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According to the video, the officers arrived 10 minutes after the first call and, within 21 seconds, Van Dyke had emptied his 16-round handgun.
In "Suspect Bought Large Stockpile of Rounds Online," reporter Jack Healy writes that buying 3,000 rounds of handgun ammunition, 3,000 rounds for an assault rifle and 350 shells for a 12-gauge shotgun online was "pretty much as easy as ordering a book from Amazon".
With a few keystrokes, the suspect, James E. Holmes, ordered 3,000 rounds of handgun ammunition, 3,000 rounds for an assault rifle and 350 shells for a 12-gauge shotgun — an amount of firepower that costs roughly $3,000 at the online sites — in the four months before the shooting, according to the police.
Authorities investigating the shooting deaths of 14 people in San Bernardino by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik found 4,500 rounds of ammunition in their Redlands home and 1,400 assault rifle rounds and 200 handgun rounds in their car.
The couple had 1,400 assault rifle rounds and 200 handgun rounds in their car as they fled from police, Burguan said.
During a news conference Thursday, Burguan said the suspects had 1,400 assault rifle rounds and 200 handgun rounds in their car as they fled from police.
It has been proven that JHP and other expanding rounds at handgun velocity are unreliable (at best); to the point that subsonic rounds are less than 50% likely to expand fully.
Farook and Malik had amassed an arsenal of 2,000 9-millimeter handgun rounds, 2,500.223-caliber rifle rounds and "hundreds of tools" that could have been used to make explosive devices, authorities said.
"Why not just get a pistol if somebody wants a handgun round?" said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the case.
The authorities said they believed that Mr. Gale, 25, of Marysville, emptied a magazine of 10 rounds from his handgun, reloaded and fired five more rounds before being fatally shot by a police officer.
