[tje]

A Contender with a 14 inch barrel and a scope might look like a rifle from the forestock forward when viewed from a distance to the untrained eye. Albeit, a small rifle.

The shorter barrel makes it a little more difficult to work up a good load. You won't get the highest velocities the cartridge is capable of. I forget the rate of twist, but I used 50gr highly frangible bullets. But I don't think this shooter is using FMJ's. The kills/wounded ratio is too high, or he's putting the bullets where he wants them.

[Free Trapper]

Yep,I thought someone could have mistaken a Contender for a rifle especially if it was scoped,nice little pistols but it sounded as though the witness got a pretty fair look because the shooter was out of his vehicle with it.Who knows?

[lentulusgracchus]

If a) he is using a Contender or similar and b) that brass they found was his, then LE would know by now what he is carrying, and they might have told us. They produced four weapons for the press. Were the four narrowed down from evidence from the brass? What were they? Three were "assault rifles" is all I heard, and I saw a brief shot of someone waving an AR-15 around.

What was the selection of weapons in that news conference based on? Only four weapons? There are a zillion long guns that shoot .223.

Sounds like they're down to Armalite designs based on what they showed at the press shindig -- anybody know anything more about that?