[tenny]

Originally Posted by aproactivecampr ↗

It wasn’t an ak, ar15 w/ a modified trigger

more of a trigger UPgrade.

they just drop right in.

and its near impossible to be accurate with this
type of trigger, which is probably why ALL the cops
werent killed.

[Thomdiver]

[QUOTE=Budd Dwyer;8036515]And that modification is legal? Not even the army got that shit
And how did he was being able to purchase weapons? So as soon as you're a US citizen you can buy guns?[/QUOTE The US military have much better weapons system. Even as a naturalized citizen you are able to buy guns. As far as the modification; it is perfectly legal and honestly a well trained shooter could shot as fast if not faster and with more accuracy.

[tenny]

https://www.budk.com/BFSIII-Binary-F...latforms-41162

[icehole]

Originally Posted by tenny ↗

more of a trigger UPgrade.

they just drop right in.

and its near impossible to be accurate with this
type of trigger, which is probably why ALL the cops
werent killed.

thanks for the insight

[jstrandt]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a fender bender last week likely had a bigger and bloodier attack in mind, with at least two fairs taking place at the time in and around North Dakota’s largest city, authorities said Friday.

M. B. killed one officer and wounded two others and a bystander before a fourth officer shot and killed him, ending the July 14 attack.

Over the past five years, B, 37, searched the internet for terms including “kill fast,” “explosive ammo,” “incendiary rounds,” and “mass shooting events,” state Attorney General Drew Wrigley said Friday during a news conference in Fargo, a city of about 125,000 people.

But perhaps the most chilling search was for “area events where there are crowds,” which on July 13 brought up a news article with the headline, ”Thousands enjoy first day of Downtown Fargo Street Fair.”

Had Officer Zach Robinson not killed B, authorities said they shudder to think how much worse the attack might have been. All evidence suggests that B. came upon the traffic crash by “happenstance” and that his ensuing ambush was a diversion from his much bigger intended target, Wrigley said.

“The horrible winds of fate sometimes,” he said. “Those events fell into place and fell into his path.”

On the day of the attack, the downtown fair was in its second day and was less than 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the crash scene. It’s unclear if it was the intended target, though, as B. also searched for information on the Red River Valley Fair, which was just a 6-mile (10-kilometer) drive from the scene, the attorney general said.

After driving by the fender bender, B. pulled into an adjacent parking lot to watch from his parked car, Wrigley said. He said B’s car was loaded with guns, a homemade grenade, more than 1,800 rounds of ammunition, three “largish” containers full of gasoline, plus two propane tanks, one completely filled and the other half-filled not with propane, but with “explosive materials concocted at home, purchased lawfully.”

With police and firefighters busy helping, B. watched for several minutes until the officers walked by him, when he lifted a .223-caliber rifle out of his car window and began firing, Wrigley said.

The rifle had a binary trigger that allowed it to fire so rapidly that it sounded like an automatic weapon, he said.

A binary trigger is a modification that allows a weapon to fire one round when the trigger is pulled and another when it is released — in essence doubling a gun’s firing capacity. The three officers who were shot had no time to react and fell in rapid succession. He also shot and wounded a fleeing woman, Karlee Koswick, who had been involved in the fender bender, he said.

Robinson, who was badly outgunned but was the only officer at the scene who hadn’t been shot, engaged B. in a two-minute shootout. It ended with Robinson shooting and killing B. as bystanders crouched nearby.

Wrigley described Robinson as “the last man standing in that blue line at that moment.”

“What he was standing between was not just the horrible events that were unfolding there, but between the horrible events that M. B. had envisioned, planned and intended and armed himself for — beyond fully — that day,” he said.

B. killed Officer J.W, 23, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard, and wounded Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes. Wallin and Hawes were so new that they were still undergoing field training.

B. was a Syrian national who came to the U.S. on an asylum request in 2012 and became a U.S. citizen in 2019, Wrigley said, adding that he didn’t appear to have any ties to the Muslim community in Fargo.

