A .223 CALIBER RIFLE HAS BEEN FOUND IN THE CAR where John Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested.

Added one source: “The general sentiment is we got our guys. These are the guys.”

The map still shows Alabama as being where Mississippi should be, though. Prediction: Artificial hysteria over the “sniper culture” will soon be redirected into hysteria over “assault weapons” once a picture of the gun becomes widely available. The Islamic angle — and rumored connections to Louis Farrakhan, which are showing up on several email lists, but nowhere that I can find to link to — will be downplayed.

UPDATE: I’m off to teach in a few minutes, but the IndePundit is updating steadily. And so is Jim Henley, who is calling former Gulf War soldier Muhammad the “black Tim McVeigh.” Though that would be the black, Islamic, Tim McVeigh. Does this add to the credibility of claims that McVeigh’s anti-Americanism had Iraqi connections?

And here’s the latest on the Chechen-terrorist standoff in Moscow, which seems to be going badly.