Another DC-area sniper-style shooting

Wife (FReeper nina0113) | October 4, 2002 | Steve0113

[Steve0113]

Another broad-daylight shooting just occurred, this time in Fredericksburg, VA, just off I-95. It's not even on the news yet.

About an hour's drive south of where the Montgomery County shootings happened, a woman was shot in the parking lot of a Michaels fabric store. My wife was in the store at the time. The victim had left the store and carried her purchases to her minivan. She unlocked the minivan and was loading her stuff into it when she was shot. No sign of the shooter.

No one else was injured.

The woman was taken away in an ambulance, condition unknown. Her license plate (which I'm not going to post) indicated that she had several children.

[Dead Dog]

My sister just bagged a mule deer last weekend with a .223 cal. Savage 110. The animal was dropped in it's tracks from a dead run at a little over 100 yards.

Don't mess with sissy.

[aristeides]

Stevens was diagnosed with anthrax on Oct. 3, 2001, and died two days later.

[browardchad]

What day did the anthrax attack first take place? Wasn't it about a year ago?

The first confirmed case (the photo editor at American Media in Florida) was announced a year ago today. (I had the same thought, and looked it up.)

[Sacajaweau]

Where and when were the parachutes found to have the chords on their main chutes slit??

A lot happening in a short time frame.

Spells chaos, fear and TERRORISTS.

Sac

[BJungNan]

Is this a real new source? Don't seem to be able to find confirmation of this story from any other sources.

[philetus]

I only like the email at the end of the show when everyone tells him how big his head is.

[CJ Wolf]

amen

[CedarDave]

My scanner has been useless for police/fire frequencies for two years due to agencies switching from conventional analog frequencies to 800-band digital trunking networks. Digital scanners are not yet available (the first Uniden ones are supposed to ship next month) and when they are on the market, they will be very costly ($200-300 plus another couple of hundred for a chip card), and they must be programmed by computer. The days of going down to Radio Shack for a relatively inexpensive scanner are over.

[livius]

Yes, Red House was connected to Al Fuqra.

One of the people shot yesterday was Indian, but the reports said that he was very dark and the shooter probably thought he was black. However, because whoever was doing this was probably using a scope, I'd say the shooter could probably determine full well that the cab driver was Indian, from one of the areas of India where people are more dark-skinned.

[FreeTheHostages]

Me, I'm *really* afraid of PETA, but it's a long story.

[Ford Fairlane]

Basically, easier to shoot full auto, and you can cary more ammo for spray and pray. It was a McNamara thing, so who knows what the decisions were based on.

In the late 50s to mid 60s there was a movement to de-emphasize induvidual acurracy (they assumed that city boys couldn't shoot straight), and try to put multiple rounds downrange in as short a time as possible, to get a sort of "shotgun" effect from a small caliber rifled barrel.

The best of these designs was the SPIW as designed by H&R, which shot sub caliber flechettes from a .22 cal barrel, with a 30mm grenade launcher which besides grenades also fired ammo similar to the 12 ga rounds available now holding 50+ flechettes.

There were problems moving into the production phase as we were increasing our invovement in Vietnam, and Colt/AR had more pressure on certain members of congress & the military procurement system, so the M16 (which was designed as an Air Force survival weapon) was adopted by the Army & the SPIW program was shelved.

[CedarDave]

Muslim terrorists hate Asian Indians as much as they hate Americans.

[BCR #226]

Steve,

The .223 was not designed to wound. It was most certainly designed to kill. The myth that the .223 was designed to wound was started after Vietnam by some of the "old school" who thought the .308 was the minimum that we should use.

Mike

[michigander]

From here:
ABC 47 WMDT - Salisbury

[Dead Dog]

Bumber.

I guess Patton was big on "area fire" and that was the the principle reason he regarded the M-1 Garand "The finest infantry weapon of all time". Not that it isn't accurate, but because of rate of fire.

[mykdsmom]

Where and when were the parachutes found to have the chords on their main chutes slit??

Camp Lejeune, NC.

MKM

[M. Thatcher]

Woman was loading packages into her car

Yeah, an SUV. One of the other women was vacuuming her SUV. Someone else was on a riding mower, someone else was putting gas in his taxi. Maybe the perps have an environmental fixation. Unabomber type.

[Deguello]

"I mean, if you wanted to find the location of a Michaels, how would you do it?"

We call them "phone books".

[aristeides]

Does Rush know that about SUV's?

[vannrox]

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"... My sister just bagged a mule deer last weekend with a .223 cal. Savage 110. The animal was dropped in it's tracks from a dead run at a little over 100 yards.


Don't mess with sissy...."


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