Police Fatally Shoot Gun-Wielding Man In Times Square

Unfortunately, hotels Times Square will always be targets for terrorism because of the ever growing number of tourists. Due to the plain-clothes officer being in the right place at the right time, a tragedy was averted.

Everyone is making a big deal that it was a "mac 10". It really isn't functionally different from any handgun that can accept large clips. It is only a submachine gun or machine pistol if he converted it to full auto which is really easy but not terribly helpful for most situations. It is basically a bulky, kind of crappy stamped metal handgun. It just scares people who don't know about guns when they show up in the paper. The net effect would have been the same if he had a small .380 pistol. Two shots fired, he got killed, that's it.

No big deal except he could potentially hurt more people more quickly than with a normal pistol.

and bloomberg extinguishes another small business !! with the collusion of christine quinn and the queens irish democratic machine!! pass the pet sprinkler bill NOW

why didnt they kneecap him?!?

Police acted stupidly again.

Let this be a warning for potential counterfeiters. NYC has now officially upped the ante for counterfeiting goods.

Another piece of garbage got thrown in the trash.

Good riddance.

NY FUN!

I'm surprised the "real" felix hasn't found a way to link Bloomberg or Quinn to this!

lesson #1: if you happen to carry a gun or a submachine gun, jremember that you don't have to pull it out. ever.

lesson #2: if a cop tries to ID you and you're afraid that he might find the gun you're carrying, just remember that it's better to do a few years and maybe meet a couple of dudes who'll call you "Betsy", than to end up like the peddler above. it's almost christmas and he's not going to see his mother, ever.

lesson #3: it's best not to carry any guns. especially in nyc.

who buys cd's?

oh, those blokes on the street? i saw one following two little tourists for a whole block a couple of weeks ago. all smiles (if you can call that a smile) and loud and heavy persuasive language--"c'mon, man! check it out, check it out! a brand new cd"--repeatedly, while his large figured loomed over both of them like two tiny confused and frightened mice. oh, and he stopped smiling after half a block; and that had an effect on the two lost little dudes.

I am for sure going to say "pardon me" next time I bump into someone in Times Sq.

Whoa!

Just had an 80's flashback.

there are way too many pussies on this thread. cat.

rather be a pussy than to carry a submachine gun and pose as a peddler. then y'know, pull out the gun when feel threatened by a cop and start shooting madly, only to get shot back and end it really early.

speaking avatars, friend.

ahh... sorry. i used to be picked on a lot as a kid.

"pussy" makes my "gun" go mad.

these comments are hilarious!

but seriously, that's pretty messed up. i don't mess w/ anyone here. if peddlers have guns, the next thing we're gonna hear is that 90-old granny has an AK47 up her moo-moo! nyc don't play!

this news is AWESOME. GET OUTTA TIMES SQUARE PUSSIESSSSSSSSS NYCCCCCCCCCC

"MAC-10 sub-machine gun"?!?!

WTF?

Betcha a years worth of Papaya hot dogs that it was not a Mac 10 sub machine gun.

jesus! thats what i was thinking!

oh now, Will the tourists stop coming to NYC? :)

a peddler with a submachine gun?!?? what the hell is going on here??!? and why the hell didn't he sell that instead of peddling? i guess it's too late to question these things.

jeez. i better give some to the next peddler, or he might have a MAC-10 submachine gun.

or maybe it's not a good idea to generalize.

but still, a peddler with a fucking submachine gun???

A MAC-10 isn't a submachine gun.

Alot of internet sources id it as one.

http://www.enemyforces.net/firearms/ingram.htm

the author in that link sounds like a mad old man who probably were sent to in the nam, a long time ago.

"sent to the nam". please excuse my grandma-r. she's very old.

ok ok. just found out that these things aren't that expensive.

still it gives me the willies.

Another good job by our boys in blue.

Saves us the cost of a trial, too!

And awfully excessive- 1,000+ rpm?!

Probably not a real MAC-10. It's variously been identified as a Tec-9, MAC-10, and a pistol in various news reports.

This may help any journalists out there:

http://blog.robballen.com/2009/09/08/p3717-because-im-nothing-if-not-helpful.post

Nice try, but forget bothering to help journalists on gun reporting. Recently in Baltimore they reported with a headline of "machine gun fire at hotel". The truth? It was a semi-auto handgun, and one round was fired.

Yeah, authentic MAC-10s are hard to come by, but there are cheaper knockoffs that look just like them. Not likely it was full automatic anyway, so that fire rate wouldn't apply.

If bloomberg allowed these people to rip off tourist this wouldn't happen. Thanks bloomberg. MORE BIKE LANES!

A MAC-10 seems like an awful lot of firepower for a simple street vendor, but that would explain why they all wear massive oversized coats year round.

No doubt "street vendor" was just his day job.

Welcome back, New York!!!

Ahh, the old 'he pulled a gun so we shot him' story. Will it turn out to have been his wallet when he was asked for ID?

haha look how dumb you are

After reading the update on the gun drawn, I stand corrected.

Not likely, since his loaded Tec-9 has been recovered.

Daily News was saying TEC-9 earlier, now reports are MAC-10... but doesn't really matter. Pull out either one and fire at a cop and you will probably die.

Oh, and I would be really, really surprised if it was a full auto MAC 10 machine gun as reported.

MAC 10 GTA FTW

TEC 9 is one of the crappiest semi-auto pistols ever made--only owned by really dumb thugs

shots fired in times square -- a blast form the past

You have a cool photo. What a good looking cat.

Does the avator have a direct impact on speling and grammer?

I seem to be effected to.

Al Sharpton press conference in 3, 2, 1....

From City Room:

Shannon Maggio, a 32-year-old visitor from New Orleans, was on the 16th floor of the nearby Edison Hotel, in a room facing the Marriott, with both windows open, when she heard yelling, and then an eruption of gunfire.

“I heard it clear as day,” she said. “I’d never heard a gunshot before, but I knew it was a gunshot. Pow-pow-pow-pow — just like that. Then I heard a guy yell. Then sirens.” She added: “I froze. My hair stood on end.”

She'd never heard a gunshot before? Then she couldn't possibly be from New Orleans.

She's probably from suburban Kenner or Metairie where the only gunshots are from NRA nuts blowing the heads off Halloween trick-or-treaters.

My CD was signed "aaruurrrgghh".

good riddance to city garbage

a movie shoot gone wrong.

This is impossible, it is mostly illegal to carry a gun in NYC unless you are Howard Stern.

Great view from the MTV building.

That looks like it was shot from the Bertelsmann Building.

Damn, those Jersey Shore protests got REALLY out of hand.

You know, I thought the same thing the way they crowded the Viacom building and all the hubbub with threats of violence for that show.

Will you now stop with all the Felix's avators? I expect better from a Pace Alumni

Nous sommes tout de Felixes!

Not cool man.

You're telling me.

BMCC bee-yotch!!!!

You're quite short. Who is the pretty Indian or Mexican girl with you on twitter? she is taller than you.

MTV Networks

Wow, some photo by Valerio Bruscianelli, I think Gothamist scooped everyone with this post!

Aspiring rapper?

Good boy?

Quiet?

About to turn life around?

Victim of racial profiling and defending himself from stop and frisk.

Crap scam artist who intimidates tourists then threatens them if they don't hand over cash, and who had this shit coming to him for years??

Three out of four so far, not bad.

Tea Party planner?

Brining his AK47 to a protest?

2nd Amendment.

STFU 2nd Amendment!

America!

UNICO member upset about Jersey Shore?

win

YES!