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To: Cage Rattler who wrote (243)	10/11/2002 2:03:34 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2746

The crucial variable is the discipline alluded to in several comments. The mental make-up of a successful sniper, IMHO, is much scarcer than qualifying marksmanship. Yup, that was exactly my point. Message 18096792 LPS5

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (243)	10/11/2002 2:14:29 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2746

To the anti-gun nuts out there ? do you think disarming the American citizens would have prevented this? This? No. But making private ownership of guns illegal would prevent numerous accidental deaths. You asked. :-)

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (243)	10/11/2002 2:51:37 PM
From: Shoot1st	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2746

Excellent post....agreee on all aspects. I thought of the sabot concept. Remington commercialized the idea years ago but it was not practical...although some rifle squads will use the round in special circumstances. The sabot round was limited in accuracy but certainly was good enough to do the job that this shooter is doing. Sierra does make a "Blitz" bullet....very frangible. Shootie

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (243)	10/11/2002 4:32:30 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2746

There have been some reports in the media that shots have been taken at 600 yards (the phrase was 6 football fields). That is pretty much the max. kill range of a .223 and an unlikely success except under range conditions. MSNBC has reported that the rifle in question is either a Colt AR-15 (civilian version of M-16) or a Ruger Mini-14 (imagine an M1 Garand that was left in the drier too long). They are not that similar so I'm wondering how they come to these conclusions or are they just anxious to spout any certainty in this affair. I guess they view none of this is harmful to their over-all credibility.

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (243)	10/11/2002 5:52:51 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2746

<To the anti-gun nuts out there – do you think disarming the American citizens would have prevented this? < No, I don't. But, I do think that a national ballistics database wherein every mfg. had to test fire and turn into a national database the ballistics data on each gun, would have gone a long way to helping find this guy and numerous, numerous other criminals and nuts! Now, you may ask why we don't have this kind of database... The answer is simple: the NRA!!! This has been proposed several times and legislation introduced several times. Each time the NRA has killed it. Thanks to the whackos in the NRA police are at an absurd disadvantage and gun whackos and criminals have a free hand. Thank you Mr. Heston!!! You senile old fool...