He said B. had some family in the U.S., but not in the Fargo area, and that investigators are still looking into his history before he arrived in the country.

In recent years, B. amassed his arsenal. And his internet searches about causing mayhem date back to 2018, with periods in which they abated before picking back up, the attorney general said. Nothing from online, B’s phones, the community or his family suggested he had a hatred of the police, he said.

At this stage in the investigation, it seems all of his weapons were purchased legally, and he had many of them in his car on the day of the shooting, Wrigley said. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is looking into whether he got any of the gun components illegally.

Wrigley said B. was wearing a vest that was “absolutely stuffed” with magazines and that he “was putting the finishing touches on his shooting skills in the last hours before this assault.”

As for the propane tanks, Wrigley said it was “quite dramatic” when the bomb squad detonated them. He suggested the tanks contained something similar to Tannerite, a commercial explosive that can be easily detonated with a shot from a high-powered rifle.

“Obvious motive to kill,” Wrigley said. “I mean, driven by hate. Driven by wanting to kill. Not particularized to some group that we can discern at this moment, not particularized to one individual that we can see.”

B. had worked odd jobs, and briefly trained as an emergency responder at a nearby community college. He had no criminal record or social media presence and had so little contact with other people that the only photo law enforcement could provide was a blurry image of him lifted from a video.

He had, however, been reported to something called the Guardian Threat Tracking System. The FBI routinely opens what it refers to internally as assessments -- the lowest level, least intrusive and most elementary stage of a terrorism-related inquiry -- when it receives unconfirmed information about potentially suspicious behavior.

That information is catalogued in the Guardian system. During the assessment stage of an investigation, FBI agents are permitted to take certain basic investigative steps such as conducting online research or visual surveillance, but more sophisticated tools such as wiretaps cannot be undertaken without additional evidence of wrongdoing.

Mac Schneider, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota, said the Guardian system is a way for members of the public to engage with local law enforcement about “things of concern.” But he provided no additional details.

Whether B. had intended to survive the attack was unclear. He wore no body armor but did have a way to monitor what was happening at his apartment from afar, perhaps suggesting he had a plan, Wrigley said.

He added that there was no immediate indication that anyone had helped B.

“There are lone wolves,” Wrigley said. “That’s a real concept.”

Wrigley said Koswick was badly injured and will have a difficult recovery. Zibolski said the wounded officers were briefly able to stand up out of their hospital beds on Thursday.

Meanwhile, a funeral service is planned for Saturday for W, whose body was cremated in his police uniform.

For anyone that has ADHD like me here's the tl;dr


A heavily armed man ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a minor accident, likely planning a larger attack during nearby fairs.
The attacker killed one officer, wounded two officers and a bystander, before being shot and killed by another officer. Over the years, he had searched for violent terms online. His attack seemed intended to divert attention from a bigger target – possibly a fair. He had an arsenal of weapons and explosive materials in his car, intending to inflict mass harm. The shooter had a binary trigger on his rifle, allowing rapid fire. Officer Zach Robinson ended the attack in a shootout. The attacker's background and motive remain unclear. He had been reported in the Guardian Threat Tracking System, and his intentions to survive the attack are uncertain.

[NUUDLZ]

Looks like someone needs to get range time. That's way too many shots that missed.

[zet53]

Ive been waiting for this body cam. I live in Fargo and this was a huge thing. They think his target was going to be the fair. He was using an ak with a binary trigger. The cop that died was 23 years old. Recent grad. The one that killed the Muhammad was a fire arms instructor. Sad.

[beantown]

Originally Posted by btchslaya ↗

Of course it was a Muhammad

I don’t understand comments like this when this type of shooter is statistically more likely to be a Dylan

[v1r]

Originally Posted by beantown ↗

I don’t understand comments like this when this type of shooter is statistically more likely to be a Dylan

Only in America. Anywhere else in the world its a Mohammed.

[Killgaad]

Nah... forget Mohammed; it's Fargo—I say Steve Buscemi is at it again.