Note: I believe the second picture with the rifle is an ak47 not an ar15 or m16. You can generally tell by the slant about 6 inches behind the front sight, that it's an AK (kalishnikov). There is also a sister gun to the ak47, the ak74, switched the numbers, I think it's a carbine or softer version of the more deadly ak47.
The top appears to be maybe a glock with an extension or silencer, dunno really dontcare much either. I know a bit about certain guns but not that much either, just didn't want to have people start saying it was an ar15 bushmaster in the pic.
the metal 'slanting' from the barrel to the upper stock (I guess) I always thought was a sort of inherent AK47 compensator. A compensator subdues a rifles recoil, so you might see what I mean that it would tend to down the upward recoil tendency. Dunno if this is true, just my perception.
An ar15 would need little recoil compensation (that I know of) since it fires a light bullet and recoil is not that big a problem as with an ak which fires a larger bullet cartridge with more ammo to give the greater recoil kick.
The lack of recoil on the ar15, imo, contributes to it's lethality, in that the shooter does not have to, well, self-compensate for the recoil as much as with heavier bullets or rifles.
Thus, had lanza, imo, had a rifle with a larger bullet he'd have had to compensate for the recoil upwards, & this would've made him more inaccurate. The ar15 with little recoil meant he could keep the rifle low & more accurately focussed on his .... targets.
When we reached him by phone this afternoon, we described the above photo to Andrasik .. he said it was "probably me."
Sounds like a, descriptive name.
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