Posted on 05/05/2015 8:50:33 PM PDT by servo1969
More details are beginning to emerge about the incompetent Islamic terrorist attack on a free speech event held by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) in Garland, Texas Sunday. Bearing Arms readers have asked for more details about how the actual shooting went down, and about the Garland police officer who used his duty sidearm to defeat two attackers armed with rifles within 15 seconds.
Please keep in mind that we don’t have all the details about the attack, the individual officer’s response, or the exact steps law enforcement took once the attack began, and that even if we had that information, we would withhold such details which may be useful for any other would-be terrorists attempting future attacks.
That said, we will provide analysis of some key pieces of publicly available information.
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At the point of the attack, the two suspects apparently drove up and opened fire upon an unarmed security guard who was accompanied by a 60-year-old Garland police officer. The unarmed guard was struck the volley of gunfire. The veteran Garland officer then drew his duty-issue Glock pistol and opened fire on the suspects.
The officer killed one terrorist and wounded the other in his initial volley of return fire. Witnesses claim there was a brief pause, and then the officer fire two more shots to kill the still-moving terrorist as he appears to be reaching for a backpack. The entire event lasted 15 seconds, with heavily-armed Garland SWAT converging on the scene immediately afterward.
We’re not going to mention any more about the officer who took out these terrorists, only that to give an idea of his approximate position in relation to the terrorists as he engaged them.
The evidence markers at the bottom of the photo above show us a remarkable story, as they denote the final locations of the shell casings ejected from the officer’s Glock duty pistol. While every pistol is different from another in its ejection pattern, and the movement of the officer and the cant of his gun precludes us from knowing exactly where he was, there, is a distinct trial of shells showing that the officer was moving forward from the bottom left of the photo above towards the terrorists at the rear of the vehicle. He appears to have opened fire from 20 yards away, and fired at least a dozen shots by the time he reached an area near the traffic cones, roughly 7-10 yards from where the terrorists died.
Second photo taken from the opposite angle (below) seems to confirm this determined officer’s advance on the terrorists while firing.
Note: the damage to the vehicle driven by the terrorists was from controlled demolitions from EOD units ensuring that the car was not a VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device).
There seems to be a great deal of skepticism regarding whether or not the suspects were wearing body armor and whether they were armed with “automatic weapons” or “assault rifles” or something else entirely. Other photos from the crime scene suggest answers to those questions as well.
In the image above, we have drawn an orange rectangle around what appears to be blood-drenched halves of a soft body armor carrier worn by one of the terrorists. Most people don’t seem to grasp that there are multiple grades of soft body armor, that these materials degrade over time, and that the armor panels themselves do not often cover the entire torso, leaving gaps under the arms, below the ribs, and at the neck.
We simply don’t know if the officer’s bullets compromised the armor or went around the armor panels, but it is quite clear that there was soft body armor worn by at least one of the terrorists, and that it did not prevent him from being quickly taken out of of the fight.
Did the terrorists have “automatic weapons” as some mainstream media outlets initially claimed?
The media claim of “automatic weapons” or “machine guns” is always to be discounted until positively affirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt by firearms experts (not law enforcement public information officers), simply based on how difficult it is to obtain automatic weapons in the United States.
What we do have is two separate images that appear to show long guns recovered at the scene. We’ve taken part of the image above and flipped it vertically below in an effort to better determine what we’re looking at.
It isn’t anything we immediately recognize, though we can say for certain that it doesn’t appear to be any centerfire variant or an AR-15 or AKM. While the photo we have to work with is frankly horrible, our best guess is that The firearm we’re looking at is a most likely Kel-Tec SUB-2000, a popular and inexpensive pistol caliber carbine shown below.
Partially obscured behind evidence marker 34 is what appears to be a firearm with an AR-15-type front sight post, but the quality of the image and amount of the gun covered by the evidence marker make it impossible to tell what we’re really looking at.
