Posted on 01/25/2013 10:11:08 AM PST by Uncle Chip
Lt. J. Paul Vance, the face of an ongoing Connecticut State Police investigation into worst grade-school shooting in U.S. history, Thursday debunked media and Internet reports that Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza killed his victims with handguns and not the Bushmaster XM-15 E2S rifle that is now the focus of a proposed federal assault-weapons ban.
All 26 of Lanza's victims were shot with the .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle, said Vance, who bristled at claims to the contrary during an interview with Hearst Connecticut Newspapers.
"It's all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters," said Vance, the longtime state police spokesman. Multiple Second Amendment and gun owner websites have attempted to cast doubts on whether the Bushmaster XM-15, a type of AR-15 rifle that is currently legal, was used in the Dec. 14 carnage done by Lanza.
Some have cited a Dec. 15 "Today" show video clip from the day after the shooting, in which NBC News Justice Department correspondent Pete Williams said that four handguns were recovered inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and that the Bushmaster rifle was found in the trunk of a car owned by Lanza's slain mother, Nancy Lanza.
"There's no doubt that the rifle was used solely to kill 26 people in that school," Vance said.
Twenty children ages 7 and under and six female educators were killed when Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and sprayed the occupants with bullets before turning a gun on himself.
Vance said he made it abundantly clear during his media briefings since the tragedy that Lanza carried out the shooting with the Bushmaster.
"I personally articulated that probably a dozen times in Newtown," Vance said.
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That makes sense.
You just can't stand it that someone actually stands up to your conspiracy-theorist bullying, can you? rotfl.
As I said to little jeremiah, it's a badge of honor to be stalked across FR by you.
“How do you “trace” a cartridge case “back” to a magazine?”
The only possibility I see is that the magazine lips on each magazine are microscopically different, and would leave unique scratches on each case.
That would be hard to analyze. Add the complexity that sequential rounds feed from alternate sides of these magazines. And perhaps the cases were scratched from some other source somewhere in their life. So my gut is that this type of analysis is useless. (But look at the process anyhow to eliminate it.)
And then which magazines were used in what order? This would confound things further.
Why? Agree with lots of govt work and long report.
Are they really trying to match magazines to cartridge cases, or is this just a failure to correctly communicate what they are trying to match with what.
Yeah. I'm not really sure what the point is either.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
So figuring out which scratches are from the mag would seem to be a fool's errand.
Just looks like busy work for criminal justice majors from online universities.
Yes, and what would such a report look like:
Little J__ was hit in the ‘x’ with the first round, from the first magazine. Then the second round hit little S__ in the ‘y’ and the third round ...
And comments about how much damage each bullet did, and internal injuries, and suffering, and who (surmised) saw whom die before them, and off into emotional speculation, giving more fodder to refresh the bored audience against ARs, at some later time when needed.
what normal parents look like after losing a child
For some reason I feel better to have seen normal responses now.
+1
These people want guns banned period and wish to exploit it and in those areas RKBA lawmen are rare as virgins on Roman barge
juxtapose that with lawmen coming out on our side in real America..
eff Connecticut ..with all due to respect to the memory of HARPSEAL
at a public hearing after 45 days of grieving.
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