Reply #53: and guess what

[iverglas]

Here you may read the local gun nuts nattering about how the rifle used to shoot a doctor in Ontario who provided abortions could not have been an AK-47:
http://www.sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca/~ab133/Archives/Digests/v01n100-199/v01n119

I also doubt if many shooting Americans would recognize an AK, much less the "peaceful" people of Canada. Especially during the doubtless panic shock of seeing a shooting. So there are no reliable witnesses. Therefor no AK-47.

Ah yes. If no witness who meets our standards saw the thing, it did not exist. Strange physics there.

It is generally accepted that the person who shot the doctor in Ontario was James Kopp, who was extradited to the US from France last year to stand trial for (and then convicted of) the killing of Dr. Barnett Slepian in NY state. Given what we know about the firearm Kopp subsequently used to kill Slepian, there's really a pretty good chance that the firearm used in Ontario was what all those ignorant reporters said it was.

http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/02summer.html

Five months after the murder <of Slepian>, police found a Russian SKS military rifle buried in another hole about 200 feet behind the Slepian home. Ballistics tests showed it was the same type of gun as the killer used, though police could not prove it was the murder weapon. Fibers on the stock of the gun matched those found in Kopp's car and apartment.

It has been impossible to match any bullets or casings to the rifle, because of their damaged condition.

At a New Jersey house where Kopp had stored some of his belongings, police found a list of telephone numbers for pawnshops in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Georgia, plus a hand-drawn map showing directions to the A-Z Pawn Shop in Tennessee, where the murder weapon was purchased on July 17, 1997. Investigators found three of Kopp's fingerprints on the documents.

The firearms registration form that the pawnshop owner signed for the gun purchase described the buyer as a white male, five feet 10 inches tall, and weighing 180 pounds. This is similar to Kopp's size. The buyer carried a fake Virginia driver's license in the name of B. James Milton.

Investigators have evidence that Kopp belonged to two separate gun clubs. They found membership materials for the clubs in Kopp's belongings. One of the documents had Kopp's fingerprint on it.

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