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The
Stockton schoolyard massacre - On
January 17, 1989, Patrick Purdy killed 5 small
children and wounded 29 others and a teacher
at the Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton,
California, using a semiautomatic AK-47 assault
rifle imported from China. That weapon had
been purchased from a gun dealer in Oregon
and was equipped with a 75-round "drum"
magazine. Purdy shot 106 rounds in less than
2 minutes.9"School Killer's Last Days"
and "The Kinds of Guns School Killer
Used", San Francisco Chronicle, January
19, 1989.
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The
Louisville, Kentucky, workplace massacre
- On September 14, 1989, Joseph Wesbecker killed
7 people and wounded 13 others at his former
place of work in Louisville, Kentucky, before
taking his own life. Mr. Wesbecker was armed
with an AK-47 rifle, two MAC-11 assault pistols,
and a duffle-bag full of ammunition.10"Rampage
in Louisville", Atlanta Constitution, September
15, 1989. |
The
CIA headquarters shootings - On January
25, 1993, Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kasi
killed 2 CIA employees and wounded 3 others
outside the entrance to CIA headquarters in
Langley, Virginia. Kasi used a Chinese-made
semiautomatic AK-47 assault rifle equipped
with a 30-round magazine purchased from a
Northern Virginia gun store.11"CIA Killings
Prompt Scrutiny on 2 Fronts; Fairfax Loophole
Expedited Gun Purchase", Washington Post,
February 11, 1993.
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The
Branch-Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas
- On February 28, 1993, while attempting to
serve federal search and arrest warrants at
the Branch-Davidian compound in Waco, Texas,
four ATF special agents were killed and 16 others
were wounded with an arsenal of assault weapons.
According to a federal affidavit, the cult had
accumulated at least the following assault weapons:
123 AR-15s, 44 AK-47s, 2 Barrett .50 calibers,
2 Street Sweepers, an unknown number of MAC-10
and MAC-11s, 20 100-round drum magazines, and
260 large-capacity banana clips. The weapons
were bought legally from gun dealers and at
gun shows.12"Cult's Massive Weapons Purchases
Stir Up a Furor Over Federal Regulation",
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 2, 1993. |
Two
Border Patrol agents wounded in cross-fire
between rival gangs - 04/29/2003
According to reports, one agent was shot in
the right arm and the other received gunshot
wounds to his upper torso. The victims were
allegedly shot at with an AK-47 assault rifle,
which penetrated through the back of the vehicle
and the car seats before they struck the two
victims with great impact. "No exit wounds
were found on the victims," Luna said.
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Gold
AK47 smuggled into England - On April
18, 2003 Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise
Service (UK) notified the U.S. Embassy (Attaché
Office) in London that it had intercepted a
shipment of smuggled, ornamental weapons at
Heathrow Airport that were sent from the Middle
East and bound for a U.S. military base. ICE
agents launched an investigation with the Army
Criminal Investigations Division (Army CID)
and determined that the goods had been looted
from an Iraqi government facility by a member
of the U.S. military. The package contained
a gold-plated AK-47, a gold-plated pistol, a
gold-plated rifle, and several ornamental swords,
knives, and other pistols. On April 21, ICE
and Army CID agents seized the material upon
arrival in the United States and conducted a
controlled delivery of the items to a U.S. military
base. The investigation continues. |
Gun
Control, Not Crime Control
Quote from an article written by Howard Nemerov
Sunday, May 09, 2004
Recently, a young career criminal allegedly
murdered a San Francisco police officer. (1)
What happened after the crime is most instructive
in clarifying the point of this paper. Many
articles used phrases like ''assault weapon,''
''AK-47,'' (2) ''automatic weapon'' (3) ''machine-gun
fire'' and ''gunned down in a spray of bullets.''
(4) All these are stock phrases of the gun
control cadre.
They also show the standard ignorance of firearms
among gun controllers. The AK-47 in question
was not an automatic weapon, and therefore
fails the definition of a machine gun or automatic
weapon. However, it is indicative of the direction
of gun control, which is to define anything
that handles more than one shot as an ''automatic
weapon.'' This is how they justify banning
semi-automatic pistols, which are the tool
of choice for personal protection.
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Shooting
in Athens Park, June 2000 Eight shot
in the Willowbrook area of Los Angeles believed
to be gang related. Most victims appear to be
black and the assailants were using AK 47 weapons. |
Jan.
18, 1989: Patrick West kills five
children and wounds 30 others at a school
in Stockton, CA
May 10, 1989: Man in Boston
hijacks small airplane and fires an AK-47
at people below while flying around the city
Sept. 14, 1989: Former employee
kills seven, wounds 13 at printing plant in
Louisville, KY
Jan. 30, 1992: Sheriff and
deputy shot by man with AK-47 in Clay City,
KY.
December 16, 1992: Simon's
Rock College student sprays campus with an
AK-47, killing two and wounding four in Great
Barrington, Mass.
Jan. 25, 1993: Five CIA employees
shot with an AK-47 at headquarters in Langley,
VA
September 1993: Police in
Hartford impose a curfew because of gang violence
involving AK-47's and other semiautomatic
weapons that has led to dozens of shootings
and three deaths
December 1993: Man carrying
an AK-47 murdered a police officer in a Washington,
D.C. housing project.
June 21, 1994: Gunman kills
four and wounds 23 at Air Force hospital in
Spokane, WA.
Aug. 31, 1994: Man using
AK-47 kills a stagehand at NBC studios in
New York City.
May 19, 1995: used to kill
three people in Pittsburg, CA.
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