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The three-round bursts make it sound like he had an M4/M16, which he couldn't possibly have bought at WalMart.

Diane Feinstein and the gun grabbing media are going waaaaaaay out on a very high limb with a big crack. Are they actually arguing that police and MPs shouldn't be issued semi-automatic pistols and automatic rifles?

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Diane Feinstein and the gun grabbing media are going waaaaaaay out on a very high limb with a big crack. Are they actually arguing that police and MPs shouldn't be issued semi-automatic pistols and automatic rifles?

True on the first part, but not so much on the second. The information that the gunman only had a shotgun and the AR-15 and handgun were pickups is already out there. No way to put the genie back in the bottle.

NRA is going to hit DiFi and the other gun-grabbers in the press and political class HARD on that.

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The media is working overtime to frame this in a way that supports another gun control move. Looks like we're in for another fight. If we can keep the media honest, this should be a short battle and an easy victory for us.

The guy obtained the rifle, whatever it was, and handgun from some sort of LEO using a Remington 870 pump action shotgun, probably the most common shotgun in America so banning assault weapons wouldn't have stopped him.

As far as background checks go, he wasn't a felon and he wasn't dishonorably discharged from the military so there's no disqualifier there. The shotgun was obtained legally and not through any "gun show loophole". Banning private forearms sales wouldn't have stopped him.