Importantly, the source said, the gun had a high capacity magazine that can hold up to 30 or more rounds, two to three times a normal magazine capacity; and witnesses said the magazine stuck out about 12 inches. The Glock website confirms that, reading that the standard magazine hold 15 rounds, while the high capacity magazine Loughner had can hold up to One reports says the magazine was probably purchased separately.
So I double-bagged it for him. Tucson shooting survivor says she forgives Loughner, finds closure in guilty plea. Just hours before the rampage, Loughner broke down and cried to an Arizona Game and Fish officer when he pulled over for running a red light. I asked him He was probably getting tired of me asking if he was OK," Forney said.
He was just heading home, it wasn't too far away and he'd be OK," Forney said. Two and a half hours later, Loughner opened fire on a crowd of people at an outdoor event where Giffords was greeting constituents.
When Forney got home that night and heard about the shooting, he went online, he said. About an hour after the traffic stop, Loughner returned to his parents' home in his Chevrolet Nova, his mother, Amy Loughner, told authorities.
Photos: Victims of shooting in Arizona. When his parents asked him what was in his backpack, he ran out the door, his mother said.
His father, Randy Loughner, dropped his coffee and ran after his son but couldn't catch him, the mother said. A short time later, a neighbor told them there were news reports Giffords had been shot. They later learned from authorities their son was believed to be the shooter. Kenneth Veeder, a bystander to the shooting, suffered a gunshot wound to the calf as he was talking to a family lined up to meet Giffords. Veeder, a Vietnam War combat officer who served three tours of duty, was wearing an Infinity Airborne shirt.
When Loughner was reloading his gun, one man grabbed him, and Veeder grabbed Loughner's gun that fell to the ground, Veeder said.
Veeder wanted to reload the gun, but a woman talked him out of it. That's how angry I was. It was a combat reaction," he said. Deputy Sheriff Thomas Audetat Jr. Lautenberg is a U.
CNN -- The sickening shooting spree in Tucson holds many lessons for our country, but the most important is this: It's much too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on deadly weapons. A good start is by banning high-capacity gun magazines -- which allow scores of bullets to be loaded at one time -- such as the one used in the Tucson massacre that left six people dead and 14 others wounded, including my colleague, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. According to news reports, Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in Tucson, used a round magazine in a murderous rampage.
The sheriff says 31 spent rounds were found on the scene. As we now know, a group of heroic bystanders stopped the shooter by wrestling him to the ground.
But they didn't have an opportunity to intervene until he emptied the magazine and paused to reload. If the shooter didn't have access to the high-capacity magazine that he used, he would have stopped to reload sooner and lives might have been saved. Little is known about Loughner's employment record. He volunteered at a local pet shelter in January and February of last year, according to the New York Times, which reported he was told not to come back after he refused to follow the rules about where to walk the dogs.
Loughner said on his application at the shelter that he worked at an Eddie Bauer store in Tucson from October to November Six people were killed and 14 injured in Tucson on Saturday.
Giffords , shot in the left hemisphere of the brain, was in critical but stable condition in a Tucson hospital. Wal-Mart Inc. He was later able to get it at another Wal-Mart. Sportsman's Warehouse had no comment about Loughner's method of payment.
Jason Ogan, spokesman for the Pima County Sheriff's Department, said he did not have information related to Loughner's payment method.
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