[marktwain]

AR15 - No. SKS- Maybe. Saiga - Maybe.

[arthurus]

SKS. It is identical to mine.

[Myrddin]

Saiga 5.45x39. AK-74 variant with Magpul furniture, red dot sight. 30 rd mag. About a $650 rifle. Nothing special. Can't import them anymore after Obama banned the imports.

[Robe]

I have an SKS modified with a nylon folding stock with a 30 rnd mag plus a red dot sight. Looks mean but still an SKS

[NoLibZone]

obama will say it was a high capacity automatic glock Ar15.

[cassiusking]

Why is there so much intrigue when it comes to these mass murderers?

And the biggest questions never get answered.

For instance at Sandy Hook, how come we never got a straight answer re: the loon that lived next door and professed to have had 10 of the kids in his house for 4 hours after the shooting. He nearly delighted in spoon feeding the media with what it wanted to hear re: the anti gun agenda. Of course, it never happened. He never had all those kids in his house for all those hours.

[ColdOne]

Only the FBI knows for sure.

[Billthedrill]

It's a fully semiautomatic Webley-Vickers, belt-fed with a cop-killing bayonet lug and a Hubble telescopic sight. I've use mine to shoot through the center of the earth and pick off kangaroos in Australia.

Why yes, I'm the firearms consultant for CNN. How did you know?

[butlerweave]

Why don’t they just read what’s stamped on the Rifle , D’oh instead of making up crap

[Jed Eckert]

Has anyone identified what that is laying next to the rifle? Almost looks like a piece of the forestock blown off by the blast.

[Yo-Yo]

[rfreedom4u]

I used to have an SKS. I wish I still had it.

[al_c]

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.

[MeganC]

Are they sure it wasn’t a fully automatic Glock that fired cop killer artillery rounds?

[PUGACHEV]

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.

[cpdiii]

Looks like a Saiga to me.

[fightin kentuckian]

It’s a Vepr.

[fightin kentuckian]

Not an AR15, NOT an SKS, it is an AK-47 variant called a Vepr.

[fightin kentuckian]

And it has a Tapco, 30 round magazine.

[PLMerite]

Saiga AK-74:

[shotgun]

I could tell by the sound of the gunshots on the news feed that it wasn’t an AR-15.

Gunny Highway-Heartbreak Ridge: “this is an AK 47, it is the preferred weapon of our enemy and makes a very distinct sound when fired”