Posted on 09/17/2013 6:28:43 PM PDT by chessplayer
WASHINGTON — The gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday test-fired an AR-15 assault rifle at a Virginia gun store last week but was stopped from buying one because state law there prohibits the sale of such weapons to out-of-state buyers, according to two senior law enforcement officials.
Instead, the gunman, Aaron Alexis of Texas, bought a law-enforcement-style shotgun — an 870 Remington pump — and used it on Monday as he rampaged through the navy yard, said the officials, who requested anonymity b
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Didn’t the shotgun do most of the damage in Aurora?
The AR15 jammed.
They don’t ask model.
They had no ammunition because liberals fear an armed military inside the US as much as they fear an armed populace.
they also apparently fear following up on reports sent them by the cops...
“Washington Gunman Recently Told Cops He Was Being Bombarded By Microwave Signals That Kept Him Awake At Night”
evidently some “liberal” yo yo got the report and sat on it....
My former boss knew a guy that was a professional shooter for Remington shotguns. He preferred the 870 over the 1100 because he could fire the 870 quicker.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/17/miller-new-york-times-gets-it-wrong-about-navy-yar/
NYT made up the AR-15 story.
It sounds like he could have purchased a fixed-stock AR version as long as he had the shop keep the standard magazine. Then he could have walked back into the store, and bought 30 or 20 round magazines. As AWB states go (versus here in the People's Republic), Virginia's restrictions aren't too bad.
Many an 870 is used for deer hunting in congested areas. I have an 870 Wingmaster with an extra barrel, 20’ imp cyl with rifle sights. I’ve never deer hunted with it I deer hunt with a 30/06 or a 45/70 govt.
This is all I could find about out of staters purchasing in VA.:
A Virginia non-resident may not purchase a firearm until a state police approval report has been received or 10 days have passed.
You should post that as a seperate article. Don’t see it yet...
Thank you and thank Emily Miller.
So? Stopping him from purchasing the *assault rifle* didn’t prevent him from killing more than a dozen people now did it? Idiots.
He had mental issues and should have been under CLOSE surveillance.
Done.
I hear that his 3'rd cousin's neighbor's sister-in-law attended Rev. Wright's church 9 times. I think that's the cause.
That is correct. The only info the FBI is provided beyond the buyer’s ID is whether a long gun or handgun. Other info is to stay with the FFL on his 4473.
However, I thought in order to purchase any type firearm from a dealer it has to be transferred through an FFL in the buyer’s home state.
Belt-feed, all the way....2 Lab Retriever Squads to remove the offending, floating carcasses...LOL
I was under the same impression but it only applies to handguns, presumably so a guy could go to Alaska and buy a hunting rifle there.
No MANPADS, but it does have an overslung M203....
While it is true that Alexis rented and shot an AR-type rifle at Sharpshooters Small Arms Range in Lorton, sources close to the investigation tell me that he did not attempt to buy the rifle.
Instead, he passed both the federal and state background checks and bought a Remington 870 shotgun and 15 shotgun shells, which he used, tragically, kill 12 innocent people.
The Times’ mistakes indicate the paper is trying to give the impression only some unexplained “assault weapon” ban in Virginia stopped Alexis from killing more people. The truth is that we have thousands of gun laws on the books, but none of them stopped a homicidal maniac intent on mass murder.
More actual evidence and facts that have to be ignored as the gun grabbers make emotional appeals to families across America in order to trample over the Constitution even more than they have for the past several decades.
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