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LAX shooting prompts renewed focus on AR-15 class rifles

04 November 2013 21:13 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A movie theater in Aurora, Colo., an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. and now Los Angeles International Airport – they all have one thing in common: the choice of gun used to terrorize an unsuspecting public, APA reports quoting news.yahoo.com.

Friday's shooting at LAX left one Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employee dead, two more injured and an unknown number of witnesses harmed. It started around 9:20 a.m. PT when the gunman, later identified as 23-year-old Paul Ciancia, reportedly walked to the security checkpoint in LAX's Terminal 3, pulled a rifle out of a bag and started firing. A chaotic scene ensued as Ciancia allegedly made his way through the security area and into the terminal, where he exchanged gunfire with police before being apprehended.

Witnesses uploaded photos of the scene to Twitter. One of the images, posted by Tom Donnelly, shows a rifle on the ground in the terminal.