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To: ironwill
The man who killed four people at a church and missionary training center died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound, police said Tuesday.

How did the "assault rifle" suddenly turn into a shotgun? All reports I saw so far, estimated he had close to 1,000 rounds of ammo. If that is so, it wasn't shotgun shells. That would be two cases of ammo.

84 posted on 12/11/2007 12:39:42 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 (I've been too busy for FR this weekend, because I did the things I refuse to let the invaders do.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

That would be 4 flats of shotgun shells (10 boxes x 25 shells per flat.) About 20 lbs per flat.


87 posted on 12/11/2007 12:44:51 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Arrowhead1952

The reports that I heard said one rifle, two pistols, and a shotgun. There were early reports of him using a rifle and some parishoners being confused by having been hit by shotgun pellets.


153 posted on 12/11/2007 1:56:20 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Arrowhead1952
All reports I saw so far, estimated he had close to 1,000 rounds of ammo.

Maybe they were counting individual pellets? There's either 16 or 20 pellets to a load of #1 buck, at least for Federal shells, the latter being for the magnum load. So using 16 pellets per load yields just over 60 shells. Not allowing for the handgun ammunition.

Do I really need the sarcasm tag?

213 posted on 12/11/2007 5:48:59 PM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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