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Scalise upgraded as FBI says gunman James Hodgkinson had 200 rounds of ammo in storage
foxnews.com ^ | 6/21/17 | Chad Pergram/ap/Lucia I. Suarez Sang

Posted on 06/21/2017 11:00:58 AM PDT by ColdOne

Meanwhile, FBI officials said leftist gunman James Hodgkinson had more than 200 rounds of ammunition at a local storage unit when he attacked Republican lawmakers as they practiced for the annual Congressional baseball game.

Timothy Slater, special agent in charge of the FBI Washington field office, said Hodgkinson, 66, had rented a storage unit in Alexandria started April 16, which he visited more than 43 times between April and June.

Also, Hodgkinson visited the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in mid-April and emailed Senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., sometime between January 2017 and the shooting last week, the FBI said without elaborating.

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1 posted on 06/21/2017 11:00:58 AM PDT by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

200.

That’s yuuge.


2 posted on 06/21/2017 11:01:43 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ColdOne

I have 200 rounds in my desk.


3 posted on 06/21/2017 11:02:55 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: ColdOne

hmmm.....

Just enough for a trip to the range.

....which he seems never to have visited.


4 posted on 06/21/2017 11:03:54 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: ColdOne

200? Piker.


5 posted on 06/21/2017 11:05:00 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: mrmeyer

Thank God he kept them in storage instead of using half of them to practice. 200 rounds sound like a couple of hours of fun from the back porch!


6 posted on 06/21/2017 11:08:20 AM PDT by resistance (abandon all hope and rational thought, become a democrat)
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To: ColdOne

That’s a couple of boxes. Most shooters I know (and probably most on this board) buy more than that when they know they are going to the range the next day.


7 posted on 06/21/2017 11:08:22 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: ColdOne

200 rounds? Apparently he wasn’t planning anything protracted.


8 posted on 06/21/2017 11:08:51 AM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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That’s a bit heavy when its all in multiple magazine bandoleers on your person. Is that the implied alarm?


9 posted on 06/21/2017 11:11:14 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: ColdOne

200 rounds huh? Well isn’t that special?

(I have 144 rounds in my pickup and 12 more when I climb in.)


10 posted on 06/21/2017 11:11:24 AM PDT by JimSp
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To: shibumi

Same here - 200 is considered a *basic* load, one fight, for my FAL rifle. :P

Gotta love the media trying to blow it out of realistic proportions.


11 posted on 06/21/2017 11:11:27 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ColdOne; All

Has anyone heard what the make/model and caliber of the rifle was?

That’s my sole remaining interest other than the well-being of those shot.


12 posted on 06/21/2017 11:13:32 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ColdOne

The amount of ammo is immaterial.
His actions are what is important.


13 posted on 06/21/2017 11:13:39 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Mariner

Allegedly an SKS.


14 posted on 06/21/2017 11:15:29 AM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
James Hodgkinson had more than 200 rounds of ammunition at a local storage unit

Completely irrelevant.

I have several hundred rounds in my truck. I have 28 in my POCKETS right now.

It is NOT illegal to own lots of ammunition.

It is ATTEMPTED MURDER that is illegal, and it is a DEMOCRAT operative that attempted to murder REPUBLICANS.

Stop focusing on the weapons and start focusing on PEOPLE.

15 posted on 06/21/2017 11:15:34 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Trump won; I celebrated; I'm good. Let's get on with the civil war now.)
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To: ColdOne

Rifle ammo is most commonly packaged 20 rounds to a box. Pistol ammo is most commonly packaged 50 to a box. .22LR ammo is most commonly packaged 50 to a box, or 500 to a ‘brick.’

10 boxes of rifle ammunition, 4 boxes of pistol ammunition, 2 ‘bricks’ of .22LR, or a combination thereof.

Wow, panic time.


16 posted on 06/21/2017 11:15:46 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ColdOne

“..........leftist gunman James Hodgkinson had more than 200 rounds of ammunition at a local storage unit....”

Sounds like someone is trying to make something bigger a deal than it is with the storage locker language. Two hundred rounds would account for ten little tiny boxes of 7.62 X 39 ammo.

I can keep that, and more in a little shoebox. (320 rds.)


17 posted on 06/21/2017 11:16:40 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Yo-Yo

2 bricks of .22?!? That’s 1,000 rounds. Brain freeze.


18 posted on 06/21/2017 11:17:43 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: ColdOne

Sounds like he was planning on completing his list of people he wanted to kill.


19 posted on 06/21/2017 11:18:23 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: linear

“Allegedly an SKS.”

No wonder he couldn’t hit well.


20 posted on 06/21/2017 11:20:00 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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