Originally Posted by buggyone

I understand that the Colorado shooter had a rifle with a 100 round drum magazine on it. He used it for assaulting the movie goers with deadly fire. That, to me, is an assault rifle. Hunting rifles, such as a 30-30, usually have a 5 round magazine. His ASSAULT RIFLE was not a hunting rifle.

Also, I understand that the shooter was dressed in head-to-foot body armor. Why was this even available for him?

Why was it allowed for him to buy 6,000 rounds of ammunition?

Shouldn't that all have raised questions?

Figmo is all upset about the semantics of the word ASSAULT RIFLE. I would think a person would be upset about the 12 dead and 59 wounded instead of the technical definition of a gun over the public impression of the gun.