Does this mean you really are more likely to be shot by your own gun?

dc

Should have learned Rule Three of safe gun handling. Better yet, don't be robbing people and fighting the cops.

"Police, who did not release the man's name, said they recovered a 9-mm. handgun - loaded with hollow-point bullets - that had been wrapped inside the sock."

why exactly was it necessary to interject that, i wonder?

'Cause it's scarier.

"Aguasviva said the police shouted various commands and ordered the man to "freeze" repeatedly. But he ran off, climbing a ladder to a second tier of the roof and into a room housing the motors and cables for the elevator, Aguasviva said."

Sorry, but I can't help finding this amusing. What sort of commands were they shouting? Maybe he didn't 'freeze' because they didn't say "Simon Says".

The hollow points were probably highlighted because in nearby NJ they're illegal in and of themselves.

You guys are severely over-estimating the intelligence of a typical reporter. By and large, they're Jr. College 'C' students who would otherwise be some kind of low-level dead-end bureaucrat.

The reason the phrase "loaded with hollow-point bullets" appeared in the article is because the cop they were interviewing emphasized it properly. That's where they get phrases like "assault rifle" instead of the more accurate "assault weapon." Cops know they can manipulate the news for aggrandizement and make people glad they pay cops so much to do such a dangerous job.

"He had a gun" gets old. He had a gun "with hollow point bullets!" Horrors! That lever-action .30-30 he used over there on the table is an "assault rifle" because it was a rifle used during an assault and we know you're too stupid to know that an assault rifle is actually an automatic machine gun.

Cream of the crop goes to the CA AG who sent 'investigators' to a gun show and had them buy machine guns and bazookas that had been rendered non-funcitonal by have their trigger mechanisms removed and holes welded in the side. They were all laid out on a table behind yellow "Do Not Cross" police tape so the reporters couldn't accidentally pick on up and discover they were a bunch of props, the holes cut in the sides were all carefully face down on the table. "LOOK WHAT WE BOUGHT AT A GUN SHOW!" he screamed. "A BAZOOKA! A MACHINE GUN!" All props. Non-functional. BUT it got enough press that the CA Assault Weapons ban passed.

Bad gun! No hollow points for you! (Those are for us who work for the state and are sworn to uphold its laws, not you people.)

Unlike the rest of us, the police deal with reporters all the time and get to improve their skills with practice, same as politicians.