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Omaha Mall Shooter Rifle Pictures Show Ordinary SKS
Pictures from KPTM Fox 42: Omaha ^ | 8 December, 2007 | Marktwain

Posted on 12/08/2007 6:58:18 AM PST by marktwain

It appears that we have positive identification of the rifle used in the Omaha Mall shooting. The pictures from Fox 42: Omaha show an ordinary SKS rifle with a fixed 10 round magazine. The same rifle that millions of people in the United States own for hunting and plinking. It is an acceptable deer rifle for most of the country.

There have been many reports of "assault rifle" used in the MSM, and reports of 30 round magazines. It appears that all of these reports are false, probably intended to stir up anti-gun sentiment before the election.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: assault; banglist; gun; ignorantmedia; medialies; omaha
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To: tet68
You’re right, missed the bayo.

LOL!

141 posted on 12/08/2007 9:20:36 AM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: XeniaSt

I tried Prozac once. back in the day when it was a wonder drug.

Its a load of rubbish IMHO.

The whole world is hopped up on quick fixes.


142 posted on 12/08/2007 9:24:46 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife; All
I tried Prozac once. back in the day when it was a wonder drug.

Its a load of rubbish IMHO.

The whole world is hopped up on quick fixes.

SSRIs:

The shocking link between psychiatric drugs, suicide, violence and mass murder


143 posted on 12/08/2007 9:43:53 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: marktwain

TRUE. TRUE.

QUITE TRUE.


144 posted on 12/08/2007 9:43:55 AM PST by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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To: XeniaSt

It made me feel bad, just masked what I was dealing with at the time


145 posted on 12/08/2007 9:47:23 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: marktwain; All

The shots heard on the 9-11 tapes sounded like a larger caliber than a .223. Did anyone else think so?


146 posted on 12/08/2007 9:48:57 AM PST by wolfcreek (The Status Quo Sucks!)
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To: FreedomCalls
The mall photo is so weird that questions are unavoidable.

If the carbine were not there I'd swear he was drinking a beer.
And, unless I'm fooled by the perspective, what appears to be a long, removable, magazine is too far forward to be in place.

But the mall photo is not an SKS.
The published shots of an SKS really do look like something out of an on line auction - which I wouldn't take as anything amiss unless they stated that it was THE mall weapon.

Odds are huge that even an AK variant was semi-auto in any event.

147 posted on 12/08/2007 9:52:22 AM PST by norton (deep down inside you know that Fred is your second choice - but he's looking better)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Exactly. :-)


148 posted on 12/08/2007 10:10:22 AM PST by verity ("Lord, what fools these mortals be!")
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To: norton
And, unless I'm fooled by the perspective, what appears to be a long, removable, magazine is too far forward to be in place.

I lightened up the photo with GIMP but I haven't any way of posting the results. There're so many JPEG artifacts it's hard to say for sure but I think his left hand is grasping and pushing forward on the sling, not the forearm, and the sling's what's sticking down and forward. No guarantees, though.

149 posted on 12/08/2007 10:13:48 AM PST by Grut
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To: norton
http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/mo/mo5/ishtar_cast_150x200.jpg

There is audio of some shots on a 911 call, it sure wasn't an auto.

150 posted on 12/08/2007 10:15:22 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: wolfcreek

SKS’s and AK’s are 7.62

(The exception being the AK-74 which is .223)


151 posted on 12/08/2007 10:37:25 AM PST by 2111USMC
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To: mylife
Yeah, I have one. They look like this

Nobody should have just one SKS. :) They were going for around $80 for very good condition used Yugos a few years back at AIM Surplus and Southern Ohio gun. The only bad part was the huge amounts of cosmoline on the used arsenal models.

They're going for $160 now. Wish I had bought more.

152 posted on 12/08/2007 11:18:26 AM PST by Hazwaste (Now with added lemony freshness!)
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To: Hazwaste
I have seen them recently for $250

I said way back(at 89 bucks) ya should buy a dozen just so you can hand them out to the neighbors when the $%^# hits the fan

I have beautiful mint one that was in the Serb army inscribed with words "Faith in God, Fatherland and Buda"

It's in Yugo cyrillic.

Cool rifle

The Yugo rifles are everywhere now but are full of collector value, due to the inscriptions

153 posted on 12/08/2007 11:27:58 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Hazwaste

http://www.akfiles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7469


154 posted on 12/08/2007 11:33:54 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Hazwaste

BTW I had my rifles markings translated here on FR


155 posted on 12/08/2007 11:35:26 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: XeniaSt
SSRIs : drug of choice of for mass murderers.
Ban SSRIs !
Not guns !

There is no evidence he was on an SSRI.

156 posted on 12/08/2007 12:42:26 PM PST by the808bass
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To: marktwain
I find it interesting that of the 8 innocent victims, 6 were mall employees.

Well what was his accuracy rate? Shoppers are generally in motion, and employees standing still.

157 posted on 12/08/2007 12:45:18 PM PST by montag813
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To: cinives
does nybody doubt he was given psycho-active drugs as part of his treatment ?

Nope. I don't doubt it. But he was currently not under treatment. And if he was not under treatment, he probably wasn't getting his meds. So if he stopped taking an SSRI even a month ago, you'll have to hunting for a different boogeyman.

It seems odd to me that so many people on this forum get mad when the media jumps straight to "guns" being the problem, but no one has any problem here with jumping straight to an SSRI or atypical antipsychotic being the problem.

158 posted on 12/08/2007 12:47:40 PM PST by the808bass
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To: cajungirl

Unfortuntely, right you are.


159 posted on 12/08/2007 12:53:58 PM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: marktwain
The woman with whom the shooter was living for the last year said he showed it to her the day before the shooting and she said it was an SKS. She would be unlikely to call it that unless he told her that was what it was.

To the MSM it is always an assault rifle and always high powered.

160 posted on 12/08/2007 1:12:11 PM PST by oldcomputerguy
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