Maybe he bought the gun, put it in his backpack, and never took it out until he used it that day. So the receipt was still in the bag.
And maybe he didn’t take the serial numbers off. I didn’t here official confirmation that the serial numbers were taken off, so I don’t know if that story is accurate or not. I’m not saying it’s NOT accurate, just that I haven’t seen official confirmation yet.
It does seem that buying two guns over the last month or so would indicate a certain premeditation on his part though — but that is again speculation, and I look forward to learning more facts as the case is investigated further.
How would they be able to track the 9mm Glock purchase down to a gun shop in Roanoke, and interview the owner by early evening (6-8 hours afterward), if he’d filed the numbers off? Come to think of it, I haven’t heard anything one way or the other about the serial numbers either.
Virginia has a one-gun-per-month law (courtesy of Doug Wilder) and he supposedly bought the Glock on 9 March. No idea when or where he bought the .22, it hasn’t been reported.
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