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Shooter of Congressional Republicans rifle already being called "high-powered."
Fox News | 14 June 2017 | Ralph W. Davis

Posted on 06/14/2017 2:25:02 PM PDT by AnalogReigns

Listening to Fox News, the gun the shooter used has been identified as an SKS with 7.62 X 39 ammo, with a scope, and called a "high powered rifle."

Of course an SKS is not high powered, or particularly accurate....but the ignorance, fear, and bias of the Media--even on Fox--is already coming out--to pound the drum against the 2nd Amendment.


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To: Sopater

Same ammo as AK-47.


101 posted on 06/14/2017 3:26:38 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: RipSawyer

If one were able to take out one Zombie per 22LR round, how many 22 LR rounds should one keep in the Ammo Dump?


102 posted on 06/14/2017 3:27:26 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: HarleyLady27

He came from Illinois, which has restrictive gun laws too.


103 posted on 06/14/2017 3:28:32 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

My step-son bough a slingshot similar to that, without the sight and laser. I gave him some bearings from my car, which essentially were 1/2” hardened steel balls. I have no idea how fast those balls were going, but when he shot them into the woods, you could hear them ripping branches apart. A lot more powerful than I expected.


104 posted on 06/14/2017 3:29:26 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: Sopater
The 7.62x39 is actually an intermediary round between a rifle and pistol round.

Right. It is a cut down round designed for control and more accuracy firing out of the AK or SKS. The Soviets shooting the 7.62 x 54 out of AK- 47s would be unacceptable, or using the 7.62 x 25 Tokarev would be under powered.

105 posted on 06/14/2017 3:29:46 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

.22 LR I guess...


106 posted on 06/14/2017 3:30:05 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: detective
"The weapon he used was an M40 rifle and witnesses report hearing 50 gunshots."

The M40 is a bolt action rifle used by the USMC and is based on the Remington 700.

107 posted on 06/14/2017 3:30:44 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: ichabod1

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108 posted on 06/14/2017 3:30:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Paladin2

No need to guess, there are .22 rounds that are amazingly lethal. In fact I have read one study that was made of shooting records and the conclusion reached was that your chance of dying from a .22LR round was about the same as the chance of dying from a .44magnum round if you fail to receive immediate medical help. The .22 was rated deadlier than a .38 special which used to be the standard law enforcement pistol round. Of course you generally die more quickly if shot with a .44magnum but that just means your suffering ends a little sooner. The real difference is STOPPING power which is much higher with the .44mag. Some people don’t understand the penetration of a .22LR, it can go very deep.


109 posted on 06/14/2017 3:31:24 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism regardless of the race of the racist)
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To: reg45

correction:

A semi-automatic precursor to the AK which shares no design similarities with it other than ammunition.


110 posted on 06/14/2017 3:31:44 PM PDT by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Most veterans after Korea are familiar with the sound of SKS and AK rounds.


111 posted on 06/14/2017 3:37:07 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Bogey78O

If the reports were correct that he had a detachable magazine it may have been an AK 47 ... you can mod an SKS to have a detachable mag but they are not very good, nor reliable.

SKS is an excellent Hog Gun, they are typically purchased already beat up so you don’t worry about them getting scratched, dented and abused in the field or in the vehicle and they have much better (robust?) furniture than an AK


112 posted on 06/14/2017 3:39:07 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (I remember when 100% of scientists agreed there were only 2 genders.)
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To: RipSawyer

My general approach to buying a gun is to spend as much on ammo as spent on the gun. Just to check things out after a short breakin.

22LR seems to have quite a choice of rounds, not unlike 12 ga.


113 posted on 06/14/2017 3:39:21 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: ichabod1

More so in Cook County than downstate.


114 posted on 06/14/2017 3:43:40 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45
Same ammo as AK-47.

Yes, and not a "high-powered" round. Its an intermediary round.
115 posted on 06/14/2017 3:44:39 PM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
7.62x39 is an intermediate range/power cartridge
116 posted on 06/14/2017 3:44:45 PM PDT by Chode (My job is not to represent the world. My job is to represent the United States of America-#45 DJT)
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To: Red Steel
7.62 x 39 is AK or SKS

7.62 x 25 is Tokarev pistol

7.62 x 54R is rifle round for Mosin-Nagant

117 posted on 06/14/2017 3:48:48 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Paladin2

IIRC, Seth Rich was killed with a .22 rimfire.


118 posted on 06/14/2017 3:49:06 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Sopater

High powered enough to be lethal. Ask any Viet-Nam veteran.


119 posted on 06/14/2017 3:55:49 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: AnalogReigns

Judge Nap made a fool of himself this morning on Varney, telling when he once shot an “AR-47” and what awesome power it had. What a chump.


120 posted on 06/14/2017 4:00:21 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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