Is this a legitimate centerfire AR-15? Is this a rimfire copy? Is this an airgun, designed to look enough like an AR-15 to win a jihadi his martyrdom?
Frankly, I’m tempted to think that we’re looking at a “faux-15″ martyrdom special or a .22 clone, considering we’ve not be able to track down credible reports of the distinctively different reports of a centerfire rifle fire, and the confirmed Glock pistol-fire from the Garland officer.
We’re not ruling out the possibility that this was a centerfire AR-15 recovered at the scene, we’re simply noting that there wasn’t much evidence suggesting it was able to be brought into play by the terrorists.
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No matter how you break down the details, this was an incredible display of bravery and marksmanship by this 30+ year veteran of the Garland Police Department, who not only resisted the natural urge to create distance between yourself and rifle-armed assailants, but who appears to have done precisely the opposite, and who advanced while firing accurately, bringing the attack to a swift conclusion without a single additional casualty once he brought his weapon to bear.
Determined people with good training and a decent handgun can indeed defeat the most zealous fanatic.
Get out there and train folks. Maybe one day it will be your turn to be the one standing on the line defending liberty from savagery.
Update: We’d like to thank Kaitian for finding a higher resolution image of the SUB-2000 used in the attack, which we’ve swapped out in the story above.
@bob_owens Don’t know if you know but there’s a higher resolution picture of the gun used. https://t.co/39OmgBAclL
— Kaitian (@Kaitian1) May 5, 2015
Those bags are very nice. They even have feet on them. I love this idea.
Islam is a death cult!
It sure doesn't. :)
That’s the most important feature of such a bag. A single second could mean the difference between life or death.
I love having feet on my bags.
That is the problem: Moslems do not believe that they are Evil; they believe they are “Godly” when they kill non Moslems.
In the case of Moslem-on-Moslem murder, striking another blow in the world’s longest running Hatfield-McCoy feud — since 632 AD — Shia or Sunni?
Well played!
Taxman Bravo Zulu!
Seems to me that “body armor” has become de rigueur for these terrorists, but it never seems to do them any good.
I wonder if that term is the new adjunct to “assault rifle” in the presstitution industry?
Women?
We don’t know what else exactly was in the book bag?
As I saw posted elsewhere today, sometimes you know the reaction to an act is going to be dangerous but you have to do it. MLK went to Selma and knew what was going to happen and rightfully did it anyway. If having an art show that critiques islam should be stopped because they might get mad then perhaps Christians, Jews, and Hindu’s should become as violent muslims so as to instill the moral and physical cowardice islam does in their detractors.
Islam has to grow up and stop it’s violence or it must end up in the dust bin of history with all the other death cults. This one event has shown many so-called conservatives for the moral and physical cowards they are.
Appeasement only gets you shame and war and if this continues we shall have both in abundance in the West.
this isn’t terrorism...it’s war. These were guerrilla fighters advancing on us. Until Obastard is gone we can expect the frequency of these to intensify.
Further we should declare islam an ideology not a religion and destroy all of it.
Indeed.
Evan Sayet @EvanSayet
May 3
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
https://twitter.com/EvanSayet/status/595055755411099648
It looks like experts have identified the
other weapon use as an AK-74
http://bearingarms.com/pushed-forward-brave-garland-police-officer-advanced-brought-garland-terrorists/2/
By not being Muslim and existing you assault Islamists at the very core of their beings. The only way to totally appease them is to either die or become one of them.
If the human spirit is inherently good, how did the Holocaust happen?
Excellent point. And that Judeo-Christian worldview of the sinfulness of fallen man contributed to the checks and balances, separation of powers, and Constitutional governance that this nation was founded on. The Founders knew that power corrupts, and so they built in checks to that temptation.
A person can’t understand what this country is and why it flourished when it remained true to its Judeo-Christian roots, without understanding those roots, which also happen to make sense out of history.
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