He used a .30 on the street.
Posted on 09/20/2013 12:23:37 PM PDT by rellimpank
Those behind a late-night attack at a southwest Chicago park in which 13 people were wounded, including a 3-year-old, used an assault-style weapon to spray the crowd with bullets, making it "a miracle" no one was killed, the city's police superintendent said Friday.
Ballistics evidence shows that those behind Thursday night's attack used a 7.62 mm rifle fed by a high-capacity magazine, police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters. That type of weapon, he said, belongs on a "battlefield, not on the street or a corner or a park in the Back of the Yards," the neighborhood where the shooting took place.
"It's a miracle in this instance that there have been no fatalities based upon the lethality of the weapon used at the scene," McCarthy said, calling on lawmakers to restrict the sale of such weapons and choke off the flow of illegal guns into the city.
The attack happened shortly after 10 p.m. while the Cornell Square Park was still crowded with people watching a basketball game and enjoying a warm late summer night.
Investigators believe several people took part in the attack but weren't sure yet how many fired shots. McCarthy said that based on witness interviews, it appears the attack was gang-related and that several victims are gang members.
"Even if it's gang-related, even if we have the most hardened criminals who becomes the victim of gun violence, that individual is the father, brother, sister sometimes parent of somebody else," McCarthy said. "So murder is not a one-victim crime."
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Maybe they got hold of an Obamagun from Fast and Furious.
What's next, "terrorist-style Tea-Party member threatened..."
-PJ
The shooter(s)should have used Joe “Bite-Me”autograph model SHOTGUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gee, maybe they out to pass a law against them, that’ll work.
That was my first thought, too. 7.62x39-51 is a bit larger/heavier hardware than a ROTM AR-15.
Bingo! My initial response upon reading the headline, just had to read through all responses to see if anyone else caught that. Unbelievable the crap the Chicago PD tries to peddle to their media lackeys. Sadly, the sheeple in Chicago eat it up, while us downstaters who know considerably more about all those ‘scary’ guns just sit and shake our heads at the stupidity.
He used a .30 on the street.
BS, every home in the USA should have at least one. People who misuse them in parks ought to be shot by people defending themselves.
7.62X39 COMBLOC, as in Avtomat Kalashnikova.
Me too but now @$1-2 per pull I’m pretty conservative with my range practice.
I think in another year there will be more ammo on the market and we’ll be able to find deals for $.75. Still expensive but, easier to swallow.
My brother and I are now thinking about reloading. I think we should have two manual systems and two all electrics.
We can load faster with the two electrics and keep our experience handy with the manuals.
M\Yep; more likely than 7.62x51/.308 AR-10.
Good idea.
There’s some under-a-buck stuff out there now, but it’s usually reloaded, low-grain ammo:
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Unless you buy caseloads:
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Another Chicago Moron hard at work to undermine the constituion; as if the same result couldn’t have been wrought with a semi-auto pistol.
No doubt the cops have political aspirations.
It is obvious that it is a fully auto AK47. There is no battle field weapon on the planet that can produce that many flesh wounds and not deliver a single instantly fatal wound.
It was a fully automatic uncontrolled random spray of fire on a group of people.
The other reason there was so many flesh wounds with no fatalities is they was probably using steel core FMJ AP rounds. They just go through people without expanding. Beyond the initial hole through the person, the shock wounds are minimal. So, if you don’t get hit with a heart or brain shot(which is almost a zero chance with an AK), and you can control any bleeding before it becomes fatal, then the person will survive.
Remember, they are designed to wound, not kill.
“That type of weapon, he said, belongs on a “battlefield,...”
Hey, Jackass!! Chicago IS a battle zone, you liberal twit!!!
Highly likely it’s an AK-47 type, given the cheap price and lotsa cheap ammo.
30-40 Krag?
That’s a lot more realistic than an AR-10, for ghetto-rat gangstas/thugs/gangbangers.
Probably a cheap AK-47 as evidenced by the lack of accuracy and fatalities.
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