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December 10, 2009

Thank God for Incompetence

A would-be murderer missed his teacher twice before jamming an almost unjammable gun:

A community college student was upset about his grades when he walked into a classroom and fired two shots at his professor before his new rifle jammed, police said Wednesday.

Jason M. Hamilton, 20, was unable to continue shooting at mathematics professor Tatyana Kravchuk, who ducked behind a desk and was not hit, Prince William County police Maj. Ray Colgan said. No one was injured.

"Probably what prevented a further tragedy was that the gun jammed," Colgan said.

Hamilton bought the Marlin .30-06 bolt-action rifle Monday at a Dick's Sporting Goods store near the campus, police said.

There isn't any political angle to this story, just a failed human being looking to take out his frustration on someone else, unsurprisingly finding he's incompetent at that as well.

I suspect, however, that he'll excel as a prison girlfriend.

Posted by Confederate Yankee at December 10, 2009 09:38 AM
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I suspect, however, that he'll excel as a prison girlfriend.

Ain't that just a pain in the ass.

Posted by: ArmedGeek at December 10, 2009 10:08 AM

How do you jam a bolt action?

Posted by: David at December 10, 2009 10:16 AM

@David
How do you jam a bolt action?

Well .. it requires a certain level in mental deficiency ...

Posted by: Dan Irving at December 10, 2009 10:51 AM

Shorter CY: "Yay rape!"

Posted by: beetroot at December 10, 2009 11:03 AM

How do you jam a bolt action?

David, the only thing I can figure is that he short-stroked it and it failed to extract, and then he stove-piped it.

But I'm still at a loss at how you can't clear that in about 1/10th of a second.

Guess he wasn't any more committing to shooting than he was studying.

Posted by: Confederate Yankee at December 10, 2009 11:12 AM

You know what I hate about murderers? That they kill people. Other than that, they seem like ok individuals.

Posted by: Kevin at December 10, 2009 03:39 PM
"Guess he wasn't any more committing to shooting than he was studying."
"

I actually laughed out loud at that.

Posted by: brando at December 10, 2009 04:12 PM

"the only thing I can figure is that he short-stroked it and it failed to extract, and then he stove-piped it."

That's what she said.

Posted by: Michael Scott at December 10, 2009 10:10 PM

I bet he gets short and long stroked when he gets up there with the big boys.

Posted by: tjbbpgobIII at December 10, 2009 11:38 PM

His farts won't make a sound after a few weeks in the big house.

Posted by: jackv at December 11, 2009 12:22 AM

I have a Soviet 91/30 that pretty-much jams every round. I have to give it a good swift hit to close the bolt and and two good smacks to open the bolt and eject the casing... you know, Russian style.
My German Mauser is as smooth as butter. Just a bit of difference in engineering and manufacturing there.

Posted by: Max Entropy at December 11, 2009 02:37 AM

How do you jam a bolt action?

Flip the safety on by mistake.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at December 11, 2009 03:39 AM

If there was gunk inside the action (ie a piece of his shirt-tail or storage grease he should have cleaned out, but didn't) it could jam.

But yeah bolt action rifles are as close to 100% reliable as you can get in a repeating weapon.

Posted by: looking closely at December 11, 2009 11:17 AM

Probably one of those new Remingtons which jam and won't shoot straight when they don't jam.

YMMV

Posted by: cbinflux at December 14, 2009 12:56 AM