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AK-47 STYLE ASSAULT RIFLES
efore the 1989 US. ban on importing
'certain assault weapons, U.S. companies
brought more than 130,000 AK-47 assault rifles
and similar weapons into the country each year
\
according to the National Association of
Federally Licensed Firearms Dealers. Gun
dealers still may legally sell the weapons.
AK-47
AKM
SKS
AMMUNITION:
CAPACITY:
WEIGHT:
LENGTH:
MUZZLE VELOCITY:
FIRING RATE:
EFFECTIVE RANGE:
MANUFACTURER:
7.62mm
30 rounds
2 pounds
27.5/34.2* inches
710 meters/second
600 rounds/minute
300 meters
Not in production
7.62mm
30 rounds
1.4 pounds
34.5 inches
715 meters/second
600 rounds/minute
300 meters
In production
7.62mm
10 rounds
Impounds
40.2 inches
735 meters/second
600 rounds/minute
400 meters
Obsolete
The AK-47 is a compact weapon capable of selective fire.
It is supplied
in two versions* one with 3 rigid butt and one with a double-strut folding
metal butt-stock.
* The AKM is a modernized and improved version of the AK-47.
It is lighter
and has a greater muzzle velocity. When supplied with a folding butt-
stock,
it is the AKMS.
The SKS is a gas-operated rifle of conventional design. This weapon was
replaced in military service by the AK-47.
NOTE: The AK-47 and variations have been made in China (type 56), Finland (M60 and M62), Germany (MPiK, MPiKS), Hungary, North
Korea (type 58), Poland (PMK), Romania and Yugoslavia (M70 and IM70A).
* stock fokted/stock unfolded
SOURCES: KRT Graphics, Jane's Infantry Weapons
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Looking for a Marksman
Weren’t Too Many Shots Wasted,
’ Source Says
By Patricia Davis arid Bill Miller
Washington Post Staff Writers
Fairfax County's chief prosecutor
nd others investigating last week's
footing
outside
the
CIA's
head-
uarters
said yesterday
that they
elieve
the
gunman
is
a
skilled
harksman.
"From all the evidence available,
his was a very efficient gunman,"
aid
Commonwealth’s
Attorney
‘obert F. Horan Jr. "He certainly
'as well armed.”
"It's obvious to those of us in the
usiness,
there
weren’t
too many
hots wasted," said a source close
p the investigation.
Horan declined to discuss any ev-
fience
in the incident, but sources
said the gunman fired at least
10,
rounds;
hitting
the
five
victims
ei^lil limes, A suuue said the guu
man, who parked a brown compact!
station wagon behind one the vie
tim's cars, fired shots as he moved
toward the front of the line of traffic
waiting to enter the complex, then
continued shooting on his way back
to his car.
Two men were
killed
and
three
others were wounded by what police
have described as an AK-47 type
of|
semiautomatic
assault
rifle
shortly
before 8 a.m. as they sat waiting to
turn
left from Dolley Madison Bou-
levard (Route
123)
into CIA
head-
quarters, in Langley. Four of the vie-
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While
investigators
suspect
the
gunman may have a grudge against
the CIA, they still have no motive for
the shootings. "Some people want to
say this is a real crazed wacko as op-
posed
to some
cold,
calculating
hit
man
or
someone
with
a
mission
against the CIA," Horan
said. "Any
conclusion is pure speculation.”
Police sources and others familiar
with firearms said proficiency with an
AK-47 type of weapon, a military as-
sault
rifle
capable
of
firing
or
more
rounds,
could come
through
practice or military training,
Edward
Ezell,
the
firearms
cu-
rator at
the
National Museum
of
American History, said
it "was pret-
ty amazing”
that
the gunman was
able to hit so many people in such a
short time.
The gunman's apparent choice of
only
male
targets,
bypassing
at
least two women, showed
that he
had some
skill
with
the
weapon,
Ezell said. He added that the events
demonstrated some preparation by
the gunman, rather than a spur-of-
the-moment shooting.
However, some gun experts said
it doesn't take a lot of expertise to
shoot someone with a
rifle from as
dose as three feet,
"That's
point-blank
range,”
said
Jayward Long, owner of the Blue
*idge
Arsenal,
an
indoor
firing
*ange and gun shop
in
Chantilly.
'Anyone can do that. It doesn't take
skill. That weapon
is
not
all
that
implicated to use."
Long
and
two
other
area
gun
hop officials said skill usually is re-
huired
when
shooting
an
AK-47
|type of weapon at a distance.
But others noted that the gunman
was firing under stressful conditions,
in
a
hurry
and
moving. They
sug-
gested he might have prepared
for
the shooting at a firing range.
Law
enforcement
authorities
called the owner of Clark Brothers
firing range in Warrenton, Va., last
week to ask if anyone matching the
gunman's description had practiced
with
an
assault weapon
recently.
The range, about a 90-minute drive
from CIA headquarters,
is open to
the public.
"It does make you perk up and
take notice,” said Steve Clark, the
owner, "The composite
picture
is
pretty much anybody, unfortunate-
ly.
I’d
like nothing
better than
to
turn in somebody like this.”
Meanwhile,
Nicholas
Starr, one
of the three men wounded
in
the
shooting, was released from Fairfax
Hospital yesterday, 11 days after he
“From all the
evidence
available, this
was a very
efficient
gunman.
— Robert F. Horan Jr.
commonwealth’s attorney.
a wound to his upper arm that,s
vered the bone, an artery and son
veins. “He certainly has come afldi
way,” said Art Trask, chief of iri
ma services. He’s
in “good spir
and adjusting to the obvious pre
lem he’s still got to face.”
Fairfax
police and FBI
agen'
some teamed in pairs, continue;,
wade through the more than
l,5j
tips they have received
since
shooting. “There are too many mi
tives here,” a source
said. “We’
just following up every phone call.
FBI officials also are analyzing' fi
gerprints found at the scene on
cartridge casing and one of the v:
tims’ cars, sources said.
Police
continue
to
investiga
whether
a
29-year-old
man,'."ft
chael
T.
Murray,
charged
~wi
spray-painting
CIA-related
graft
on streets surrounding Vienna^-w
involved in the shooting. Accordii
to
sources,
there
is
no
eviden
that he is the gunman.
r) ,,,
Murray
said
yesterday
thatj
was not involved
in
the
shoofiri
but he acknowledged
that he \w
the one who painted graffiti, inclu
ing the words “CIA,” “Crime”
ai
“Police,” in December and January
“It’s
a
criminal
infrastructure
have been trying to expose,” Mi
ray
said.
“The
best way
to
tai
down a conspiracy is from the edg
out,” he said
in explaining why
nnffifrflaMifc^reets around Vienna
The 60-year-old CIA intelligence
Staff writer Robert O'Harrow Jr.