Full Story of Magpul's Gruesome CO Connection to Sandy Hook Has Yet to Be Told

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From the Huffington Post: Full Story of Magpul's Gruesome CO Connection to Sandy Hook Has Yet to Be Told | Jason Salzman

Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the Newtown, Connecticut massacre, where 20 children were gunned down at Sandy-Hook Elementary School by a shooter using a 30-round bullet holder made in Colorado.

Erie-based Magpul Industries hasn't commented on the fact that the Newtown shooter used its 30-round magazine at Sandy Hook--or on the possibility that the gunman might not have had a 30-round mag at all if a 15-round magazinelimit (opposed vehemently by Magpul) had been in place in Connecticut or nationally.

But Magpul has been anything but silent on gun-safety issues over the past year or so, as Colorado journalists have reported in bits and pieces. Here's a quick look at the Magpul story in its startling entirety.

Before it was known that a Magpul magazine was used at Sandy Hook, Magpul lobbied hard against Colorado's proposed legislation to limit magazine capacity to 15 rounds, testifying in the same Feb. 12 and March 4 legislative hearings as Jean Dougherty, sister of the slain Newtown psychologist Mary Sherlach.

Opponents of Colorado's gun-safety legislation embraced Magpul and promoted the company as their ally. During the debate about the magazine bill, Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman stated that a Magpul magazine had been used by Navy Seals to kill Osama bin Laden. Sen. Greg Brophy offered up his Capitol parking space to a Magpul promotional truck.

After the magazine limit became law, Magpul contributed 20,000 30-round magazines, decorated with a skull & crossbones, to a June 30 fundraising event for recall campaigns targeting State Senators John Morse and Angela Giron.

Of the 20,000 magazines donated by Magpul, 1,500 were given away, and the rest sold at the fundraiser for $10 each, with all proceeds going to an organization called Free Colorado, a newly formed 501c4 nonprofit advocating gun rights, with registered agent Katherine Kennedy who's the agent for many Republican 527 and independent expenditure groups. Free Colorado announced that all funds from the Magpul rally would be spent specifically on the recall efforts of Morse and Giron.

At the event, held in Glendale, gun extremist Dana Loesch arrived in a Magpul helicopter to give away the free magazines and thrill the crowd.

Free Colorado kept its promise, running its own television ad against Morse and Giron. Television-station information reveals that Free Colorado purchased over $100,000 worth of cable and broadcast time for political ads targeting the recalls.

Of course, Magpul threatened to leave Colorado, if the Legislature passed gun-safety legislation, including a 15-round mag limit. The bills became law in March, but Magpul showed no signs of re-locating its manufacturing operations or, apparently, its political activities, though the company told the Boulder Daily Camera in October that the move is still planned.

So the Sandy Hook anniversary is coming up tomorrow, and as I wrote above, nothing has been heard from Magpul about its connection to the shooting. It appears that in March, a Magpul executive made rather crude references to Sandy Hook in online discussion forums, and the company issued a formal statement on its website after the shooting. And Magpul executive Duane Liptak, during a radio interview with Denver's own Mike Rosen, addressed speculation about the possible use of a Magpul magazine at Sandy Hook.

There's a lot for Magpul to reflect on, beyond its gruesome connection to Sandy Hook. I'm hoping a determined journalist has more luck than I've had getting through

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[Dunerunner]

Just like Ford, Chevy, etc. are to blame for idiot drivers. Complete nonsense

But, don't expect the liberal media to go there. It does not further their agenda!! Personal responsibility isn't anything they want to deal with.

 

[gaijinsamurai]

Complete nonsense, and poor "journalism".

 

[deen_ad]

Just like Ford, Chevy, etc. are to blame for idiot drivers. Complete nonsense

I was thinking more like blaming Michelin, Dunlop, Toyo, etc!

Deen
NRA Life Member, Benefactor Level
"Defender of Freedom" award
NRA Recruiter
Second Amendment Foundation Member
Washington Arms Collectors Member
Arms Collectors of SW Washington Member

"Having a gun is like a parachute, if you need one and don't have it you may never need it again"

 

[Trailboss]

I heard that the gunman was reading the "Huffington Post" before he left his house to kill a bunch of people. Hmmm....

