Posted on 07/29/2019 11:16:53 AM PDT by Steve1999
GILROY, Calif. (Reuters) - A California teenager was identified by police on Monday as the gunman who killed three people, including two children, at a food festival south of San Francisco. Santino William Legan, 19, cut through a fence at the festival on Sunday evening and shot at people with a “AK-47-style” assault rifle at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee told reporters. Within a minute of opening fire, Legan was fatally shot by three onsite police officers armed with handguns. “It could have gone so much worse so fast,” Smithee said, noting the festival, which takes place about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Silicon Valley, America’s tech hub, welcomes thousands of visitors.
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So, can anyone explain how this rifle was “legally” purchased? Wasn’t the shooter a Californian? I thought to buy a gun out of state it had to be shipped to an in-state FFL for a transfer? Is a SKS California legal?
At any rate, great job by the first responders! DRT!
Ragnar Redbeard sounds like an ANTIFA member and he’s also a dumbass when it comes to the difference between a race and an ethnic group-
I’m of Hispanic/Latino ancestry-Spanish and some Native American-so I’m a Mestizo-that is an ethnic group-I’m also White/Caucasian, as are most Hispanics-Caucasian is a race-Native American is not a separate race-it is a mix of varying degrees of Caucasian/Eurasian/Asian DNA. Native Americans in Alaska are heavy on the Asian/Eurasian DNA,-by contrast, Cherokees in the US have more Caucasian DNA than any other tribe...
The shooter sounds like another lunatic who was getting radicalized online-a domestic terrorist-maybe he wanted suicide by cop-if so, he got his wish...
Bump
yes fantastic work!! Compare that to Las Vegas that took over an hour
"Detroit Police are looking for a .357 Smith and Wesson Glock Pistol..."
As a side note, that same year, they reported that a Detroit high school student was caught carrying an assault weapon in a local school.
Turns out it was only a shotgun.......
police did a good job.....
Possibly related to the mixed race AR-47.
They are going all out to paint him as a white supremacist in that article. Of the five things you need to know about him the first is the longest and spends much time on that angle.
Yes. I have never understood this, except that it is used to frame a perspective. As far as I am concerned, once you reach your 18th birthday, you are no longer a teenager but an adult, “eighTEEN” or nineTEEN” not-withstanding.
Meanwhile hollywood makes one movie after another showing the killing of people as nothing.
I was watching the Press Conference this morning and must have missed that.
Pretty tired...
"...shot at people with a “AK-47-style” assault rifle..."
The information presented is sufficient.
NBC news showed pictures of him that made him look like a white boy. Motive unknown.
“My SKS was only $106 when I bought it.”
mine was $99 and was “select” grade
my gun safe got too stuffed, so i gave it to my brother a couple weeks ago, and several were for sale in the $700+ range
(I also gave him a nearly-new Hungarian-made thumbhole stock semi-AK-47)
Well, he’s obviously white</so>
The FEDs will be at your door soon....
$89 Chinese mid 90’s.
Had 3 guns when Bill Clinton was elected and I still have them!
A reporter’s sloppiness with gun terminology doesn’t mean much.
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