Interestingly, jet fuel isn’t that easy to ignite.
IMO this is just the left/progressives waging a hot civil war as stealthily as they can, hoping to get as far ahead as they can before we’re on to them.
The count was 59, but now is 58.
Were they initially including HIM in the count, like they did for the Pulse leftist until they had to start delivering eulogies and changed it?
I heard only 2 shots kill the tanks. That could just be wild misses of the crowd because he was using those silly bump stocks that can’t aim worth a damn.
The girlfriend’s pass card was used while she half way around the world in the phillipines.
Could one of the perps been a female, who needed discreet access to the Mandalay hotel?
I think this guy was an accountant and transporter, not a hitter.
The deal went sideways and the guy was killed
Wow. This could have been 1000 times worse than it was. I wonder if had intended to plant the tannerite next to the tanks to set them off and if so why didn’t he or did he?
This is pure conjecture.
Fake News.
The fuel tank rounds were over shots.
But if he had 50 pounds of Tannerite next to those tanks in the right geometric configuration. He could have touched them off.
I do agree though that there is a good possibility this was jihadhi work.
Israeli Intel knows for sure.
Out of the hundred of rounds he fired, he only managed to hit the fuel tanks twice? I’m calling bullshit on this part of the story.
The author of this article is purely speculating.
This is either fake news, or indicates that the perp was a moron. If it was that easy to detonate aviation fuel tanks, there wouldn’t be any of them left standing today around the country. You surely would have had them destroyed in a few “Hold muh beer and watch this!” types of incidents by now.
No, jet fuel is not gasoline, and I'm not aware of a bullet even incendiary causing an explosion for JP4, JP5 ect. Now if it was 100 octane gasoline it would be a different matter. Either way I think it would have had to leak a while and burn to get enough pressure to blow it up and those bullets would leak slowly.
Again, a .223 at 1000 yds isn't going to do it, and most likely neither would a .308, and only two shots at that. I'm thinking those two shots were probably fliers.
This guy had the means, why not use a Barrett .50cal ?
They’ve been digging for over a year on the Trump-Russia connection, but still think there is something “there.”
Our FBI is full of dumbsh!ts.
Then he should’ve done his research. Those tanks are designed for a .30-06 shot at 100yds. He wasn’t even close.
Of all the hundreds of thousands of rounds spread across however many blocks and just two ended up hitting the tanks. Uh, no, he wasn’t aiming at the tanks. If he’d wanted to blow them up, there would be countless holes in them. They’ll be finding random chinks in buildings from this for the next 20 years.
I think over time it will be shown that this guy WAS working with ISIS. It may or may not ever come out. ISIS is never this insistent on their link claims.
Call comes across the police radio,
“He’s shooting at the fuel tanks!”
What happens next?
Sometimes the obvious play isn’t the real play.
He didn’t plan it or didn’t plan it well. He hit them a couple of times with rounds or accidently did so. If he had planned it, he would have known a couple of bullets wouldn’t do it.
Someone on TV said that if he were actually targeting the tank, there would have been lots more rounds hitting it - chalked it up to the point and spray effect. I tend to agree - if he wanted it to blow, it would make more sense to empty a whole magazine into it.