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GAM wrote:Since little information seems to be available on the various news agencies, I took a bit of time to examine the photos of the weapons as displayed by the Santa Monica police to see what I could identify. The revolver appears to be: percussion cap black powder .44. I have one just like it I inherited from my father which is a Navy Arms reproduction. Not much chance of a fast reload with that one . The bright blue AR magazines appear to be the same as those marketed under the 'store label' by an online seller, which I won't mention in case I have the identity incorrect. They clearly are of the 30 round type, not for sale to CA. Any AR folks out there who can ID the upper receiver (which seems to be missing its bolt group)?

G26ster wrote:

JALLEN wrote:

G26ster wrote:At the beginning, the gunman shot people in the house that burned, then fired at people in the streets, cars, and buses near the house, and ended up in the college library. Doesn't sound to me that the college was picked for any reason other than it was near all the other shooting. MHO.

Santa Monica is about as close to a "gun free" zone as you can imagine. All of LA County is "no issue." They vote consistently for no-gun candidates so you have to conclude that most people support gun free living and do not own weapons themselves.

Your certainly correct about that. But I was addressing the fact that the reason for this shooting was that the college was a gun free zone, and that's why it some of it happened there. That would be like saying all the shootings in LA occur because the gunman new almost nobody was carrying, not because of gangs, robberies, revenge, or other violent crimes in general.

G26ster wrote:At the beginning, the gunman shot people in the house that burned, then fired at people in the streets, cars, and buses near the house, and ended up in the college library. Doesn't sound to me that the college was picked for any reason other than it was near all the other shooting. MHO.