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Report from Kensington, Maryland Gun Shop
Aired October 10, 2002 - 05:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Michael Okwu spent the day in Kensington, Maryland, talking with a gun shop owner about the type of ammunition that police say has been used in these shootings. He brings us these insights.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm in Kensington, Maryland, which is right in the heart of Montgomery County, where five people were shot. As a matter of fact, one of the victims of this sniper was shot just four blocks from this gun store.
BILL PRINTZ, POTOMAC TRADING COLLECTIBLES: Yes, hi, how you doing? Hi, Bill Printz, Potomac Trading.
OKWU (voice-over): He showed me a range of .223 caliber bullets.
(on camera): And they're .223, that refers to the diameter, the size of the actual bullet?
PRINTZ: That's the bullet itself, yes.
OKWU (voice-over): The kind of high velocity bullet authorities believe are being used by the sniper. This box contains 20 rounds. Selling price? $6.95.
PRINTZ: These were made right here for varmint hunting, for shooting ground hogs, for shooting prairie dogs, shooting coyotes where they get, something would move in a hurry, but they needed to get it, to get the bullet to them before they moved.
OKWU: This gun shop owner believes police may have a hard time tracking down the gun used. The .223 has been adapted to fit into many different cartridges and hundreds of guns can fire them.
PRINTZ: Here's three different rifles here using three of those five cartridges.
OKWU: Bolt action rifles. The least expensive? $260.
(on camera): Does it have to be a specially trained expert to be doing what this fellow is doing?
PRINTZ: For somebody to shoot the way this person is doing, he has to be an expert. He has to be proficient in the weapon that he's using and he has to have, he's had to have had a lot of training. OKWU (voice-over): Like the police, he believes the sniper is using a rifle with a high intensity scope like this one, easier to target his victims.
PRINTZ: Because it's optically just like somebody wearing glasses or using a magnifying glass when looking at something.
OKWU: But Printz believes it takes an expert to use one.
PRINTZ: You've got to be exactly right in the center line of the scope to be able to get there. And your iris of your eye is only this big and that's what you're looking through. It's like taking a piece of cardboard and sticking a wooden match through it and you're trying to move it like that, trying to see something.
OKWU (on camera): How do you feel about the possibility that this person might have bought weapons in your store?
PRINTZ: I certainly hope that we're not in any way, shape or form part of it. I dearly hope we aren't. I, you know, I'd feel very bad about it if we were.
OKWU (voice-over): Purchasing a rifle like this one could take you three days. You don't have to be an expert for that.
Michael Okwu, CNN, Kensington, Maryland.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired October 10, 2002 - 05:05 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's Michael Okwu spent the day in Kensington, Maryland, talking with a gun shop owner about the type of ammunition that police say has been used in these shootings. He brings us these insights.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MICHAEL OKWU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm in Kensington, Maryland, which is right in the heart of Montgomery County, where five people were shot. As a matter of fact, one of the victims of this sniper was shot just four blocks from this gun store.
BILL PRINTZ, POTOMAC TRADING COLLECTIBLES: Yes, hi, how you doing? Hi, Bill Printz, Potomac Trading.
OKWU (voice-over): He showed me a range of .223 caliber bullets.
(on camera): And they're .223, that refers to the diameter, the size of the actual bullet?
PRINTZ: That's the bullet itself, yes.
OKWU (voice-over): The kind of high velocity bullet authorities believe are being used by the sniper. This box contains 20 rounds. Selling price? $6.95.
PRINTZ: These were made right here for varmint hunting, for shooting ground hogs, for shooting prairie dogs, shooting coyotes where they get, something would move in a hurry, but they needed to get it, to get the bullet to them before they moved.
OKWU: This gun shop owner believes police may have a hard time tracking down the gun used. The .223 has been adapted to fit into many different cartridges and hundreds of guns can fire them.
PRINTZ: Here's three different rifles here using three of those five cartridges.
OKWU: Bolt action rifles. The least expensive? $260.
(on camera): Does it have to be a specially trained expert to be doing what this fellow is doing?
PRINTZ: For somebody to shoot the way this person is doing, he has to be an expert. He has to be proficient in the weapon that he's using and he has to have, he's had to have had a lot of training. OKWU (voice-over): Like the police, he believes the sniper is using a rifle with a high intensity scope like this one, easier to target his victims.
PRINTZ: Because it's optically just like somebody wearing glasses or using a magnifying glass when looking at something.
OKWU: But Printz believes it takes an expert to use one.
PRINTZ: You've got to be exactly right in the center line of the scope to be able to get there. And your iris of your eye is only this big and that's what you're looking through. It's like taking a piece of cardboard and sticking a wooden match through it and you're trying to move it like that, trying to see something.
OKWU (on camera): How do you feel about the possibility that this person might have bought weapons in your store?
PRINTZ: I certainly hope that we're not in any way, shape or form part of it. I dearly hope we aren't. I, you know, I'd feel very bad about it if we were.
OKWU (voice-over): Purchasing a rifle like this one could take you three days. You don't have to be an expert for that.
Michael Okwu, CNN, Kensington, Maryland.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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