Posted on 05/05/2010 11:09:59 PM PDT by neverdem
The mammoth clock-to-wire-to-gasoline-to-propane car bomb that the authorities said Faisal Shahzad hoped would claim many lives in Times Square has been analyzed, diagrammed, prodded and examined. But not long before his arrest, Mr. Shahzad was also equipped with a less-eccentric — and yet more dependably lethal — weapon. And he owned it legally.
It is fearsome looking, a carbine hybrid of a pistol and a long gun with a mouthful of a name: the Kel-Tec Sub Rifle 2000. Mr. Shahzad bought it, new, in March for about $400. It was found in the Isuzu Trooper that he drove to Kennedy International Airport on Monday, loaded, with multiple extra clips.
Because the Kel-Tec Sub Rifle 2000 is classified as a rifle, it required no permit, as pistols do in Connecticut. But with its folding stock, hand grip and appetite for pistol ammunition and not rifle ammunition, the Kel-Tec was about as close as one could get to a pistol that is not technically one.
The authorities have not disclosed, if they have learned, what Mr. Shahzad planned to do with that gun. But some law enforcement experts have surmised that he had it to fire at officers in case he was pulled over.
The Kel-Tec was briefly center stage in Washington on Wednesday as New York’s police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, addressed the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He said that Mr. Shahzad bought the gun amid obtaining supplies for the bomb.
“It appears from some of his other activities that March is when he decided to put this plan in motion,” Mr. Kelly told the committee. Of the gun, he said, “It may well have been an indicator of putting something catastrophic in motion.”
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Re pic: One of my favorites. So bad, I wonder if it was staged!
Just goes to show ya - registered democrats shouldn’t own guns ...
He probably bought the gun after he lost his house to foreclosure because of Bush administration policies that wrecked the economy!!!
So, is the author saying he would have been happier if Faisal had bought this Kel-Tec model instead?
It doesn't use that dreaded 'pistol ammunition', honest!
That looks like a folding barrel, not a folding stock as per the article!
No way to shoot that sucker when it’s folded up!
Morons. Morons who have never touched a firearm. There have been rifles that shoot pistol cartridges for more than 100 years.
We are two Americas: urban and rural/suburban. Everything else falls along those lines. Most urban dwellers have never touched a firearm, and most fear them, and most think the "only ones" who should have guns are the police.
Is it automatic? If not , what’s the big deal?
“with multiple extra clips. “
Poorly written in the first place and OBVIOUSLY by two dolts who have no clue about guns. Typical slimes.
We can convert AR-15 rifle into a pistol with short barrels, 9mm conversion kits and all sorts of full auto tricks.
That this guy who was on a terrorist watch list and was REMOVED from that watch list scares me more than anyone having a KEL-TEC Sub Rifle 2000.
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