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Ballistics tests found the bullet that struck the teen was identical to those that killed some of the others and wounded a woman in Virginia, said Joe Riehl, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Please help eradicate ignorance...does this mean they were fired from the same gun?! or just the same make/type/ammo?

Curious about the Tarot card...and weren't there two people in the original "suspect" white truck?

Got to catch up on my reading, I guess... ;)

Curious about the Tarot card...and weren't there two people in the original "suspect" white truck?

The deal with the "white truck"...

The white truck was seen by ONE PERSON. It was seen near the scene of one of the shootings. No one saw anyone shoot anyone from the white truck. The white truck may not have anything to do with anything. The number of people in the white truck seems to be uncertain.

There have been thousands and thousands of experiments involving college classrooms, etc (often demonstrated in a Psych 101 class) where in a sudden, surprise situation, people are COMPLETELY incapable of accurately witnessing anything. Often in the same test people give contradictory eyewitness reports. The white truck may not even be white, or even a truck.

Rest assured, if the perp is caught and it's not an Islamic Terrorist, there will be a massive cottage industry in books written about the REAL snipers who were Al Quedaa operatives in a white truck, and they'll be advertised on World Net Daily and on Newsmax.com.

My understanding of ballistics leads me to believe that it would be nearly impossible to prove that two bullets fired into two human body matched because the velocity is so great that the bullets wold be extremely distorted by the impact.

Any useful rifling marks would be destroyed.

My theory is that the guy is using a bolt action rifle, possibly a 22-250 and is planting .223 casings he picked up at the range at the shooting scenes.