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.

[FreeTheHostages]

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?)

[wcbtinman]

"...you pay the piper on the recoil side."

Not with a proper muzzle brake.

[LikeLight]

New thread just up . . . BOLO 2 hispanic men . . . may be middle-eastern . . . minor miracle . . . white men off the hook for now . . .

[El Gato]

I shoot a big hogleg revolver, someone aptly described it as an Earschplittenloudenboomer

The 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. :)

[CARepubGal]

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.

[Travis McGee]

I don't know. What a nightmare, showing sleeper terror cells don't need C-4, just .223.

[null and void]

Very.

[Jeff Gordon]

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.

[CARepubGal]

I HATE GAY DAVIS! That POS is destroying my home state.

[nunya bidness]

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.

[Prodigal Son]

Two Hispanics Sought In DC Area Killings

[wardaddy]

Thanks.

[SteveH]

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.)

[scripter]

Your minister might quote you Romans 13:3-4.

[cynwoody]

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.

[Skywalk]

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."

[ConservativeLawyer]

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.

[FreedomPoster]

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.

[Cobra Scott]

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.

[Cobra Scott]

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.