Dallas PD under attack

[Denny347]

Hmmm, explosives, automatic fire, attack with up armored van. Dallas SWAT disabled the fleeing van with a .50cal.....damn "militarized" police and their worthless toys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmL6vWvHn8M

Dallas Police Headquarters Shooting: 5 Fast Facts | Heavy.com

 

[Jomibe]

Pretty sure that wasn't automatic fire in the videos.

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[Kirk Freeman]

INGO screen name for this one yet?

 

[Alpo]

What type of 50 cal? M2 machine gun or Barrett?
Where is the Dallas MRAP?
Shooter is mentally ill with a history of violence. Why does he possess firearms in the first place?

 

[Woobie]

Crap, I didn't get it in time. My first post was going to be IBKAHIUN (In before Kirk asks his INGO user name).

So what about the cops glasses? Some serious 1950's swag there.

Has this been resolved yet, from the story it doesn't look that way.

 

[Woobie]

What type of 50 cal? M2 machine gun or Barrett?
Where is the Dallas MRAP?
Shooter is mentally ill with a history of violence. Why does he possess firearms in the first place?

It was described as a .50 rifle, some I'm guessing a Barrett.

 

[Alpo]

Yeah, but Denny already took the "justified militarization route", so I'd like to know if this is a controlled machine gun or your ordinary, run of the mill $5000 Barrett.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Woobie, it is always a reasonable threshold question.

 

[Bfish]

Man sounds like no one knows exactly what happened especially the media! The reporting and what you see in the article is even wrong... However, the dude who the got seems like a real loon, and I am glad no one was hurt!

 

[Woobie]

Woobie, it is always a reasonable threshold question.

There are a couple of active members and who knows how many inactive members that make your question reasonable. I wish I could be offended by it, but if I'm honest, I can't be.

 

[Alpo]

From the available videos, I didn't hear any identifiable automatic weapons. ymmv

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Yeah, but Denny already took the "justified militarization route", so I'd like to know if this is a controlled machine gun or your ordinary, run of the mill $5000 Barrett.

DPD SWAT has .50 cal sniper rifles.

 

[drillsgt]

Hmmm, explosives, automatic fire, attack with up armored van. Dallas SWAT disabled the fleeing van with a .50cal.....damn "militarized" police and their worthless toys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmL6vWvHn8M

Dallas Police Headquarters Shooting: 5 Fast Facts | Heavy.com

Sounds more like it was already stopped and surrounded when they "disabled" it, it probably wasn't going anywhere anyway.

 

[Alpo]

The shooter was attempting flee the scene, but he got stuck in the drive-thru line ordering a breakfast burrito.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

 

[Alpo]

Dallas MRAP arrives on scene.

 

[KellyinAvon]

You can't buy that shooter-vehicle at your local dealership, that's for sure.

.50 BMG would definitely interfere with the operation of an internal-combustion engine. My thought was, were they sure there was enough engine to stop the round?

 

[VUPDblue]

This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I've listened to several videos. I heard no full-auto.

 

[VUPDblue]

Sounds more like it was already stopped and surrounded when they "disabled" it, it probably wasn't going anywhere anyway.

I don't care if it was stopped on its own or not. Disabling a van full of **** heads who are attacking police was absolutely the right call. Doing it safely from a distance with 800 grains of love is completely reasonable.