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"One of the main things I want to make sure happens is that not only is anyone [not] discriminated against as a result of this incident but that we continue to protect our freedom of religion and also our Second Amendment rights to bear arms, Farook family attorney David Chesley told reporters.
We can't have this announcement by the president every time there's an incident like this that we need to ban all guns, Chesley continued. Those rights are important to us as Americans. We died for those rights and they shouldn't be denied.
President Obama reiterated a call for stricter limits on guns in the wake of the shooting earlier this week, as details were still coming together and before the FBI formally announced on Friday that it was investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism. Authorities have said all four recovered weapons had been purchased legally.
Chesley indicated he was a gun-owner himself and encouraged those tracking the story to not read too much into the fact that investigators had recovered thousands of rounds of ammunition from the suspects' home, noting owners may buy in bulk. (Investigators also recovered pipe-bomb-type devices and other bomb-making tools.)
I myself probably have 4,000 or 5,000 rounds of bullets that I keep at home. And the reason why you buy them in bulk is because they're cheaper that way, and the government keeps on outlawing different types of bullets and different types of guns at different times, and then there will be shortages of bullets that will occur, Chesley said.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/262195-suspects-family-lawyer-pushes-back-on-terror-allegations-guns
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Cheaper in bulk when on sale and the do not go bad if stored properly.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Let's take your basic 9mm rounds. What is the cost of your box of 50 and what are the savings when you buy 1,000 or, like the Farooks, 8,000?
And, apart from savings, why would an average self-protection type of gun owner need 1,000 rounds, even accounting for periodic time at the range?
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)5.56 7.5 Swiss and 7.62 × 54R are the majority. It is nothing to go through several hundred in a range day. Do not have many pistol rounds.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Waldorf
(654 posts)1 box of 50 is 13.25 which equals $265 for a 1000.
http://www.bulkammo.com/bulk-9mm-ammo-9mm124grfmjpp-1000
Same ammo. 1000 count goes for $234.
TipTok
(2,474 posts)Easy...
Boomer
(4,168 posts)If this is the family's answer to intense scrutiny from law enforcement and the media, they're doing it wrong. They make the entire family sound suspect and radicalized.
We have six. All stored in the weapon in case it's needed. No need for more, it's likely we'll only be confronted by a bad guy once in our lifetime
still_one
(92,191 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)Clients were handcuffed, he needs mental health help immediately.
He is a frickin loon. Shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a gun.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)linuxman
(2,337 posts)I give you the underlying fascist of gun grabbers world wide.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Think he gets paid to post by the NRA.
Check out all of his other troll posts. Several people agree with me about this as well.
BEWARE!
linuxman
(2,337 posts)To poison users against gun control entirely through your totalitarian stances.
BEWARE! Booga Booga booga!
Several people agree with me on this.
There, now that we've both made unfounded accusations, you can go back to terrorizing billy goats.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)But I'm sure it wouldn't pay as well.
linuxman
(2,337 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)I must have struck a nerve
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)the world a safer place!!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)I regularly buy in 1000-5000 round cases/lots.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)While the kind of competitive shooting I do doesn't require large amounts of ammunition (long range rifle shooting: very slow rate of fire...and I handload), I do buy pistol ammunition in bulk because I practice weekly and don't reload 9mm or .38 Superautomatic. 5000 rounds isn't all that high a number at all.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)aikoaiko
(34,170 posts)Its an Olympic sport, for Christ's sake!
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Target shooting is just training to shoot people at a distance. Gunners like to practice being a sniper. If you want the target shooting experience, there are plenty of laser, paintball, slingshot or BB type ways to do it.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)He appears to be a Sandy Hook truther and suggested the SB shooting may have been staged to give the government an excuse to go after guns.
He should be disbarred.
2naSalit
(86,626 posts)just some poseur and the family has no affiliation with him..?
I can't imagine the family came up with this guy. He's not just an unqualified ambulance chaser, he's probably an ankle biter!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)But disbarred really.
Unless you can prove judicial misconduct, and running your mouth out of court is bad judgement. There is plenty of that here. But not enough to disbarr people.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Response to RandySF (Original post)
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Because if I were the (presumably innocent) living family members he's representing, I'd basically instruct him to STFU beyond expressing sympathy for the victims and families and pledging cooperation with law enforcement investigations.