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The Gun the Orlando Shooter Used Was a Sig Sauer MCX, Not an AR-15. That Doesn’t Change Much.
Washington Post ^ | June 14 | Thomas Gibbons-Neff

Posted on 06/15/2016 2:15:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway

In the hours after Sunday’s mass shooting at an Orlando night club, Chief John Mina of the Orlando Police Department said the gunman’s weapons included a pistol and an “AR-15-type assault rifle.”

On Monday night, officials clarified that the rifle Omar Mateen used in the shooting was not an AR-15, but a Sig Sauer MCX rifle.

While aesthetically similar to and just as lethal as an AR-15, the MCX is internally a different beast, thus all but removing it from the AR-15 family of rifles. Yet while the weapon is different, the MCX and the AR-15 share the same design purpose: providing a highly portable, customizable, easy to operate and accurate rifle for the individual who possesses it.

[A lawmaker plans to give away assault rifles as fundraiser prizes days after Orlando]

As Bob Owens from the blog “Bearing Arms” points out, the MCX is a modular rifle designed to be able to change between a variety of calibers and “otherwise has no major parts that interface with AR-15s in any way, shape or form.”

Originally designed for U.S. Special Operations forces, the MCX was built from the “ground up” to be lightweight and short, and it accepts “a broad array of accessories, enabling you to build a complete weapon system for any scenario or environment,” Sig Sauer’s website says.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; districtofcolumbia; media; msm; omarmateen; sigsauermcx; thomasgibbonsneff; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: nickcarraway

Anti-gunners have wanted to ban every type of gun used in a murder.
1963 they wanted to ban 5 shot bolt action army rifles.
1966 Whitman’s bolt action rifle.
1968 pump rifles rifles and handguns.
1984 semi auto rifles
1990 single shot .50 Cal rifles.

No matter what they say, if they get a ban on any type, rest assured they WILL be back for the rest.


21 posted on 06/15/2016 3:04:33 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: nickcarraway
The shooter had a history of steroid use, a history of domestic violence, and a history of being bi-polar. Existing law for the sale of a weapon, had it been followed, would have forced the guy to by a gun illegally and therefore the whole issue of whether or not we need any changes to the firearms laws is moot.

What laws there are aren't enforced, just like the laws against the scum like his father getting into the country are ignored.

Funny thing, someone who had a domestic violence charge filed against them forty years ago and dropped has a problem when their ATF form goes for processing but a young radical Muzzie sails right through the process.

22 posted on 06/15/2016 3:14:39 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: nickcarraway

I think part of the reason journalists, politicians and anti-gun activists get the technical issues about a gun wrong is to get pro-2nd Amendment people into coldly discussing the technical details of a weapon. So when an activist goes on about “a long rifle assault caliber sniper bazooka” and how “we need regulations to protect the children” from the same, then the 2nd Amendment advocate tries to untangle the emotional scare words about the gun - the 2nd Amendment advocate sounds cold like Mr. Spock rattling off technical details and to the uninformed the anti-2nd Amendment advocate sounds “compassionate” by comparison.

That is a real problem - demagogues can say all sorts of emotional and inaccurate things and if you try to introduce facts, the low-information people will be turned off by that and will flock to the demagogue. The low-information voters are low-information for a reason - that is their mindset, that is their lifelong habit.


23 posted on 06/15/2016 3:18:41 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"1968 pump rifles rifles and handguns

Like this one..?


24 posted on 06/15/2016 3:19:35 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Vermont Lt
Actually full auto weapons are legal in most states if you jump through the hoops but are very expensive. $600 AR compared to a $15,000-$20,000 for a select fire.

Aside from that you are right on.

25 posted on 06/15/2016 3:21:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s the problem. They’re journalists rather than reporters. Reporters report. Journalists weave their own story.


26 posted on 06/15/2016 3:30:04 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Eagles6

Just put a bumpity bump stock on your AR and have fun.


27 posted on 06/15/2016 3:30:27 PM PDT by crosdaddy
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To: crosdaddy

True. Kinda wasteful of ammo for me though.


28 posted on 06/15/2016 3:36:20 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: nickcarraway

What caliber was it?


29 posted on 06/15/2016 3:36:51 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: nickcarraway

Reached the Washington Post article limit? Delete their cookie and read on.


30 posted on 06/15/2016 3:38:11 PM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (Proud member, The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.)
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To: nickcarraway

It doesn’t matter if it was a Gatling gun it was a Muslim pulling the trigger.


31 posted on 06/15/2016 3:39:32 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: 2banana

What does “AR” stand for?


32 posted on 06/15/2016 3:42:17 PM PDT by NCDave (AKA, "That idiot over there")
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To: nickcarraway
That Doesn’t Change Much.

No, it doesn't. Splitting hairs won't help us.

33 posted on 06/15/2016 3:46:09 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Shadow44

“Can it fire 700 rounds a minute like an AR-15?”

That’s edging up into the “spraying bullets” category.

Yes, “spraying bullets” is a technical term.


34 posted on 06/15/2016 3:50:52 PM PDT by moovova
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To: nickcarraway
It does change one very important thing. Any contemplated "assault weapons ban" will have to include ARs and any related rifles containing similar characteristics. In other words, everything the gun banners can get away with. Here we go again.
35 posted on 06/15/2016 3:52:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: NCDave
What does “AR” stand for?

Armalite Rifle. Not that the left cares.

36 posted on 06/15/2016 3:53:16 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: NCDave
Armelite
37 posted on 06/15/2016 3:57:29 PM PDT by par4
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To: nickcarraway
So why isn't anyone talking about the police response time..and what they did after arriving?

How many minutes/hours...were they on site...and didn't do anything?

38 posted on 06/15/2016 4:01:01 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The GOPe.....are actually worse than the Dim's)
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To: nickcarraway

Banning guns will not ban murder. The favorite weapon of the moslem jihadi is the bomb, not the rifle or pistol. Ban guns and they’ll use bombs. The problem is not with weapons but with the perverse ideology of islam.


39 posted on 06/15/2016 4:05:23 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, facts are just nasty little details!


40 posted on 06/15/2016 4:07:10 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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