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Another DC-area sniper-style shooting
Wife (FReeper nina0113)
| October 4, 2002
| Steve0113
Posted on 10/04/2002 12:02:50 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: banglist; randomshooting
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To: null and void
I think I just might ask my minister. I'm off to church Sunday before a well-timed out-of-town work trip through Tuesday night. (Seems like a good time to leave DC, huh?)
To: Atchafalaya
"...you pay the piper on the recoil side."Not with a proper muzzle brake.
To: Denver Ditdat
New thread just up . . . BOLO 2 hispanic men . . . may be middle-eastern . . . minor miracle . . . white men off the hook for now . . .
To: Cobra Scott
I shoot a big hogleg revolver, someone aptly described it as an EarschplittenloudenboomerThe owner of the gun range where I last shot, stuck the barrel of big, and I mean BIG, stainless revolver into my my field of view as I was reloading my magazines. I turned to look at the thing, noting the length of the cylinder, and saying "what the heck is that", wherein he showed me a cartridge, I asked "45-70?!", he nodded, and proceeded to fire two or three rounds from a nearby lane, indoors no less!. Actually it didn't seem as nasty as a .44 Mag or even .357. Not much smoke either, so it must have been loaded with smokeless powder. One really big lead bullet though. But he did only fire those few rounds, and kinda shook his hand a bit afterwards. :)
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posted on
10/04/2002 8:54:20 PM PDT
by
El Gato
To: El Gato
WalMart in California has Guns & Ammo Magazine too. Hmmm! I need to pick me up a copy: need to invest in a handgun and NRA training classes soon.
To: Cap'n Crunch
I don't know. What a nightmare, showing sleeper terror cells don't need C-4, just .223.
To: FreeTheHostages
Very.
To: Caligirl for Bush
Put a priority on getting that firearm. As of January 1, 2003, you will have a lot of extra hoops to jump through in California in order to own a handgun.
To: Jeff Gordon
I HATE GAY DAVIS! That POS is destroying my home state.
To: Travis McGee
I agree. It looks like the FBI is taking off its blinders because now they're admitting it doesn't fit any of their classifications.
So essentially they've admitted it's terrorism.
I'm not buying the shooter dropped a case in VA. They were way too methodical before then.
To: xm177e2
Thanks.
To: BCR #226
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. Gaack, I posted reflexively without checking my obviously aging recollections and sources. Oh well, now I that I've had a chance to google this I can't seem to dig up an authoritative reference for the wound-over-kill thing as design goal. Therefore I apologize for the noise. Comments on my other input still welcome. (I still have doubts about the profile information coming out... but perhaps that is for some other thread.)
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posted on
10/04/2002 11:27:54 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: FreeTheHostages
To: OKSooner
Back in 1960-whenever when the guy went nuts and started shooting people from the tower at the University of Texas ... That would be Charlie Whitman, 1 August 1966.
To: tgslTakoma
Man, I can see all these places in my mind. I used to walk around that area all the time. I lived in the Blair East apartments and would just walk down to my grandma's in NW, right down the street from that KFC, near Walter Reed.
Other people lost their lives and for that I am outraged and feel nothing but sadness for them and their families. But I can't help but think "there's no reason that couldn't have been me, had I not moved."
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posted on
10/05/2002 2:48:16 AM PDT
by
Skywalk
To: El Gato
others may "defend" the next victim by shooting the sniper after the shot gives away his position. Still best not to bring (just) a pistol to a rifle fight. You have valid points.
To: nunya bidness
I'm not buying the shooter dropped a case in VA. They were way too methodical before then. I've been on all these threads this AM on that issue. If this is the work of pros, that "found" case might well be a red herring.
To: El Gato
Raging Bull, 454 here. Definitely plenty of gun for any shooting or hunting I do, but extremely mild. If Colt were to make one, it would be like this.
To: Neil E. Wright
Could you elaborate? (IE: carbine with folder)? Is it because it is C&R, or exempt from NFA, or what? Does the stock have to be an original, or can you do a new polymer (not a non-folder). Can you just remove the stock? It would be nice to treat it like a big TC. And can you add a bayonet lug if it doesn't have one? I would keep the standard stock if I did that.
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