Super Bowl Massacre Averted?

[jDub]

Saw this on Drudge, pretty scary that someone would even consider this.

Super Bowl massacre averted at last minute | EastValleyTribune.com

[bostinelosd]

Wow, unstable. All because of a rejected liquor license for his bar? Good grief. Whats next, girl scouts mowing down neighbors for only buying 2 boxes of thin mints instead of 5?

[SuperCy]

I wonder how close he could have gotten.

[SuperCy]

Originally Posted by bostinelosd

Wow, unstable. All because of a rejected liquor license for his bar? Good grief. Whats next, girl scouts mowing down neighbors for only buying 2 boxes of thin mints instead of 5?

Whatever. Have you seen how expensive they've become?

[jDub]

Originally Posted by SuperCy

I wonder how close he could have gotten.

Good question. Not a gun expert here, all I know is that this is considered an assault rifle so he probably would have had to get fairly close. That being said, the crowd prior to or right after a Super Bowl is probably spread out over several miles.

[rworkman83]

Originally Posted by SuperCy

Whatever. Have you seen how expensive they've become?

Aren't they like 3 bucks?

[ISUCyclones]

[quote=jDub;355196]Good question. Not a gun expert here, all I know is that this is considered an assault rifle so he probably would have had to get fairly close. That being said, the crowd prior to or right after a Super Bowl is probably spread out over several miles.[/QUOTE

-550 meters (individual/point targets)
-800 meters (area targets)

Max effective rates of fire: 45 rounds per minute

Mind you this is just with the iron sights, you throw on a nice scope and you can really reach out an touch someone. The thing to remember is that this nut case is the danger not the rifle.

[cmoneyr]

Originally Posted by bostinelosd

Wow, unstable. All because of a rejected liquor license for his bar? Good grief. Whats next, girl scouts mowing down neighbors for only buying 2 boxes of thin mints instead of 5?

That's not fair because it'll never happen, I mean who could only buy 2 boxes of Thin Mints???

[jdoggivjc]

Originally Posted by SuperCy

Whatever. Have you seen how expensive they've become?

Originally Posted by cmoneyr

That's not fair because it'll never happen, I mean who could only buy 2 boxes of Thin Mints???

I don't think the question is how expensive have they become. The REAL question is what are they now putting in those cookies that have us so addicted to them that they can get away with price gouging us customers? Next year it's gonna be something like $5 a box and most of us will be like, "well, aren't you sweet? I'll take 10."

But I guess li'l Suzy's gotta get her badge one way or another...

[clones_jer]

Originally Posted by cmoneyr

That's not fair because it'll never happen, I mean who could only buy 2 boxes of Thin Mints???

totally ... I'm doing some wieght loss challenge at my gym, I'm doing pretty good so far, but I can already see cookie delivery day is gonna be a bad (but oh so good at the same time)

[TxCycloneFan]

[quote=ISUCyclones;355210]

Originally Posted by jDub

Good question. Not a gun expert here, all I know is that this is considered an assault rifle so he probably would have had to get fairly close. That being said, the crowd prior to or right after a Super Bowl is probably spread out over several miles.[/QUOTE

-550 meters (individual/point targets)
-800 meters (area targets)

Max effective rates of fire: 45 rounds per minute

Mind you this is just with the iron sights, you throw on a nice scope and you can really reach out an touch someone. The thing to remember is that this nut case is the danger not the rifle.

the rifle just makes the nut case more effective.

[cyeah]

Originally Posted by bostinelosd

Wow, unstable. All because of a rejected liquor license for his bar? Good grief. Whats next, girl scouts mowing down neighbors for only buying 2 boxes of thin mints instead of 5?

Whew! I am safe - I buy way over the 5...

The AR -15 is NOT the military's weapon of choice as the article indicates. If you see any troop, from any branch, in combat with an AR they pissed in someone's cherios. It does look like the M-16 but is not the same rifle at all (personally I think the M-16 is junk and never carried it if I could avoid it).

[guitarchitect7]

Do you think he gets his license now?




Kidding.

[jumbopackage]

Originally Posted by cyeah

Whew! I am safe - I buy way over the 5...

The AR -15 is NOT the military's weapon of choice as the article indicates. If you see any troop, from any branch, in combat with an AR they pissed in someone's cherios. It does look like the M-16 but is not the same rifle at all (personally I think the M-16 is junk and never carried it if I could avoid it).

The M4 is the current weapon of choice, which is a modified M-16, basically (they share 80% common parts). The AR-15 is more or less an M-16 that just does semi-auto, as opposed to 3 round burst (A2) or full auto (A1 or original M16).

None of them are particularly accurate at range, but they are assault rifles, after all, not sniper rifles.

[ianoconnor]

Those girl scouts really need to come through the dorms! lol