Why is it so hard?
I’m trying to figure out what gun the guy in the Washington shooting used so I searched Google news and it’s about impossible. Some sources say a machine pistol, others say an AK-5 (which is highly unlikely), and some report there were bursts. Via Les, Farnam’s sources say it was an AK clone and CZ 9MM. Farnam has posted a report from the officers.
Update: Another conflicting report. Ben says in comments that an officer he talked to said it was Similar to (but not) an SKS-definitely not a .22. He has more here.
November 22nd, 2005 at 12:32 pm
According to the cop I talked to at Tacoma PD, it was “Similar to (but not) an SKS-definitely not a .22.”
November 22nd, 2005 at 4:02 pm
Yeah, that does sound unlikely. Was the AK-5 ever even imported to the US?
Similar to but not an SKS?
FN-49? Vz-52? AG-42?
Huh.
November 22nd, 2005 at 4:19 pm
An eyewitness I saw on TV said it was an AK-47, and all of the local TV stations were reporting it as an “assault rifle”.
That’s my take from Washington State.
November 22nd, 2005 at 4:23 pm
I have a call into Public Information Officer Mark Fulghum to find out what type of weapon was used in the shooting. I’ll let you know what I find.
You can email him yourself if you like.
mfulghum@cityoftacoma.org
November 22nd, 2005 at 4:34 pm
What is both an AK clone and ‘like an SKS?’
Saiga, anyone?
Oh, and your favorite newspaper, the P-I, said that he had two assault rifles. Morons, the lot of them.
November 22nd, 2005 at 5:53 pm
What difference does it make what he used. A gun is just a tool, remember? He could have just as easily gunned down those people with a fire extinguisher.
*ducks*
November 22nd, 2005 at 6:36 pm
Curiosity?
November 22nd, 2005 at 7:44 pm
Witness accounts have the shooter using the Scott Adams Donut Gun.