Rifle used in Dallas Ambush was a common SKS; not Assault Rifle or “Assault Weapon”

By Dean Weingarten

UPDATE 7/10/2016: The Conservative Outfitters blog has unearthed new evidence, including graphic photos of the dead shooter with his rifle, and that the first reporting of an SKS was incorrect. From the images it appears to be a Saiga AK-74 style semiautomatic rifle. Major media, in this case NBC News, with “multiple police sources” does not know their gun models. ~ AmmoLand Editor

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Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- The rifle used by the Dallas sniper was an antique East Block rifle designed in the 1940’s, an SKS.

The SKS was considered obsolete by the Soviet military in 1956, 60 years ago. 

It is a simple semi-automatic design that does not use detachable magazines and holds 10 rounds of ammunition. It uses the intermediate powered 7.62 x 39 cartridge, about as powerful as the .30-30, a common deer cartridge in the United States for a hundred and twenty years.  From nbcnews.com:

Dallas police said Friday that detectives found bomb making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and “a personal journal of combat tactics” in Johnson’s home.

Johnson used a SKS rifle and a handgun in the attack, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.

The SKS was imported to the U.S. by the millions as surplus from Russia, China, and other former East Block countries. Billions of rounds of ammunition were imported.

When relations with first China, then the former East Block countries were normalized,  trade deals were struck.  U.S. consumers got sturdy and simple utility rifles and inexpensive ammunition. China and the former East block got billions of desperately needed dollars.

NBC News is reporting an SKS rifle and a handgun used in the Dallas attack.
NBC News is reporting an SKS rifle and a handgun used in the Dallas attack.

The SKS is a reliable multi-purpose rifle that is used for hunting across the United States. In the law, it is treated the same as other rifles, even in the extremely restrictive state of California.

The rifle has a wood stock, no pistol grip, is not black, does not have a muzzle brake, or a threaded barrel.  None of those things change the basic effectiveness of the rifle very much.

It is not the rifle, but the man that makes the greatest difference.  Any hunting rifle could have been used to about the same effect by the Dallas sniper.  Designs from the 1880’s would have been as effective for the tactics employed.

He used basic military tactics and skills.  Those skills are known to tens of millions of Americans.  The military tactics can be leaned in a couple of weekends.

Marksmanship may take a little longer, but can be learned with a simple air rifle.  The Chinese use air rifles to teach their school children the marksmanship skills required.  Those air rifles are cheap, and have been imported into the United States in large numbers.

Only one sniper caused the damage in Dallas.  From kolotv.com:

Authorities initially blamed multiple “snipers” for Thursday’s attack, and at one point said three suspects were in custody. But by Thursday afternoon, all attention focused on Johnson, and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the entire attack appeared to be the work of a single gunman.
A Texas law enforcement official identified the man killed in the parking garage as Johnson. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he said he was not authorized to release the information.

None of the legislation contemplated by Congress would have had the slightest difference on the outcome in Dallas. Attorney General Loretta Lynch made remarks at 11:30 a.m. Eastern time yesterday.    From time.com:

And we must take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.

Rifles are the least used firearms in homicides.  Hands and feet are used twice as often as rifles are.  There are about a hundred and thirty million rifles in private hands in the United States.  The most common type of rifle is the semi-automatic.

From the FBI UCR for 2014:

  • Murders committed with rifles :                          248
  • Murders committed with (hands,fists,feet,etc.)   660
  • Murders committed with handguns:                  5,562

Legislation involving guns is not the answer to these sort of attacks.  Stopping the false narrative that police are the enemy is.

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About Dean Weingarten;

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

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Mike McAllister

Mark – the problem is a poster said it could be done in three (3) minutes. I have an SKS that I’ve had for over 25 years and I converted it to a removal mag, but it took a lot longer than three minutes.

Kivaari

The day after the shooting, the facts and photos were published showing the rifle was the Saiga.

Chief

Well, let me repost that. The Carbine model was carried by the Soviet Airborne Forces. Call it what you like but it seems you are nitpicking as usual.

Kivaari

NO, it is a standard. The Russians never offered a “paratrooper” just the Chinese COMMERCIAL guns.

Kivaari

It was an AK. Saigas are AKs.

Mark

I have a 1954 Russian SKS and it can easily be reconfigured to accommodate a 30 round magazine. You just take the old magazine out and a reconfigured mag goes in. This is common knowledge, wtf?

