The shooter in a murder/suicide on the UCLA campus has been identified as a former Ph.D student named Mainak Sarkar.

The kind of gun used has been reported:

CBS News has confirmed that he used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to kill 39-year-old engineering professor William Scott Klug in an office, before taking his own life.

Piers Morgan described the gun this way:

GUNS IN AMERICA..

He was angry over his grades, so he took a machine gun to campus & shot dead his teacher. https://t.co/KWoMB0fiQJ — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

Machine gun?

Dana Loesch wasn’t having it:

For crying out loud. He didn't have a "machine gun." It was a 9mm. https://t.co/SFERPMJPxA https://t.co/Boa3MiDak5 — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

Ah, so it can only fire up to 200 rounds a minute?

How silly of me, changes everything!

https://t.co/NsBx1N5JPQ — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

He fired three rounds. What are you even talking about. https://t.co/hK8dKYM4mc — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

And besides, what difference does it make?

I love how American gun nuts make such a distinction between automatic & semi-automatic guns.

Both can kill 200+ people a minute. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

Translated: "I hate being called out on my lack of knowledge regarding American law and basic firearm education." https://t.co/5PYxLC90KZ — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

Don’t argue with “Musket” Morgan — he knows what he’s talking about, because he said so:

Mate, my brother's a British Army officer & so were my brother-law, uncle & grandfather. I know how firearms work. https://t.co/FTOLdgpN3t — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 2, 2016

Did they teach you? Doesn’t sound like it. https://t.co/vYOGPsptzI — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

This from the guy who thinks a 9mm handgun is a “machine gun.” https://t.co/nLq0NMqhe2 — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 2, 2016

There’s a technical “out” for Morgan, should he ever choose to go this route: