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Originally Posted by jplinville
What criteria do you use to classify a weapon as an ASSAULT WEAPON?? Black and scary? Looks like it could be used by the military?? Perhaps a weapon was purchased for use as a DEFENSE WEAPON, or as a SPORTING WEAPON.
The local gun club that I am a member of has teams of members that compete with weapons you would classify as an ASSAULT WEAPON. The truth of the matter is that it's never been used in an assaulting manner, only as a competition firearm.
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By Sari Horwitz, Published: December 15
Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School carrying a Glock, a SIG Sauer and a Bushmaster rifle, all legally registered to his mother, law enforcement officials said, and all capable of massive killing power.
He chose the rifle over the two handguns to massacre most of his 26 victims in a matter of minutes, inflicting “devastating” multiple wounds, said Connecticut’s chief medical examiner.
The Washington Post
GRAPHIC | Two of the deadliest massacres happened this year, but 11 others also claimed lives.
Police said that they found “dozens and dozens” of shell casings from .223 high-velocity rounds inside the school, the type of spent casings that come from bullets used in the Bushmaster rifle.
The lightweight .223 bullets travel at a velocity of about 3,000 feet per second, and after they enter their target, they explode throughout the tissue. As the medical examiner H. Wayne Carver II put it at a news conference Saturday, the bullets’ “energy stays in the body.”