Suspect in Kentucky freeway shooting bought weapon legally that morning: Officials
Source: ABC News
Joseph A. Couch, the man authorities have named as a suspect in a Kentucky freeway shooting that left seven people injured, bought the weapon used in the incident legally on the morning of the shooting, authorities said Sunday night.
Laurel County Sheriff's Commander Richard Dalrymple said at Sunday nights news briefing that Couch purchased about a thousand rounds of ammunition, most of which has been recovered.
The suspect remains at large despite a massive search in the area of Saturday's shooting north of London, Kentucky.
The shooting unfolded around 5:30 p.m. local time on Saturday evening, officials said. Arriving deputies initially found nine vehicles had been shot in both the north and southbound lanes of I-75, Laurel County Sheriff John Root said at a news conference late Saturday night. By Sunday night, that number had jumped to 12 vehicles, according to officials.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-shut-kentucky-interstate-reports-multiple-shot/story?id=113489209
Later in the linked article we're told that an AR-15 was found in the woods near where it's believed the suspect was shooting from, and that the suspect's vehicle was parked nearby.
PJMcK
(24,635 posts)PJMcK
(24,635 posts)(snark)
Buzz cook
(2,829 posts)in some states. .233/5.56 that is. Whether it's good or not is something gunners like to argue about.
underpants
(194,584 posts)Thanks.
I also saw that he already had a warrant out on him or something like that but havent seen confirmation on that either.
LauraInLA
(2,248 posts)underpants
(194,584 posts)LauraInLA
(2,248 posts)kill his family that morning, apparently.
underpants
(194,584 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,313 posts)In other words.. does the legality of the gun make a difference? Or the type of gun?
maxsolomon
(38,108 posts)Shooting at drivers from a highway overpass is terrorism.
Srkdqltr
(9,313 posts)maxsolomon
(38,108 posts)I recognize that any Semi-Auto could have pulled off the same attack. A handgun might not have been as precise.
I don't observe the "obsession" you're talking about.
travelingthrulife
(4,305 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,476 posts)Aristus
(71,536 posts)maxsolomon
(38,108 posts)-Homer Simpson, 1997
https://slate.com/culture/2014/06/simpsons-gun-episode-the-cartridge-family-was-kind-to-the-nra-but-they-didn-t-get-it-video.html
The ensuing scenes, starting with the one in which a salesman shows Homer an accessory kit that includes a silencer, a loudener, a speed cocker, and a bazooka-looking device for shooting down police helicopters, are among the most morbidly funny in Simpsons history. Theyre also some of the most terrifying. When a mesmerized Homer is told that he needs to abide by the standard waiting period before obtaining a revolver, he says, Five days?! But Im mad now. Id kill you if I had my gun.
If I didnt have this gun, the king of England could come in here any time he wants and start shoving you around, Homer tells Lisa, whos frustrated when her dad informs her that owning a gun is his constitutional right. Trouble comes quickly. Among other things, Homer riddles the snack bar at the gun range with bullets, twirls his gun in Apus direction, and skeet-shoots dinner plates. Fed up, Marge eventually takes the kids to live in a motel. The local chapter of the NRA, which had welcomed Homer at first, soon boots him after hes caught using his gun as a can opener.
Glad no one died. Find the fucker.
Initech
(107,241 posts)And sadly, nearly 30 years later... nothing has changed.
0rganism
(25,453 posts)Just another patriot doing his level best to preserve the Security of a Free State.
Initech
(107,241 posts)40 years of Limbaugh, 28 years of Fox News, and 15 years of Infowars got us here. Fuck all of it.