Chief

I just want to add that the picture is of the carbine model or airborne model of SKS. The SKS has a 10 round mag that some say is permanent but can be made to be removed. It fires the 7.62X39 same as the AK, but I suspect it wouldn’t be very effective at 400 yards. The SKS was developed while Kalishnikov stole the design from the German SturmGehwer SG44 in 7,92 kurz. It was a response to Amerika’s M1 Garand, but was not as powerful of course, but operated at the common range for soldiers in combat (several hundred… Read more »

JoeUSooner

As time passes, technology advances. New generations of rifles are designed with more “combat capability.” Armies equipped with older rifles are “outclassed” by armies equipped with newer rifles.

The term “obsolete” is applied to older generations of firearms in terms of usefulness in modern combat… but not in terms of the weapon’s viability as a useful tool. It can still shoot as fast, accurately, reliably, and safely as it was originally designed to shoot (and can therefor be re-purposed for civilian use… such as hunting, sports/competitive shooting, and personal or home defense).

TEX

@Fred the Advocate,why would anything Obama and the other libs say or think worry you at all ? Consider the source and disregard.

Pat

Don’t get me wrong here. I’m super pro gun and not playing into the whole is or is not an assault weapon, but I beg to differ with those claiming the SKS is not an assault weapon. While the ordinary semi auto AR15 was never designed as such since the rifle was made for civilian use period, the SKS was designed for and used in war. There’s many many GI’s shot with them in Vietnam who would say those Viet Cong used them very effectively as assault weapons to assault them even though they are not full auto or 3… Read more »

Mike McAllister

Fred – That’s the problem liberals don’t know the difference between a high power rifle and a BB gun. That’s why the laws are so screwed up. Liberals write the law so wide and vague that no one can understand or enforce them. Common since to them means if it’s black it’s bad and that’s as stupid as they are!!

Fred

Obama does keep using the term “high powered rifle” and that worries me because other libs are talking about leaving us with weapons suitable for hunting and what does that leave us, shotguns?

Dr. Strangelove

Maybe thy want to ad the SKS to the list of rifles to be banned.

DrRJP

248 is the total for ALL types of rifles.

For ALL “military style” rifles (of which the AR-15 is but one), the total is 158.

That includes mass shootings!

Dave Brown

Odd comment by someone that must not know much about the SKS. I have attached the comment here: Author: Mike McAllister Comment: Hunter McClane – I’m glad you have four arms and eight hands because that is the only way to convert an SKS 5 round fixed mag to a 30 round removable! I’ve done it and it’s more like a 20-30 minute job. Try it before tyou blow smoke up everyone butt!!! I say odd as first the SKS comes with a standard 10 round fixed mag that uses stripper clips to load quickly. Works just fine. Plus for… Read more »

XPH2USN

The NBC article was a pure hit piece on the SKS and the Curio and Relic FFL. According to NBC the FBI identified the killers weapon as a C+R SKS, which seems a little odd in the fact that most media outlets are are absolute dunces about guns, but here they catch this little nuance. Here is another little nuance: Not all SKS carbines are C+R eligible, or at least weren’t at the time they were sold in the eighties and nineties. C+R guns must be over fifty years old. Chinese SKS production lasted well into the sixties, so those… Read more »

Dave Brown

Well it appears we still have a lot of unknowns and bad reporting on both sides of this story. In my world there should be a common ground area that we can all agree with and not just promote our own agendas. I skimmed the above and it seems that some writes tried to explain the merits of the SKS in more factual terms, and the author missed all of these points. I own a number of Aks and SkSs. Most of my SKS have been converted to easy in and out 30 round mags, and folding stocks and even… Read more »

TEX

I’m glad the type of firearm used was released to the public. Everyone was curious about that because the socialists will say it was an AR15 anyway. Thanks Dean. ‘TEXAS,LIKE A WHOLE OTHER COUNTRY’ !

