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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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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guns; hodgkinson; insurrection; liberalviolence; postvanitiesinchat; progressiveviolence; shooter; terror; wheresthelink
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To: JBW1949

21 posted on 06/14/2017 2:32:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Red Badger

LOL


22 posted on 06/14/2017 2:33:11 PM PDT by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God)
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To: wastoute

It might have been a red dot sight instead of an actual scope. Journalists/cops and weapons identification being what it is.


23 posted on 06/14/2017 2:33:11 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: AnalogReigns

What would be a low powered rifle? One that can only shoot through a sheet of tissue paper?


24 posted on 06/14/2017 2:33:20 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hillary Clinton IS a felon)
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To: kjam22

It’s not the tool; it’s the operator.


25 posted on 06/14/2017 2:33:27 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: HarleyLady27

It occurred in Alexandria, Virginia—with a gun carried from Illinois.


26 posted on 06/14/2017 2:33:35 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: AnalogReigns

OMG it’s the rooshins again ‘The SKS is a Soviet semi-automatic carbine chambered for the 7.62×39mm round’. Quick we need another special counsel and many more committee meetings and interrogations to see if Bernies commie campaign supplied the rifle to him. Damned rooshins ! /S


27 posted on 06/14/2017 2:33:40 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: AnalogReigns

This article says he used an M-40.

Other articles said it was an AK-47.

I don’t trust the media.

The weapon he used was an M40 rifle and witnesses report hearing 50 gunshots.

Source: https://www.everipedia.com/james-hodgkinson/#ixzz4k0z3AJ7c


28 posted on 06/14/2017 2:34:15 PM PDT by detective
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To: wastoute
Probably why there were reports of the guy constantly messing around.loading and unloading the rifle.

Ten rounds in that type of situations go pretty fast.

29 posted on 06/14/2017 2:34:25 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: AnalogReigns

An eyewitness this AM identified it as an AK47 having curved mag and was clear that he did not hear auto fire. He called it a Kalashnikov and his terminology indicated military training.


30 posted on 06/14/2017 2:34:28 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Red Badger

LOL...


31 posted on 06/14/2017 2:34:48 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: AnalogReigns

An SKS is combat effective.Same round as an AK47,powerful enough to kill easily.


32 posted on 06/14/2017 2:34:51 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (anything worth doing is worth overdoing,moderation is for cowards)
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To: Farmer Dean

Yep.... it dents a half inch steel plate similar to an AR-15. An M1 goes right through the plate....


33 posted on 06/14/2017 2:37:09 PM PDT by kjam22 (America need forgiveness from God)
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To: bigbob

As I said in the original post, this is what Fox News is saying now. SKS’ also take long banana magazines.


34 posted on 06/14/2017 2:37:19 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: Red Badger

They called it an M4. Which is a military rifle.

I searched around and tried to find a definitive answer to the question was it semi auto or full auto in 3 round bursts.

I doubt it is in fact an M4, but is an M4 look alike.

Makes no difference, I’m assuming it is a semi-auto .223 black rifle of some fashion.

Pretty common. It is high velocity round normally, but not a very heavy bullet. Does that make it high powered? No.

A 30-06 is a lot more powerful weapon.

A 300 Win Mag is a lot more powerful than that. And very accurate.

I’ve got an old Winchester .348 rifle that is very powerful if you shoot it with a 250gr bullet in the load. And it will kick the crap out of you when you do. smile.


35 posted on 06/14/2017 2:37:33 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: AnalogReigns
OH that's even better...Home State of the ‘foreign exchange student’ that said he was a professor of a college that no one knew him, and then because he wasn't ‘born on American Soil’ he turns out to be a FAKE PRESIDENT that was born in Kenya, went to Indonesia and is a Muslim...
36 posted on 06/14/2017 2:38:02 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: detective

M-40 looks SWEET.

Bernie gòons are apparently lame.

Good Thing...


37 posted on 06/14/2017 2:38:25 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: AnalogReigns
Termination Series HIGH POWER Tactical Wrist Rocket with Light and Laser Sight


38 posted on 06/14/2017 2:38:27 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: AnalogReigns

What do you consider “Hi-Powered” then?

7.62x39 blows bricks and stone up, but it’s an awful battlefield round.


39 posted on 06/14/2017 2:38:37 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Farmer Dean

I’m not arguing that it is not lethal. However, the rifle itself is not “high powered.” Rather one of the cheapest rifles available today.


40 posted on 06/14/2017 2:39:10 PM PDT by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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