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What we have confirmed so far is 11 dead, 6 wounded, shooter is a former city employee who used a .45 caliber handgun with extended magazines.
No names released at the time of this writing (10:08 PM)
UPDATE: If Heavy.com has the shooter right, this story will disappear by Tuesday night next week.
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
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If the accounts are also correct, he used a ‘sound suppressor’ which if legally purchased means he went through the lengthy NFA transfer process that takes anywhere from 6 to 12 months, and sometimes even longer
Does that mean that he’s been planning this for those months? Or, did he ‘snap’ and decide to use what he had on hand?
Or course, the police could easily misidentify a compensator. I’ve know many cops who really didn’t know much technical stuff about guns at all and the ‘silencers’ seen in movies and TV shows are ludicrously small.
By all accounts, it did not suppressed much, did it?
I’m going with compensator until the ATF shows his tax stamp
Maybe a solvent trap/oil filter suppressor?
That thought also crossed my mind. Saw one report that he had “bought several guns in the last few weeks” but that doesn’t indicate anything, really. We’d like to think that means he was a new shooter but I’ve also “bought several guns in the last few weeks” and I’ve had suppressors for almost 10 years now.
I highly doubt this guy was a stamp collector, and that is based *purely* on the fact that he didn’t use some sort of PDW instead of a pistol.
Don’t tease us like that. What’s the deal with the shooter?
Black male, employee going postal (or former) using pistol.
It does not fit the White NRA-looking guy with an AR15 mold.
Yeah, that story is a goner.
When I got my cans one of the most amazing things I learned is just how loud the sound of a bullet hitting a target is. Seriously. Most internet videos don’t capture just how loud some sounds are.
I was shooting my 45 with 230 Grain ball through an AAC Tirant. The gun sounded like a pneumatic staple gun. The sound of the bullet hitting the wet Alabama clay berm was louder than the sound of the suppressed gun. No joke.
Do not shoot steel with a suppressed gun at pistol distances without ear protection. I made that mistake once.
I can imagine that the sounds of bullets hitting a body is loud enough that people might mistake that for the gunshot itself.