jsalcedo
August 31, 2003, 07:29 AM
http://www.packing.org/news/article.jsp/9183/
According to Neal Knox:
There was an interesting tidbit in Sunday’s Washington Post: One of the suspected victims of the D.C. sniper shot back.
If the government convicts John Muhammad of murder in those killings, they intend to introduce during the sentencing phase other “unadjudicated acts” which they believe he did but cannot prove. In two D.C. shootings and one in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (which occurred while he was known to be in the area), forensics experts could not positively match the bullets with Muhammad’s Bushmaster .223 Remington/5.56 NATO.
(That’s an example of one of the flaws in the much-hyped Ballistic Imaging Database. If trained forensic ballisticians can’t detect a match on three of a dozen or so jacket fragments they’re rigorously inspecting, computer imaging can’t even come close.)
A Baton Rouge groceryman, Wright Williams Jr., had noticed a dark Chevy parked with its trunk toward the store as he started to lock up. A bullet ripped through his lip and into the store’s front door. He ran toward the street, drawing a 9mm handgun as a second shot was fired.
Williams returned fire as the car headed for a nearby interstate highway.
Two things are significant about this incident: It’s the only one where the snipers split rather than face an armed citizen, and the only one in which the snipers fired twice – once again indicating that the over-10-round magazine ban is immaterial to crime control.
According to Neal Knox:
There was an interesting tidbit in Sunday’s Washington Post: One of the suspected victims of the D.C. sniper shot back.
If the government convicts John Muhammad of murder in those killings, they intend to introduce during the sentencing phase other “unadjudicated acts” which they believe he did but cannot prove. In two D.C. shootings and one in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (which occurred while he was known to be in the area), forensics experts could not positively match the bullets with Muhammad’s Bushmaster .223 Remington/5.56 NATO.
(That’s an example of one of the flaws in the much-hyped Ballistic Imaging Database. If trained forensic ballisticians can’t detect a match on three of a dozen or so jacket fragments they’re rigorously inspecting, computer imaging can’t even come close.)
A Baton Rouge groceryman, Wright Williams Jr., had noticed a dark Chevy parked with its trunk toward the store as he started to lock up. A bullet ripped through his lip and into the store’s front door. He ran toward the street, drawing a 9mm handgun as a second shot was fired.
Williams returned fire as the car headed for a nearby interstate highway.
Two things are significant about this incident: It’s the only one where the snipers split rather than face an armed citizen, and the only one in which the snipers fired twice – once again indicating that the over-10-round magazine ban is immaterial to crime control.