OMAHA, Neb. — Omaha police Friday released three still images captured from surveillance footage inside a shopping mall department store before Robert Hawkins' bloody rampage began. One shows the 19-year-old walking through Von Maur's front entrance with an apparent bulge under his sweat shirt. It was an AK-47 assault rifle, police said.
Maybe I’m way off here (and I’m no gun expert), but the way the guy is holding the gun in the video image, with the right elbow dropped down like that, seems to me more like he’s holding a gun with a pistol grip below the trigger (or whatever it’s called) as in a AK-47, rather than a normal rifle which you would have your right elbow raised up more, like the SKS.
I very much doubt that it was, or is. An "assault rifle" that is. Maybe, probably even, it would have been an "assault weapon", under the now expired law of that name. "Assault weapon" is a term made up, by gun grabbers, for guns the grabbers wish to ban. The precise definition changes from state to state, and even day to day. In Nebraska, I don't think there is any such thing, at least the NRA-ILA summary of Nebraska gun laws doesn't mention any, unlike the ones for California and Massachusetts, which do.