Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, used an FN Five-Seven, a semi-automatic pistol popular with SWAT teams, that can fire armour-piercing bullets.
A total of 13 people died in the bloodbath at the Texas military base and 38 were wounded.
Hasan had bought the weapon legally at a gun store close to Fort Hood in August and practiced at a nearby shooting range.
During the attack he also carried a Smith & Wesson .357-calibre revolver but it was not clear if he used it.
Here's a pic of an FN 5.7 from Wikipedia:
You can expect to hear a lot about this gun in the next week or so, as anti-gunners try to demonize it and cause lawmakers to propose laws against it.
1 comment:
It is really not a terribly powerful pistol. About the same as a 9mm. The armor piercing rounds that everyone is talking about are not regularly available to anyone, just like armor piercing ammo for any other gun. Using the ammo which is available, this gun is classified as non-armor piercing.
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