State Police: All 26 Newtown victims shot with assault rifle

Connecticut Post ^ | January 24, 2013 | Neil Vigdor

[Jeff Winston]

It’s amazing this pops up now, pre-gun ban, when there were so many reports to the contrary after the event.

This isn't anything new.

[Jeff Winston]

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.

And if they hadn't been shot with the rifle, then what would they have been shot with?

Adam Lanza certainly had no lack of options to choose from.

[Trod Upon]

I think they are going for certain handguns. As for Lanza, it makes sense that he wouldn't switch weapons, but the idea that mag limits would have saved anyone is ridiculous. If he had been using three round magazines he still would have had more than enough time to do what he did, even if he had been using a handgun with three round magazines. It takes what, maybe two seconds to switch out a mag? The Democrats are just using these children to advance the totalitarian cause. Every reasonable person can understand that the way to stop these events is to actually defend the schools, but the fascists don't care. Oh, and I think the Fudds will be next on the hit list. I can hear it now: "They can hunt deer with single shot shotguns...nobody needs a scoped sniper rifle to hunt deer." People should use the next two years to at least double the number of ARs in civilian hands so as to drive the point home...no tyranny will arise in America, period.

[Cicero]

This guy is a “long time” spokesman for the CT police.

What he says may well be true. But we’ll never know for sure. The initial reports certainly were contradictory.

And if this guy knows which side his bread is buttered on, he’ll say whatever the flaming liberal guv of CT tells him to say.

There was no obvious reason not to release the data, since the perp was dead, his mother who owned the guns was dead, and no one else was suspected. So there will be no trial.

So the refusal to release information was mainly CYA. Don’t let anything out until it’s been cleared with the top politicians. And that goes right up to Holder and Obama.

[ßuddaßudd]

Im still waiting for a witness to come forward and say I saw Lanza shooting everyone, etc
Hard to beleive no witness lived to tell the tale...

[IYAS9YAS]

"There's no question that the AR-15 was used,. However, the Bushmaster Adam Lanza shot those children with multiple rounds and was instrumental in the only one responsible for the massacre," Blumenthal told Hearst Newspapers on Thursday after a Capitol Hill news conference. "Those children and educators might well be alive today if not for the assault weapon and high-capacity magazines Adam Lanza."

In a sane world, this is what would be said. We do not live in a sane world.

[Jeff Winston]

I would like to know about the guy the cops had to run down in the woods.! Who was he?? What was he doing there?? Why did he run...??

Drug dealer? Someone fleeing the sound of gunshots? Person with guilty conscience? Trespasser? Nosy Parker? Complete and total fabrication by some MSNBC journalist?

If it bothers you that much, call the police in Connecticut and ask them. Any front desk person probably won't even know anything about it at this point, but heck, we can launch a Congressional investigation if you want.

[mnehring]

when there were so many reports to the contrary after the event.

The 'many'(sic) conflicting reports were based on one erroneous news story by a local NBC station tripping over itself to try to get the first story out. The official word has been pretty consistent it was done with the rifle. Unfortunately conspiracy sites have become more mainstream making up a bunch of s*** and not being critical of that initial media story.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It is about banning what they can initially along with magazines they don’t like

It is all about banning whatever type of firearm owned by "the people" that would present a danger or an obstacle to the current "well regulated militia".

As you said....control.

[treetopsandroofs]

They’re emboldened by their success with their “Many people wrongly assume Obama wasn’t born in America” horseclinton.

[drjimmy]

Ok, wait. I have read several articles, sourced from the coroner that say no rifles were used.

If you are referring to the articles that have the headline "Coroner Confirms: No Assault Weapon Used in Sandy Hook Shooting," the body of the articles have no connection whatsoever to the headline. I don't know where that particular story originated, but it was spread through a number of websites over the past day or so and the headline about the coroner conforming such a thing was just made up out of whole cloth.

[NormsRevenge]

Direct your anger at the right folks, Vance. Many of us responded just the same way as the rest have in the past.. tragedy is magnified by the media glare and distortions tossed about.. Too bad the mother and gunowner refused to lock her guns up even tho she knew the perp was a bit off.. or is that another fact used thru omission or distortion?

It was a tragedy, a senseless, preventable one.. the answer started at home.

[null and void]

It’s amazing this pops up now, pre-gun ban, when there were so many reports to the contrary after the event.

Yeah. Almost as if they were either deliberately withholding the information when they first knew, or they are making it up as they go to suit the agenda of the minute...

[jjotto]

hehe

If the killer had done the damage with handguns, we’d have all the same conspiracy threads claiming they were actually shot with an ordinary rifle, and we’d also have handgun-banning hysteria.

[Moonman62]

He was shooting small children in a gun free zone. He could have used anything. What matters is the sick and evil person who was doing the shooting.

[Uncle Chip]

Oh, NOW it gets confirmed.

It was confirmed a month and a half ago at the state of Connecticut's December 15th news conference and has been confirmed about a dozen times since then.

[mnehring]

Yep, the conspiracies have been getting absolutely asinine. The other day, the newest one was a couple of nuns who worked there were photographed leaving and someone was getting all a twitter because one of the old nuns was holding her jacket closed like she was hiding something..... so obviously she was not really a nun but a CIA Killer in drag sneaking his gun out. They were completely serious too.

Might as well have just said it was Ancient Aliens.

[loboinok]

"All 26 of Lanza's victims were shot with the .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle," said Vance

"More than a week after the shooting, investigators were still finding bullets under doors and in carpets and walls in the school as they tried to match the casings to the magazines.”

What is difficult about matching casings to magazines if they were all shot with the same rifle?

[Uncle Chip]

You mean sourced in an erroneous December 15th NBC news report that was corrected the same day by the coroner.

[Uncle Chip]

I would like to know about the guy the cops had to run down in the woods.!

He was a parent named Manfredonia who had a child in the school and whose story checked out.