Posted on 07/11/2016 10:34:52 AM PDT by marktwain
There is considerable controversy and confusion about the firearms used in the Dallas sniper attack against police officers. Early in the aftermath, numerous disarmist pundits proclaimed that it was an AR15 rifle, without any substantive verification of any kind. One of them was the “gun guy” on the Huffington Post. Another was Dallas Mayor (D) Mike Rawlings. From newswest9.com:
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings says the suspect in the sniper slayings of five officers used an AR-15 rifle. Rawlings said that’s the type of weapon 25-year-old Micah Johnson used in the attack Thursday night in downtown Dallas. A similar assault weapon was used in the attacks at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people.
Early reports are often wrong. It is common for politically motivated individuals to put out false reports in an attempt to hijack the narrative. A couple of days later, many major news outlets were citing sources that the rifle used was an SKS. Some were from authoritative sources. From nytimes.com:
“It’s talking not only about how to kill but how to keep from being killed,” said Clay Jenkins, Dallas County’s chief executive and director of homeland security and emergency management, who said he had not read the original journal but had reviewed summaries of it. “It shows that he’s well prepared.”
(snip)
Mr. Jenkins said Mr. Johnson had used a semiautomatic SKS rifle and a high-capacity handgun. He drove his vehicle to the demonstration and parked it, Mr. Jenkins said, but was on foot at many points throughout the attack.
Another statement from Chief Executive Officer and Judge Clay Jenkins throws a bit more information into the mix. From sunny1015.com:
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Could have been this one.
Mose scarey buzz words required:
Something like:
..."obama will say it was a high capacity clip automatic glock Ar15 assault rifle
“Why don’t they just read what’s stamped on the Rifle , D’oh instead of making up crap”
Somebody has. They are not telling because it is an ongoing investigation.
There are leaks and one semi-official source, Judge Jenkins.
There may be good reasons for holding the information close to the chest for a while.
I used to have an SKS. I wish I still had it.
When the story first broke, a protester said “it sounded like an AR-15” ... so there you have it - it could be nothing else but.
Ah yes. The infamous 50.80.
Are they sure it wasn’t a fully automatic Glock that fired cop killer artillery rounds?
Must have been Gersh Kuntzman, he knows what they sound like AND how hard they recoil.
That piece might be the forestock pistol grip that became detached from falling on it. Or it may be the perp’s penile implant.
Ford Pinto go >BANG<
AR-15!
I thought you were referring to the infamous exploding gas tank frame-up!
Because they cannot read.
That car was pranked by the MSM. There’s even a scene in a movie (Top Secret where it showed a Pinto being touched by another car and it blew up) as how Hollyweird carried it forward.
Don't they also have a model AR-47 pistol with a fully automatic mode?
It’s not an SKS. The handle on an SKS slide (whatever that thing is called) is a circular knurled knob dished out in the center. An AK style rifle, like the one in the picture has a flat shallow,forward-facing, hook sort of thing instead. No matter how much you might customize the SKS, you’re not going to change that.
Looks like a Saiga to me.
It’s a Vepr.
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