Posted on 07/30/2019 9:31:36 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The owner of the Nevada gun shop that sold an assault rife to the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting gunman apologized on Monday, saying he hopes for the gunman to “rot in hell.”
In a Facebook post, Mike, the owner of Big Mike’s Guns and Ammo in Fallon, Nevada, said that Sunday’s mass shooting goes against everything he believes in.
“I have always said we will sell to good people and have done everything we can to make sure this happens. We obey the laws, we are a small home business, we sell to people who we think are upstanding citizens to promote safe sport shooting. I pray to God for all the families,” Mike said in the post.
Gilroy Police Chief Scot Smithee said Monday that the shooter legally purchased an “AK-47-type assault rifle” in Nevada on July 9th.
The Big Mike’s Guns and Ammo owner said the gunman, 19-year-old Santino William Legan of Gilroy, didn’t show any reasons for concern, even saying he was “acting happy” when he saw him after ordering the gun online.
“The shooter in CA, I hope you rot in hell. We pray for the victims. My heart hurts for all of them,” Mike said in another post.
Armed with the rifle, Legan evaded security at Christmas Hill Park by using “some sort of tool” to cut through a fence near a creek that borders a parking area, police said.
Officers on the scene shot and killed Legan within one minute of the shooting.
Smithee said witnesses told authorities at least one other person may have been involved in the shooting, but there was no confirmation of that or the role he or she might have played. He said a manhunt was underway for the possible accomplice.
If he lived in Nevada and still had an address there, then the FFL probably cant be liable. If the FFL knew he was a Cali resident, then the FFL will probably lose his license at best for selling him a rifle that was not on the Cali approved list.
Unmodified SKS is legal in CA from my research
Or he could have said: "Nevada is a sanctuary state for firearms owners."
Santino William Legan, a Bay Area native who lived in Walker Lake, Nev., legally bought the WASR-10 semiautomatic rifle with a detachable magazine at Big Mikes Gun and Ammo in Fallon (Churchill County) on July 9, less than three weeks before Sunday’s shooting, the official said.
You seem to be correct that the shooter was a resident of Nevada at the time of the purchase.
You need NV state issued ID to purchase in NV. Apparently, the shooter moved to NV after graduating from Gilroy HS. He was a legal resident of NV, and bought the gun there.
Isn’t it funny how some stories get way more play than others?
By which I mean a story where three people died via “an AK-47-style assault rifle” will usually get more coverage than five deaths with a revolver.
Almost like the media has an agenda.
Why?
The gun shop did no wrong.
If it was a hardware store and they sold the axe used in an axe murder, they aren’t to blame.
A gun is just a tool. Blame the user not the dealer.
Agreed. He, along with others such as Lanza, Cruz, and other mass shooters, could have used a single shot rifle or shotgun or perhaps even a knife and achieved the same sort of death toll results given that these incidents took place where guns are banned and whatever the police response time was.
Not anyone’s fault but the sicko’s who pulled the trigger.
California passes a lot of laws that no other states or countries are obligated to obey.
It's not the shop's fault...it's not the firearms manufacturer's fault...it's the SHOOTER'S fault.
Even if it was a legal Nevada purchase, it was illegal to import/bring an assault rifle into California.
“Unmodified SKS is legal in CA from my research”
Irrelevant. California law requires the TRANSFER take place in Ca with full compliance of waiting periods, and federal law requires compliance with the state laws both in the selling state and the state of residence.
The California state law only applies to California. Those liberal douchebags have no authority to enforce their laws in any other state.
Nope. No apology. They did their job.
Elsewhere I’ve read it was an SKS, not an AK.
But to reporters....close enough.
“The California state law only applies to California.”
Incorrect. FEDERAL law says the laws of BOTH states must be complied with or the sale is illegal under federal law.
If the guy was a Nevada resident and told the shop he lived in Nevada, then the store is off the hook. If he said he was a California resident, then the shop has to comply with California law or be in violation of federal law.
As I read it. Not a lawyer so take it with a big steaming cup of FWIW.
Can someone explain why the FBI was present at the Garlic festival prior to the shooting unless they were waiting for him and knew he was coming?
I never hear anyone apologize for the gang bangers who kill people in Chicago with guns..the gun owner has nothing to apologize for, the perp bought the gun, picked it up in person, I assume he passed a background check with flying colors at 19 years old did he have a criminal record otherwise there is nothing this guy could have done
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