[tomkat]

The Monday night shooting was positively the same weapon as some of the other shootings.

so your cop buddy is saying it's for sure the same particular weapon ?
or merely the same caliber weapon ?
relevance notwithstanding, there's a big difference there ...

[Catspaw]

tomcat, I thought they had IDed the bullet (or more likely, bullet fragments) in Linda Franklin's killing as coming from the same gun as the other murders attributed to the Beltway sniper (or whatever is his current moniker). That was done on Tuesday.