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Shooter’s weapon described as AR-15 variant
www.expressnews.com ^ | 11/05/2017 | By J.p. Lawrence

Posted on 11/06/2017 1:29:53 PM PST by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger; Puppage

Sounds like you two need to go fishin’


21 posted on 11/06/2017 1:51:00 PM PST by Dacula
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To: TigersEye

If modified with a bump stock, it would be fully automatic.

Its not the specific characteristics of a weapon we need to be concerned about, the values of the user.

That always gets left out in the debate over how to respond to mass shooting incidents.


22 posted on 11/06/2017 1:51:09 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: LivingNet

Colt purchased the rights.


23 posted on 11/06/2017 1:53:54 PM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Buffalo Head
Also left unsaid, but inferred, is that the MSR's are just Barbie Dolls for men. Dress them up men! And ladies also.


24 posted on 11/06/2017 1:55:02 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: goldstategop
Its not the specific characteristics of a weapon we need to be concerned about, ...

That was my point.

If modified with a bump stock, it would be fully automatic.

Not really. Not even the ATF accepts that to be true.

25 posted on 11/06/2017 1:56:20 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: LivingNet

Armalite was a division of Fairchild Aircraft and developed the AR-10 & AR-15 to utilize adanced aluminous alloys used by the aircraft industry.

From Wiki:

“Tired of repeated failures in the market, Fairchild licensed the AR-10 and AR-15 designs to Colt, and the AR-10 to a Dutch company. They sold their interest in Armalite in 1962. That year, Colt sold the AR-15 to the United States Air Force to arm base security troops.”


26 posted on 11/06/2017 1:56:39 PM PST by Tallguy (Twitter short-circuits common sense. Please engage your brain before tweeting.)
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To: LivingNet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArmaLite


27 posted on 11/06/2017 1:56:43 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: TigersEye

I was Walmart shortly after they stopped selling AR style rifles. (As an aside, I bought a Colt LE 6920 at Walmart for $1069 during the gun shortage when they were selling for $2500 on the auction sites.) Right there in the display case was a Ruger Mini 14. I actually laughed out loud. I will admit the Mini 14 had a wood stock and not that scary black stuff like the ARs had.


28 posted on 11/06/2017 1:58:26 PM PST by suthener
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To: suthener

Even funnier, you can get scary black plastic stocks for Rugers.


29 posted on 11/06/2017 2:00:59 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Campion

You’d expect some of the shootings with a rifle to be with an “AR variant” since it’s the more popular of the two main types of ‘ordinary rifle’.


30 posted on 11/06/2017 2:04:07 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Red Badger
20 attacks that used guns that would have been illegal under the assault weapons ban

Lemmee guess. The attacks would have been legal. Just the weapon would have been illegal?

BTW, 600,000 Americans were killed with muzzleloaders during the civil war. Anyone determined to take a life will use whatever he has at his disposal. After all, abortion docs kill over a million Americans every year, and they don't even use a gun. Maybe we should outlaw abortion.

31 posted on 11/06/2017 2:12:09 PM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: LivingNet

...Why does it say that Colt owns the trademark when Armalite is the company that created the rifle?...

Armalite sold the rights to the AR15 shortly after it’s development.


32 posted on 11/06/2017 2:12:33 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Red Badger

Ah, so, ah, when are we going to hear about the gun that saved people?


33 posted on 11/06/2017 2:12:50 PM PST by Bogie
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah!


34 posted on 11/06/2017 2:14:13 PM PST by Bogie
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To: Puppage

The prices vary wildly based on quality and features. I have a $550 S&W Sport. Reliable and accurate and a good buy, but higher priced weapons are well worth the money if purchasing for use beyond basic TEOTWAWKI stockpiling.


35 posted on 11/06/2017 2:22:18 PM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Puppage
$850 is a STEAL here in CT.

Look online.

Commonly found under $600, often much less.

Check places like Buds or Kentucky Guns.

Hot deals coming up around the holidays too.


36 posted on 11/06/2017 2:29:15 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but exempt themselves.)
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To: BenLurkin

I originally heard that it was a shotgun.


37 posted on 11/06/2017 2:33:11 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: goldstategop

“If modified with a bump stock, it would be fully automatic.”

Nope. Bumpfire stocked guns are STILL semi-auto. One trigger pull, one bang. I would call them single-shots to annoy the Leftist Monolithic Media.


38 posted on 11/06/2017 2:34:26 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: Red Badger

The thought occurred to me that someone could have put the thought of a “gun” massacre in this guy’s head . . .with promises of who knows what.


39 posted on 11/06/2017 2:34:57 PM PST by Maudeen (This world is not my home.)
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To: Bogie

I wouldn’t hold my breath.................


40 posted on 11/06/2017 2:35:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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