Fort Hood Killer Reportedly Chose "Cop Killer" Handgun (More Brady baloney)

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence ^ | Nov 6, 2009 | NA

[neverdem]

Four and a half years ago, three police organizations in the United States issued advisories to warn officers that a new handgun introduced into the U.S. market by a Belgium manufacturer of military firearms represented a unique threat to the safety of police officers. 

It was a handgun that was designed to fire bullets through body armor.  A U.S. Senator and a U.S. Congressman urged a legal ban on civilian possession of the firearm, which began being referred to as the "cop killer gun."  The gun, manufactured by FN Herstal of Belgium, is lightweight and easily concealable, and was designed as a military sidearm to complement military rifles made by the same company.  One law enforcement expert referred to the Five-Seven as "an assault rifle that fits in your pocket." 

While no police officer has reportedly been killed by a suspect armed with a Five-Seven, it may now have taken the lives of U.S. soldiers. Today, several news sources are reporting that it was the Five-Seven that Nidal M. Hasan used in his shooting attack at Fort Hood in Texas Thursday 

In January 2005, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), International Brotherhood of Police Officers (IBPO) and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), released their alert to the police community at a press conference, joined by U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and Congressman Elliott Engel of New York. 

When first launched for civilian sales, company officials wrote on the company website that “enemy personnel, even wearing body armor can be effectively engaged up to 200 meters. Kevlar® helmets and vests as well as the CRISAT protection will be penetrated.” That language has since been removed by FN Herstal.

In early 2005, Brady Campaign staff purchased the weapon at a Virginia gun dealer and test-fired it.  The bullets successfully penetrated a police Kevlar vest.

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[neverdem]

“On this Veterans’ Day, Thank You for your service.”

Thank you, and the same to you.

[budwiesest]

And they refuse to see this as a terrorist act?

I know a guy who was charged with making "terrorist threats" on his step-son's answering machine after he threatened the little prick who totaled his van and stole his business equipment, while trying to establish a similar business somewhere else- with his equipment!

Slightly off-topic, and I apologize, but how can anyone believe gun rights will ever be recognized as origionally intended in a country that can't even get 'terrorism' right?

[Uri’el-2012]

Attached to the FN Five-seveN 5.7 was a LaserMax.

Among the items that found was the packaging from a laser guide attachment for a handgun. The product, called LaserMax, still had its $229.99 price tag on the packaging.

from (CBS) CBS News

[Oztrich Boy]

For those of us who know a thing about guns, what was the caliber?

5.7mm (.224")

You can either look at it as a lower powered reduced case 5.56mm NATO, or a centerfire analog of the .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire

[east1234]

I was thinking that a .40 S&W makes a much larger hole.

[Lion Den Dan]

I was thinking that a .40 S&W makes a much larger hole.

nearly twice as large in diameter. Infinitely larger in terms of blood loss and depth of wound channel.