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Report: Boston attack suspects not licensed to own firearms
The Hill ^ | 4/21/13 | Mike Lillis

Posted on 04/21/2013 9:21:09 PM PDT by Nachum

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.

The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws – an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of President Obama's gun-control package.

Police say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his 19-year-old brother, Dzhokhar, went on a deadly shooting spree Thursday and Friday, killing a university policeman before confronting local officers in a wild firefight in the middle of a Watertown, Mass., street that left the elder brother dead and a transit policeman injured.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attack; banglist; boston; bostonbombersguns; democrats; guncontrol; licensed; nonewgunlaws; secondamendment; suspects
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To: jim-x
My guess is that 190+ of those were from the cops.

You're probably right.

I hate to say it, but the thought almost makes me wonder whether the brothers had any dogs in the car with them.

41 posted on 04/21/2013 11:35:27 PM PDT by Jeff Winston
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To: Nachum
The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws...

Wishful thinking on the author's part. What that news will do is remind people that criminals don't obey laws. This is akin to noting that these people bombed a public gathering, killed three people, engaged in a running shootout with a small army of police officers, and drove their stole SUV too fast, and concluding that what we need are stronger speed limits to address the issue. You can't reason with stupidity this monolithic.

42 posted on 04/21/2013 11:45:38 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Nachum

I’m waiting for the first Democratic pol to suggest that murders committed with guns be made a federal crime as well, with a mandatory death penalty attached.


43 posted on 04/21/2013 11:54:09 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Jeff Winston
A 200-round firefight is the biggest I’ve ever heard of.


Two ones in Los Angeles that occurred when I lived there come to mind. I looked up the numbers...:^)

Around 2,000 rounds total (1,300 from the robbers) in the N. Hollywood bank robbery of 1997. The bad guys had full body armour.

The 1974 SLA shootout (remember Patty Hearst) was around 9,000 rounds - probably mostly from the cops in that case.

44 posted on 04/22/2013 12:21:02 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: az_gila

The SLA shootout apparently was a sort of news TV first...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofbvgjl6MhA


45 posted on 04/22/2013 12:23:54 AM PDT by az_gila
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To: Nachum

#1- it’s a car that killed the older bomber.
#2- the explosives killed and injured more people than all the gunshots did.
#3- police killed a boat with guns.


46 posted on 04/22/2013 1:13:21 AM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Nachum

He didn’t die in a gun battle with LEOs. He was alive and the LEO was attempting to handcuff his hands behind his back, when the younger brother “Joker” drove the vehicle at them. The LEOs jumped out of the way and the vehicle ran over the older brother, killing him.


47 posted on 04/22/2013 1:45:40 AM PDT by octex
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To: Nachum

The over a million families locked in their homes unable to protect themselves and their children from a gun/bomb toting madman are going to call tougher gun laws I am sure. Did you know that they could not even protect themselves with mace? Mace is outlawed in their great state.


48 posted on 04/22/2013 2:20:18 AM PDT by BushCountry (What does it matter now!!)
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To: kingu

Perhaps each city should just be made into a “bomb free zone”?

/s


49 posted on 04/22/2013 2:30:01 AM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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To: onyx

bfl


50 posted on 04/22/2013 2:32:23 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Nachum

No, that is impossible! If it were illegal for them to have guns, they would never have shot anyone. Everyone knows that. /s


51 posted on 04/22/2013 2:46:01 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
What if there had been a ban on pressure cookers?

What concerns me is that they will push through a ban on gunpowder. And maybe that was the whole point in letting these bastards blow up people.

52 posted on 04/22/2013 2:53:39 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: FreedomPoster
“Boston attack suspects not licensed to own firearms “....

Well surprise, surprize, surprise!

There's a lot of this going around in the criminal world (Chicago, and numerous other places comes to mind)

53 posted on 04/22/2013 3:47:02 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
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To: Jeff Winston

200 rounds fired and only one hits suspect in the leg? What kind of training do these doofusses have? That is why WE need high cap magazines because they sure as hell can’t protect anybody. Guess they train with air soft!


54 posted on 04/22/2013 3:53:05 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Nachum

Pardon me, I’m out here in flyover country. What does “licensed to have a gun” mean? We don’t have licenses for our guns. Does this mean Mass. already has gun registration?


55 posted on 04/22/2013 4:06:39 AM PDT by Starstruck (Don't rest. We came close to the 2nd Amendment being field tested.)
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To: Nachum

I swear I read somewhere in all of this that they obviously had some sort of weapon when they killed officer Sean Collier but that they took his duty weapons and used them in the firefight in Watertown later that night. Can anyone confirm?


56 posted on 04/22/2013 4:12:59 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Nachum

So who got the firearms for them? The buyer was clean and got them legally no doubt??


57 posted on 04/22/2013 4:15:01 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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To: mykroar
Because when laws don't work, clearly we need more.

It's the liberal mindset in action. They are the anointed ones, therefore they are never wrong; so if something isn't working, you obviously need more of it.

58 posted on 04/22/2013 4:19:50 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: dennisw
So who got the firearms for them? The buyer was clean and got them legally no doubt??

Fast & Furious?

59 posted on 04/22/2013 4:23:32 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: COBOL2Java

Yes a special Muslim outreach version of Fast&Furious! Got the firearms for the Bomb Brothers. Paging Eric (the racist hypocrite) Holder!


60 posted on 04/22/2013 4:26:30 AM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing - Joe Pine)
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