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Straw Man

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18. Maybe so ...
Fri Dec 6, 2024, 01:41 AM
Dec 6
Suppressors take as little as a week to obtain these days

... but there is the thorny issue of the background check and sign-off by the ranking law enforcement officer -- county sheriff or city chief of police -- in your home location. If he had a clean record, that would be possible, but the paper trail would certainly lead law enforcement to him eventually. How many people do you think buy those pistols?

The speculation about the $2000 WWII replica pistol is just that: speculation. What you saw on those videos was him clearing jams, not racking the manual action of an archaic firearm. The evidence is the complete cartridges found on the ground. That's what happens when you clear a jam: a live cartridge almost invariably gets ejected, whether it was the initial cause of the jam or just collateral ejecta from clearing the jam of a spent casing. The bottom line is that you don't eject live cartridges when you cycle a manual action.

What you saw was a garden variety semi-auto pistol with a silencer that was either homemade or sourced on the black market. The jams were probably caused by the silencer, which causes back-pressure that can affect the often-finicky functioning of a semi-auto pistol. The pistol can be tuned to compensate for that, but his clearly wasn't. Pro? No.

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Why is that considered choie Dec 5 #1
because some are acting like he is a folk hero Skittles Dec 5 #2
Ah. choie Dec 5 #11
So the guy who paid him is the folk hero? intheflow Dec 6 #22
I don't think of the shooter as a hero.... BUT.... Happy Hoosier Dec 6 #23
I doubt he was a professional assassin Meowmee Dec 5 #3
Definitely NOT a pro. Happy Hoosier Dec 6 #24
This has been one of my theories. yardwork Dec 5 #4
I doubt he would use his own ID to check in to the hostel Sanity Claws Dec 5 #5
Apparently he used a fake New Jersey ID, from what I read. Oneironaut Dec 5 #7
Not strange. No one knows the actual reason. Only conjecture and speculation. Solly Mack Dec 5 #6
Cui bono? RockRaven Dec 5 #8
He had the bike at the killing scene...he rode away on it Prairie Gates Dec 5 #9
He doesn't appear to be well off. LisaL Dec 5 #10
His backpack is not cheap FreeState Dec 6 #19
There is zero proof he isn't well off obamanut2012 Dec 6 #26
Suppressors take as little as a week to obtain these days NickB79 Dec 5 #12
Maybe so ... Straw Man Dec 6 #18
It wasn't a Station Six 9 pistol. NutmegYankee Dec 5 #13
were they jams? Or was he cycling the bolt action pistol above? Look again. WarGamer Dec 5 #14
See picture: NutmegYankee Dec 5 #15
a random youtuber said he was racking the gun each time, unnecessarily. nt ecstatic Dec 6 #17
If a stock pistol is used, the silencer can cause the slide to not properly close. NutmegYankee Dec 6 #20
Subsonic Rounds? Elmotime Dec 6 #25
Possibly. Straw Man Dec 7 #30
I think y'all are all overthinking it. The only thing unique about that attack was that the killer limited ecstatic Dec 5 #16
His estranged wife had really nice things to say about him. They lived in the same city allegorical oracle Dec 6 #21
Cigna did it! Omnipresent Dec 6 #27
Except the station he exited was an F train local, the sole line that uses that one Aviation Pro Dec 6 #28
I read today snowybirdie Dec 6 #29
I'm not an expert... Dulcinea Dec 7 #31
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