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School shooting investigation continues
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) —
At 100 yards, their seven handguns
wouldn’t be terribly effective. Too
hard to hit their moving targets.
But the two boys at the center of
the Jonesboro schoolyard mas
sacre, no strangers to firearms, had
other options at hand, officials say.
Evidence indicates most of the
bullets that felled 15 classmates and
teachers, killing five of them, were
fired from two powerful rifles, stolen
from the younger boy’s grandfather
the morning of the attack.
Fifteen shots came from a repli
ca of the M-l carbine, a famous
weapon carried by U.S. troops in
World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
Five more were fired from a
Remington .30-06 hunting rifle,
able to take down a 200-pound
deer with a single shot from a
quarter mile away.
Both are semiautomatic; the
only limit on firing speed is how
fast a shooter can pull the trigger,
which ejects the spent shell and
chambers a new one in an instant.
Crime lab specialists poring
over the guns expect to deter
mine which weapons killed
Jonesboro arsenal
The weapons police say Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden had
following the school shooting in Jonesboro, Ark., included hunting
rifles and hundreds of rounds of amtnuniticn. A lock at some of
the weapons:
Main weapons
Universal .30-caliber M-l carbine semiautomatic
Capacity: Anno clips of various sizes.
Sold with five-shot clip and typically used
with a 15 or 30 shot ammo clip.
Range: Approximately 150 yards
Remington 742, .30-06 caliber semiautomatic
Capacity: Five-shots, using a four-shot
anno clip and one-shot loaded in the
firing chamber.
Range: Up to 1,000 yards
which victims atWestside Middle
School, helping investigators to
make their cases against 13-year-
old Mitchell Johnson and 11-
year-old Andrew Golden.
Yet by one measure, the guns
have already been examined —
and found innocent.
With their considerable fire
power and the carbine’s battle
field origins, such firearms were
considered — but rejected — for
the 1994 federal ban on assault
weapons.
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“Much of the body work and repair is
done in-house to save money,” Jackson
said. “This type of ingenuity is one reason
our buses are still on the road. However,
this will not always be the case. We cannot
continue to keep these buses together with
bailing wire and chewing gum. We must re
place the buses.”
Bus Operations is considering several
options for funding new buses. Capital re
placement, putting spare funds aside an
nually, is one of the proposals for funding a
portion of the new bus fleet. Jackson said
Bus Operations has not had spare money in
the budget for more than four years.
In fiscal year 1998, Bus Operations shows
a difference of $950,000 between budgeted
income and budgeted expenses.
“If everything goes right for the last six
months, we’ll still be about $30,000 in the
red,” Jackson said. “The deficit is made up
with Student Service fees allocated to us
and from revenue from parking facilities
that is transferred to bus operations.”
A second proposal to pay for new buses in
cludes a possible increase in the student ser
vice fee between $35 and $55 for a semester.
Bus Operations reported Fish Camp, Hul
labaloo-North, Center pole and Reveille as
the routes losing the most money each se
mester.
Tommy Muras, a junior business analysis
major, rides the Hullabaloo-North to the
main campus,
He said he hopes his stop is not taken off
the bus route.
“I heard a rumor that Bus Operations is
considering getting rid of the route,” Muras
said. “There are not many people that use the
route but I think that they could possibly al
ter the route.”
Jackson said Bus Operations is still taking
suggestions from students for changes in the
routes beginning next semester.
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