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No. As in "from the moon."
Only in Florida
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Those likely aren't very high powered at all -- I could be wrong, but those look like AR-15 platforms (as opposed to AR-10). The AR-15 really isn't capable of being configured for high-powered cartridges. It was designed around the physical size and pressures of the 5.56 NATO cartridge and there's only so much you can do within those constraints. And at least she has her finger (the one that we can see) out of the trigger guard. That's a huge improvement over most of these kinds of images, not to mention all of the TV shows and movies that get this cardinal rule of shooting wrong (as well as both of the others).
For some reason, not sure what it was, I found myself watching "Jurassic World" last night on Netflix and Chris Pine is constantly walking around with his lever-action Marlin (in 45-70 Gov't, a truly high-powered cartridge) with his finger fully inserted into the trigger guard and clearly resting on the trigger itself (very likely with the trigger squeezed, since that is a pretty natural way for the human hand to grab things, which is a big part of the reason for the cardinal rule against having your finger in the trigger guard until you are on-target and ready to shoot).
Though, I must admit, that most recent TV shows (less so movies) seem to be paying much better attention to these details than used to be the norm. Maybe they are finally listening, at least a bit, to the consultants that they historically ignored but hired just so that they could say that had them in their publicity announcements.
Probably
Florida man stopped over 'missiles mounted' to his truck
Florida man stopped over 'missiles mounted' to his truck
Multiple agencies, including the Plant City Police Department, fire department, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, established a perimeter around the scene until the bomb squad arrived, reports WESH.
Florida man stopped over 'missiles mounted' to his truck
Multiple agencies, including the Plant City Police Department, fire department, and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, established a perimeter around the scene until the bomb squad arrived, reports WESH.
schmitt trigger
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….and God will spare the homeowner, his family, and one pair of each animal species living in the world from the global deluge….
https://reason.com/2026/06/11/aclu-...y-identifies-florida-man-as-a-child-abductor/
ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man as a Child Abductor
Police arrested and charged Robert Dillon with a heinous crime based on nothing more than a faulty image search.
ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man as a Child Abductor
Police arrested and charged Robert Dillon with a heinous crime based on nothing more than a faulty image search.
I really don't see this as cause for damning the use of facial recognition systems (as skeptical of them as I am). The problem in this case really didn't have much to do with a bad facial recognition hit -- it was the myriad other ways in which the investigators failed to do their job that is the real problem. It's very much akin to using a partial fingerprint match or an eyewitness that says that they are "pretty sure" that it was so-and-so. Those are both perfectly valid leads to use in the investigation, but they are nowhere near sufficient, by themselves to base an arrest on. Leads need to be investigated (gee, that's why they call them "investigators") in order to turn up evidence that, taken as a whole, is sufficient to make an arrest. I view facial recognition the same way -- it's not unreasonable to use it as a basis for generating potential leads, but it's nowhere near what is needed as stand-alone evidence for an arrest.
One thing I didn't see in the article that was in the news coverage I saw earlier on TV was that investigators failed to present potentially exculpatory evidence to the court when requesting the warrant. Namely, IIRC, they had already determined that his vehicle had not been seen by any license plate readers anywhere near the scene. I would be attempting to sue the court, as well, because it seems to me that there was insufficient evidence upon which to issue a warrant. But, of course, the lawyers have pretty much made it impossible to hold them accountable for mistakes because, after all, they are only human and mistakes happen. This doesn't keep them from insisting that everyone else be held accountable for anything that goes wrong, no matter how much care had been exercised.
Facial recognition aside, when I saw the photo (not the grainy photo that was actually run) and this guy when he was being interviewed, it struck me as perfectly reasonable to suspect that they might be the same person (though I am moderately face-blind, I can usually tell differences between two faces side by side or seen one after another). But there are lots of people that look a lot alike, so even a pretty strong similarity is only cause for further focused investigation. It would have been quite reasonable for them to question him (at his home, not arrest him) or look into him without his awareness (this should have been done first).