 

[drew]

This article read like a complete hit piece to me.

Didn't the shooter also change magazines before they were empty? I honestly don't remember. A larger capacity magazine wouldn't make a difference in that scenario. Not that the article would take facts into account.

 

[meener777]

Screw the huff post. Between them and CNN no one can ever get the facts about firearms.

 

[erudne]

Don't forget that the WH now has an official Dept of Propaganda!

 

[Mark W.]

Huff and Puff Post are a bunch of morons and if they hadn't changed their requirement to have access to everything on my Facebook page in order to be able to post comments on their silly articles I would still be tormenting liberal moron antigunners every night on Huff and puff post.

 

[simon99]

I don't get it....these knuckleheads are blaming Magpul for Sandy Hook? Okey dokey......

I'm sure the same integrity and standards of journalism are held for all the liquor companies every Friday or Saturday night when all the families go to the morgue to ID their dead relatives after they were killed while drunk driving?

 

[xd45acp]

I was thinking more like blaming Michelin, Dunlop, Toyo, etc!

Where the rubber meets the road...

 

[RB87]

At the event, held in Glendale, gun extremist Dana Loesch arrived in a Magpul helicopter to give away the free magazines and thrill the crowd.

Remember, defending one's self-defense rights is extremist but defending the penumbra of privacy for abortion is fighting for freedom of choice. The first is just wrong, hateful, eeeevil, and indicative that one hates children. The second is heroic. 30 round magazines are unneeded, evil, wrong and should be banned but don't you crazy Texans, Virginians, "pro-lifers" etc. try to change abortion law permissions from just 24 weeks to 20 weeks (Texas).

 

[Redcap]

Just more inane, sensationalized drivel.

 

[etrain16]

What a joke. They are really getting desperate for an angle on this. Of course they would never apply the same logic to another product. Can you imagine someone going after Boeing for building the planes the terrorists used on 9/11? Imagine if Boeing would have just built planes that carried less fuel, maybe then the WTC towers would still be standing. Or maybe go after Honda because a drunk driver used their car to kill a family. If only Honda had limited the car to 5 MPH, this never would have happened. The author of this article is a joke. His blatant hatred for all things gun clearly cloud his judgment. He's a fool, nothing more, and should not be taken seriously.

 

[OLDNEWBIE]

" if Boeing would have just built planes that carried less fuel, maybe then the WTC towers would still be standing."
Good analogy! Planes should be limited to just enough fuel for short hops across the U.S.! Who cares if it takes twice as long to get from N.Y. to L.A., as long as we are all safer.
Didn't Lanza not even empty his mags all the way that day anyway?

 

[ZA_Survivalist]

LMAO, a connection to Sandy Hook!?
Also, magazines that killed Osama? Really?

Only libtards could make that kind of bubblegum up. And from the muffington post of all sources.

 

[gaijinsamurai]

"muffington post"! Good one, I'll remember that!

 

[Riot]

What a joke. They are really getting desperate for an angle on this. Of course they would never apply the same logic to another product. Can you imagine someone going after Boeing for building the planes the terrorists used on 9/11?

Great point...

FYI, more detail on the actual shooting.

The rifle found near Lanza had a magazine only half-empty. Police found two empty 30-round magazines duct-taped together in a tactical configuration at the scene.

The shooter only stopped when the police arrived. He had plenty of ammunition and was prepared to continue changing magazines and reloading.

MILLER: Adam Lanza shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown final report - Washington Times

It's also rumored that because the rifle actually jammed, that could have been the deciding factor for less people being murdered.

It is possible that Lanza, who reloaded the rifle frequently, mishandled or dropped a magazine and unfired bullets fell to the floor, they said.

But it also is possible, they said, that the mechanism that fed bullets into the rifle jammed, causing Lanza to remove the magazine and clear the weapon. Unfired bullets could have fallen to the classroom floor during that process as well, law enforcement officials said.

Sandy Hook Shooter's Pause May Have Aided Students' Escape - Hartford Courant

 

[cookie]

Blame the car for the drunk driver.