{"id":2526,"date":"2013-02-23T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/02\/23\/franken-fa\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:05","slug":"franken-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2526","title":{"rendered":"Franken-FAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14187,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsmax.com\\\/Headline\\\/guns-laws-obama-chicago\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/22\\\/id\\\/491637&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/guns-laws-obama-chicago\/2013\/02\/22\/id\/491637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/guns-laws-obama-chicago\/2013\/02\/22\/id\/491637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I was reading a story about a letter sent by Republican congressmen<\/a> calling out President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder demanding enforcement of existing firearms laws before consideration of any new laws. However, that isn&#8217;t what caught my eye. Look at the picture below of firearms confiscated in Chicago. The photo is credited to the Associated Press and I presume it is from some sort of show and tell put on by the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GetFile.aspx_.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/GetFile.aspx_.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nMy eye immediately went to the top rifle in the photo. I see the carrying handle from both an AR and the FAL. then I look at the handguard and front sight. It is an FAL! What the hell?<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen a FN-FAL or any of its variants with an AR carry handle\/rear sight scabbed on to it. I wish I had a better photo but it appears that it is part of the dust cover.<\/p>\n<p>That the firearm was confiscated I don&#8217;t doubt. However, I would be really shocked to hear that it from confiscated from either a crime scene or taken from some gang banger. If you told me it came from a crime scene in Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires I might believe it but not Chicago. Moreover, it doesn&#8217;t look like the only one in the photo. Check out the stock of the rifle that is under the leg of the Franken-FAL&#8217;s bipod. It appears to me a FAL as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever come across something like this, I&#8217;d be interested in knowing more. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading a story about a letter sent by Republican congressmen calling out President Barack Obama and Attorney&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[737,1265],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-fn-fal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}