Irontiger65

Well I sure that the families of the slain officers and their brothers on the force as well as people throughout the country are so relieved to know the exact model of the gun used to kill their fathers’ brothers, husbands, uncles, etc. Now that Dean has cleared up the important distinctions and pointed out the media’s mistakes clearing up information of the slaughter they will all sleep easier tonight. In fact, this will help them move on in immeasurable ways that counseling and prayers certainly couldn’t. Thank you Dean for once again your important contributions that will help heal… Read more »

Gary Barnett II

It was a converted Saiga ak74 used in the Dallas shooting NOT an SKS rifle

Mike

Just my two cents but… 1. the SKS was designed as a battle rifle. It’s in the same category (IMHO) as any other military or militaristic weapon like an AR, AK, FAL, PTR 91, M-1 Garand, etc, etc, etc. Why are we gun-owners saying it isn’t. Doesn’t that put us in the same category as the lib-tards who bend, twist or break the truth? The truth is an Army-trained whacko got a cheap semi-auto rifle and used it for evil reasons. I would like to understand those reasons and don’t trust the media’s explanations. 2. Why do the lib-tards keep… Read more »

JoeUSooner

Mike,
The AR-15 (which stands for “Armalite,” NOT “assault rifle”) is not – not now, has never been, and never will be – a military weapon. It has never been issued to combat troops… no US soldiers or marines were ever sent to war with AR-15s, which were a civilian design!

jerry

When I landed in Vietnam on Nov 8 1965 I was carrying an AR-15 semi-auto with10 round mags. On fob4 1966 I was issued a M-16 select fire with 30 round mags Don’t post on things you know nothing about. I had 10 years in the USMC when I left for Vietnam I think I know what wepon I was carrying

stupid is

So what is the point? It appears that the rifle used – if the photo is correct – was what is being called an assault rifle (your definition may vary, but that’s what these semi-autos are being called). Big deal if it was called an AR-15. People that don’t know better call my Henry Rifle a Winchester, and call my AR and assault rifle. I don’t get my panties in a wad about it.

wake_Up_America

You know, the numbers that worry me are the 6,000 MURDERS committed in this country. That is seriously awful!! WTF is wrong with society? As I heard a person say one time: Moral decay of society. . .

Bob Steele

Revised my number. Actual gun murder rate is about 19 per million of population. 6000 would raise the number to about 20 per million. Chances are, if no guns were available the murder rate would not change very much. People kill people. Been doing it for thousands of years. It isn’t good but it is what it is.

bob steele

Gun murders in America 15 per million of population. Does that sound like guns are out of control? My brother told me his 1911 had never once loaded or fired itself. I thought he was lying, but I sat and watched the damned thing for 12 hours and it never even twitched. I concluded that he wasn’t lying after all.

Ralphwylie

This is a sign of the political climate now with the anti-gunners, gun-banners and politicians seizing every incident as an opportunity to brainwash the sheeple into fearing firearms and acceptance of being disarmed by demonization of any gun calling them an evil, military “assault rifle.” Unfortunately, the American public generally gets its firearm and gun education from watching movies and TV shows depicting endless gratuitous violence where guns never run out of ammunition, they never miss their target, and have a rate of fire that is always “full auto,” ammunition and magazines appear magically everywhere with only the bad guys… Read more »

Thomas Luedeke

Let me guess. This rifle is now a “powerful assault rifle”, with dangerous features like a fixed stock, box magazine, and hooded post. Must be banned immediately.

Tom

The Washington Post quotes the mayor of Dallas (via the Associated Press) that is was an AR-15. See here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/08/like-a-little-war-snipers-shoot-11-police-officers-during-dallas-protest-march-killing-five/

Ralphwylie

The picture of the weapon purportedly used by the sniper was definitely not an antique Russian SKS. Mr. Weingarten does not correctly identify the killer’s modern AK style weapon. Why he would make this mistake is incomprehensible. The AK shown is normally a semi-automatic with a detachable magazine that can vary from 10 rounds, up to 30 rounds. The SKS does not have the capability to carry much more than 10 rounds without addition of an aftermarket magazine. It is irrelevant anyway because the SKS was not the weapon used if the photo of the crime scene is legitimate.

Bob

It was a Saiga 5.45 IZ-240 , link to story https://thearmsguide.com/8811/reports-ak-74-dallas-shooting/

Cam

That web site is kind of hinkey, they have articles that it states are published a couple of days or weeks ago but if you look at the comments they are from years ago.
I posted comments asking about it and they were almost immediately scrubbed. Other post I made stating fact about the case were left.

Larry Sheppard

This is what the media wants into getting more comments and people made visible. I believe there was more than one shooter and I don’t care if he was shooting a .22, the problem is that we have an administration that is wanting to take away our second amendment rights, create racial divisiveness and promote a UN national police force. Let’s not focus on the the gun used, let’s rally together to keep our country free of tyranny. Pray for the families of the lost officers.

