[archy]

Start hitting your target from >600 yards, and then I'll start using the term sniper.

A real sniper is better defined by the targets he selects: high-value enemy personnel or equipment, preferably at a critical time. Taking out a key officer, a satellite dish or other piece of commo gear or crew-served weapon is the mark of a sniper, not the distance from which he engages his carefully-selected targets or the equipment he uses.

A trained sniper with the average grunt's issue weapon is still a sniper; an untrained rookie with the sniper's weapon is still just an amateur, though he may learn. But by picking unarmed ant-people not even trusted by their own government with weapons with which to fight back, the Maryland shooter has shown he's not much of a real sniper. He's shooting drones and pawns.

-archy-/-

[Squantos]

Agree ....call em what ya will but this POS is nothing less than a killer preying on targets of opportunity. A "sniper" as defined in my world is someone as you state that will pick out leadership, c3cm targets, POL and logistics and looks for the unusual (why is only one person carrying an M14 while the rest pack a M16 ect ect). S/He will disable key weapons and or support materials ect ect as a viable force multiplier.

This "shooter" is just a murderer.........Assassin nothing more IMO.

Stay Safe , Armed and CYA Archy !!