Redmond police: Male who fired rifle in the air taken into custody
REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A male firing a rifle into the air in northwest Redmond on Monday afternoon was taken into custody without further incident, police said.
Police received a call shortly before 1 p.m. regarding a person shooting a firearm into the air in the area of Northwest 21st Street and Ivy Avenue, Lt. Jesse Petersen said.
Responding officers located the shooter, whose name was not released, and placed him in custody, Petersen said.
There were no reported injuries and the area was “deemed safe and secure,” the lieutenant said in a news release.
No more information was released as the investigation continues, Petersen said.
Anyone who witnessed or has information regarding the incident was asked to contact Redmond police through Deschutes County non-emergency dispatch at 541-693-6911.
Petersen thanked the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office, Bend Police Department and Oregon State Police for their assistance in the investigation.
Extra points if any journalist can define what an “assault rifle” is! Somehow I doubt this person was firing off a fully-automatic rifle, but it is Redmond so who knows. Oh and btw: the “AR” in “AR-15” doesn’t stand for assault rifle either… it’s just an ambiguous term to scare noguns people!
Police used the term. (Edit PS: While the more specific police, and thus we can be, the better, usually, I did change it to just “rifle.”)
Thanks, Barney.
you’re welcome.
Perhaps our police have already taken on the credo of our new chief. Mainly for referring to an AR as an assault weapon sounds similar to a police report originating from Portland. Definitely a stupid mistake to do the shooting in a residential area. Guys like this just give lib haters another opportunity to take down the 2nd Amendment.
Any rifle used to assault someone. The “A” in AR stands for ArmaLite. The material the stock is made out of. Ask a difficult question. Oh, sorry, Most Democrats and journalists don’t know the answer to your question.
That’s incorrect. AR is a brand name, the name is Armalite Rifle.
They also don’t know ARs were civilian rifles first that the military adopted later.
what’s that smell? – oh – local feed just stepped in his own poo, again
You’re going to lose that bet! Barney and I have gone over the differences time and time again and HE KNOWS all the technical differences. I don’t see his name on the story, so I’m going to guess that it either slipped by him or he didn’t see it first.
Armalite
Not an Assault Rifle… 1 trigger pull.. 1 bullet is semi automatic, assault rifles are full auto like shown in the video.
Otherwise every gun with 1 pull.. 1 bullet would be an assault rifle.
Take 1 minute and 38 seconds to learn the difference.
https://youtu.be/ztUDf2cmqrk
Sure, but nobody cares about the distinction except fat boys playing Army man dress up.
kuya and idiot, but nobody cares about the distinction except fat boys playing on the computer in the basement and occasionally playing dress up as a . . . . .
The distinction makes no difference to the one staring down the wrong end of any weapon.
The ATF cares.
There is a lot more to the definition of an assault rifle than the semi vs. auto. For instance, an assault rifle uses an “intermediate” power cartridge vs. a high power cartridge vs. a “handgun” cartridge. Also, they have to have a selector switch that allows it to be safe/semi/3 rd burst OR full auto. (Full auto/safe are machineguns or sub-machineguns.) Further more, today we also have the binary trigger that is 1 round when you pull the trigger and one round when you release the trigger. NOTE: A binary trigger also does NOT make it an assault rifle.
tell us all how much one of your vital organs with lead holes in it cares where the lead come from….. such a giant windbag
So when I tell you that I own a boat . . . it doesn’t matter the size of the water way? All diamonds are alike to you? To be honest, if I have to get shot, I’d rather it be with a .22 CB than a .50 cal . . . So YES, my vitals would care where the lead came from. Tiozo – Quit being a turd and go back under your rock!
The caliber makes no difference if the aim is true.
Why are you so scared of,well everything? You put up such a front. Timid insignificant person you are.
Yeah, party! What was he celebrating?
He was celebrating the incident that took place at the Bend trailer park, where you live.
More people are killed with hammers each year that what they mistakenly call Assault rifles.
calling major BS on that one – so easily disproved – did one of your facebook oracles tell you that one? – you will repeat anything, no matter how wackadoodle
He’s extrapolating from his family tree.
Go look at the Federal Crime records . . . MORON!
Great, as if the ammo shortage wasn’t bad enough, now we get irresponsible behavior with a firearm. Doesn’t help the rest of us who own firearms.
time to reassess, no?
OH HECK NO! The only thing that needs to be re-assessed is if I have enough rounds or if I need to reload a few thousand more.
No, I’m still confident in responsible firearm ownership and use vs. moronic behavior.
And in other news….the LaPine guy with 500 illegal plants, 50 pounds of weed, 2 ounces of cocaine…and 14 firearms is cited instead of arrested……
Arrests by citation have become more common due to jail COVID-19 space restrictions.
So have failure to appear cases.