Ty

It now appears that initial reports of an SKS being used to kill the police offers in Dallas were wrong. The gun in question appears to have been a Saiga semi-automatic AK-74 with a detachable magazine rather then an SKS as initially reported.
https://sofrep.com/58756/dallas-shooter-used-a-saiga-ak-74/

Ron

Instead of concentrating on the type of weapon used, why don’t we concentrate on the murderer. It doesn’t matter what he used, only how he got to the point to commit the act. You can not eliminate everything used in committing a crime. Let’s start holding the people who influence these idiots accountable as accomplices. Any one who promotes these acts should be held accountable.

Wild Bill

@Grig, you could not be more right. When did some people become so foolish that they think an inanimate object could commit a crime. The other part about influencing is a little trickier due to the First Amendment.

Eric

A long rifle was used to commit multiple felony crimes. What ever the configuration was it’s over.

Wild Bill

@Dean Weingarten, Geees Dean, with all due respect, do we have to use the terms ” assault rifle or assault weapon”? That is the language of the left. Can’t we use the term modern sporting rifle? Can’t we control the debate?

Oblamo binLyen

I’d prefer either the American Rifle or the Barbie Doll Rifle. Just who besides a brain dead lefty could dislike either?

TEX

Bill,I have even seen Dean use the lefts term ‘gun violence’ over and over. No such thing.

Steve

It’s impossible to tell which of the gun shots are from the sniper and which are from the police, just from listening to the audio. The police have reported that the ricocheting bullets made people think there were more rounds fired than there actually was. The major news outlets seem to think it was an SKS even if some people on here don’t.

Alan

Being a concrete structure, will provide echoes that in the moment will in fact distort the sounds of the shots. Any richocets probably from return fire creating confusion as to number of shots.

John Dunlap

While I have no quarrel with Mr. Weingarten’s reporting, I must take issue with the official narrative of a single shooter with an SKS. One sniper? An SKS? Seriously? The standard SKS has a fixed ten round magazine, which can only be reloaded quickly with the five round stripper clips originally issued with the rifles. There are aftermarket twenty round fixed magazines and conversion kits allowing the use of AK magazines available, so whether or not the shooter had to reload will remain in a grey area until more information is released. Even so, initial reports were that officers had… Read more »

FDR

I have come to the same conclusion, we the people are being played like a fiddle. If people will do some of their own intelligent, common sense investigation instead of believing what comes from the bought and paid for media we would not be seeing these so called crises acted upon us. Your lives are cheap, just look how the abortion of millions is taken so casually 5 police officers, 50 @ Orlando, Sandy Hook, 911, San Bernardino, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Oklahoma, Vietnam , etc. etc. etc. Deception, Lies, when masses do not live by absolutes they cannot perceive what… Read more »

John Dunlap

I was here on the ground for San Bernardino. Initial reports were that there were several “teams” running around shooting randomly (shades of Paris), one allegedly even tried to break into the Amazon warehouse but was foiled by security. I found myself sitting at the bus stop in Redlands, on my way home from work. It was around 7pm. The sky was full of military and police helicopters, including two at around 1,500 feet, perhaps 1,000 feet apart, moving toward me together from the Northeast at no more than 30 mph. I assume they were gunships of some sort, military,… Read more »

Mike McAllister

John Dunlap – First point is wrong the stripper clip is 10 rounds. I have owned a SKS since the mid 80’s and it is a very nice rifle. Not stamped parts like the AK’s/ Very possible it was an SKS because with the 10 round stripper clip he could have gotten off 30 or more rounds in one minute. With acquiring targets I’d slow that down to 20 rounds, which is still more than enough for 12 hits!

Always stay locked and loaded!

John Dunlap

Correction appreciated. I’ve seen the five round clips, but wasn’t aware of ten round versions. I started with the ammunition capacity issue because it is the weakest and easiest to discount. In any event, we are now being told that no, it wasn’t an SKS, it was a Saiga model of the AK-74 with optics. The story is being rewritten on the fly, and we’ll be left to debate minutia for decades, while never really getting to the bottom of the septic tank. What does that remind you of? Locked and loaded, indeed. I’ve taken an old Norse saying to… Read more »

Jack

Wow, Both major incidents in Dallas, President Kennedy’s shooting and now this one with all the officers have been done with old foreign military rifles made before 1960s.
What the chances.?

Wild Bill

@ Jack, Both major incidents have been done by people making the conscious decision to break the law. What are the chances? In fact in 100% of the murders in the history of this world, a person made a conscious decision to kill another human being. Maybe that is a factor?

