[French G.]

OSHA regs require that you advise said bad guy that he should have filed down the front sight.....

No, kinda like a barbed hook, it oughta be harder to pull out of his eye socket. Rectum too easy and too cliche.