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Hard to read story about Newtown findings -

Mar 28, 2013, 10:12 AM

Particularly if you have school aged children.

Newtown gunman Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes, prosecutor says
By Michael Isikoff, Tom Winter and Erin McClam, NBC News
Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:23 AM EDT
NBCNews.com
Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes on the day he killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the chief prosecutor investigating the massacre said Thursday.

The total included 154 fired from a Bushmaster .223-model rifle and a final bullet, fired from a Glock 10mm handgun, that Lanza used to take his own life, said Stephen Sedensky, the chief prosecutor investigating the shooting.

Three Samurai swords were recovered from the Newtown, Conn., home that Lanza shared with his mother, authorities said as they released search warrants from the second-worst school shooting in American history.

Also recovered were a National Rifle Association certificate, seven of Lanza’s journals, drawings that he made and books, including an NRA guide to the basics of pistol shooting, authorities said.

Other books included “Look at Me: My Life with Asperger’s” and “Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant.”

Among the other items seized were a holiday card containing a check from his mother to buy a firearm, an article from The New York Times about a school shooting at Northern Illinois University and three photographs of what appeared to be a dead person covered with plastic and blood.

An FBI report included in the search warrants said that Lanza rarely left home, considered himself a shut-in and was an avid gamer who played “Call of Duty,” a first-person shooter game. The home had a safe holding at least four guns, and Lanza considered Sandy Hook Elementary School his “life,” the papers said.

Police recovered nine 30-round magazines for the Bushmaster that Lanza took to the school. Three of the magazines had a full 30 rounds still in them.

On Wednesday, a judge granted a request from prosecutors to withhold some information in the records, including a witness name, credit card information, telephone numbers and serial numbers.

Authorities say Lanza, 20, shot his mother to death at their home on the morning of Dec. 14, then drove to the school and killed 20 first-graders and six teachers and staff before taking his own life.

Among school shootings in the United States, the death toll is second only to the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech in 2007.

Lanza used a Bushmaster .223-caliber XM15-E2S rifle with a 30-round magazine to shoot the victims at the school, authorities have said.

Authorities also found the Glock 10mm semiautomatic pistol and a Sig-Sauer 9mm semiautomatic pistol in the school, one of which Lanza used to kill himself. In the car outside, police found a shotgun.

All those weapons were legally owned by the mother, Nancy Lanza, authorities have said.

There have been reports that Lanza was obsessed with other mass killers, including Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting and bomb attack in Norway two years ago.

A law enforcement official told NBC News last month that Lanza had collected material on previous mass shootings, although the source said there was no indication that it played a role in the school massacre.

Police told NBC News in February that investigators were still a long way from determining Lanza’s motive. Police said then that they hoped to have a report on the shooting finished by June.

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1. 154 rounds in 5 minutes is 1.94 rounds per minute. Hardly an indictment of standard capacity magazines.

How fast could a Revolutionary War soldier fire a musket? Trained minutemen could fire 3 aimed shots per minute with a flint lock musket in a 15 movement drill.

http://www.history.com/videos/musket-loading-how-fast#musket-loading-how-fast

2. Media outlets have labeled Lanza's mother as a right wing gun nut who was obsessed with weapons. This has been linked to Lanzas obsession with weapons. Therefore weapons are bad, and all must be outlawed.

However.

The linked story has this little tidbit:

There have been reports that Lanza was obsessed with other mass killers, including Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting and bomb attack in Norway two years ago.

A law enforcement official told NBC News last month that Lanza had collected material on previous mass shootings, although the source said there was no indication that it played a role in the school massacre.

This was a tragedy of epic proportions, must it be bastardized for the political fodder of the left? More kids have died at the feet of the mayor of Chicago since the Newton massacre, yet nothing is done there.

Hard to read story about Newtown findings -

A couple of points

I think your math is off in your first sentence.***

correct. I didnt covert to seconds. I stand corrected

Seems to make the case for gun control. If he fired a round

We're talking about exceptional and rare shooters

You would certainly have to walk in with a bundle of clips,

Dillon Kleibold did it with 10 round magazines

He practiced, a lot.***

well we obviously need to outlaw practice then***

Are you Allen Iverson?***

I think the label gun nut aptly applies to Mrs. Lanza. She

She obviously wasn't to smart

Nut = irrational thinking which was indicative of poor

so to sum up this thread. 1) it was guns fault 2) moms fault

And somehow the fact he was studying previous mass murderers

Now you are injecting a right wing perspective here. The

Would it have mattered if it was a shotgun?

If he had a musket or hammer, he would have been overpowered

so its okay to kill 5 or 6 first graders just not 20

Nice stretch. Maybe we should be glad that current laws

That's assuming the staff would have done anything.

This staff didn't run and hide.

There were adults present.

wasnt refering to article, was refering to thread

Name one statement I have made indicative of a pitforked

Parents should be strung up, but

But if there's no freaking background check...

Because we all know where that road leads too...

lol, ooooookay. But you're right...

Because she's the only one...***

You're right again. It's a least four.

LOL, whatever keep that head shoved firmly in the sand...

Complete failure by the government to run safe schools

He shot the locks off. Maybe the next guy will ram his

And your point?***

See here -

Well then private schools better get their ###es in gear.

LOL, right. The state gets a complete pass with you ########***

And you came to that conclusion...how?***

simple logic***

Well you're sure cut out for that.***

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