Witold Pilecki

Great, that will be all the anti-gun libtards need to hear to make them publicly call for bans on ALL semi-automatic firearms, not just the scary black rifles. It certainly won’t make them stop and think that all bans are useless and foolish, like it would a normal person with critical thinking skills.

Hunter McClane

Bullshit!!!! Want to change it from 10 to 30 in three minutes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXTu8Bu9Ho

Make it automatic in a half hour!!!

StarvinLarry

That does not make it automatic.
It merely makes it accept a magazine.
If you really know that little about firearms maybe you shouldn’t be posting here.
Post your nonsense at whatever anti-gun site’s clueless members will believe such nonsense.

Cam

Come on you know to make it go full auto all ya gotta do is put on you ruby slippers, tap the heels three times and believe in fairies.
Oh Hunter, don’t forget to put on a tin foil hat. Cause you are crazy if you think it’s that easy.
Hunter, If it was that easy all the gangs would have been going full auto since the dawn of time.
For the average person it requires a level of precision and tools that they don’t have.

RC Vic Kerman

Listen to the tapes and tell me how you can fire 20 plus rounds without stopping to reload and with no actual break in the firing action to make that reload with your claimed SKS? Your article is BS and just goes to your making a claim that an AR 15 or the like was not the rifle used so as to divert criticism away from the AR’s and I am an AR builder and user and wouldn’t make this distinction for whatever Political Prognostication that you are intending!

Rollin L.

Did you check independent sources to back up your claim that this article is false? Or are you just ignorant about how any rifle used in a crime that gets such publicity is always an “AR15″ or AK47?” Never mind the fact that this often proves false. The author is well known and respected, and ammoland is not some fringe publication, even if some of its readers are fringe types. (Take a hint?) I will, myself, look at other sources to confirm this important detail, but your obnoxious and ignorant tactic, displaying absolutely zero factual statements, is uncalled for. If… Read more »

Larry Fletcher

Hi RC. ‘Standard’ SKS holds ten rounds in a box magazine. When last shot is fired (magazine empty) the bolt stays open. A fast reload can be accomplished using a ‘stripper clip’. Hope this helps.

Steve

Ya think the shots fired only came from the sniper, get a brain, the cops fired more rounds than the suspect did which is normal for a active shooter scenario.

Lou

RC Vic Kerman, For one, I do not believe that the actual photos of the shooter’s SKS have been released so we do not know if the SKS was: 1) a Chinese SKS with Thumb-hole stock which was sold in the late 80s-early 90s which accepted AK type magazines (I sold these in my gun store during that time) OR 2) a Chinese SKS with a military issue 20 rd fixed magazine – these had a large star on them (I sold these in my gun store during the late 80s-early 90s – part purchased from many distributors including Specialized… Read more »

Lou

IN ADDITION TO MY POST ABOVE: Here is a photo of a Dallas based Black Panther holding an SKS with 30rd magazine capability:comment image

bee O bee

Lou, I bought a Norinco SKS model M with the thumbhole stock that takes most AK magazines from one of my buddies at my American Legion post about 6 or 7 months ago. It was new and unfired when I bought it and he said he won it in a raffle at a VFW post a few years ago. I bought it from the trunk of his car………..paid him in cash…………..and HORRORS!……………….with no background check at all.

Lou

They are as reliable as AK style rifles .I don’t know what they sell for now but they are nice rifles especially if you are a fan of the SKS.

Ernie

I don’t know why you would take so long to pop in a 30 round clip unless you bought the wrong clip. I use a 30 round banana clip in my Tula made 1953 SKS and with a bullet I can remove it and pop in another 30 round clip or a 100 round double drum clip in a matter of seconds. You must not be familure with the SKS .

Joseph Bettino

I don’t know why people in the Department of Defense or People in Uniform think Military Weapons become obsolete,there is nothing in the Air that makes them obsolete except stupidity. I don’t why they allow exWarsaw Pact weapons in the USA.People that are Naturalized Citizens and Veterans got to take a look and have Pride in Naturalized Weapons manufacturers, and above all if People feel think they have Mental Issues should find another way to solve them.Remember America,Love it or Leave it! The Natives here know the bullshit given by the Government,so if you can’t find a way to solve… Read more »

tRW

If you had ever fired a SKS would would know it’s a fine rifle. I would like to have one. but for military use it is obsolete same can be said for the M1 Garand. or the British enfeild Fine rifles for hunting or target practice, but obsolete for modern warfare.

klesb

Disagree! The M1 rifle with its 8 round clip is perfect for California under its new laws! It has the 30-06 round, and is effective against armored and unarmored individuals trying to suppress anyone’s 2nd Amendment rights.

