Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting Gun A Walther PPS?

Gun Watch ^ | 7 January, 2017 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The image above has been credited as being the firearm used in the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting on 6 January, 2017.  While the image is a little fuzzy, it appears to be a Walther PPS. You can see the distinctive trigger guard magazine release, the slot above the trigger guard and back of the rail for the serial number, the single finger groove and the shape of the extended magazine.   On the rear heal of the grip is a triangular smooth area that should have the Walther banner in it, and grip is slightly relieved and smooth in a triangular area just to the rear of the trigger.

Any help on identifying this particular variant from a fuzzy photo would be appreciated.  Some PPS pistols have the square hole behind the takedown slot, others do not. 

The M2 version moved the mag release to behind the trigger guard. Walther PPS pistols have several magazines available. Six, seven, and eight round magazines are common in 9mm,  five, six, and seven rounds in .40 S&W.  The gun in the picture seems to have the seven or eight round magazine.

We do not know how many shots were fired at the airport yet.  The pistol was unloaded and in a hard case and locked as required by airport security.

The pistol seems to have been checked into checked baggage (not carried on the plane)  properly by TSA in Anchorage.  It seems a long way to go to shoot people in a baggage claim at an airport.
 
Baggage claim is not a sanitized area inside the secure zone, but Florida is one of a few states where baggage claim is a gun free zone where concealed carry by permit holders is not allowed.

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[marktwain]

The pistol used was clearly a Walther PPS. It is a micro sized pocket pistol that has a single stack magazine.

CNN referred to it as a "Glock" just a couple of days ago.

[Pollster1]

Some amateurs would call it an AK-47, or even an AR-47, but it's obviously a Glock.
CNN professionals identified it, so "Glock" must be as true as the rest of CNN's stories.

[wrench]

What difference does it make if a muslim terrorist cuts your head off with a Buck or a Schrade knife?

The crime was committed by an evil person, not a gun.

[Bogie]

You beat me to it.

Cheers!

[Blood of Tyrants]

“Florida is one of a few states where baggage claim is a gun free zone where concealed carry by permit holders is not allowed.”

What more do they want? All the victims were disarmed, just the way liberals prefer them. And liberals think that shootings like this can be prevented with more laws.

[riverrunner]

Yes the anti’s want every body disarmed except their government agents.

[Hawthorn]

>> What difference does it make <<

Great minds think alike!

But I would have said,

“What difference — AT THIS POINT — does it make?”

[Hawthorn]

>> liberals think that shootings like this can be prevented with more laws <<

Yep. I think Florida needs at least two new laws to eliminate shootings in luggage pick-up areas:

1. No traveler who legally ships a firearm in his or her checked luggage shall be permitted to open said luggage in a restroom appurtenant to any luggage pick-up area.

2. No non-traveler who enters a luggage pick-up area shall be permitted to shoot any other person in said area or within fifty yards thereof, except (a) in bona fide cases of self-defense or (b) to save the life of another person.

Problem solved!

[BDParrish]

Haha!

At any airport security check, hundreds of people are standing in line waiting to go through the screening. “What is to stop a jihadist from blowing up all of us right here?”

[marktwain]

The establishment media routinely lies and dissembles about guns used in crimes.

They make all sorts of unsupported claims, and work hard to divide and conquer gun owners by demonizing classes of firearms.

It is worthwhile to accurately identify firarms used in crime in order to debunk and discredit the establishment media and their agenda.

The pistol used in this crime met the magazine restrictions of the most restrictive states. We would not know that if we could not accurately identify the pistol model and make.

The shooter had to reload at least once, and perhaps did so twice. We would not know that he had to unless we knew the model and magazine capacity of the pistol.

CNN called the pistol a Glock days after this article was published. It was a small step, but liberal that I know noticed, after reading this article, and chided CNN for their mistake.

It is a minor version of what freerepublic did with Rathergate. If you do not track small facts, you can miss large lies.

[ExGeeEye]

How is that mag release operated?

[marktwain]

It is a lever as part of the trigger guard. You can pull it down from either side of the trigger guard. It pivots in the back as you pull the lever down and back, releasing the magazine.