Bullet from Tacoma Stump MATCHES sniper bullet!

MetroSource/Fox News | 10/24/02 | NA

[prisoner6]

Headline just about says it all.

Bullet from Tacoma Stump MATCHES sniper bullet!

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[lewislynn]

I think this is hilarious that Chief Moose read this statement just an hour before the guy was caught. I think it was the chief's way of having the last laugh.

I think you give him way too much credit...Besides, I think they were sleeping in their car at the time and never heard the message.

[Z in Oregon]

Du post 37: If he's ex-military... ...can we blame the right wing gun nuts, even if he's an angry looking african american named mohammed?

Ah, the D.U.

They are so sad that "material witness" #1 isn't White.

Awwwwwww...

I tried to post to the D.U. once. I politely mentioned that pro-abortion advocates were sick freaks and evil, disgusting baby-killers. They threw me off.

What about freedom of speech?

Democrats are losers.

[Travis McGee]

Don't expect much of a "ballistics" matach from .223s fired into a stump or a person at 3,000fps.

This is not like tv, where they show a hardly deformed round nose pistol bullet for comparison.

[demlosers]

Here ya go. Copy and paste:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/duforum/DCForumID61/5678.html

[Steve_Seattle]

"It will be very interesting to observe the media spin this case."

If Mohammed/Williams is indeed the sniper, I would expect the media to play up the military veteran angle, i.e., "the U.S. Army trained the killer, we have seen the enemy and the enemy is us," that sort of thing.

[Shooter 2.5]

The only people we want to blame are the killers. It looks like the disturbed members of DU can't wait to blame some group.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Do a search on it in the article titles (I don't have it handy at the moment)... there was a post last night that explained it.

"Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting"

;0)

[jae471]

NPR was talking to some guy this morning who insisted on using the "Williams" last name instead of Mohammed. The spin has already started in some circles.

Jose Padilla Syndrome?

[SLB]

This is not like tv, where they show a hardly deformed round nose pistol bullet for comparison.

Folks won't realize that. I have tried to dig the bullet out of every deer/elk that I have shot. The worst case was a little doe that I shot in the chest head on with a .243 in Texas. It virtually exploded everything in her chest cavity and I recovered only some fragments. The best was an elk shot in the upper right hip with a 30-06 Silver Tip. I still have the bullet somewhere. It is almost a perfect mushroom to about 1/3 again the diameter. We used to shoot at just about any and all things for plinking and I have seen some .22 LR bullets that in no way even resemble a bullet. I have seen some that look like they could be re-used. Ballistics are a strange science.

[Z in Oregon]

Right. I wonder if the sniper's picture will be on the cover of Time, Newsweek, etc?

[cinFLA]

Notice the media will not call him a radical LEFT wing zealot?

Of course not. The PC phrases are:

He fought in the gulf war.

He is a gulf war veteran.

[Shooter 2.5]

(For reference, Lee Oswald hit Jack Kennedy with his final shot at 80m.)

The media spin started with that back in '63. The media pinned in on everyone except a lone Marxist.

[ezo4]

what is DU?

DU = democraticunderground.com

Dont go there its a really silly place

[prisoner6]

Sorry there was no online source. It came across a newsire (MetroSource with atttrib to FOX TV) at the radio stations where I work. See post #52.

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[Travis McGee]

Very strange indeed. A lot will depend on if they were using military hardall or HPs. Still, out of 13 bullets they will get at least one with enough land and groove info intact to match the rifle they have taken.

[ffrancone]

Imagine if the sniper had run security for Pat Robertson. That would be three-inch, front-page headlines in the NY Times, Wash Post and LA Times until Nov 5.

[FreeTheHostages]

surely this is a little soon for there to be a ballistics match

Nope.

[FreeTheHostages]

Thanks.

[1rudeboy]

Headline just about says it all.

What do you mean "just about?" You didn't say anything else.

[GirlNextDoor]

In any case MetroSource is a newswire service we get at the stations. It ran the slug with an attrib to FOX. When I saw it I checked FOX news TV and saw the same statement on the closed caption so I ran with it.

Cool! Thanks and sleep well. :)