Speaking of Constitutionally-guaranteed rights, may I remind my LEO friends that their sworn oaths include their swearing to defend those rights? Even if their politico superiors are willing to violate their oaths?

Wolfram

I see you have a problem with people making their own choices, much like the anti gunners.

Arcticvodan

You misunderstand. When it’s considered obsolete they’re stating that in a modern war (like when we transitioned from the Springfield 1906 to the M1 garand) it’s not saying that the previous weapon isn’t viable, it just isn’t a match compared to other weapons based on certain criteria. I mean, there are precision rifles from a few decades ago that are still in use because the newer rifles can’t hold up. So just restating, an obsolete rifle (in this case) is only considered obsolete in a military setting. Give soldiers a rifle with an inferior ammo capacity, not very ergonomic design… Read more »

Tionico

One more time, after the media and gummint hooh hahs falsely blaming an attack on the “dreaded assault weapon”, when FACTS come out it was not one of those at all. In NO CASE EVER did an “assault weapon” attack anyone. In a very few cases, some deranged misfit selected the Modern Sporting Rifle design as the tool of his choice to commit violence upon others. One question I’ve pondered for some time: since Stanley (the tool company) make the majority of hammers in circulation, why are not Stanley blamed for all the murders perpetrated by the use of THEIR… Read more »

Hunter McClane

YYou’re full of shit, want to change the magazine from 10 to 30 rounds in three minutes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvXTu8Bu9Ho

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Chris

Interesting that you did not refute any of the points Tionico made in his post, just called him a name and posted a video that showed that a rifle can be modified. Any weapon can be disassembled and modified. And apparently you did not read this or any other article that has come out concerning this incident since none of them have reported that the shooters rifle had been modified in such a manner.

Franxo

Those mag conversions are unreliable. The sks is an old design but much more accurate at range than an AK. He could have done the same with a lever or pump action. In fact a high powered hunting rifle with a scope wold have been. A better choice for sniping

joe vincent

Yea and it can also be modified to go full auto with a 100 rd magazine. If you knew what you were

talking about you would know that the trigger assy must be removed to install a larger magazine.

The original design made no provision for interchangeable magazines. Now don’t forget to

vote for Hillary.

Mike McAllister

Hunter McClane – I’m glad you have four arms and eight hands because that is the only way to convert an SKS 5 round fixed mag to a 30 round removable! I’ve done it and it’s more like a 20-30 minute job. Try it before tyou blow smoke up everyone butt!!!

cam

Hey Mike, did you forget something? Yep, ya did, power tools you need lots of power tools to do it that fast. The most important one is the magic machine that makes time go slower. Lol

Dean

Would that make the hammer an “ASSAULT Hammer”? Let’s ban all ASSAULT Hammers.

PRFord

Except when their weapons are named in connection with a mass shooting, these companies love that their name is synonymous with a particular style of weapon. Its good for market share. Just think how many people have purchased a Bushmaster brand AR 15, just because of the name. I doubt you’ll ever see Remington complaining about it. I doubt you have any evidence that Stanley makes the majority of hammers. Even if they did, the ubiquitous “claw hammer” has been around since the 16th century, much longer than the Stanley Tool Co. Any questions?

Oblamo binLyen

REALLY /s do you believe that a manufacture would want their name associated with a murder/shooting? Well perhaps besides those with a propensity to do it.

rfxcasey

Many gun manufacturers provide firearms for our military and police as well, perhaps we should shut them all down so our troops and cops won’t have guns either. Yes, Bushmaster loves it when terrorist attacks are made with their guns, I mean any publicity is good publicity right? Heck why don’t they just stop selling to cops then and maybe there will be an even bigger body count to hang their hat on? The liberals have twisted your thought process.

SteveX

And now my consent is posted (I guess). Can’t see if or any others.

I have Never had this problem on other sites.

Guess I’ll just read and not join the discussion.

SteveX

So… I see a place to comment but no comments. Same thing every time I visit. What am I missing here? Anyone else?

Alex

You could have just said “first” hahahah

Andrew
nemo

That rifle looks just too ‘clean’ to have gone through a fatal explosion from a pound of C-4. It could be but I am not confident that is the one.