LYNN — Police say a man who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle at a Lynn restaurant was enraged after workers who thought he was intoxicated refused to serve him alcohol.
No one was hurt during the shooting early Saturday morning at the China Lion restaurant.
It gets better...
Anthony Gobbi, of East Wakefield, N.H., is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Lynn District Court on various charges including 15 counts of assault with intent to murder and carrying a loaded high-capacity firearm.
Okay. Let's recap. Gleef from NH at a restaurant in MA opens fire with some sort of rifle (I have about as much faith in the Herald's accuracy on firearms as I do in my own ability to fly sans aircraft), doesn't hit anybody, and uses 15 rounds (I'm guessing that's where the 15 counts come from).
As a side note - I'm guessing that the weapon in question was some variant of M1 carbine. I'm going on the assumption that there were 15 rounds fired, and only the M1 carbine has a 15 round magazine available that I am aware of. It's possible that it was an AK clone that jammed after the 15th shot, or perhaps he just stopped firing after half the mag was empty, but still...
That's not the unbelievable part. This is:
Customers and employees tackled Gobbi to the ground and wrestled the rifle away.In MA? That's the kind of "self-help" that Senate hopeful Coakley discourages...
That is all.
Tip 'o' the keyboard to this thread at the Northeastshooters forum for the story.
4 comments:
Could be that there were 15 people in the premises, for the 15 counts.
It's in Lynn, where they're used to kicking the crap out of each other. The surprising part is that he wasn't stabbed 15 times.
I agree with Weer'd about the counts being based on the number of people in the bar, not the number of shots fired.
I just assumed that at a bar in Lynn there'd be a LOT more than 15 people...
Only the legals would stick around and wait for johnny law...
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