On May 13 Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy and Congressman Steve Israel (NY-02) hosted a press conference to announce the introduction of the No Fly, No Buy Act, which seeks to close the ‘terror gap’ by preventing people whose names appear on the Transportation Security Administration’s terrorist “no fly list” from being eligible to buy guns.
Mrs. McCarthy is a pathetic excuse for a Congress person. Some nut went on the LIRR killed several people including her husband. The nut had a rifle. This case points up the fact that if some armed upstanding citizen had been on the train, people’s lives would have been saved. She’s been against guns ever since, never once condemning those who commit crimes with guns. Her husband is probably turning over in his grave.
He had a Ruger P-89 9mm handgun.
The shooter is still sucking air, and eating at the expense of New York taxpayers. Notice he did not go on his little rampage in Texas. If he had, he'd be pushing up Indian Paintbrushs.
He very well could have chosen Texas. since he bought the gun in California, in spite of background checks and a 15 day waiting period. Probably more redneck racists in Texas for him to shoot anyway. Commuter railroads are less common though, and were even more so in '93. I guess he could have tried his luck at some cowboy or roughneck bar. :)
Texans would very likely have overpowered him on his first magazine change, not the third, if not before.