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AK-47 style weapon,

artappraiser — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 03:24:32 +0000

AK-47 style weapon, Washington, D.C.:

D.C. police say gunman fired into group that included members of a neighborhood criminal crew

By Peter Hermann & Clarence Williams @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 20

Two gunmen who killed a man and wounded five other people outside an apartment building in Northwest Washington’s Columbia Heights neighborhood fired into a crowd that included members of a criminal crew, authorities said Friday.

D.C. police said that it did not know why the men, who were in a light-colored sedan, fired into a courtyard in the 1300 block of Columbia Road NW on Thursday night. At least one was armed with what authorities described as a high-powered assault-style weapon.

The surviving victims suffered wounds ranging from minor to critical, and Police Chief Peter Newsham said intelligence links three of them to a crew operating in the Columbia Heights Village complex off 13th Street NW. He said four of the victims had been arrested in the past on gun charges.

But Newsham also said that the man who died, Vincent Carter, 21, was not listed by police as a crew member and was not among those with a prior gun arrest [....]

The shootings of nine people in two parts of the city less than a half-hour apart forced Newsham and Bowser to once again address the issue of violence and gunfire that has pushed the year’s homicide count to 127, a 19 percent increase over this time last year.

Both District officials blamed the proliferation of guns and extended magazines that allow some firearms to hold many bullets. They urged people to report others with guns.

“Let’s be clear,” Bowser said of the shooting on Columbia Road NW. “Six people being shot on a well-populated street like this puts everyone’s life in danger. We need to get those guns off the streets, and the people off the street.” Of the gunmen, she said, “Someone who knows them and loves them knew about these guns, more than likely."

Newsham said police have not yet determined the precise weapon that was used by at least one of the shooters, but he described it as “high-powered weapon.” Police on Twitter said it was an “AK style rifle.” [....]

Two people who heard the shots described it as one loud boom rather than distinctive “pops” from a handgun. “I hear gunshots all the time,” said one woman who was on her balcony in a nearby building, and spoke on the condition she not be named for fear of her safety. “Last night was more intense than usual.”

Dotti Love Wade, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission member for the area, said she was returning home from a meeting when the shooting occurred. She didn’t hear the shots but recoiled as she listened to the police chief describe the weapon.

“Oh, my God,” Wade said. “There is no reason for these kinds of weapons to exist in America, let alone the nation’s capital.”

AK-47, Oklahoma:

artappraiser — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 03:18:44 +0000

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AK-47, Oklahoma:

A teen allegedly wanted to ‘shoot 400 people for fun.’ Cops found an AK-47 in her bedroom.

by Katie Shephard @ WashingtonPost.com, Sept. 17

Caption: Alexis Wilson departs the courtroom after being charged Sept. 16 with a felony for making a terrorist threat against her former high school in McAlester, Okla. (Reuters)

Alexis Wilson was working an afternoon shift at the local Pizza Inn in McAlester, Okla., on Sunday, when she pulled a co-worker aside to boast about her new gun.

The slight 18-year-old with large brown eyes clutched her iPhone and pressed play on a video of her shooting a newly purchased AK-47, according to an incident report. Then Wilson told the other teenage waitress how much she resented the people at her old school — allegedly adding that she wanted to “shoot 400 people for fun.”

The chilling conversation shook Wilson’s co-worker. She reported it to a manager, who called the McAlester police.

On Monday, the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office said Wilson was charged with a felony for making a terrorist threat against McAlester High School.

“In today’s times, you can’t say stuff like that,” Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris told KTUL. “We’re going to take it serious and investigate it to the fullest extent and make an arrest if possible because we do not want any of our schools getting shot up — nobody does.” [....]

Fashion Brand Aims For

artappraiser — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:02:01 +0000

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Fashion Brand Aims For Controversy With School Shooting Hoodies

Sept. 19 @ Isitfunnyoroffensive.com

So much raw, real pain in the

artappraiser — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 04:26:35 +0000

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So much raw, real pain in the crowd at the Beto rally tonight in Aurora. We heard from the dad of an Aurora theater victim, from a survivor of Columbine who knew the shooters, from scared moms, veterans and young people. One woman was in tears. Another spoke of “collective PTSD.”
— Alex Burness (@alex_burness) September 20, 2019