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A Times Square bloodbath was narrowly avoided because the machine-pistol-toting thug who fired at a cop flipped the gun on its side like a character out of a rap video, causing the weapon to jam after two shots, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
I'm pretty sure this is not what rappers mean when they talk about a "def jam."
When scam artist Raymond "Ready" Martinez held the MAC-10-style gun parallel to the ground, it caused the ejecting shells to "stovepipe," or get caught vertically in the chamber, the sources said. The gun is designed to be fired only in a vertical position. If he had fired the weapon -- which had another 27 rounds in the clip -- properly, Martinez, 25, could have killed the hero cop pursuing him and countless others walking through the swarming tourist mecca Thursday morning.
| One hopes rappers and their more... active fans do not read the New York Post. |
Instead, Sgt. Christopher Newsom was able to return fire -- putting a cap in killing Martinez with four shots before anyone was hurt.
The fatal gun battle erupted after Martinez bolted from cops who approached him for aggressively peddling his own rap CDs to tourists and shaking them down for cash. Newsom gave chase and shouted for Martinez to put up his hands. Martinez instead pulled the machine gun from a sling under his coat and turned to fire as he ran into the parking breezeway within the Marriott Marquis Hotel....
In rap songs on his Web page, Martinez boasted of taking aim at a police sergeant...
Bus this rhyme, Rantburg homies:
I'm gonna run when they tell me to stop
Hold my piece gangsta style and take down a cop
There's a jam, it ain't def, when it e-jects the brass
Instead of bein' killah I get the cap in my a--
They haul the body bag away
It just ain't my day
Nothin more to say
'Cept I shoulda learned proper firearms handlin' from the N-R-A |