@1 you really think they would bother to fake this? I mean, yes, I am going to donate money to them now when it probably wouldn't have occurred to me before, but I really can't see anyone from the Capitol Hill League of Women Voters going out to a gun range to shoot up targets to leave outside their offices in order to drum up support.
Looks like a real target to me. Hard to gauge the size of the ammo used, but definitely small caliber, certainly no larger than a .22, more likely a .17HMR/HM2, although I wouldn't rule out a simple BB gun. And the spread pattern - high and wide - indicates a lot of wrist-breaking and recoil anticipation, which would seem to suggest a handgun wielded by an inexperienced user, so a BB pistol would probably be a good guess; the sheer number of rounds (I count at least 18) would also seem to support that.
Doesn't make it any less intimidating, but sure looks pretty amateurish - I would have expected an experienced shooter using larger caliber ammo to pretty much obliterate most of the bulls eye from even a moderate distance with far fewer rounds.
And my comment above should not be construed as supporting @1's contention that this was faked by LOWV, merely that the person who left this doesn't seem to have much experience shooting guns. But, rather than going out and spending a few hundred bucks and actually having to register their purchase, instead they bought a cheap BB gun and a paper target (or simply happened to have them lying around) - which would be impossible to trace.
Someone shot up a target with a pellet gun, not bullets. You would think someone trying to send a message would at least use a gun that would be covered by the law.
Ouch, that hurts Paul. It would hurt more if we werent being insulted by somebody who looks like an angry weasel who got punched in the face. Tell the truth, do you and Fnarf buy your glasses from the same hipster boutique?
Since it was anonymous any assumption about motive is jumping to conclusions. Could have been pranksters, could have been someone unaffiliated trying to manipulate opinions, or could have been an NRA/"2ndAmendment" type.
Regardless, effete symbolism should not be the cause of much worry.
For those gun-totin' misogynists, the whole thing is a twofer. Shoot your load and then place it on the steps of an organization with "women" in the title.
Obviously they got their little man-panties in a wedgie.
I'm with@17. An old lady with a small pistol would have done better and a faker would have faked better. The type of gun nut who is this poor a shot is exactly the kind who would do this sort of thing. I love guns but people who take them seriously enough to be any good with them are more responsible than this. This type of shit is why we need more regulations and liberties.
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Looks like a real target to me. Hard to gauge the size of the ammo used, but definitely small caliber, certainly no larger than a .22, more likely a .17HMR/HM2, although I wouldn't rule out a simple BB gun. And the spread pattern - high and wide - indicates a lot of wrist-breaking and recoil anticipation, which would seem to suggest a handgun wielded by an inexperienced user, so a BB pistol would probably be a good guess; the sheer number of rounds (I count at least 18) would also seem to support that.
Doesn't make it any less intimidating, but sure looks pretty amateurish - I would have expected an experienced shooter using larger caliber ammo to pretty much obliterate most of the bulls eye from even a moderate distance with far fewer rounds.
Only cowards, weaklings and fools require prosthetic means of force.
you dumbass - all you need to do is go to Fred Meyer, buy a target, and poke holes in it with a pencil or other similar object.
This is totally fake.
you are looking at the target on its side. The shots, if they were real - which I doubt, are low and mostly in the bottom middle.
so much for your expert opinion.
Regardless, effete symbolism should not be the cause of much worry.
Obviously they got their little man-panties in a wedgie.
no - it should be viewed as the attention-getting fraud that it is.
you have been told.
Oh, I'd certainly expect a Deringer-toting Centenarian to have had better aim than that.