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2017-06-17 Fifth Column

Weapon used in Arlington attack was an SKS 7.62x39 rifle

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I bought mine for $200 a few years ago. Mine has a 20 rnd mag. They are fun to shoot and the rounds are dirt cheap because you can use the dirtiest produced cartridges. And the steel case rounds don't fuck up the internal mechanisms.

Posted by texhooey 2017-06-17 00:12|| 2017-06-17 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 What is CNN article doing here? They are fake news. let's not give them clicks.

Posted by Gloluper Schwarzeneggar7095 2017-06-17 03:40|| 2017-06-17 03:40|| Front Page Top

#3 What is CNN article doing here? They are fake news. let's not give them clicks.

It was the closest thing I could find to a confirmation of the type of weapon used. A semi-trained ear can usually tell the difference between the report (sound) of a 5.56 round and that of a 7.62x39. From the video filmed during the attack, I had my doubts about the initial claims of an M4.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-17 07:38|| 2017-06-17 07:38|| Front Page Top

#4 The article still reads like an editorial and contains inaccuracies. Yeah, you can buy it online, but it still has to be shipped to an FFL and you still need a background check. As for the 100 rounds or more in an AR mag, I've seen people playing with them, they aren't concealable at all and not especially reliable either. Not the sort of thing many people would buy for presumably one time use.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-06-17 07:59|| 2017-06-17 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 As for the 100 rounds or more in an AR mag......not especially reliable either.

Oh so very true. If one is well-trained - 30 round mags are all you need. The time you spend f'ing w/those 100 drums w/failure to feed, stoppages, or just changing the stupid thing is wasted time. Learn how to to smooth mag exchanges.

Mr. B - I'm in your AO now and stand ready to to deliver on the steak dinner.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2017-06-17 11:01|| 2017-06-17 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 I was just up there for a retirement ceremony at Myer-Henderson Hall. Might be able to conduct a FACECOM at Hartsfield-Jackson. If you're headed to hell, you change planes in Atlanta. I wish YOU and your trusty 225 had been at that congressional baseball practice. That numbnut would have been spitting blood before he could get his second stripper clip loaded.

The steak is unnecessary. Nobody within 250 miles of Hartsfield-Jackson eats that 'food.' Perhaps an adult beverage.

100 rnd mags? About as practical as a facial penis. But that's just my opinion.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-17 11:08|| 2017-06-17 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Mr. B - I thought you were in NoVA?? No plans on going through ATL anytime soon.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2017-06-17 11:34|| 2017-06-17 11:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, Beoserker, they were earlier reporting this as "the AK 47 variant called the SKS..."

See this piece at Ace's:

CNN claimed the SKS that Rachel Maddow-inspired assassin James Hodgkinson used was a "variant of the AK-47."

It's not. And that's important, because claiming it's a "variant" of the fully-automatic AK-47 makes it a lay-up for banning by the gun-grabbers; CNN's "error" just happens to track with the language that gun control groups would prefer.

In fact, the one-shot-per-trigger-pull SKS was developed before the AK-47, making it hard to see how this gun could be a "variant of" the full-auto AK-47.

But they refuse to correct.

Several observations:

Once again, I repeat that the media's ignorance here is an ignorance they're proud of. They don't like icky boy-stuff; they like lots of whipped cream on their moccachinos.

This is Genteel Ignorance, a cultivated ignorance that one is proud of, like an aristocrat proud that he has no idea how to fix his own door. We have "people" for that, after all...

...Media: We don't want to ban all guns, you Paranoid Gun-Lovers. We only want to ban the Bad guns.

Expert: But you just completely botched your identification of the "Bad" gun involved here.

Media: That doesn't matter, they all need to be banned eventually anyway.

They're giving the game away, and they don't even care that their lying is not even of the half-hearted level of exertion any longer.

They want you to know they're lying -- just as a serial killer, ultimately, wants you to know he's the one.

They're each proud of their respective butcheries. They want to be famous for them.

They are not just murdering facts; they are unleashing a Great Revolution with their ritualistic torture of basic facts. What is the point of doing so, if the world does not know who the Author of these noble murders is?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-06-17 12:55|| 2017-06-17 12:55|| Front Page Top

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