Investigators also found Middle Eastern red and white traditional headdress... [More]Well then that cinches it. With an "assault weapon" that's been "altered to fire .50-caliber ammunition" (any bets the "Authorized Journalist" thinks it's a .50 BMG capable of shooting down 747s?) he must be one of those right wing extremists. Because Allah knows, the other kind has nothing to do with planning attacks on military installations.
Still, I am surprised the FBI had the manpower to investigate, what with the resource drain over at the SHOT Show...
[Via Steve T]
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How many people must keep on dying from old hippies who refuse to stop smoking pot and driving. The amount of people people who die on our nations highways is many time higher than the amount of folks murdered with a firearm.
If I didn't know any better I would say this hippy filth is trying to take the spot light off of pot heads so CA can pass some new laws to legalize pot. Just look at the picture of that hippy filth and you can see some violent loudmouth back in the 60's yelling "off the pigs". You can't make this stuff up.
Above post should have been to story below. That sneaky Codrea slipped this new story in while I was reading the link to the story about this peaceful hippy.
Well, if it was a green and white Shemagh, then he'd be a Palestinan supporter, and that would be A-Ok with the MSM.
I wonder what my weapons cache and coyote tan and black "headdress" make me?
The description of the 50 caliber sounds more like a 50 Beowulf rather than a 50 BMG upper. Either way, mucho expensive and with the defaced serial numbers I wonder if they were stolen. Of course all that makes the very big assumption that the police spokesman told the truth and the reporter got it right.
Bushmaster does make a BA50, but it is a separate platform from their .223's, so I would not expect it to be a modification. If the press by some miracle got it right that is was a Bushmaster, it probably was a BA50 (or a Beowulf as M Gilson noted), which is a bolt-action firearm. Of course the media playbook lists the Brown Bess musket as an "Assault weapon" since it can be fired more than once in a lifetime. They just can't get it through their heads that assault is a behavior, not an object.
This story must not be true since deserting would more than likely make him a prohibited person.
/sarc off
note the subtle suggestions:
"carrying a .223-caliber assault rifle that had been altered to fire .50-caliber ammunition" = "a .223 caliber rifle can be converted to .50 BMG."
lie: complain you can't regulate it, so you need to ban it. the logic behind this, of course, is that if your rifle uses the same iron sights as my artillery cannon, they're "convertible" into each other.
"who also had maps of a U.S. military facility and an out-of-state civilian community." = "out-of-state civilians were at risk."
lie: the interstate commerce clause is relevant to security.
"Officers tackled him and used pepper spray to subdue Woodson, Forrest said."
oh really? let me get this straight: police need tanks, armored personnel carriers, true assault rifles, grenade launchers, passive night vision, full plate body armor, and your tax dollars so that they can protect the border from a poor family who wants "free" health insurance. it's normal to beat up and taser old people and children when they are merely suspect of something. if they're killed, it was "by protocol." if dogs are shot, it was for "officer safety."
yet a guy with a rifle chambered in .50 BMG, with (cermaic?) chest plates on at the time of his arrest can be taken down with...
pepper spray? the kind that any "civilian" needs a license to carry?
Not trying to excuse shoddy journalism, but my guess is that the .50 was a .50 Beowulf. You can buy just the upper receiver and put it on an AR lower receiver with no other "modification" required. The round it fires is a .50, but not a .50 BMG. It looks and performs much like a .45-70. You can find out more at alexanderarms.com.
"He was also carrying four loaded magazines with hollow-point ammunition, Forrest said"
You forgot about the dreaded hollowpoints.
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