Did Obama tell a Democratic audience that a “fully automatic weapon” was used at Newtown?

Hotair ^ | 04/04/2013 | AllahPundit

[SeekAndFind]

Either (a) Obama is referring to a different shooting, which I doubt, (b) I missed a major update to the Newtown story, (c) he knows something we don't, or (d) he has roughly the same mastery of gun fundamentals as magazine expert Diana DeGette. From last night's DCCC fundraiser in San Francisco:

Now, over the next couple of months, we’ve got a couple of issues: gun control. (Applause.) I just came from Denver, where the issue of gun violence is something that has haunted families for way too long, and it is possible for us to create common-sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure that we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.

Adam Lanza had an honest-to-goodness machine gun on him, not a Bushmaster semiautomatic? That’s … an important detail, but I haven’t heard it mentioned once in the news coverage I’ve seen about Sandy Hook. (Then again, it’s not unusual for the media to overlook certain facts on this topic.) According to every report I’ve seen, including the Hartford Courant’s story just this morning about Connecticut’s new gun law, Lanza carried an AR-15. If O thinks a fully automatic rifle was used — which would explain his recent refrain about “weapons of war” — why is he targeting semiautomatics? And why isn’t Piers Morgan talking about this every night as proof of how easy it is for nuts to get hold of guns that even most soldiers aren’t allowed to carry anymore?

That wasn’t the only bon mot last night. The Standard noticed this one from the same fundraiser:

Look, my intention here is to try to get as much done with the Republican Party over the next two years as I can, because we can’t have perpetual campaigns. And so I mean what I say. I am looking to find areas of common ground with Republicans every single day. I want to make sure that we’re working together to stabilize our finances. And I think actually that we can come up with a fiscal deal that instead of lurching from crisis to crisis every three months, we lay the groundwork for long-term growth — controlling our deficits, controlling our debt, but also making sure we can invest in our future. I want to get an immigration deal done. I want to find some common-sense gun safety legislation that we can get done. And I do believe that there are well-meaning Republicans out there who care about their kids just as passionately as we do.

Not all Republicans, mind you. Probably not even most. But the ones willing to vote for Obama’s agenda? Yeah, we can probably give them the benefit of the doubt on whether they love their kids as much as liberals. There’s no hard proof that they’re out there — it’s a matter of “belief” — but he’s staying optimistic. You can always count on O to be a bit more candid about his contempt for his opponents when he’s talking to a group of rich liberals.

Via Mediaite, here he is in Denver yesterday sneering at the idea that the U.S. government, which includes plenty of liberals like Jan Schakowsky and will eventually include plenty more if the Emerging Democratic Majority theory is correct, would ever conceive of taking people’s guns away.

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[Gen.Blather]

I’m pretty sure they couldn’t have used a fully automatic weapon. They’re illegal.

[molson209]

wait for it ,Minigun

[MHGinTN]

You forgot the ‘he’s just lying as usual’ choice. Little barry bastard boy is a chronic liar.

[Sacajaweau]

http://nation.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/10/obama-flashback-if-they-bring-knife-fight-we-bring-gun

[fwdude]

Real Republican lawmakers should be proposing legislation and pushing HARD for fully automatic guns to be as legal and easy to own and acquire as semi-autos. THAT would push the debate to the enemies side of the field.

I want access to EVERY weapon that the enemy can possibly acquire. Otherwise, the enemy has a significant advantage over me.

[MrB]

I’d say he’s being more evil than stupid in this case.

[MHGinTN]

Always

[MrB]

You don’t think there’s ever been a case where he’s been more stupid than evil?

[SkyDancer]

And he’ll make sure they’re banned in all 57 states.

[txrefugee]

If his purple lips were moving, he was lying.

[MeganC]

I’m a Republican and I love my kids more than liberals love their kids and I can prove it, too:

I didn’t abort my kids.

[Bullish]

The gasbag idiot never knows what the hell he’s talking about.

[SoldierDad]

I’d suggest Obozo is being equally evil and stupid.

[MrB]

Well, yeah... I think our debate is which is he being more of - evil or stupid. In this case, he’s being more evil (lying) than he is stupid, as in not knowing what a fully automatic weapon is.

But I’m sure there’ve been instances where he was being more stupid than evil, like, the 57 states thing.

[Secret Agent Man]

if you don’t agree with obama you’re not well intentioned.

got it.

[ZULU]

He could tell those idiots the eaerth was flat and the moon was madde of cheese and they would scream and applaude.

Masses of Mindless Marxists = Democrat Party

[GP100]

If you don’t agree with Barry then you’re a racist.

[TurboZamboni]

[RedwM]

He’s not stupid, but he knows most of his audience is. He has a goal he’s trying to achieve. One day at a time.