Firearms Facts and Fallacy

Two Found Dead In Shooting Suspect's Home

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They went into the home and found the bodies and an *arsenal of weapons*...

We found many weapons in the house *placed strategically in every room*," said Johnson.

Johnson said it appeared Langford had cut lines around his house *to create shooting lanes*. One of weapons deputies found was *a .50 caliber gun*.

So once again, we have the typical sensational, non specific, non factual guns are evil reporting. It would be good if someone actually detailed what was in that *arsenal*, and as far as a *.50 caliber gun*, there is a big difference between a single shot Black Powder rifle that fires a .50 caliber ball, a Desert Eagle pistol, and a Barrett sniper rifle, because all three could be considered a .50 caliber gun. Feel free to contact Gun Shy next time, and maybe I can help the media sort out these important details for the readers, so that they are not confused. In the final analysis, it appears that the shooter didn't use his "arsenal" of weapons, and may have possibly shot all of his victims with a common "hand gun", or an "assault rifle" that fires one shot at a time, making it clearly not an assault rifle.

Here is some further reading and viewing for the media.

Here is some bonus viewing.

UPDATE:

The news article has been updated, so I will address those comments as well:

At a news conference Thursday morning, Sheriff Ben Johnson said there was a detonator-type box at Langford's feet, which they had to disarm. However, there were no explosives connected to it.

A "detonator" with no explosives connected to it, is merely a switch with a power source feeding it, meaning all you need is an electrician to "disarm" it. I hope no one got a shock.

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Police said Bryan Langford was ready to fire a 50-caliber sniper rifle, which pierces armor and can take out a tank.

Unless he had a SLAP or HE round (and most .50 cal sniper rifles wont fire a SLAP round), he had nothing more than a rifle that would fire a .50 caliber round. Maybe the media should check to see if he had the ammunition that I mentioned at his disposal. The media may also want to view this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9lMViBr6d8&feature=related

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It was a combination of handguns, assault rifles, armor, even gas masks

Well, armor and gas masks are not weapons capable of injuring anyone, so let’s see a list of these "assault weapons".

I am troubled that this man killed and wounded people, but I am equally sick of the press not giving detailed information while making assessments that they really have no ability to make. The Nancy Pelosi's, Diane Feinstein's, and The Brady Bunch have generated enough false "statistics" for a lifetime, and don't need any more help from sloppy media sources. Let the public see the list of the firearms included in this so called "assault weapons" cache.