BREAKING: Houston High School on Lockdown After Reports of Assault Rifle Shootings

Fox News ^ | September 25, 2009

[Zakeet]

HOUSTON — DEVELOPING: A Houston high school was on lockdown Friday after reports of assault rifle shootings in the neighborhood, according to local media.

[Snip]

Police believe that at least one suspect fired an AK-47 at a number of different locations, MyFOXHouston said.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Iraqi Wedding?

[Kenton]

Your average reporter wouldn’t know an AK-47 from a Cadillac. They see something that doesn’t look like grandpa’s double-barrel duck gun, they call it an AK-47.

[TChris]

Does an assault rifle make a different sound than, say, a hunting rifle?

Oh yes. It's much more menacing and scary. Assault rifles are very aggressive and randomly attack people all the time.

[rollo tomasi]

Early reports say a drive-bye committed the Mennonites started this whole mess. Apparently the Amish retaliated, thus causing the ongoing turf war to spill into "neutral" territory.

The original targets:

[a fool in paradise]

HOUSTON — DEVELOPING: A Houston high school was on lockdown Friday after reports of assault rifle shootings in the neighborhood, according to local media.

[wintertime]

Those Mormon boys on their bikes, maybe?

[NativeNewYorker]

Uh...

This School
Economically disadvantaged 100%

[clintonh8r]

Katrina transplants...

[a fool in paradise]

Firings should mean firearm was discharged. SHOOTINGS implied people targeted/hit.

[Sans-Culotte]

I’m not sure why our first reaction needs to be to get defensive about how this might affect gun rights. How but some concern for the people in harm’s way?

The 2nd Amendment can be discussed later.

Because when the media wing of the democrat party reports it, the most frequently uttered words will be "more gun control".

[pillut48]

Dear God, not again! :*(

Prayers going up for all to be safe!

[Gator113]

Oh yes. It makes a really, really scary sound.

A hunting rifle makes a much more peaceful and civilized sound.

Hunting, assault, hunting , assault.... see the difference. One is actually very deadly to people.

;>)

[humblegunner]

North Forest High School in northeast Houston

[NavVet]

Who would shoot an assault rifle. A poor defensless assault rifle.

[Brilliant]

Spillover from Mexico? We need more border fortifications to prevent Mexican guns from entering the country.

[Arrowhead1952]

A salt weapon ping.

[Marty62]

Or the dead drug dealers body on the neighboorhood lawn. The idiots got the drugs but left the 20 K. Dumb ass druggies.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I think it is over

Three arrested, school no longer on lockdown

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, but it’s SUV convinced it to ignore them.

[hiredhand]

Does an assault rifle make a different sound than, say, a hunting rifle?

Not really. The AR-15 fires the .223 Remington round as well as the 5.56mm NATO ("functionally" identically other than pressure specs). The AK-47, and SKS and variants fire the Russian 7.62x39mm round.

The 7.62x39 round sounds like a Winchester .30-30 (a popular hunting cartridge), and the 5.56mm NATO rounds sounds a whole lot like the .243 Winchester round...another popular hunting cartridge.

It's fairly easy to differentiate between pistol, rifle, and shotgun cartridges...even within close proximities due to aural tonal qualities of the blast. But it can be fairly difficult to differentiate between small bore, centerfire rifles whether they be hunting rifles or semi-autos. They all pretty much sound the same, with minor exceptions. They're certainly impossible to differentiate from one another generally.