Bushmaster .223, Again

Monday morning’s ambush on firefighters in Webster, N.Y. might be the worst — or at least most bizarre — violence to happen in the nation in the days following the Newtown, Conn. school massacre. Now come to find out the New York shooter used the same make and caliber of rifle as the gunman in Connecticut: a Bushmaster semi-automatic .223. We published the history of that rifle last week.