You people who think an AK 47 and SKS sound different must have dog hearing or something. I can’t say I have heard them fired back to back in the wild, but here is a video of kids shooting AKs and SKSs back to back and they sound identical to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XqchYs41As
Now, AR vs AK. Definitely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10hrP6MQ1MY
I am guessing Perp intentionally chose 7.62x39 for its better penetration characteristics than the .223. Knowing cops wear body armor and would be hunkering behind car bodies, he would have wanted better penetration.
Good thing he wasn’t familiar with a rifle like the Garand. Shooting white cops with a .30-06 would have likely killed more of the surviving ones.
I told my sister Thursday night when I heard the gunshots that it sounded like a SKS. Just that hammering bam bam bam sounded like a x39 and the SKS seems to hammer a bit slower than a semiauto AK. But it didn’t fit the common type of firearms that these terrorists use. I was shocked when I read that it was a SKS.