Posted on 10/31/2023 12:19:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Mass shooter Robert Card was turned away from a Maine gun store when he tried to buy a silencer for his assault rifle months before he launched a massacre at a bowling alley and bar — a move that possibly saved countless lives.
Card, 40, went to Coastal Defense Firearms in Auburn on Aug. 5 to pick up the accessory he ordered online — but was turned down when staff learned about his mental history, ABC News reported.
“He came in and filled out the form. He checked off a box that incriminated himself saying he was in an institution,” shop owner Rick LaChapelle told the outlet. “Our staff was fantastic. Let him finish filling out the form and said, ‘I’m sorry, Mr. Card, we cannot give you this.'”
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Good thing he didn’t get the silencer or we wouldn’t have known about the shootings.
Hopefully Rick reported this before the shootings.
How exactly would a suppressor have enabled him to kill more people? As anybody who has been at a range and heard a gun with a suppressor could tell you, you can still distinctly hear them. They are anything but silent.
Something doesn’t add up. Suppressors are an NFA item. There is a lot more paperwork involved than just filling out paperwork at a store.
But of course he wasn’t on the FBI’s radar, oh no, of course not.
Correct, You can’t buy a silencer from a store. 6 months of paperwork through the Feds first. So this story is bogus.
Pretty sure silencers/suppressors are still NFA covered items, meaning the approval process is painfully long. You can’t just walk in, fill out a form, and leave with your purchase in the same day (or even the same month).
It wouldn’t have.
He probably wanted it to spare his already compromised heating. I wonder what effect, if any, the high-powered hearing aid had on the voices in his head.
Thankfully they got to the house and scooped up the Vegas ticket they bought him and hotel confirmation for Mandalay Bay.
What a maroon.
The author thinks “Hollywood Quiet” is reality.
Yeah, but that’s how you start. His application was nipped in the bud.
The only way he could have is if the BATF&E had already approved the Form 4.
Form 4 Picture. Fingerprint card. And either a trust or a document signed by the local sheriff.
Most folks go with the trust.
Even with all of that in hand, he doesn’t walk out of the store with it.
All paperwork heads to an office in West Virginia for approval.
And that can take a very very long time.
A witness said he thought the sound was “balloons popping” and were alterted when they looked to the sound.
Whether or not that makes sense, a silencer in a bowling alley would have reduced the attention significantly.
On a side note, I don’t think the guy in the surveillance video is the same as the one they’re posting of Card. But that’s just me.
He was on the New York and Maine police radar, we know that. Reports today are that the family warned the cops about him in May.
I don't know why the FBI, who is concerned about parents at school board meetings irate about their daughters getting raped, and Catholics going to Latin Mass, were completely oblivious.
There is something there that bothers me as well.
That's it exactly. This is another NYC journalist who has never been near guns in his life and who has no idea that the things he's been shown by Hollywood in the movies and on TV are pure crap. He is writing to an audience that fits the exact same description. These people would be shocked to go to a gun range and hear a .308's report even with a suppressor. I can clearly hear it even though my ear protection. A .308 is not exactly a weak or low powered round. The only ones that sound as quiet as Hollywood makes it out to be is subsonic .22 ammo on a .22 with a suppressor.
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