Posted on 10/03/2017 9:08:51 AM PDT by maggief
Morbid thought: the workmen removing it might keep the section and sell it later as a dark historical item, could fetch thousands of dollars. Hopefully authorities will destroy it.
Ammo is so heavy. How did he do this by himself?
Multiple trips over multiple days.
Boston 25 News has obtained exclusive photos from police sources
Photos "emerge." The FBI controlling the public narrative through leaks. Notice that NBC was given scoops on money transfers from "multiple law enforcement sources." Feeding their favorite reporters and molding the public perceptions.
” ‘variants of the AR-15 rifle, which is based on the US Army’s M16.’
These guys crack me up.”
They are correct in this case (just luck, probably).
ArmaLite designed the AR-10 (7.62x51 NATO, close to 308 Winchester) in the mid 1950s. Some agencies in the Army Dept wanted smaller-caliber, higher-velocity rifles and induced ArmaLite to rework the AR-10 to fire a 22 cal round. They called this newer, smaller rifle the AR-15.
Remington re-engineered its 222 cartridge (introduced in 1950) into several different rounds to satisfy Army requirements, and ArmaLite chambered the newer, longer cartridges in modified testbed AR-15s. Users favored the cartridge that became the 5.56x45mm M193.
The Army and USAF expressed interest in acquiring large numbers of these AR-15s. ArmaLite had no manufacturing plant: they licensed production to Colt, who reworked the design a bit to facilitate mass production.
DoD politics intervened. The Army delayed USAF acquisition of early versions, but purchased numbers of a yet-further-modified version which became the M16A1.
(in the early 1960s, Remington introduced two commercial cartridges based on developmental rounds they had created for the AR-15 experiments: the 222 Remington Magnum, and the 223 Remington. The 222 Magnum (higher performance, greater flexibility in loads) was expected to do better, but the 223 (between the 222 and the Magnum in ballistic performance) outpaced it in sales, thanks to the US military’s adoption of the near-identical 5.56x45, followed by NATO in the 1980s. Today, 222 Magnum is out of production and 222 Rem output has declined to a tiny fraction of what it was. 223 overshadows them all.)
After several years selling the M16 and variants to DoD, Colt reworked the design into a semi-only version for civilian sales; it was approved by BATF and Colt began production in small numbers. The rifle was marked “COLT SPORTER Model SP-1”; it closely resembled the original M16 but only a few internal parts interchanged. It was incapable of full-auto fire, and full-auto parts from the M16 family could not be installed without extensive modification.
Sales to the civilian market were slow. Only later did Colt use the nomenclature “AR-15.”
Likely. But items #1 through #18 could easily be shell casings, magazines or even a half eaten Big Mac. It doesn't necessarily denote the number of firearms at the scene.
CNN this morning said you have to have a permit to buy a gun off the black market...
LMAO. Did they also have a lawyer on, explaining that Paddock should have given his victims some form of due process before executing them?
“The Army and USAF expressed interest in acquiring large numbers of these AR-15s. ArmaLite had no manufacturing plant: they licensed production to Colt, who reworked the design a bit to facilitate mass production.
DoD politics intervened. The Army delayed USAF acquisition of early versions, but purchased numbers of a yet-further-modified version which became the M16A1.”
I think the AR-15 came first, based on what you posted.
“... the angle of view is such that there appears to be more girth to the mags and a slightly straighter body shape, which might make it an AR10 or one of the ~30 caliber AR15 variants, like 6.8spcII....” [xander, post 59]
The top image in maggief’s initial post (with the reflex sight and the bump-fire stock) does not show a rifle of different caliber. The magazine with the wider body below the magazine well is an extra-capacity magazine: 50 or 60 rounds, in 5.56mm size.
The wide-body concept typically incorporates two columns of cartridges with a separate follower for each. The basic design is not new: it was pioneered in Finland and produced by Suomi, for submachine guns (1950s or 1960s). Later, the Swedes adopted a version for their M45 submachine gun, modifying the magazine well to permit removal to accommodate the wider magazine. Affords greater capacity with no major increase in length, and far less complexity (hence lower cost and weight) than drum magazines.
Adaptation to 5.56x45 NATO and the AR-15-style rifles is a recent development (past decade or so).
The floor should have been covered inches thick in “spent bullets” with that many killed and wounded.
People took their little kids out to carry candles and flowers. Uh, not my little kids. My little ones would be safely asleep in their beds.
I heard on CNN or FOX there were 50 at the house. Today there are 30-something in the hotel room. Hey, the more guns, the more important it is to ban guns.
CNN also said this morning you need a permit to buy guns on the black market..
Between the feds and the msm, we’ll never be told the truth.
Multiple trips to his suite.
De nada...
Ban elevators and baggage carts!
“...caller was a neighbor of this guy says impossible.”
Was this one of those types of neighbors that says “I hardly ever saw him - I spoke to his wife once though. She was nice. They live in a nice house just like mine and their cars are nice too.”
Uh-huh....
Nope, not ‘cartridges’ either. Should be ‘Spent Cases’.
You are correct actually. (That is what my lazy old butt gets for not FIRST reading the FULL article!! My apologies.)
That very expensive hotel suite is hideous; I’d kill myself if I had to stay there for more than 56 seconds. But seriously...
...no one has mentioned the difference in the perp’s appearance in the last few photos taken of him. He was a rather nice looking fellow before. Not Now. He’s clearly very sick and/or drunk. VERY. Is he an alcoholic? Or does he have some terminal illness? Or both?
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