Long gun used at Planned Parenthood shooting?

[Guy B. Meredith]

Has anyone heard factual information on the type of long gun used? I saw an article saying the LEOs were not releasing that information. Why would that be?

At one point some news article referred to it as a deer rifle but I cannot find that quote.

I'm cynically thinking it is a bolt action rifle and admitting that not all crimes are committed with semi autos would put a big cow pie in the gun ban conversation.

 

[BLB68]

From an NBC article:

Sources said there would have been nothing apparent in Dear's background — including a felony conviction or previous mental health issue — that would have disqualified him from buying an AK-47 style, high-powered rifle used in the shootings.

Not sure how much faith you can put in the article, as the media has a hard time distinguishing between fact and speculation these days, but that's the first mention I could find of what kind of weapon.

 

[Onmilo]

Since the rifle was fairly recently purchased by the idiot, my guess would be most likely some type of Romanian AKM type rifle offered through Century Arms.

 

[hso]

The information hasn't been released yet by the authorities. It isn't uncommon that no evidence details leak out before a grand jury is convened. It is where the authorities splash the details all over the news is where you should be concerned about agendas.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

You guys do understand that the shooter was inside of the PP clinic shooting out, not shooting into the clinic. I think it is important that we don't allow the media and uninformed people to spread the narrative that he "attacked" the Planned Parenthood clinic.

http://reaganbaby.com/2015/12/the-war-on-sanity-the-planned-parenthood-attack-that-never-happened/

 

[yugorpk]

You guys do understand that the shooter was inside of the PP clinic shooting out, not shooting into the clinic. I think it is important that we don't allow the media and uninformed people to spread the narrative that he "attacked" the Planned Parenthood clinic.

http://reaganbaby.com/2015/12/the-war-on-sanity-the-planned-parenthood-attack-that-never-happened/

I'm pretty sure that even if he was inside the clinic he was still attacking it.

 

[hso]

inside of the PP clinic shooting out, not shooting into the clinic

That's also false. The murderer fired on people in the parking lot and the entrance going in as well as inside once he got inside. He fired directly into the windshield of one man's car and stalked another trying to get away from the murderer before he ever entered. The majority of the civilians killed were not clients of PP, but people who drove them or otherwise accompanied them.

Kentanya Craion, who had visited the clinic for an ultrasound, said she saw the gunman shooting as she left outside in the parking lot, so she turned around and ran back inside. “He had no remorse,” Craion said. “This was just a game to him.”

 

[Sunray]

"...nothing apparent in Dear's background..." Except for the charge of criminal sexual conduct from North Charleston, S.C. His ex-wife saying he was angry and isolated, "had no friends and "obviously he was against abortion."
A felony conviction would have disqualified him from buying any firearm, legally. How does the type of long gun used matter?
Doesn't matter where the criminal was either.